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241. Add MS 50000

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Title:
Psalter (the 'Oscott Psalter')
Scope & Content:
Psalter in Latin, with a metrical paraphrase of the Psalms in Anglo-Norman French. A leaf excised from this Psalter is now Add. MS 54215 (see Turner, Rediscovered Miniatures (1969)). The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, including the following saints: Milburga (23 February), Oswald (2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1265-1270
Extent:

Parchment codex.

242. Add MS 50001

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of Elizabeth the Queen', or 'The Hours of Elyzabeth ye quene')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar of Sarum use, but not containing all the feasts described as peculiar to Sarum in W. G. Henderson, The York Missal, 2, Surtees Society, 60 (1874), pp. 271-2. Entries in red include: Richard of Chichester (3 April); Dunstan (19 May); Augustine of Canterbury (26 May...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1415
Extent:

1 volume

243. Add MS 50005

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Title:
Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, Dutch. The text in the manuscript was completed by three hands: - Hand 1, of the early fifteenth century, who completed the bulk of the manuscript (ff. 8-82v, 95-96v, 103r-104v, 110r-111v, 115r-116v, 121r-122v, 125r-126v, 132r-132v, 134r, 145r-159v). - Hand 2, a slightly later...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410-1420
Extent:
1 item

244. Add MS 54179

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Title:
Psalter with elements of York and Augustinian use ('The York Psalter')
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1. Calendar. Contains a number of highly graded feasts of the York diocese, see Surtees Society, Breviarum Ad Usum Insignis Ecclesie Eboracensis (1880): John of Beverley (7 May), William (8 June), Wilfrid (12 October) and other northern elements: Gilbert of Sempringham (4 February) a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1260
Extent:

A parchment codex

245. Add MS 57950

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Title:
Collection of English polyphonic mass settings and motets ('The Old Hall Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
Contents: An important collection of English sacred music of the late 14th to early 15th centuries, including works by the named composers (with scrolls and inscriptions in contemporary hands) Leonel Power, Pycard, Typp, Byttering, Oliver, Chirbury, Excetre, Cooke, Roy Henry (Henry IV or Henry ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410-1420
Extent:

A parchment codex, 112 folios

246. Add MS 58054

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Title:
Edward Elgar: 'Ecce Sacerdos magnus' for chorus and orchestra and 'Sospiri, (Seufzer) Adagio für Violine mit Begleitung für pianoforte', op. 70
Scope & Content:
1. ff. 1-30. 'Ecce Sacerdos magnus' for chorus and orchestra; 1888. Full score (ff. 1-15) and orchestral parts (ff. 17-30). The title and choral part in the score are cut from the printed vocal score. Vocal score published as part of A. E. Tozer (ed.), 'Modern Church Music for Catholic Choirs', ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
1888-1914
Extent:
1 volume (i + 40 folios)

247. Add MS 58078

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Title:
Miniature of the Crucifixion ('The Wyndham Payne Crucifixion')
Scope & Content:
A single leaf of a miniature of the Crucifixion, blank on the verso, probably excised from a Missal (perhaps facing the Canon of the Mass, or a prayer of consecration) as suggested by the narrower right and wider left margins (typical of the verso of a leaf in a book), and the cross in the lower...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1405-c 1410
Extent:

1 leaf

248. Add MS 60577

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Title:
The 'Winchester Anthology', a collection of verse and prose, including Francesco Petrarca, Secretum; John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees off Old Philosoffres; the Dicta philosophorum, translated by Anthony Woodville; and excerpts from Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum ecclesiae
Scope & Content:
Miscellany of verse and prose (the 'Winchester Anthology'). For a full list of contents, see Wilson and Fenlon 1981. Principal contents: 1. (ff. 1v-3v): Excerpt from a Latin herbal. Incipit (f. 1v): 'Est enim una herba aput Caldeos vocatur yrnos apud grecos maruluel apud latinos eletropia'. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1487-1574
Extent:

1 parchment and paper codex

249. Add MS 60628/1

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Title:
Peter of Poitiers, Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi
Scope & Content:
This illuminated roll contains a copy of Peter of Poitiers's (Petrus Pictaviensis) (b. c. 1120, d. 1205) Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi, the genealogy of Christ from Adam, created in England in approximately 1250-1260. It is similar in content and arrangement to the Royal MS 14 B IX....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1250-1260
Extent:

A parchment roll.

250. Add MS 61735

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Title:
Farming memoranda of Ely Abbey
Scope & Content:
This may have originally been a manuscript flyleaf, on which working notes were recorded in preparation for more formal accounts. Contents: The memoranda comprise a list of valuations of livestock, seed, farm implements, ships etc., supplied by Ely Abbey to Thorney Abbey (refounded 972); an i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1007-1025
Extent:
A parchment folio, now divided into 3 separate strips

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