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1. Add MS 10308

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Title:
Poems of Sir Robert Ayton
Scope & Content:
Collection of poems in English and Scots by Sir Robert Ayton (1570–1638), poet and courtier. Collected by his nephew and executor, Sir John Ayton. f. 1r: Title page, ‘Some fewe English and Scotts amorous Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, late Secretarye to the most Illustrious, Anna and Henrietta Mary...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Scots
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 32646-32657

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Title:
OFFICIAL correspondence and state papers relating to transactions between England and Scotland during the latter part of the reign of Henry VIII., from 1532 to 1545; and (in the last volume) a few similar letters of the beginning of the reign of Edward VI., in 1548, and the correspondence of Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State, with Edward Wotton, Ambassador to Scotland in 1585. Twelve volumes. A large portion of the series relates to the embassy of Sir Ralph Sadler to Scotland in the...
Scope & Content:
Marches of England and Scotland: Official correspondence and papers relating to: 1532-1545, 1548, 1585. Hamilton State Papers: Transactions between England and Scotland: 1532-1548, 1585. England General Chronicles and History: Transactions between England and Scotland: 1532-1548, 1585.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, Scots, and Spanish
Date Range:
[7 Mar 1532]-27 May 1590
Extent:
12 items

3. Add MS 40732

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Title:
Gilbert the Hay, The Buike off King Allexander the Conqueroure
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Buike off King Allexander the Conqueroure, a translation of the Alexander Romance into Scots heroic couplets by the Scottish poet Gilbert the Hay (b. c. 1397, d. 1465). Gilbert's translation was likely influenced by earlier French sources of the Alexander romance. T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Scots
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Add MS 48000-48196

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Title:
THE YELVERTON MSS
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers chiefly of Robert Beale, Clerk of the Council (b. 1541, d. 1601), together with additions of the 17th century, including manuscripts of Sir Henry Yelverton, Justice of the Common Pleas (b. 1566, d. 1629), Beale's son-in-law, Sir Christopher Yelverton, Justice of the Kin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Scots, Spanish, and Welsh
Date Range:
[1100-1899]
Extent:
197 items

5. Add MS 49199-49285

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Title:
The Stanmore Papers. Correspondence and papers of Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore, colonial governor, (b. 1829, d. 1912); 1841-1912, with Supplementary Aberdeen Papers; 1803-1861. Further Papers of Stanmore as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick are in the possession of the University of New Brunswick. He wrote Wilderness Journeys in New Brunswick (1864), Story of a Little War, 1876 (1879) and other works noted below, in which he published many documents from the following volum...
Scope & Content:
Sir Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore; formerly Gordon; GCMG: Correspondence and papers: 1841-1912.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, Fijian, French, Latin, Maori, Rarotongan, Scots, Spanish, and Turkish
Date Range:
1841-1912
Extent:
87 items