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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 47674, ff 131r-140r
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Scope & Content:: Canticles and Athanasian Creed in parallel Greek and Latin texts.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: c 1220-c 1230
Extent:: 129 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: 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:: 76 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: 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:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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:: 15 fragments of two leaves

Reference (shelfmark):: 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:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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:: Parchment codex

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