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251. Add MS 61823

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Title:
The Book of Margery Kempe
Scope & Content:
This is the unique manuscript witness of the spiritual autobiography of the mystic Margery Kempe [née Brunham] (b. c. 1373, d. in or after 1438) of Bishop's Lynn (now King's Lynn), Norfolk, who dictated it to two scribes or amanuenses in the 1430s. This copy of the text is datable to c. 1445-c. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1445-c 1450
Extent:

1 volume

252. Add MS 61887

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Title:
Calendar from a Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hungerford Hours')
Scope & Content:
Content: Six folios from the Calendar of the Hungerford Hours. The British Library holds two other leaves from the original Book of Hours: Additional MS 62106 (a leaf from None in the Hours of the Virgin) and Additional MS 72707 (a leaf from the Litany). For further identified leaves from ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1330
Extent:

6 parchment leaves.

253. Add MS 62103

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Scope & Content:
CHANDOS MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. V. Thomas Roseingrave, Cantatas to English (three), Latin (one) and Italian (six) words, with two Italian arias, all for soprano voice and various instruments, in score. 'Score 1' is written on the spine; presumably one of the 'Two Books full of Cantatas for one V...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
[18th century]
Extent:
1 item

254. Add MS 62106

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Title:
A leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hungerford Hours')
Scope & Content:
Content: A single leaf from the hour of None in the Hours of the Virgin from the Hungerford Hours. The text is preceded by a prayer in French (imperfect), ending: 'a seynte eglise bone pes et unite et a nous peccheours ta gloire benure, qui estes dieus et regnez pardurablement. Amen.' The Br...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1330
Extent:
Parchment leaf

255. Add MS 62925

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Title:
Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Rutland Psalter')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, use of Sarum, with the feasts for each month in red, blue and gold, with small roundels of the labours of the month and the zodiac symbols. ff. 7r-v: Volvelle compass, 15th century insertion. ff. 8v-143r: Psalter, Use of Sarum. ff. 143r-155v: Canticles and Ath...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1260
Extent:

Parchment codex; 190 folios.

256. Add MS 62997

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Title:
Leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Rome (the 'Sforza Hours')
Scope & Content:
Detached leaf including on its recto a fragment of a liturgical calendar for 20-30 April, with commemoration for the following saints: Marcellinus of Embrun (20 April), his inclusion perhaps reflecting Lombard practice or the Savoyard influence of Bona Sforza, George (24 April: sic, probably in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1490-1494
Extent:

1 parchment folio.

257. Add MS 69999

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Title:
Anthology of popular tales and fables
Scope & Content:
An anthology of approximately 380 popular tales and fables, used by preachers and others to illustrate moral points. The texts are arranged under subject headings, resembling in this respect the Speculum Laicorum of John of Hoveden (d. 1272-75). See Herbert, Catalogue of Romances, III, pp. 370-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

258. Add MS 70000

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Title:
Psalter (‘The Percy Psalter’)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is an illuminated Psalter made in York in the last quarter of the thirteenth century. It is the first part of the Percy Hours (Add MS 89379), which originally formed a single-volume Psalter-Hours. ff. 1r-2r: added prayers in a 14th-century hand, including the opening to the Gosp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

259. Add MS 71474

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Title:
Sir William Dugdale''s ''Book of Monuments''
Scope & Content:
Also called ''Book of Draughts''. Partly autograph, with drawings and paintings by William Sedgwick, heraldic draughtsman. Containing records of ecclesiatical monuments which Dugdale saw in some thirty-seven cities, towns and villages during two separate expeditions to London, the Midlands and Y...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1640-1641
Extent:
1 item

260. Add MS 71494

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Title:
Astrolabe and volvelle
Scope & Content:
Astrological diagrams, with moving parts, attributed to Thomas Hood. f. 1: Astrolabe, relating various fixed stars to planetary temperaments. f. 2: Volvelle showing the signs of the Zodiac.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1597
Extent:

1 item (a diptych)

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