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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37049
Title:: Carthusian miscellany of poems, chronicles, and treatises in Northern English, including an epitome or summary of Mandeville's travels
Scope & Content:: The contents of the manuscript are as follows: (References to 'Boffey' are to: Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (2005)). f. 1r: A fragment, imperfect at the beginning, of a legenda or apocryphal gospel, in Latin on the recto of the first of two vellum lea...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1460-1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37977
Title:: Memoirs of the diplomat Sir James Melville of Hallhill (1559–1594)
Scope & Content:: An autograph copy of Melville's memoirs. This manuscript is most likely the one Robert Trail found in Edinburgh Castle in 1660 and identified as Melville's handwriting. Trail gave it to Melville's grandson George Scott of Pitlochie, who published it with significant alterations in 1683. The 182...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38656
Title:: Declaration against the papal supremacy in England
Scope & Content:: ff. 3r–4v: Declaration against papal supremacy in England in these words: ‘Romanus episcopus non habet maiorem aliquam iurisdictionem collatam sibi a deo in sacra scriptura in hoc regno Angliae quam alius quiuis externus episcopus.’ It is signed by both the Archibishops (Thomas Cranmer and Edw...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1534
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38892
Title:: Sir Philip Sidney, The Old Arcadia (‘Phillipps MS’)
Scope & Content:: Copy of the first version of the pastoral romance ‘The Arcadia’, composed by Sir Philip Sidney, author and courtier (1554-1586), between c. 1577 and c. 1580, and first published in 1590. Previously owned by Sir John Harington (bap. 1560, d. 1612), courtier and author, and partly in his hand. f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c. 1590
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38895 B
Title:: Sale of a Vineyard (TM 97890)
Scope & Content:: The document records the purchase of a vineyard by a man named Denes from another named Aspomaces. It included two versions of the text, following the format of Doppelurkunde (“double document”). There are important differences between both versions. Dated to 22/21 BC if the date (year 291) is a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 22-21 BC or 43-44
Extent:: Parchment sheet, complete, with little surface damage and few holes, located in the upper portion. Written on one side, the back bearing the British Museum red stamp and the inventory number. The front has 30 lines, and all margins are extant. The sheet is housed in a glass case named Add MS 38895 B. The original clay seals and string used to seal the documents are housed in another frame, named Add MS 38895 C.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39758
Title:: Chronicle and cartulary of Peterborough Abbey ('The Book of Walter of Whittlesey')
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a chronicle and cartulary of the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter, St Paul, and St Andrew, Peterborough, partly compiled by the monk Walter of Whittlesey around 1322 to 1329, and largely written in his hand. Whittlesey was also the author, and possibly the illuminator, of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1322-1329
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40010
Title:: Rentals of Fountains Abbey
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of entries from manorial court records and extracts from manorial rentals of the tenants of the Cistercian monastery of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire during the 14th and early 15th centuries. The manuscript's original parchment binding is now housed sep...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Middle of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40010/1
Title:: Detached former binding from Add MS 40010
Scope & Content:: Detached binding from Add MS 40010, a collection of entries from manorial court records and extracts from manorial rentals of the tenants of the Cistercian monastery of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire during the 14th and early 15th centuries. A parchment binding with a metal clasp fastened ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Middle of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 detached binding

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40078
Title:: Parliament roll of arms
Scope & Content:: Parliament roll of arms, dated 5 February 6 Hen. VIII (1515). Containing a list of the Lords spiritual and temporal, with 49 coats of arms, in colour. English and Latin. First published in facsimile in 1829 by former owner Thomas Willement (see Publication Note). A similar roll for the year of 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1515
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40080
Title:: "FIORETTI d[e]l [Girolamo] Frescobaldi," for harpsichord. Paper; ff. i + 40. Oblong octavo. First half of xvii cent. At the beginning is inserted a (later ?) "Orario delli seruizij Feriali della Cappella Pon[ti]fi[ci]a," of which Frescobaldi was organist 1608-1628. In richly tooled Italian black leather binding, with arms, gu., fretty-florey or.
Scope & Content:: Music: Harpsichord pieces (Italian), 17th: 18th centt. Girolamo Frescobaldi, composer: Harpsichord solos: 1st half of 17th cent. Bindings ITALIAN: Black leather, richly tooled, with arms: 1st half of 17th cent. includes: f. 1 Court of Rome: Time-table of the ordinary services in the Papal Ch...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1st half of 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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