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221. Add MS 63077

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Title:
Glossed Book of Genesis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a glossed Book of Genesis. The glosses are that of the Glossa Salomonis (Salomo's Gloss), a commentary on the Book of Genesis, attributed to Salomo III Ranschwag (b. 890, d. 922), Bishop of Constance and abbot of St Gall. It survives in three English manuscripts (see Hut...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

222. Add MS 65194

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Title:
Abridgement of the Book of Assizes, bound by the 'Scales Binder'
Scope & Content:
Contents: The abridgement of the Book of Assizes, an anonymous alphabetical abridgement of material from the year books of the Court of Assizes, compiled in the mid fifteenth century, and distinct from the fourteenth-century Liber Assisarum. This abridgement was first published in 1509 by Rich...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1456-1465
Extent:

Paper codex

223. Add MS 65381

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Title:
''VOLUME THE THIRD'': notebook containing two early novels, ''Evelyn'' and ''Catharine, or the Bower'', by Jane Austen; 6 May 1792-19 Aug. 1809, n.d.
Scope & Content:
Mostly autograph. This is the third of the surviving three volumes of Jane Austen's juvenilia; ''Volume the First'' is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (MS Don.e.7) and ''Volume the Second'' is in the British Library (Add. 59874). All contain copies, with some later additions and revisions, of or...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 May 1792-19 Aug 1809
Extent:
1 item

224. Add MS 71544

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JOHN LENTON: ‘Instrumentall Musick for New Yeares Day’; 1699. 1st treble part only. In the hand of the same scribe throughout: the fact that the end of the music (f. 8) is signed ‘J: L:’ suggests that the manuscript may well be autograph. The title page reads: ‘Instrumentall Musick For New Yeares day 1699. By John Lenton, Composer to his Ma[jes]tie’. Dedication (f. 1v) ‘To The Most Illustrious Princess, Her Royall Highness Princess Ann of Denmark, The Author humbly Dedicates’. The music comp...
Scope & Content:
Anne of England: 'Instrumentall Musick for New Yeares Day 1699' by John Lenton, dedicated 'To The Most Illustrious Princess, Her Royall Highness Princess Ann of Denmark': 1699. John Lenton, violinist and composer: 'Instrumentall Musick for New Yeares Day', 1st treble part: 1699: possibly autogr.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1699
Extent:
1 item

225. Add MS 74236

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Title:
Missal ('The Sherborne Missal')
Scope & Content:
The Sherborne Missal is the largest, most lavishly decorated late medieval English service book to have survived the Reformation intact. The manuscript was made for the Benedictine abbey of St Mary’s in Sherborne, Dorset. It was probably produced between 1399-1407, since it contains portraits of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1399-1407
Extent:
A parchment codex

226. Add MS 82956

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Title:
The Noyon Sacramentary
Scope & Content:
This unusually tall and thin manuscript contains a sacramentary: a manuscript that provides the texts needed for a bishop to perform Mass and carry out ordinations, blessings, and consecrations. This sacramentary was produced in the late 10th century by and for Noyon Cathedral. The sacramentary ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

227. Add MS 86841

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Title:
Jane Austen's writing desk
Scope & Content:
A wooden writing desk used by Jane Austen which was given to her by her father in 1794. This portable 'writing-box' opens to provide a slope to write on. It has various compartments, including a space for an ink pot and a lockable drawer for paper and valuables. Two pairs of tortoiseshell spect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 desk with accompanying objects

228. Add MS 89000

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Title:
The St Cuthbert Gospel
Scope & Content:
The St Cuthbert Gospel (formerly known as the Stonyhurst Gospel) retains its original binding and is the oldest intact European book. Made in the early 8th century, the manuscript contains a copy of the Gospel of John. Previously dated to the end of the 7th century (The Stonyhurst Gospel, ed. T....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 8th century
Extent:

1 volume

229. Add MS 89137

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Title:
Rental of the lands of Worcester Cathedral Priory
Scope & Content:
Descriptive rental of Worcester Cathedral Priory, 1240, with additional material for 1253–1285 and 1365. There is a contemporary rubric on f. 2r, reading ‘Hii fuerunt redditus prioratus Wigorniensis Anno Incarnationis Domini moccoxlo’. Includes copies of charters issued in the name of various k...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1240-1365
Extent:
1 item

230. Add MS 89250

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Title:
The Mostyn Psalter-Hours
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Additions made in the late fifteenth century. f. 1r: Instruction for making the sign of the cross with a prayer, '[rubric:] Mane cum surrexeris signum cruces orationi imprimendo dices [prayer:] [H]unc labia mea aperies [etc.]'. ff. 1r-1v: Prayers to God the Father, the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1275 - c 1325
Extent:
Parchment codex

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