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1. Add MS 20787

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Title:
The Law Code of King Alfonso X
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Primera Partida (First Part) of the Siete Partidas of King Alfonso X of Castile, Leon and Galicia (r. 1252-1284), a law code in seven parts, each divided into titles and then into laws. It is the most comprehensive of three major law codes compiled by him. This manuscr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 22911

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Scope & Content:
VOL. II. 1. Letters to Dr. Covel from Humfrey Wanley; London, Wimpole, 30 Aug. 1701-10 Apr. 1716, ff. 1, 8, 141-146, 155, 159-165, 170, 174-178, 185, 188, 190, 196, 206, 208, 211. Johannes Schult, Suecus; Cambridge, London, Upsal, 22 Apr. 1702-1 Jan. 1703. Lat. ff. 12-19, 25, 30, 36. J[ohn] Wood...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17 Nov 1655-29 Nov 1748
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 28640

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COPIES of political pamphlets, pieces in verse, prophecies, etc., chiefly relating to events of the reign of James I., and particularly to the proposed marriage between Charles, Prince of Wales, and the Infanta of Spain, about 1620-1625, and at subsequent periods; made by [John Rous, Rector of Stanton Downham, co. Suffolk. See Add. MS. 22,959]:- 1. "Vox populi, or Newes from Spaine; author Tho. Scotte of Norwold in Norff.;" Nov. 1620, f. 1. 2. Prophecy of Merlin: "A Prince out of the Nor...
Scope & Content:
John Rous, Rector of Stanton Downham, county Suffolk: Diary: 1620-1643. Political and Satirical Poems: Pieces relating to the Spanish match: 17th cent. Charles I of England: Diaries of political events, by Rev. J. Rous: 1625-1643. Charles I of England: Tracts and poems referring to his propos...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 30845

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Title:
Mozarabic Liturgy with musical notation
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-161v: Offices and Masses in the Mozarabic tradition for the saints' days from 20th May (Quiricus, Quirce or Cyriacus) to 24th August (Bartholomeus or Bartholomew), including the Translatio Sancti Saturnini, and the Officium de Letianas Canonicas, incomplete after ff. 7 and 161...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Spanish
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 161 folios

5. Add MS 33733

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Title:
The Triumphs of Charles V
Scope & Content:
The Triumphs of Charles V. A series of Spanish quatrains on each verso (one quatrain per folio), describing the content of 12 miniatures, in colours and gold, on the facing recto, illustrating episodes from the reign of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558). Title added in the 19th-century rebinding (f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
c 1556-c 1575
Extent:

12 parchment leaves, rebound in the 19th century into a parchment and paper codex; 18 folios

6. Add MS 48027

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Title:
Papers and correspondence relating chiefly to Mary, Queen of Scots, 1559-1594
Scope & Content:
Papers and correspondence relating to Mary, Queen of Scots: the conspiracies and plots involving her and her trial and execution and its aftermath, 1559-1594, n.d. Mostly contemporary copies. Further official copies of many of the items are in Cotton MS Caligula C IX. This volume was compiled b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, Scots, and Spanish
Date Range:
1559-1626
Extent:
1 volume