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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 70001-70523 Name Cavendish-Bentinck, William Arthur Henry, 7th Duke of Portland, 1893-1977 Level [40] File

1. Add MS 70001

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Title:
Papers of Sir Robert Harley of Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire, 1604-1630
Scope & Content:
This volume is largely composed of the papers of Sir Robert Harley (bap. 1579, d. 1656) of Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire, 1604-1630. However, it opens with a letter to his father Thomas Harley (c. 1543-1631) and with copies of a letter of the divine Samuel Ward (1603). It seems probable that the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1582-1630
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 70513

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Title:
Collection of metrical saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French ('The Campsey Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving medieval collection of rhymed saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French. It is known as the 'Campsey Manuscript', after the female Augustinian priory of Campsey, in Suffolk, where it was housed during the 14th century. An added inscription in the manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 70516

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Scope & Content:
PORTLAND PAPERS. Vol. DXVI (29/333{2}). Collection of fragments; 9th-17th cent. Latin, Greek, Irish, German and Italian. Heraldic bookplate of 6th Duke of Portland, f. i. Vellum and paper; ff. iv+90. A. Fragment of a patristic text relating a story of a pimp and a notary to illustrate the po...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
9th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 70518

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Title:
Miscellaneous letters and papers, 1540-1706
Scope & Content:
These letters are calendared in Historical Manuscripts Commission, Portland Manuscripts, II, 5-64. They form part of a section of miscellaneous manuscripts amongst the Portland Papers, which were originally held at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. The Portland Papers were deposited at the British...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1540-1706
Extent:
1 volume