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232. Add MS 47680
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- Add MS 47680
- Title:
- Pseudo-Aristotle, Secretum Secretorum, translated by Philip of Tripoli (Philippus Tripolitanus)
- Scope & Content:
- The manuscript includes a pseudo-Aristotelian Arabic treatise, known as the Secretum Secretorum, in the Latin translation by Philip of Tripoli, imperfect. The manuscripts was intended by Walter of Milemete (fl. 1326-73) as a companion volume to his own work, De nobilitatibus sapientiis et prud...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1326-1327
- Extent:
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76 folios.
233. Add MS 48018
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- Add MS 48018
- Title:
- Formulary for a Clerk of the Privy Council, compiled by Robert Beale
- Scope & Content:
- Robert Beale (1541-1601), administrator and diplomat, was a Clerk of the Privy Council from 1572 until his death in 1601. This was the second of two formularies for his office that he compiled: the first (dated 1572) is now Add MS 48150. A note by Beale on f. i recto states that 'This Booke of ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1575-c 1586
- Extent:
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1 volume
234. Add MS 48027
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- Add MS 48027
- Title:
- Papers and correspondence relating chiefly to Mary, Queen of Scots, 1559-1594
- Scope & Content:
- Papers and correspondence relating to Mary, Queen of Scots: the conspiracies and plots involving her and her trial and execution and its aftermath, 1559-1594, n.d. Mostly contemporary copies. Further official copies of many of the items are in Cotton MS Caligula C IX. This volume was compiled b...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, Latin, Scots, and Spanish
- Date Range:
- 1559-1626
- Extent:
- 1 volume
235. Add MS 48049
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- Add MS 48049
- Title:
- Papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1565-c. 1600
- Scope & Content:
- This volume is made up of copies and drafts relating to Mary Queen of Scots and more broadly to Scottish politics in the reign of King James VI (up to c. 1600). The volume forms part of the papers collected by Robert Beale, Clerk of the Council, and there are many endorsements, memoranda and dra...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Cipher, English, French, Greek, Ancient, Latin, and Scots
- Date Range:
- 1560-1605
- Extent:
- 1 volume
236. Add MS 48085
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- Add MS 48085
- Title:
- Papers relating to the German Protestant states, 1563-1580
- Scope & Content:
- Copies of papers concerning foreign affairs, chiefly with reference to the German Protestant states between 1563 and 1580. Alarmed by divisions between Lutherans and Calvinists in Germany, Queen Elizabeth I sent three missions to that country in 1577, with the aim of establishing a Protestant Le...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, German, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1563-1580
- Extent:
- 1 volume
237. Add MS 49597/1
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- Add MS 49597/1
- Title:
- Fragments of English medieval polyphony
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript consists of 15 fragments of English medieval three-part polyphonic settings of the Ordinary of the Mass. The fragments originate from two disjunct leaves containing part of a Credo, three Agnus Dei (the first and third imperfect) and a Sanctus, using square notation on a black fi...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1400
- Extent:
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15 fragments of two leaves
238. Add MS 49598
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- Add MS 49598
- Title:
- The Benedictional of St Æthelwold
- Scope & Content:
- The Benedictional of St Æthelwold, written by the scribe Godeman for St Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester from 963-984. Acquired by the British Museum from Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, 1957. The Benedictional of St Æthelwold contains pontifical benedictions for a bish...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 963-984
- Extent:
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1 volume
239. Add MS 49622
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- Add MS 49622
- Title:
- Psalter, with calendar, prayers, litany and offices ('The Gorleston Psalter')
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. f. 7r: miniature of the Crucifixion (added after the manuscript passed to Norwich Cathedral Priory, c. 1320-1325). f. 7v: prayer before the Psalter, ‘Suscipere dignare domine dues omnipotens hos psalmos quos ego indignus peccator’ (added after the manuscript pa...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1310-1324
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
240. Add MS 49999
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- Add MS 49999
- Title:
- Book of Hours ('The De Brailes Hours') (formerly known as 'The Dyson Perrins Hours')
- Scope & Content:
- Book of Hours, known as the 'De Brailes Hours' after the Oxford illuminator William de Brailes, who left two signatures in the manuscript (ff. 43r, 47r, see Provenance). The manuscript is one of the earliest known Books of Hours to survive. Its liturgical content is close to the use of Sarum as ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1240
- Extent:
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Parchment codex