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591. Sloane MS 2683

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2683
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, use of Sarum, made in Bruges for the English market. The manuscript includes: ff. 3r-8v: Calendar, including English saints: octave of St Thomas, Milburga, Edward, Cuthbert, Richard, Bishop of Chichester, Alphege, Dunstan, Augustine of Canterbury ('Augustini anglorum'), Translati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-1400
Extent:

1 volume

592. Sloane MS 2732 A

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2732 A
Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle from Noah to Henry VI of England
Scope & Content:
A genealogical roll chronicle beginning with Noah and tracing the lineage of the Kings of England through Brutus to Henry VI (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471), consisting of a genealogical diagram with a series of roundels accompanied by brief biographical entries. The roll is believed to have been mad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1438-1441
Extent:
1 roll

593. Sloane MS 3983

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3983
Title:
Georgius Fendulus, Liber astrologiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Liber astrologiae of Georgius Fendulus (12th century), an abbreviated Latin version of the astrological work of Abu Ma'shar (b. 787, d. 886). It is a close copy of Paris, BnF, MS Lat. 7330 (1220-40), and it may have served as the exemplar for New York, Morgan Library...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

594. Sloane MS 4016

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 4016
Title:
Herbal
Scope & Content:
An Italian Herbal, classified by Baumann as one of the 'North Italian group' and as a copy of Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, MS Masson 116 (see Baumann, Das Erbario Carrarese, 1974). Decoration: Full-page miniatures on each folio of plants in colours, mostly in greens and brown...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1440
Extent:

1 volume

595. Stowe Ch 64

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 64
Title:
Grant by Isabella, widow of Thomas del Hull of Snelston, to Henry of Kniveton, rector of Norbury Church, and Henry Wallour, chaplain, of property in Derbyshire and Staffordshire
Scope & Content:
Grant by Isabella, widow of Thomas del Hull of Snelston, to Henry of Kniveton, rector of Norbury Church, and Henry Wallour, chaplain, of all the property in Derbyshire and Staffordshire that she inherited following the death of Isabella, who was the wife of John Shale, son and heir of John of Ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1405
Extent:
1 leaf

596. Stowe MS 30

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 30
Title:
Prayer book presented to Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Illustrated prayer book, in various languages, dated 1578 and presented to Queen Elizabeth I for New Year. Written in inks of various colours, with illuminated titles and initials. Possibly presented by William Absolon (Lawson, ‘This Remembrance of the New Year’, p. 143). Previously also associ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1578
Extent:
1 volume

597. Stowe MS 166

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 166
Title:
Papers of Thomas Edmondes, Agent at the French Court, 1592-1596 and n.d., volume 1
Scope & Content:
Edmonde Papers, vol. 1, 18 June 1592-16 May 1596. This volume includes letters from William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Sir Robert Cecil and Sir John Norris, commander in Brittany, to Thomas Edmondes. Much of this volume comprises drafts (described on the endorsements as copies or minutes) of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1592-1601
Extent:
1 volume

598. Stowe MS 170

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 170
Title:
Papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Vol. 5: 28 Mar 1608-23 Mar 1609
Scope & Content:
Papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes (d. 1639), diplomat: Vol. 5: 28 Mar 1608-23 Mar 1609. Edmondes was in this period Ambassador to the Spanish Netherlands, to the Archdukes Albert and Isabella, at Brussels. The great majority of the letters here are originals, with some drafts by Edmondes, usually ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
28 Mar 1608-23 Mar 1609
Extent:
1 volume

599. Stowe MS 930

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 930
Title:
Register of Durham Cathedral Priory, including the ‘Bolden Book’
Scope & Content:
Composite miscellaneous register, 13th–late 14th century, with additions to the 15th century. Durham, University Library, Archives and Special Collections, MS Mickleton and Spearman 13, f. 210 is a leaf wanting in the Stowe volume before f. 35. ff. 3r–8r: Statutes for Durham Peculiars; edited ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-Late 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

600. Stowe MS 944

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 944
Title:
Liber vitae ('The New Minster Liber Vitae')
Scope & Content:
The core of this volume is a Liber vitae consisting of lists of names of brethren and benefactors of the New Minster, Winchester, recorded for commendation to God during daily mass, combined originally with a Gospel Lectionary, and supplemented with several historical texts. Contents: ff. 1r-5...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1031-1771
Extent:

1 volume

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