Folio manuscript, with this title, inscribed on folio 3: 'A Declaration, or a most plaine & undoubted Cours, in what honorable manner the most Excellent, High-borne Queen Ann[e] Queen of Great Britaine etc. may mayntayne & keepe a most Royall-bountifull Howse for one whole Yeare; Her Maj...
Parliamentary journal for 1623-1624, with other papers
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Manuscript parliamentary journal compiled for Simonds D’Ewes, with preliminary pages constructed from a printed broadside, and two folios of unrelated notes. f. 1: Fragment (from an earlier flyleaf?) with manuscript Latin quotations on bravery in adversity and honourable defeat, from Tacitus, W...
Collection of tracts and papers on Parliamentary affairs
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Collection of papers in various hands. Contents: f. 1: List of peers of the realm. Headed: ‘Nomina Dominorum; a[nn]o 18 Jac. a[nn]o 1620. Die martis, die 30 Januarij’. January 1621. f. 2-27: Short notes and papers of Simonds D’Ewes, apparently used in his collected journals of Parliament (l...
An English miscellany containing texts relating to naval matters
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Contents: ff. 1r-202v: A large collection of tracts and letters, primarily concerning naval matters. The manuscript contains documents on the victualling of ships, navigating, shipments, prices of goods, the custom system (taxes for good exported and imported through ports). The manuscript feat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Apocalypse (in Wycliffe translation), with commentary
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f. 1r: Alchemical recipe to ‘ze [see] the secrets of secrets & frest & last as ye may se in planyttes and in planephiffres’. ff. 2r–109r: Commentary on the Apocalypse of John in the Wycliffite translation, with biblical passages alternating with commentary in a continuous sequence. ff....
A devotional miscellany of Middle English prose and verse
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This devotional manuscript was written by the 'Winchester scribe', the principal scribe of the so-called 'Winchester Anthology' (Add MS 60577), a large compilation of religious prose and verse in Latin and English in which the scribe identifies himself as an anonymous Benedictine monk at St Swit...
Register of the Tregoze family and the manor of Goring
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Various documents related to the Tregoze family and the manor of Goring including the register of contents of the manor of Goring in the 14th year of King Edward II's reign (1321). ff. 1r–6v: Extent of the manor of Goring as of 10 January 1321. ff. 7r–22r: Tenants at Goring. ff. 23r–34r: Serf...
ff. 1v–13v: Recital of royal and other documents, 1459–78, relating to the foundation of the Babington chantry (in the chapel of St Andrew), given by Sir William Babington (b. c.1370, d. 1454).
Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae
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Guido delle Colonne ['de Columnis' or 'de Columna'], Historia destructionis Troiae (A History of the Destruction of Troy) or Historia troiana, in 35 books with a prologue and epilogue. Explicit: 'Factum est autem presens opus Anno dominice incarnacionis millesimo ducentesimo octuagesimo septimo ...