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191. Add MS 25114

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Title:
Original state papers, 1527–1545
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–351v: A volume of original letters and state papers, relating chiefly to the embassies of Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, to the courts of Francis I and Charles V, 1527–1545. ff. 1r–18r: Copy of a treaty in Latin between Francis I and Henry VIII for the marriage of the Princess M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1527-1545
Extent:
1 volume

192. Add MS 25435

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Title:
German book of fate
Scope & Content:
This German ‘Book of Fate’ (also known as ‘Losbuch’ or ‘Punktierbuch’) features a vernacular translation of a Latin prognostic work attributed to a certain Bernardus Silvestris or Perphyrius. It contains advice from 28 Old Testament prophets, organised according to the 28 days of the sidereal mo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1350 - c 1450
Extent:

Parchment manuscript

193. Add MS 25707

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Title:
Verse compilation ('The Skipwith MS')
Scope & Content:
Composite volume containing papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire. Includes verse and prose by John Donne; Henry King; Thomas Carew; Sir Walter Ralegh; William Skipwith; Sir Henry Skipwith; Ben Jonson; William Strode; Sir John Beaumont; Sir Henry Goodyer; George Morley; Willia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1620-1650
Extent:
1 volume

194. Add MS 25718

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-88v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, fragmentary, including portions of ten of the Tales, arranged as follows: ff. 1r-24v: The Knight's Tale, comprising A, ll. 1394-1524, 1584-1706, 1829-1950 and 2011-3108. ff. 24v-30v: The Miller's Prologue and Tale, comprising A,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

195. Add MS 26116

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Title:
Job
Scope & Content:
This volume contains fragments from the Book of Job 1:8-5:18; 6:26-28:21. At least one first bifolio is missing but the continuation of the manuscript is found in Sinai Ar. 1, which besides Job contains Daniel, Bel and the Dragon, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Ezekiel. For extracts, see Cureton a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. 15

196. Add MS 26769

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Title:
Genealogical chronicle of the kings of France to Charles VII
Scope & Content:
A genealogical chronicle of the kings of France known as ‘A tous nobles’. The chronicle consists of: Membranes 1-7: A central diagram with roundels in brown containing the names of kings joined by a line of descent in red. Roundels concerning the deeds of rulers (founding of religious orders or...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 roll

197. Add MS 26787

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Title:
John Skelton, Speculum principis
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–30v: Imperfect moral treatise in Latin by John Skelton, poet laureate, and dated Eltham, 28 August 1501. It was revised for presentation to King Henry VIII between June 1509 and May 1512. It is probably the manuscript entitled 'Methodus Skeltonidis laureati' that was once in the library o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1509-1512
Extent:
1 volume

198. Add MS 27301

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Title:
Lives of the Desert Fathers
Scope & Content:
An Armenian manuscript containing the following: ff.1r-444r Lives of the Desert Fathers ff.444v-447v Principal colophon Headpieces and 25 illuminated pictures of saints are present throughout the manuscript. The most remarkable are on ff.5v, 228v, 255v, 322v, 325r, 329v, 333v, 334r, 344v, 353...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Armenian
Date Range:
1614
Extent:
1 item, 447 ff

199. Add MS 27429

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Title:
Le Sette Savi di Roma (The Seven Sages of Rome)
Scope & Content:
Le Sette Savi di Roma (The Seven Sages of Rome), consisting of a frame tale, introducing and providing the background to 14 short moral tales told to the 'Emperor of Rome' by the Seven Sages and the Empress, arranged as follows: f. 1r: Blank paper flyleaf with a paste-down containing a descript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

200. Add MS 27539

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Title:
Universal chronicle, including a genealogical chronicle of the kings of France
Scope & Content:
Contents: A universal chronicle, including genealogical chronicle of the kings of France up to King Louis XI. Each column of text is accompanied by a genealogical diagram. Begins imperfectly, as the upper part of the first membrane is lacking, incipit ‘... de tous biens … ne doleur ne fain.’ ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 roll

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