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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5319-5337
Title:: Manuscript music presented by Sir John Hawkins
Scope & Content:: A collection of manuscript music formerly owned by Sir John Hawkins, chiefly copied by Mr. John Stanley
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 19 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5336
Title:: A collection of catches, canons, madrigals, vocal trios, vocal quartets, and some organ voluntaries
Scope & Content:: passim. Rounds and Catches. Nos. 1-9, 12, 13, 16, 18, 24, 31, 34, 36, and 38 are for 4 voices; the others for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated). Nos. 1-19, 21-31, are in score, and are taken from three works by Thomas Ravenscroft, viz.: — (1609), (1609), and (1611). 1, 2. 'Trole the bo...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Late 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (46 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5411
Title:: Lombard Laws
Scope & Content:: A collection of the laws of the kings of Lombardy, from Rothar to Emperor Henry III, 643-1052. A composite manuscript in two sections: ff. 1r-179v, and ff. 180r-192r, containing: ff. 1r-51r: Edict of Rothar, 643. Prologue 'In nomine Domini' (f. 1), beginning 'Si quis contra animam' (f. 1v) and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 11th century-12th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5412
Title:: Deed of sale ('The Ravenna Papyrus') (ChLA III+XLVIII 181; P.Ital. II 35; TM 114818)
Scope & Content:: Deed of sale made in Ravenna on behalf of Domninus, a hayward (agellarius) from Cesena (in the neighbourhood of Ravenna), to Deusdedit, a court officer of Ravenna. Domninus sells to Deusdedit five-twelfths of a small estate (fundus) called Custinis and two-twelfths of a farmhouse (casale) called...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3 Jun 0572
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5415 A
Title:: The Queen Mary Atlas
Scope & Content:: This portolan or atlas consists of three tables and nine large ornamented maps, executed by the Portuguese cartographer Diogo Homem (b. 1521, d. 1576) between 1555 and 1559. The manuscript is thought to have been made for King Philip II of Spain (r. 1556–98), possibly as a gift from Queen Mary I...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1555-1559
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5463
Title:: The Four Gospels (the 'Codex Beneventanus')
Scope & Content:: The name 'Codex Beneventanus' has long been attached to this manuscript, mainly because of the connection to that region in the colophon of the scribe, Lupus. There are also marginal annotations (ff. 5v, 88v, 222r, 229r), as well as liturgical notes (marking the pericopes for the masses) in lead...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 739-760
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5467
Title:: COLLECTION OF TRACTS: includes items translated by John Shirley (d.1456); mid - late 15th cent. Origin: England. The reference to Henry VI on f. 72v suggests a date after 1461. English and some Latin. Imperfect at end (catchword f. 224v). For descriptions of this manuscript and discussion of Shirley and his work, see: M. A. Manzalaoui, ed., Secretum Secretorum, EETS, no. 276 (1977), i, Text, pp. xxxvii-xxxviii; O. Gaertner, John Shirley sein Leben und Wirken (1904); A. I. Doyle, 'More light ...
Scope & Content:: Marmaduke Towlard, fl. 1683: Memoranda, etc., by: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 1-15v Horticulture: Geoffrey de Vinsauf, fl. 1200: On the tilling of trees, attrib. to G. de Vinsauf: 15th cent. ff. 1-22 Watermarks: Tête de boeuf: late 15th cent. ff. 16-21 Horticulture: Nicholas Bollard, natural...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5470
Title:: CORTES OF ARAGON AND CATALONIA: records of the Cortes of the Kingdom of Aragon, and in particular of the Cortes of Catalonia, etc., 1336-1413; early-mid 15th cent., after 1413. Latin and Catalan. Origin: Spain. See: Bohigas, 'El repértori de manuscrits Catalans', Estudis Universitaris Catalans, xii (1927), pp. 411-457; P. de Gayangos, Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Library (1877, repr. 1976), ii, p. 83. See also Cortes de los antiguas reines de Aragon y...
Scope & Content:: Law of Spain: Catalan Language: Records of Cortes of Aragon, etc.,: 1336-1413: Lat. and Catalan: Copies, 15th cent. includes: f. ii Bookplates and Book-stamps: Sir Paul Methuen, diplomatist: Bookplate of Sir Paul Methuen: 1725-1727. ff. 1-258 Peter IV of Aragon: Records of Cortes, including Co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Catalan, English, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5495
Title:: Copies of various papers and letters, chiefly during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, written soon after that period
Scope & Content:: A volume containing copies of various papers and letters, chiefly during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, written soon after that period, viz. 1. The customerships of all England, with their officers and fees. p. 1. 2. ‘A rate appointed by the Queenes Matie for the dischardge to be made of the Im...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1599-1641
Extent:: 1 volume (176 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5506
Title:: Miscellaneous volume, containing 'The discoverie of the Jesuits College at Clerkenwell,' etc.
Scope & Content:: A miscellaneous volume in folio, temp. Charles I. (Bound up with the preceding number [Add MS 5505]) containing: 1. ‘The discoverie of the Jesuits College at Clerkenwell.’ f. 67. 2. Liber Statutorum Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Herefordensis (transcript). f. 72. 3. A polemic treatise by Ad. Blare, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume (198 folios)

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