261. Add MS 71495
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262. Add MS 72707
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- Title:
- A leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hungerford Hours')
- Scope & Content:
- Content: A single leaf containing part of the Litany of Saints (Confessors and Virgins) from the Hungerford Hours. The British Library holds additional leaves from the original Book of Hours: Additional MS 61887 (six folios from the Calendar) and Additional MS 62106 (a single leaf from the h...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1330
- Extent:
- Parchment leaf.
263. Add MS 82931
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- Title:
- Liber de Hyda or Liber Abbatiae: a chronicle-cartulary of Hyde Abbey, AD 455-1023, compiled from earlier sources
- Scope & Content:
- Content: The present manuscript contains copies of twenty-three Anglo-Saxon charters, seven Anglo-Saxon wills, and one set of Anglo-Saxon bounds. Hyde Abbey was founded by Edward the Elder as the New Minster, Winchester in 901, and refounded by King Edgar in 964. The abbey was removed to Hyde,...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
- Date Range:
- Mid 15th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex, 39 folios.
264. Add MS 82945
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- Title:
- Hours of the Passion ('the Wardington Hours')
- Scope & Content:
- This copy of the Hours of the Passion, known as the Wardington Hours was produced in Paris during the 15th century. Work on the volume had probably begun in the second decade of the century, but was left unfinished for 20-30 years. In around 1440 the eight illustrations and their accompanying il...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1410-c 1440
- Extent:
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Parchment codex.
265. Add MS 82947
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- Title:
- Peter of Poitiers, Allegoriae super tabernaculum Moysi and Allegoriae super Leviticum (attributed to Peter of Poitiers)
- Scope & Content:
- The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-47v: Peter of Poitiers, Allegoriae super tabernaculum Moysi, incipit: 'Secretum dei intentos debet facere'; ff. 48r-48v: Michael of Meaux, Proemium apostoli and Proemium psalterii, incipit: 'Quatuor sunt genera apostolorum'; ff. 49r-123r: Allegoriae super Levi...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
Parchment codex; 123 folios.
266. Add MS 82948
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- Title:
- Fragments of treatises on hunting ('The 'Kerdeston Hunting Book')
- Scope & Content:
- This volume contains a collection of fragments from hunting treatises, belonging to Sir Thomas Kerdeston of Claxton, Norfolk (b. c. 1395, d. 1446) and his second wife, Phillippa Trussell (b. after 1396, d. 1452). The first folio may originate from another of Kerdeston's manuscripts, as the scrip...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1420-1430
- Extent:
-
1 volume
267. Add MS 82949
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- Title:
- The 'Kerdeston Hawking Book': a collection of treatises on hawking.
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-26v, A dialogue on hawking between Cosmas and Ypocras, incipit, 'Thys boke folwyng treteth of all maner nature of hawkys fyst of all hawkes of the ere and her sekenesse', explicit, 'that othyr flech of fowles is noght holsum bot yif it be bete for the betyng maketh the flech be...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1430-1445
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex, 79 folios.
268. Add MS 88887
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- Title:
- Patterns or models of alphabets and borders (the 'Macclesfield Alphabet Book')
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: A collection of 14 different sets of specimen initials or letters in alphabetical order in Gothic script of the 15th century, with later additions in Humanistic script of the early 16th century (ff. 7r-7v, 13r-14v, 21v-22r). A list of names each beginning with a different letter of t...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1475-1525
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex.
269. Add MS 88929
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- Title:
- Prayer-roll of Henry VIII
- Scope & Content:
- Roll containing prayers in Latin and English to the Arma Christi, the Virgin and seven saints. At the top of the roll are the emblems of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, which were added at a later date. In addition to decorated initials in gold and colours, as well as rubrics, the roll co...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- between 1485-1509
- Extent:
- 1 roll
270. Add MS 88973
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- Title:
- Cartulary of Lacock Abbey
- Scope & Content:
- The earlier of the two Lacock cartularies, numbered '523' in Davis, Medieval Cartularies (1958), p. 59. The later cartulary is Add MS 88974. The core part of the manuscript (ff. 7r-72r) contains charters, rentals and custumaries relating to Lacock Abbey, copied in stages in the thirteenth centu...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- Mid 13th century-Early 16th century
- Extent:
- Parchment codex