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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 931
Title:: Pontifical, use of Sens ("The Pontifical of Guillaume II de Melun")
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. [ii] recto: Notes added by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), keeper of manuscripts at the British Museum between 1837 and 1866: a list of the archbishops of Sens of the family of Melun between 1325 and 1474; a note speculating on the identity of the bishop of Sens for whom t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1346-c 1360
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 944
Title:: Lord Henry Howard (later Earl of Northampton), 'Regina Fortunata'
Scope & Content:: 'Regina Fortunata' is a Latin treatise composed by Lord Henry Howard, afterwards Earl of Northampton, about the year 1576. This is evidently a presentation copy to Queen Elizabeth I. It is written fair in the italic hand of a scribe (this seems more likely than it is in Howard's own hand), with ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1576
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1139
Title:: Psalter (The 'Melisende Psalter')
Scope & Content:: The Psalter conforms to the standards of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Office of the Dead is the use of Bayeux (according to Dondi, The Liturgy, 2004, p. 64). The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-12v: Prefatory cycle of illumination from the lives of the Virgin Mary and Christ; ff. 13r-19r: Calenda...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1131-1143
Extent:: A parchment codex, 218 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1151
Title:: Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: A Book of Hours made c. 1260–70 by the workshop of William of Devon for the use of a laywoman. The calendar and litany include many saints associated with Worcestershire and the West Midlands such as Sts Frideswide, Oswald, Chad, Wulfstan, Milburga, Wilfrid, Birinus, Dunstan and Egwin. The high ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1260-70
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1651
Title:: Poems by Erasmus
Scope & Content:: Collection of epigrams by Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1467–1536), humanist scholar and reformer. Containing a dedicatory epistle addressed to Prince Henry, later Henry VIII (1491–1547), king of England and Ireland. With an epigram by Robert Gaguin (1433-1501), French-Flemish humanist, poet, prosodis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1499
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1693
Title:: Miscellaneous papers of Robert Beale, 1569-1593
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous papers of Robert Beale, 1569-1593, comprising: continental correspondence; papers relating to Mary, Queen of Scots; and correspondence about the Church of England in the 1580s. This is a miscellaneous collection of papers once belonging to Robert Beale which have become separated...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1569-1593
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1694
Title:: Original letters addressed to Robert Beale (1576-1579, 1587) and to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1585-1587), with other papers concerning English involvement with the Dutch Revolt
Scope & Content:: This volume relates to the English involvement with the Dutch Revolt. The volume was once part of the Yelverton manuscripts, from which it became separated, and it embodies the involvement and preoccupation with the Dutch Revolt of the collection's originator, Robert Beale (1541-1601). Beale w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1576-1587
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1818
Title:: Letters and papers chiefly relating to Scottish affairs
Scope & Content:: A collection of letters and papers relating to Scottish affairs. ff. 1r–v: Cardinal David Beaton (Archbishop of St Andrews) to 'my lord secretare', Paris, 26 November [1541?]. ff. 2r–v: Mary of Guise, (Queen Dowager of Scotland and James V's widow), taking Patrick, Lord Gray, into the service...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1541-1630
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1821
Title:: Devotional compendium, including the Psalter of the Virgin Mary and the Rosary of the Virgin Mary
Scope & Content:: ff. 3r-5r: a description of the five lilies of the Virgin; ff. 10r-12v: instructions for saying the Psalter of the Virgin Mary; ff. 12v-19r: ‘my daily exercise’, consisting of Psalm 50 (Miserere mei Deus), said in three divisions for various intentions, with a Pater, Ave, and Creed, followed b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1525-1538
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2019
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:: Contents: Hours of the Virgin, in Latin, with calendar and prayers in French: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar in French; ff. 13r-20r: Cursus evangeliorum; ff. 20v-29v: Prayers to the Virgin, including 'Obsecro te' and 'O Intemerata'; ff. 30r-103v: Hours of the Virgin; ff. 104r-141v: Penitential...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1440-1450
Extent:: A parchment codex, 235 folios

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