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11. Lansdowne MS 381

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 381
Title:
Psalter fragment ('Psalter of Henry the Lion') and Breviary fragment
Scope & Content:
Two volumes, now kept separately (please consult each individual record for full catalogue information): Lansdowne MS 381/1: ff. 1-11, Psalter ('Psalter of Henry the Lion'); Lansdowne MS 381/2: ff. 12-67, Breviary fragment, with prayers and meditations in English.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
10th century-15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex in two volumes, kept separately

12. Lansdowne MS 383

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 383
Title:
Psalter ('The Shaftesbury Psalter') with calendar and prayers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: former pastedown from a 13th century text. ff. 2r-179v: Psalter, preceded by a calendar, Easter table, and cycle of full-page miniatures, and followed by Canticles, a Litany, Collects, and various longer prayers. Decoration: 8 full-page miniatures in colours and gold (f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

13. Lansdowne MS 462

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 462
Title:
A gradual or antiphonary for the use of Sarum, with the music, being a volume of the same size, and written on vellum in the fourteenth century. Some of its margins are handsomely painted in gold and colours, and others have grotesque subjects at top. The initials are richly executed; several with appropriate figures, but, as to design, coarse and inelegant. On some spare leaves at the beginning and end there are hymns, with "Kyrie eleison," &c. and the music, in a different and later ha...
Scope & Content:
ff. 1b, 151b, 152. Tenor, or contra-tenor, part of the following fragments of Masses, which were probably harmonized for 4 voices: — 1-7. ‘Sanctus’ and ‘Benedictus.’ Seven settings, f. 1b. 8-16. ‘Kyrie.’ Nine settings, including single ones for Feriæ ii-vi, two for Sunday, and two for days not s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

14. Lansdowne MS 355

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 355
Title:
Miscellaneous letters of Greek patriarchs, metropolitans, etc., together with letters to John Covel, D.D. and his copies and drafts
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous letters of Greek patriarchs, metropolitans, etc., together with letters to John Covel, D.D. and his copies and drafts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern and Latin
Date Range:
1652-1701
Extent:

1 volume

15. Lansdowne MS 851

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 851
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, made shortly after his death, traditionally assigned to the year 1400. Contents: ff. 2r-12r: The General Prologue. ff. 12r-38v: The Knight's Tale. ff. 38v-39v: The Miller's Prologue. ff. 39v-47v: The Miller's Tale. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410
Extent:

1 volume

16. Lansdowne MS 204

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 204
Title:
John Hardyng, Chronicle (first version)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving copy of the first version of the Chronicle of John Hardyng (b. 1378, d. 1465), a former soldier and spy for King Henry V (r. 1413-1422). It was produced in Lincolnshire or the East Midlands in the middle of the 15th century and was probably commissione...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1440-1450
Extent:

1 volume

17. Lansdowne MS 762

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 762
Title:
Tudor commonplace book
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–99v: Tudor commonplace book, which was probably compiled during the reign of King Henry VIII, perhaps in the 1520s or 1530s. Its author would appear to be a Londoner, interested in civic affairs, religion and prophecies. f. 1r: Pen trials. f. 2r: Copy on parchment of the testament of Jo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1509-1564
Extent:

1 volume

18. Lansdowne MS 699

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 699
Title:
Collection of poems by John Lydgate and Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r-v: John Lydgate, 'Life of St Giles', written in Middle English verse, imperfect comprising only the final six stanzas; the text beginning, '…Bi a spiryt oonly of prophecie...' (DIMEV 4129). ff. 3r-18r: John Lydgate, Fabula duorum mercatorum, written in Middle English verse, be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

19. Lansdowne MS 813

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 813
Title:
Lord Henry Howard (later Earl of Northampton), 'A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women'
Scope & Content:
Lord Henry Howard (later Earl of Northampton), 'A dutifull defence of the lawfull Regiment of Weomen devided into three books. The first conteyneth reasons and examples grownded on the lawe of nature. The second reasons and examples grownded on the Civile lawes. The third reasons and examples gr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1590-1603
Extent:
1 volume

20. Lansdowne MS 441

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 441
Title:
Indenture between Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, and John Islip, Abbot of Westminster Abbey, concerning the foundation and support for her chantry
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an original indenture between Margaret Beaufort (b. 1443, d. 1509), Countess of Richmond and mother of King Henry VII (r. 1485-1509), and John Islip (b. 1464, d. 1532), Abbot of Westminster Abbey, concerning the foundation and support for her chantry, made on 2 March 150...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2 Mar 1506
Extent:

1 volume

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