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271. Add MS 88974

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Add MS 88974
Title:
Cartulary of Lacock Abbey
Scope & Content:
The later of the two Lacock cartularies, numbered '524' in Davis, Medieval Cartularies (1958), p. 59. The earlier cartulary is Add MS 88973. The core part of the manuscript (ff. 1r-135v) contains charters relating to Lacock Abbey, copied by a single hand in the first half of the fourteenth cent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century-Early 16th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

272. Add MS 89066/1

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Add MS 89066/1
Title:
Eustache Marcadé, Mystère de la Vengeance de Nostre Seigneur Ihesu Crist
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains the first volume of the Mystère de la Vengeance de Nostre Seigneur Ihesu Crist by Eustache Marcadé (the second volume is Add MS 89066/2). Scene-openings and main stage directions, translated from rubrics, are as follows: - ff. 2r-3v: List of 108 characters and their titl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1465
Extent:
Parchment codex (first of two volumes)

273. Add MS 89067

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Title:
A Traictise declaryng and plainly prouyng, that the pretensed marriage of Priestes, and professed persones, is no marriage, but altogether vnlawful, and in all ages, and al countreies of Christendome bothe forbidden and also punyshed, published under the name of Thomas Martin (London, Robert Caly, 1554). ESTC S112322; STC 17517. With extensive manuscript annotations.
Scope & Content:
In 1549, John Ponet published a treatise in favour of clerical marriage, entitled A Defence for Mariage of Priestes, by Scripture and aunciente wryters. Add. 89067 is Ponet’s personal copy of Stephen Gardiner’s refutation of his treatise, published in 1554 under the name of Thomas Martin. Ponet ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
1554-1556
Extent:

1 volume

274. Add MS 89074

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Add MS 89074
Title:
Catholicon Anglicum
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains the only known complete copy of the Catholicon Anglicum, a bilingual English-Latin dictionary compiled anonymously at some point during the fifteenth century. Only one other copy of the Catholicon Anglicum is known to survive: Add MS 15562, an imperfect copy missing many...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1483
Extent:
Paper codex

275. Add MS 89169

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Title:
Cartulary of Burton Abbey
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–5r: Table of contents to the cartulary, with folio references. ff. 6r–7v: Table of contents arranged by issuer. ff. 8r–74v: The earliest section of the cartulary, created c.1230–41 with 13th- to 15th-century additions, arranged partially by the status of grantors (foundation and royal; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century-15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

276. Add MS 89379

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Add MS 89379
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of York (‘The Percy Hours’)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is an illuminated Book of Hours made in York in the last quarter of the thirteenth century. It is the second part of the Percy Psalter (British Library, Add MS 70000), which originally formed a single-volume Psalter-Hours. The manuscript contains perhaps the oldest known example ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

277. Arundel MS 57

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Arundel MS 57
Title:
Michael of Northgate, Ayenbite of Inwyt
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript contains the only copy of the Middle English text, Ayenbite of Inwyt, together with religious poems and treatises. The first and last quires (ff. 1-12, 97-108) appear to have been added not long after the manuscript was written, possibly as protective flyleaves (see G...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1340
Extent:

A parchment codex consisting of 3 items

278. Arundel MS 57, ff 1r-12v

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Arundel MS 57, ff 1r-12v
Title:
Glossed Aristotle De anima, with added texts in Latin, French and Middle English
Scope & Content:
1. A fragment of Aristotle's De anima with glosses added in the late 13th century (ff. 1r-12v); On the lower half of the pages and in spaces in the Aristotle text have been added: (i) Inscription (see below, item 2), verses (f. 2: Boffey 539.5, 1227, 1961.3, 3238.5) and a list of contents of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1250-1300
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex: 12 folios

279. Arundel MS 57, ff 97r-108v

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Arundel MS 57, ff 97r-108v
Title:
Commentary on St Matthew, with prologue
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1275-1325
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex: 12 folios

280. Arundel MS 66

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Arundel MS 66
Title:
Astrological compilation and political prophecies
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: ff. 1v-2v: Canons to John Killingworth's tables, attributed to Thomas Pray. ff. 3r-32v: John Killingworth (Chillingworth), Astronomical tables. ff. 33r-47r: Catalogue of Stars extracted from Ptolemy's Almagest in the Latin translation of Gerard of Cremona. ff. 48r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1490
Extent:

Parchment codex

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