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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40076
Title:: Rule and Privileges of the Poor Clares
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6r: The Rule of the Poor Clares, a copy of the Bull of Clement VI, confirming that of Clement IV (made 31 December 1266), which in turn confirms and recites the Rule of the Poor Clares, as drawn up by Rinaldo, Bishop of Ostia and Velletri (afterwards Pope Alexander IV), and ap...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1446-1448
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41623
Title:: An illustrated Herbal (the 'Codex Bellunensis')
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-147v: A herbal from northern Italy; the text is chiefly an adaptation of Dioscorides, De Materia Medica in Latin, with occasional entries in Italian, including a list or index of plants (ff. 137r, 138r-v, 142r-145r, 147r-v). Other texts inserted in the main text are: ff. 128r-v, 134r-v, 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: Paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41997
Title:: Burchard of Bellevaux, Apologia de Barbis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the only surviving copy of the Apologia de Barbis (The Defence of Beards) that Burchard (d. 1163), Cistercian Abbot of Bellevaux wrote for the lay brothers of the Abbey of Rosières, a daughter house of Bellevaux. The Apologia is made up of three sermones (speeches) discu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 42856
Title:: 'AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY', BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE, the novelist (d. 1882); written 1 Jan.-11 Apr. 1876 (see f. iib) with additions in 1879 (see f. 212). The autograph manuscript (except for some passages from letters quoted on ff. 79-79b, 83, 83b, 190-191), but not apparently that sent to the printers for the first edition published by his elder son, Henry Merivale Trollope, in 1883, where it is stated that the autobiography was begun in the latter part of 1875. 1n the first edition a few passages w...
Scope & Content:: Anthony Trollope, novelist: Autobiography: 1876-1879.: Autogr. Brenzett, Kent: Deeds and papers rel. to: 1448-1777.: fr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1876-1879
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 43689
Title:: LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS to his wife Catherine, née Hogarth; May 1835-5 Nov. 1867, n.d. Autograph. The series comprises 136 letters, of which the first sixty (mostly undated) were written before their marriage on 2 Apr. 1836, and the last four after their separation in 1858. Also included in the volume are: - (a) An explanatory foreword (undated, but presumably written in 1899, when the letters were presented to the Museum) by Mrs Kate Perugini, second daughter of Charles Dickens, to whom ...
Scope & Content:: Charles Dickens, novelist: Letters to his wife: 1835-1867. includes: f. ii Katherine Elizabeth Macready Perugini, daughter of Charles Dickens: Pencil sketch of: 1925. f. ii Art. Portraits: Kate Perugini: 1925;: pencil sketch. ff. i, 1 Katherine Elizabeth Macready Perugini, daughter of Charles ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: May 1835-5 Nov 1867
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 43725
Title:: Codex Sinaiticus (Gregory-Aland 01 or א; von Soden δ 2; Scrivener א): Bible in two volumes
Scope & Content:: Codex Sinaiticus (Gregory-Aland 01 or א; von Soden δ 2; Scrivener א): Bible in two volumes. Imperfect. Leaves are missing from the beginning of the manuscript (more than 33 quires), from the end, and from various points in the middle. Some of these missing portions still survive, principally the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 4th century-3rd quarter of the 4th century
Extent:: 2 parchment codices

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 44839
Title:: Chart of the Thames estuary drawn by Robert Adams, showing existing and proposed defences on the Thames, against the Spanish Armada
Scope & Content:: A pictorial chart of the Thames estuary, drawn in pen-and-ink with coloured wash, in 1588 by Robert Adams (b. 1540, d. 1595), architect and surveyor of buildings for Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603), and endorsed across the end, in a contemporary hand, 'Thamesis Descriptio'. The chart shows the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1588
Extent:: 1 roll

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 46203
Title:: Missal
Scope & Content:: This late 12th-century Cistercian manuscript contains a ‘Winter missal’, so-called because its Temporale begins on Pentecost XIX (the 19th Sunday after Trinity) and runs to Quinquagesima. The style of the decorated initials suggests that the manuscript was produced at a Cistercian abbey in North...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 46204
Title:: Worcester cartulary fragments (‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’)
Scope & Content:: One leaf and two strips of a leaf from a Worcester cartulary. Another portion of this item is Cotton Nero E. i, pt. 2, ff. 181–184, the original position of the complete leaf being between ff. 182 and 183, the strips coming from an earlier part of the cartulary. Thought based on its size to have ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:: 3 parchment fragments

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 46701
Title:: Cartulary of Stixwould Priory
Scope & Content:: The Cartulary of the Cistercian nunnery of Stixwould, Lincolnshire, containing transcripts of royal, episcopal, noble and private charters, arranged by location and usually with the witnesses omitted. The latest dated charter in the original hand is an agreement with Croyland Abbey in 1263 (f. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century-15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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