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52. Stowe MS 52
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 52
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- "VITA beati Thomæ arehiepiscopi et martiris": the Quadrilogus, or compilation by E[lias?] of Evesham, from the four Lives by John of Salisbury, Herbert of Boseham, William of Canterbury, and Alan, Abbot of Tewkesbury. The prologue begins "Post summi favoris dote vestitos," and the Life itself "T...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 13th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
53. Stowe MS 53
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 53
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- "THE LIVES Of Women Saints of our Contrie of England; also some other lives of holie women written by some of the auncient ffathers." A compilation of the early 17th century, including the following Lives, for some of which the sources are quoted: — SS. Helena (from Baronius). f. 21b; — Ursula (...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- Early 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
54. 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:
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1 volume
55. Stowe MS 55
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 55
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- "CHRONOLOGIA tum Sacra tum profana et Romana," from Sulpicius Severus, Justinus, Cornelius Nepos, Florus, Paterculus, etc. It begins with the Creation, and was intended to be carried down to the death of Augustus, but actually ends in B.C. 354, which is given as A.M. 5098, O1. cvi. 3, and A.U.C....
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- [1745-1758]
- Extent:
- 1 item
56. Stowe MS 56
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 56
- Title:
- Baudri de Bourgueil, Historia Hierosolymitana; Historia Danica; Pseudo-Cornelius Nepos, Pseudo-Dares Phrygius, De Excidio Troiae Historia; Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri; Historia Alexandri Magni; Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem; Collatio Alexandri et Dindimi; Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-59r: Baudri de Bourgueil (b. c. 1046, d. 1130), Historia Hierosolymitana (The History of Jerusalem). ff. 59r-63v: Historia Danica (The Danish History). ff. 64r-75r: De Excidio Troiae Historia (The History of the Fall of Troy), authorship attributed to Dares Phrygius and trans...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 13th century
- Extent:
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1 volume
57. Stowe MS 57
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 57
- Title:
- Scutum Bede, a collection of Latin treatises, including a Libellus de nominibus naturalium rerum
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript consists of a compilation of Latin moral, grammatical and historical treatises in prose and verses including interlinear and marginal glosses, probably collected by Geoffrey of Ufford (fl. c. 1154) and entitled 'Scutum Bede Collectivus Gaufridi de Ufford' (f. 1r); this appears to...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old, French, Old, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1154
- Extent:
-
1 volume
58. Stowe MS 58
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 58
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- "LIBER Abbathiæ de Hyde juxta Winton": a chronicle of the affairs of England, from the settlement of the Saxons to the reign of Cnut, with copies of charters, etc., relating to Newminster, afterwards Hyde Abbey, Winchester, where the work was compiled. Printed in the Rolls Series, 1866 (ed. Edw....
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 16th century-18th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
59. Stowe MS 59
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 59
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- "EXPLANATIO Testamenti Regis Alfredi," and other writings relating to Hyde Abbey, Winchester, in Latin and English, copied "ex libro Abbatiæ de Hyda," sc. from Stowe 58, ff. 23 b-47 b, 53-68. All the documents are included in the Rolls Series edition of the Liber Monasterii de Hyda, 1866. Paper;...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
60. Stowe MS 60
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 60
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- "STEPHANI regis vita": extracts, chronologically arranged, from the Gesta Stephani (ed. Duchesne), Orderious Vitalis, Henry of Huntingdon, and other chronicles, chiefly taken from printed editions. With a few marginal notes by Sir Roger Twysden (ob. 1672). Paper; ff. 218. XVIIth cent. Folio. St...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 item