Collection of Canons, including: Symeon's song, in Latin. Various Patristic texts on penitence and on the Sacrament of Confession, copied by a 17th-century hand. Theodore Balsamon, Verses in heroic metre: inc. Ἀστέρες ὡς πολύφωτοι ἀφεγγοῦς ὄμμα νυκτὸς; expl. σωτηρίαν ψυχῆς, ταύτης γὰρ πέρι θρηνεῖ...
Manuel Malaxos, Translation of ecclesiastical canons and other relevant texts into modern Greek
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Manuel Malaxos, Translation of ecclesiastical canons and other relevant texts into modern Greek, including: Printed page from a book on herbs. Fragment from a printed book of Aesop's Fables. Theological treatises divided into 27 chapters: Κεφάλαιον πρῶτον ὅτι ἡ θεία τριὰς εἶναι εἰς τρεῖς χαρακτῆρ...
Anthology of Tudor courtly verse, mostly attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt, with other poems by Henry Howard, Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas Hoccleve (‘The Devonshire Manuscript’)
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This manuscript contains an anthology of early-modern Tudor courtly verse from the 1530s, which was compiled by three women who attended the royal court: Mary Shelton, Mary Fitzroy and Lady Margaret Douglas. The majority of the verses recorded in the volume are attributed to the English politi...
Anthology of Byzantine Hymns (selections from the Anastasimatarion by Petros Peloponnesios and Petros Byzantios, and Doxastarion by Petros Peloponnesios) ff 1-5v. Kekragaria by Petros Byzantios on the 8 modes. ff 5v-27. Kekragaria, Dogmatika Theotokia and Pasapnoaria by Petros Peloponnesios on th...
THE LITURGIES of S. Basil, S. Gregory, and S. Cyril, adapted to the use of the Coptic Church in Abyssinia. In Coptic and Arabic. Paper; XVIth cent. Quarto. [Add. 17,725.]
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Liturgies and Martyrologies: Liturgies of SS. Basil, Gregory, and Cyril, adapted to the use of the Abyssinian Church: 16th cent. Liturgies Coptic: Liturgies for the Coptic Church in Abyssinia.: Copt. and Arab.
Masque of "Cupid and Death," written by James Shirley, with music by Matthew Locke and Dr. Christopher Gibbons, and played before the Portuguese Ambassador, in 1653, and a transcript of this volume, enables a subsequent presentation at the Military Ground in Leicester Fields, in 1659.
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Music: Masque of Cupid and Death by M. Locke. Matthew Locke, composer: "Masque of Cupid and Death, " etc. 'Cupid and Death: a Masque by J[ame]s Shirley, 1653.' Presented before the Portuguese Ambassador, on the 26th of March of that year. The music by Matthew Lock and [Christopher] Gibbons. Th...
Collection of compositions for various instruments, predominantly by Matthew Locke.
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Collection of compositions for various instruments, predominantly by Matthew Lock. ff. 3-6 'Duos' for Bass-Viols, in score, by M[atthew] L[ock], 1652. Autograph. There are twelve divided into four sets, each set containing two 'Fantazies' and either a Courante (nos. 1 and 3), or a Saraband (nos...