Proceedings of the rehabilitation trial of Joan of Arc
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This manuscript contains one of only three official copies made of the Processus justificationis Johanne D'Arc, or proceedings of the rehabilitation trial of Joan of Arc (b. c. 1412, d. 1431). Joan had been put on trial before a Church court headed by Bishop Pierre Cauchon (b. 1371, d. 1442), an...
RELAZIONI and other papers relating to Italy and Spain 1620-1634: — 1. Memoir on the Venetian republic, addressed to Philip IV. of Spain in 1620 by Don Aloiso Cueva, Spanish Ambassador in Venice, dealing with (a) the possessions and dependencies of Venice, (b) its revenues and expenditure, (c) i...
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert, Epistola de Obitu Bede with Bede's Death Song; Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis (extracts); Aelred of Rielvaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris; Hugh of Saint-Victor, De Beate Marie Virginitate (extract)
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Contents: ff. 1r-112r: Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People), includes the last paragraph of the prologue at the end (f. 112r). ff. 112v-113v: Cuthbert (fl. 735), abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow, Epistola de...
" HISTORIA ANGLIAE, maxime in iis quae ad ecclesiam spectant": the original MS. of part of the Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica of Nicholas Harpsfield, Fellow of New College, Oxford, Regius Professor of Greek 1546, Archdeacon of Canterbury 1554, imprisoned under Elizabeth for refusing the oath o...
" DE SAECULIS xiv. et xv., de Romanis pontificibus, de Regibus Angliæ ab Ed. 2 ad Hen. 8 " : the last two books of Harpsfield's Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica (cf. description of Stowe 105). This is a fair copy of the books containing the history of the 14th and l5th centuries. With the signat...
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, chiefly relating to ecclesiastical matters, 1. "Extract of what past between the Greeks and Latins at the Councils of Ferrara and Florence held in the year 1438," etc. f. 1. 2. " A breif note of such matters as weare agreed vpon by the Kinges Majestie his Lordes of the Co...
ACCOMPTS of John Hill, clerk, Prebendary of Canterbury, as receiver-general for the Dean and Chapter, for the two years ending at Michaelmas, 30 Eliz. [1588], and Mich., 36 Eliz. [1594]. Latin. The first accompt is signed by Ri[chard Rogers, suffraganbishop of ] Dover, Dean of Canterbury, and An...
Vol. I. (ff. 300). ANGLO-GALLICA, or negotiations and treaties between England and France; 1359, 1525-1654. 1. " Traicté entre le Roy de France et le Royaume d'Escosse pour la delivrance du Roy d'Escosse, prisonnier en Angleterre " ; Paris, July, 1359. f 4. 2. Treaty of peace and alliance be...
