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331. Add MS 47678

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Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, Pro Ligario, Pro rege Deiotaro, In Verrem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains In Catilinam (The Speech against Catiline), Pro Ligario (The Speech in Defense of Ligarius), Pro rege Deiotaro (The Speech in Defense of King Deiotarius) and the second In Verrem II (The Second Speech Against Verres) by the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

332. Add MS 47844

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Title:
Counter-tenor part-book containing Latin motets, etc., for five, six or seven voices
Scope & Content:
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. II (ff. ii+17). Counter-tenor part-book containing Latin motets, etc., for five, six or seven voices, by William Byrd (ff. 3b-5, 9b-11, 13, 13b, 15), Orlando di Lasso (ff. 11b-12b), [Robert?] Parsons (ff. 15b-16), John Shepherd (ff. 3, 12b), [Nicholas?] Strogers (f. 2b),...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1581
Extent:
1 item

333. Add MS 51950

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Title:
Holland House dinner-book: Volume 1
Scope & Content:
The dinner-book of Holland House 1799-1806. It contains a list of names of all the guests who attended dinners at Holland House from 1799-1806. This volume contains annotations made by Charles Richard Fox, son of Lord and Lady Holland, which are dated 1871. On the first page Charles has writte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1799-1871
Extent:
1 volume

334. Add MS 54229

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Title:
Glossed Psalter
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Psalter, with the marginal Gloss on the Psalms (Magna glosatura) by Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160). It was probably made in England in the 3rd quarter of the 12th century, making it a particularly early copy of Peter Lombard’s Gloss on the Psalms, possibly made wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

335. 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

336. Add MS 74233 A

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Title:
Cutting from a Missal
Scope & Content:
This is a single cutting from a leaf originally part of a large missal (as yet untraced). On the recto, the cutting comprises a very large historiated initial 'D' in gold and colours, within a frame border on a blue background. The initial combines architectual and foliate forms. To the left, t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:

1 leaf

337. Add MS 74233 B

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Title:
Cutting from an Antiphoner
Scope & Content:
This is a single cutting from f. 146 of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Codice Corale MS 1. This large manuscript - the seventh part of a twelve volume antiphoner - contains an antiphoner for the Proper Time (Easter to Trinity Sunday), with a section of antiphons for the Common of Sain...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1396-1442
Extent:

1 leaf

338. Add MS 74286

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Title:
Collection of original letters from Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, to Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
This manuscript principally contains a collection of 43 original letters written from Robert Devereux (b. 1565, d. 1601), 2nd Earl of Essex, to Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603). Although some of the letters are undated, all but the first were written between the time of Essex's expedition to Fra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1590-1601
Extent:
1 volume

339. Add MS 74287

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Title:
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, autograph draft of Discourse on War with Spain
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is an autograph draft of Discourse on War with Spain, by Robert Devereux (b. 1565, d. 1601), 2nd earl of Essex. Essex wrote the work on board his ship the Due Repulse, during his return voyage from Cadiz to England in early August 1596. The Discourse is written in the form of a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1596
Extent:

1 volume

340. Add MS 78425

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLVIII. Miscellaneous collected papers of John Evelyn; 17th cent.
Scope & Content:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLVIII. Miscellaneous collected papers of John Evelyn; 17th cent. 1. `Avertimente & precetti &c'; 17th cent. [italics]Italian[/italics]. An anonymous treatise in short sections, including those on health, honour and reputation, fashion, negotiation, etc. Presumably ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

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