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271282. 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:
-
1 volume
271283. 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
271284. Stowe MS 62
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 62
- Title:
- William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum; Sermons
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript from c. 1200 originates from the Augustinian priory of St Mary, Newburgh, in North Yorkshire. It contains the works of the abbey’s most prolific author: the Historia rerum Anglicarum (History of English Affairs) by William of Newburgh (b. 1135/6, d. in or after 1198). The Histori...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 13th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
271285. Stowe MS 84
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 84
- Title:
- Proceedings of the rehabilitation trial of Joan of Arc
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains one of only three official copies made of the Processus justificationis Johanne D'Arc, or proceedings of the rehabilitation trial of Joan of Arc (b. c. 1412, d. 1431). Joan had been put on trial before a Church court headed by Bishop Pierre Cauchon (b. 1371, d. 1442), an...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1455-1456
- Extent:
- 1 volume
271286. Stowe MS 104
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 104
- Title:
- Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert, Epistola de Obitu Bede with Bede's Death Song; Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis (extracts); Aelred of Rielvaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris; Hugh of Saint-Victor, De Beate Marie Virginitate (extract)
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-112r: Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People), includes the last paragraph of the prologue at the end (f. 112r). ff. 112v-113v: Cuthbert (fl. 735), abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow, Epistola de...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
271287. Stowe MS 559
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 559
- Title:
- Collections relating to Crown regalia and jewels
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 1r–84v: A volume of collections relating to the Crown regalia and jewels, annotated throughout by the antiquarian Thomas Astle (1735–1803). ff. 1r–54v: Extracts from the Patent Rolls, Wardrobe Accompts, and other public records, from the reigns of John to Henry VI, including (ff. 11r–23v) a...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
271288. 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
271289. 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
271290. Stowe MS 776
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 776
- Title:
- Cartulary of the estates of John de Vaux and his daughter and co-heiress Petronilla de Narford
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript is a cartulary, containing copies of charters and deeds in Latin, relating to the estates of the English nobleman Sir John de Vaux, alias Vallibus (b. c. 1220, d. 1287), in Norfolk and Suffolk, and particularly the inheritance of his daughter and coheiress Pernel, also known as P...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 14th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume