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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Stowe Ms 1-1085 Place Paris, France Level [40] File

1. Stowe MS 14

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 14
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Scope & Content:
"CEREMONIALE ad usum Canonicorum S. Crucis, domus Parisiensis": the ceremonies and order of the church service throughout the year. Begins, "Incipit ordinarium. De pulsationibus. Quando fratres debent," etc. The title is written in a later hand on the fly-leaf. With a table of chapters at the en...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Stowe MS 54

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 54
Title:
Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César
Scope & Content:
Contents: Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César (or Histoire Universelle), a universal history from the time of Thebes to 60 BC, as follows: ff. 2r-30r: The story of Thebes from the birth of Oedipus to the conquest by Theseus and the story of Hercules; ff. 30v-45r: The siege and capture of Troy, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Stowe MS 142

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 142
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Scope & Content:
MISCELLANEOUS historical letters, etc.; 1375-1810. In two series, English or relating to England and (artt. 87-106) foreign. 1. Andrea Contarini, Doge of Venice, to Edward III. of England, desiring a safe conduct for merchant-ships about to be sent to Flanders; " in nostro ducali Palatio," 5 F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1375-1810
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 168

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 168
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Scope & Content:
EDMONDES PAPERS. VOL. III. (ff. 385). 21 Feb. 1605-22 Mar. 1606, N.S. Edmondes started for Brussels on 19 April, 1605, and his first letter here is dated 3 May, containing an account of the Marquis Ambrosio Spinola, the newly-appointed Spanish General in the Low Countries. The principal events t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
21 Feb 1605-22 Mar 1606
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 173

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 173
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Scope & Content:
EDMONDES PAPERS. Vol. VIII. (ff. 311). 1 July, 1612-24 March, 1612 [3]. Edmondes's drafts are very numerous in this volume, and are addressed to the King and to Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester. They give a very particular account of the dissensions in the French Court. James I. took great intere...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:
1 Jul 1612-24 Mar 1613
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 582

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 582
Title:
Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France, an anonymous French account of the consecration, coronation, and royal entrée into Paris of Claude de France (b. 1499, d. 1524), Queen of France, and wife of Francis I (r. 1515-1547), which took place on 10-12 May 15...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1517
Extent:
1 volume

7. Stowe MS 584

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 584
Title:
Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne; Discours des Ceremonies du Sacre et mariage d'Anne de Foix avec Ladislaus Roy de Hongrie
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two French works attributed to Pierre Choque (b. c. 1450, d. 1530), herald and king of arms at the court of Anne of Brittany (b. 1477, d. 1514), Queen of France. The first text is the Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne, beginning with a dedication to the 'Sire de ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1514
Extent:
1 volume

8. Stowe MS 755

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 755
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Scope & Content:
MISCELLANEOUS PRIVATE LETTERS, etc., English and foreign; 1613- 1818:- 1. [Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount] Mountgarrett, to Sir Williain Andrewes, Knt., with a present of a goshawk, etc.; Ballyne, 12 Sept. 1613. f 1. 2. [Henry Percy, 9th Earl of] Northumberland (ob. 1632), to Sir Thomas Fairfa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1613-1818
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 886

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 886
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. I. (ff. 632). GENERALITÉ de Paris; by [Jean] Phélypeaux, Intendant. Preceded (ff. 2-36 b) by the "Mémoire pour Messieurs les maitres des requestes commissaires departis dans les provinces," conveying the king's instructions.This "Mémoire," which is printed in extenso by Boulainvilliers at t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 947

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 947
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Content: The Roman de la Rose was begun by Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1230) and continued by Jean de Meun approximately forty years later. ff. 1r-155v: beginning: 'Maintes gens dient/ Que en songes/ Na se fables non/ Et menconges/ Mais len puet tel/ Songes songier/ Qui ne sont mie mencongier/ Ain...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume