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1. Egerton MS 616

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 616
Title:
Letters relating to England and Spain
Scope & Content:
Original letters illustrative of the history of England and Spain, with a modern transcription of some of the letters on ff. 80r–94r. ff. i–ii: Modern contents list. ff. 1r–v: Letter in Latin and on parchment from Richard II to the King of Aragon [Peter IV], 26 August [c. 1386], Westminster. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1386-1662
Extent:
1 volume

2. Egerton MS 622

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 622
Title:
Poems by Gregory of Nazianzus with interlinear glosses in the form of a mathematarion, and a dictionary copied and compiled by Basileios Μοσκοβόρρωτος
Scope & Content:
Poems by Gregory of Nazianzus with interlinear glosses in the form of a mathematarion, and a dictionary copied and compiled by Basileios Μοσκοβόρρωτος.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-1727
Extent:
98 folios

3. Egerton MS 709

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 709
Title:
Opus chemicum, partim Syriace et partim Arabice, sed literis Syriacis. Octavo. Bibl. Eg. 709.
Scope & Content:
Alchemy: Opus chemicum: Partly Arabic, partly Syrian.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

4. Egerton MS 931

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 931
Title:
Pontifical, use of Sens ("The Pontifical of Guillaume II de Melun")
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. [ii] recto: Notes added by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), keeper of manuscripts at the British Museum between 1837 and 1866: a list of the archbishops of Sens of the family of Melun between 1325 and 1474; a note speculating on the identity of the bishop of Sens for whom t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1346-c 1360
Extent:

1 volume

5. Egerton MS 944

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 944
Title:
Lord Henry Howard (later Earl of Northampton), 'Regina Fortunata'
Scope & Content:
'Regina Fortunata' is a Latin treatise composed by Lord Henry Howard, afterwards Earl of Northampton, about the year 1576. This is evidently a presentation copy to Queen Elizabeth I. It is written fair in the italic hand of a scribe (this seems more likely than it is in Howard's own hand), with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1576
Extent:
1 volume

6. Egerton MS 1069

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1069
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Contents: Le Roman de la Rose: ff. 1-31r: The first section by Guillaume de Lorris, begun around 1220, incipit, 'Maintes gens dient quen songes'; ff. 31r-148r: The continuation by Jean de Meun, composed between 1269 and 1278, incipit, 'Et si lai je perdue espoir'. The attribution to the two...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 148 folios

7. Egerton MS 1139

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1139
Title:
Psalter (The 'Melisende Psalter')
Scope & Content:
The Psalter conforms to the standards of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Office of the Dead is the use of Bayeux (according to Dondi, The Liturgy, 2004, p. 64). The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-12v: Prefatory cycle of illumination from the lives of the Virgin Mary and Christ; ff. 13r-19r: Calenda...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1131-1143
Extent:
A parchment codex, 218 folios

8. Egerton MS 1151

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1151
Title:
Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
A Book of Hours made c. 1260–70 by the workshop of William of Devon for the use of a laywoman. The calendar and litany include many saints associated with Worcestershire and the West Midlands such as Sts Frideswide, Oswald, Chad, Wulfstan, Milburga, Wilfrid, Birinus, Dunstan and Egwin. The high ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1260-70
Extent:
A parchment codex

9. Egerton MS 1651

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1651
Title:
Poems by Erasmus
Scope & Content:
Collection of epigrams by Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1467–1536), humanist scholar and reformer. Containing a dedicatory epistle addressed to Prince Henry, later Henry VIII (1491–1547), king of England and Ireland. With an epigram by Robert Gaguin (1433-1501), French-Flemish humanist, poet, prosodis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1499
Extent:
1 volume

10. Egerton MS 1693

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1693
Title:
Miscellaneous papers of Robert Beale, 1569-1593
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous papers of Robert Beale, 1569-1593, comprising: continental correspondence; papers relating to Mary, Queen of Scots; and correspondence about the Church of England in the 1580s. This is a miscellaneous collection of papers once belonging to Robert Beale which have become separated...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1569-1593
Extent:
1 volume

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