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81. Add Ch 76275

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Title:
Will of Johanna, wife of John Godfrey of South Creake
Scope & Content:
Will of Johanna, wife of John Godfrey of South Creake, Norfolk. Joan leaves her body to be buried in the cemetery of South Creake church and makes bequests of 40d to the church’s altar, 6s 13d for repairs to the church, 1d for the church’s processions, 2 marks for church’s lights, and the rest o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1368
Extent:
1 leaf

82. Add Ch 76757

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Title:
Grant by Charles VII of France of a dower for Margaret Stewart, daughter of James I of Scotland, for her proposed marriage to Louis, Charles’ son
Scope & Content:
Grant by King Charles VII of France promising annual rents and a cash dower for Margaret Stewart, daughter of James I of Scotland, for her proposed marriage to Louis, Charles’ son and dauphin of Vienne, with a note indicating that the matter was discussed in the king’s council. Given at Poitier...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12 Mar 1429
Extent:
1 leaf

83. Add Ch 77131

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Title:
Charter of Marie de St Pol, countess of Pembroke, and four others, appointing John Shaftsbury and John Cheshunt as their attorneys
Scope & Content:
Charter of Marie de St Pol (d. 1377), countess of Pembroke, John Knyvet, William of Wychingham, Richard of Donemowe, parson of Palgrave, and Roger of Wolferston, appointing John Shaftsbury, clerk, and John Cheshunt as their attorneys to transfer the manor of Babraham (Cambridgeshire) to Thomas C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
25 Jul 1372
Extent:
1 leaf

84. Add Ch 77153

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Title:
Will of Isabella Storke
Scope & Content:
Will of Isabella Storke, wife of William Denton, squire, of the diocese of Ely. Isabella leaves her body to be buried in the chancel of Babraham, Cambridgeshire, and she leaves to William, her husband, all her possessions and a messuage in Soper Lane, the parish of St Pancras, London. She asks t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
25 Mar 1496
Extent:
1 leaf

85. Add Ch 77735

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Title:
Inspeximus by Henry III of a grant of Aethelred the Unready to Wherwell Abbey
Scope & Content:
Inspection and confirmation by King Henry III of England (r. 1216-1272) of a charter of King Aethelred the Unready (r. 978-1016) for Abbess Heanflaed and Wherwell Abbey (Hampshire), issued before 23 April 1002; given at Westminster, 26 October 1260. The preamble states that the original is now...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1260
Extent:
1 leaf

86. Add MS 4899

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Title:
Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a selection of the Sermones (Sermons) by Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090, d. 1153), abbot of Clairvaux and one of the leading theologians of the 12th century. The manuscript was produced in England in the 12th century and belonged to the Carthusian abbey of Witham in the 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

87. Add MS 5220

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Title:
‘Drawings of animals, monsters, skeletons, etc.’ from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, by different hands
Scope & Content:
Album of drawings by miscellaneous hands and of differing origin and date. The pages are not numbered. The drawings are listed as numbered items in pencil (1928). Folio number refers to the digital foliation. [f. 1] 1. Drawings of fish; pen, ink and wash; signed bottom right ‘HG fecit’; Insc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (42 drawings)

88. Add MS 5262

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Title:
Drawings of shells, crustaceans and fish by Everard Kick, George Jago and others
Scope & Content:
176 drawings executed in a variety of techniques, some of which are signed and dated. The drawings are executed on paper or parchment and pasted down on the folios of the manuscript. Summary description of contents: 1-7. Ink and grey wash studies of various types of fish with their name and a b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (176 items)

89. Add MS 5292

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Title:
Drawings of Chinese Flowers, Plants, and Fruits, in colours, by a native artist, at Emuy; with their names in Chinese
Scope & Content:
The first of three volumes which contain watercolours of Chinese flowers, plants and fruits by an unknown Chinese artists from Xiamen, known to Europeans at the time as Emuy or Amoy. Drawings of costumes that were also contained in this volume, were transferred to the British Museum Department o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1701
Extent:

1 volume

90. Add MS 6523

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Title:
Gospel of St Luke, glossed
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the Gospel of Luke with interlinear and marginal Gloss. It was probably produced in France (ex. info Michael Gullick), but was in England by the first half of the 16th century. Contents: ff. 1v-156v: The Gospel of Luke with marginal and interlinear Gloss,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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