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21. Add MS 5266

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Title:
Drawings of birds with inscriptions in Hans Sloane's and Thomas Browne's hand
Scope & Content:
Drawings of birds executed in a variety of techniques and by different draughtsmen. The only exceptions are items 82, 91 and 93, which are prints of birds. The drawings are executed on paper and pasted onto the folios of the manuscript. Many drawings bear inscriptions in Hans Sloane's and / or S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (164 items)

22. Add MS 5415 A

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Title:
The Queen Mary Atlas
Scope & Content:
This portolan or atlas consists of three tables and nine large ornamented maps, executed by the Portuguese cartographer Diogo Homem (b. 1521, d. 1576) between 1555 and 1559. The manuscript is thought to have been made for King Philip II of Spain (r. 1556–98), possibly as a gift from Queen Mary I...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1555-1559
Extent:

1 volume

23. Add MS 5463

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Title:
The Four Gospels (the 'Codex Beneventanus')
Scope & Content:
The name 'Codex Beneventanus' has long been attached to this manuscript, mainly because of the connection to that region in the colophon of the scribe, Lupus. There are also marginal annotations (ff. 5v, 88v, 222r, 229r), as well as liturgical notes (marking the pericopes for the masses) in lead...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
739-760
Extent:
A parchment codex

24. Add MS 5956

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Title:
A miscellany of prose and poetry, 1598-1641
Scope & Content:
A folio volume, much injured by damp, containing a miscellany of prose and verse. The items are in a number of different hands. They include dramatic political events (especially relating to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Lady Frances Howard); verses (including by John Donne, Sir Walter...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1598-1641
Extent:
1 volume

25. Add MS 6362

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Title:
A collection of royal warrants and instructions, 1541-1612
Scope & Content:
A collection of original warrants and instructions, with royal signatures, from the time of King Henry VIII to King James I. The warrants include a number issued by Queen Mary I in 1558, especially to Thomas Gresham, her agent in Flanders, and to George Bredyman, Groom of the Privy Chamber and K...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1541-1612
Extent:
1 volume

26. Add MS 8101

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Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle of English kings to Edward I
Scope & Content:
Contents: A genealogical chronicle of England from Brutus to the death of William the Conqueror, with a commentary in Anglo-Norman French, and additional material. Face of roll: Membrane 1: A diagram in red and brown of the Heptarchy followed by commentaries with the following rubrics, 'Desc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

Parchment roll

27. Add MS 8928

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Title:
Medical and herbal treatises, including an illustrated Apuleius Platonicus Herbarius
Scope & Content:
The longest treatise in this medical and herbal compendium is the Apuleius Platonicus Herbarius, illustrated with outline drawings of herbs and plants in the margins of the text. The manuscript was produced in the 10th century, most likely in southern Italy (see Collins, Medieval Herbals (2007),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:

1 volume

28. Add MS 9381

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Title:
Gospel-book with added Cornish records of manumissions ('The Bodmin Gospels' or 'St Petroc Gospels')
Scope & Content:
Contents: The four Gospels. The text of the Gospels displays Irish variants with the interpolation of Mass formulae common in Breton gospel-books (Cohen and Teviotdale, 'Getty Anglo-Saxon Leaves' (1999), p. 67). ff. 2r-5v: Epistles and prologues; ff. 5v-7v Preface and chapter list to St Matt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
875-1025
Extent:
1 volume

29. Add MS 9832

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of The Legend of Good Women, written by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The Middle English poem takes the form of a dream vision and tells the stories of ten women from Classical history and mythology. This handwritten copy of the poem ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

30. Add MS 11414

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Title:
Missal, use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-3v: Added texts including verses from St John's Gospel, chapter 19, on the Passion, followed by the prayer, 'Deus qui manus tuas et pedes tuos..' and readings with musical notation; ff. 4r-309v: Missal of the use of Sarum or Sarum-Lincoln, with a calendar (ff. 4r-9v), and add...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

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