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...
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...
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...
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
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...
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1581–1587
Scope & Content:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1581–1587.The remainder of this volume has been bound as Cotton MS Caligula C IX/2.
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1558-1564
Scope & Content:
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1558-1564. f. 2 Queen Elizabeth I: minutes of her instructions to Thomas Gresham: to travel to Antwerp, and liquidate some debts. December 1558 and March 5, 1558-9. f. 3 Queen Elizabeth I: her commission to William Howard, Earl of E...
Contains the Fabrica Horologa Universal, a work on dialling, by Andres de Vega, a confessor of Observant Franciscans in the province of Granada, which he dedicated to Luis de Guzmán, advisor to the Minister Provincial of the Franciscans of the province of Granada. The work on the manuscript prob...