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231. Add MS 34563

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Title:
Papers relating to Sir Henry Bedingfield and the custody of Princess Elizabeth, 1554–1555
Scope & Content:
ff. 1v–66v: A volume of letters and papers relating to Sir Henry Bedingfield's service as vice-chamberlain in the royal household, and the custody of Princess Elizabeth in 1554–1555, during Mary I's reign. f. 1v: A note of the allowance given to Bedingfield for bouge of court as vice-chamberlai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1554-13 Jul 1558
Extent:
1 volume

232. Add MS 34791

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Title:
William Forrest, ‘The History of the Patriarch Joseph’
Scope & Content:
Poem by William Forrest (fl. 1530–1576), poet and possible chaplain to Queen Mary I, on the history of Joseph. With a dedicatory preface addressed to William Parr, later marquess of Northampton (1513–1571), nobleman and courtier. In twenty-three chapters, each with a brief argument in prose. In...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1547
Extent:
1 volume

233. Add MS 35123

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Title:
Octateuch with marginal commentary (Greg.-Aland 2276; Rahlfs 422)
Scope & Content:
A giant copy of the Octateuch, comprising the five books of Moses and the Books of Joshua, Judges and Ruth, with marginal commentary (catena) containing extracts from the works of the church fathers around the biblical text. The commentary belongs to the so-called Type III Catena which amalgam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century- 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

234. Add MS 36529

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Title:
Poetry miscellany, collected by the Harington family
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–82r: Poems by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (d. 1547), Sir Thomas Wyatt (d. 1542), and others, collected by Sir John Harington of Stepney (c. 1517–1582) and his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (d. 1612). On f. 29v are the names ‘Francis Haryngton’ and ‘Ellina Harrington’ (whose name is ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1560-1600
Extent:
1 volume

235. Add MS 36617

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Title:
Al-Zahrawi, Chirurgia d'Albucasis, in a Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona; Arabic-Latin glossary of medical terms
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated Latin translation of the Chirurgia d'Albucasis, a treatise on surgery by the Arabic physician and surgeon Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-'Abbās al-Zahrāwī al-Ansari (b. 936, d. 1013), commonly known as 'al-Zahrawi'. The treatise represents the 30th and final...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

236. Add MS 36678

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Title:
Fragments of John Bellenden's translation of Livy's Ab urbe condita into Scots English
Scope & Content:
Commissioned by James V, king of Scots (1512–1542). Fragments of corrected drafts, partly in Bellenden's hand, and annotations. The fragments comprise Book I, ch. 5–10, 11–14, 16–21, and Book III, ch. 1–5, fragments of 9, 10, 11 and ch. 15–18. Part of ch. 15–17 of the latter book is in a double...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1533
Extent:
1 volume

237. Add MS 36880

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Title:
Guiron le Courtois
Scope & Content:
Contents: Romances from the cycle of Guiron le Courtois: Roman de Guiron, also known as Meliadus or Palamedes (imperfect at the beginning, after ff. 163, 173, 261, and at the end). This manuscript lacks the prologue and the early sections of the romance, and begins with the account of Meliadus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

238. Add MS 36881

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Title:
Collection of Latin Sequences, Tropes, Cantiones, with music, of various authors, many with verse, and in two parts, arranged in series, for purposes which include ceremonial Feasts.
Scope & Content:
ff. 28. Collection of Sequences, Tropes, and other Cantiones with music, many of them having two or three verses set, like hymns, to the same music, which is, unless where the contrary is stated, in two parts, written on 4 lines scratched on the vellum, but not coloured, and preceded by the C, P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

1 volume (28 folios)

239. Add MS 36929

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Title:
Gallican Psalter with Canticles (The 'Psalter of Cormac')
Scope & Content:
Psalter in the later recension of the Gallican version, with prefatory material and Canticles beginning and ending imperfectly (a leaf lacking at the beginning and two at the end): f. 1r: Part of the treatise, De Psalmorum usu, here with the rubric, 'Expositio sancti Augustini in psalmis', inc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

240. Add MS 36983

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Title:
Collection of poetic and devotional texts in Middle English, including Cursor Mundi, The Pricke of Conscience, The Three Kings of Cologne, and minor poems by Geoffrey Chaucer and John Lydgate
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of poetic and devotional works in Middle English, including the Cursor Mundi, a retelling of the history of Christianity from Creation to Doomsday; The Three Kings of Cologne, a Middle English prose abridgment of John of Hildesheim's Historia Trium Regum; an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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