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341. Add Roll 17253

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Title:
Will of Margaret Paston
Scope & Content:
Will of Margaret Paston (1422-84), widow, wife of John Paston senior and daughter and heir of John Mautby. She leaves her body to be buried in the aisle of Mautby Church, Norfolk, before the image of the Virgin Mary and beside the bodies of her ancestors, and gives 20s to the church. She makes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1482
Extent:
1 roll

342. Add Roll 34271

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Title:
Account of John Key, receiver general of St Radegund’s Priory, Cambridge
Scope & Content:
Account of John Key, receiver general of St Radegund’s Priory, Cambridge, from Pentecost [10 June] 1481 to the feast of the d-[illegible] be-[text missing] of the Virgin. The roll lists income and expenses, including rents, sales, costs of hospitality, necessary expenses, repairs, and staff wage...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1481
Extent:
1 roll

343. Add Roll 47398

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Title:
Cartulary of Nuneaton Priory
Scope & Content:
Cartulary of Nuneaton Priory, Warwickshire, containing copies of 21 grants to the nuns there. No. 1 is a grant by Henry II; no. 2 by Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury; nos 3-20, grants by various bishops and popes down to 1293. No. 21, written in a later hand, is a grant by a chaplain, da...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 roll

344. Add Roll 61157

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Title:
Papal licence for Maria and Caterina Foscari to wear dresses with trains
Scope & Content:
Licence by Pope Nicholas V (r. 1447-1455) to Maria and Caterina, daughters of Jacopo Foschari of Venice, son of Doge Francesco Foscari (b. 1373, d. 1457), of the right to wear dresses with trains, elaborate shoes, girdles, and gold and silver ornamentation, signed by Pietro de Noreto. Given at...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1450
Extent:
1 roll

345. Add Roll 61174

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Title:
Notarised copy of the will of Cecilia Foscari
Scope & Content:
A notarised copy of the will of Cecilia, daughter of John Veneno and widow of Frederico Foschari, made by Caesar Ziliolus, notary and secretary to the doge of Venice. 5 May 1567, bearing the notarial mark of Caesar Ziliolus and signatures. The original will was made by Jacopo Grasolarius of St...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1567
Extent:

1 roll

346. Add Roll 63207

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Title:
Household roll of Katherine de Norwich
Scope & Content:
The household roll of Katherine de Norwich (d. c. 1341-1343), containing a set of accounts produced in her household. Katherine de Norwich was the daughter of Sir John de Hethersett, and the widow respectively of Piers Braunche (d. 1296) and Walter de Norwich (d. 1329). The first five membrane...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
29 September 1336-29 September 1337
Extent:
1 roll

347. Arundel MS 10

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Arundel MS 10
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Latin copy of the Historia Regum Brittaniae ('The History of the Kings of Britain') by Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154/55), bishop of St Asaph and historian. The work presents a pseudo-historical account of the kings of Britain; it opens with a legend that tells of how B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

348. Arundel MS 36

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Arundel MS 36
Title:
Collection of Saints' Lives
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains a collection of saints’ lives and lections from saints’ lives. The manuscript was produced at the Augustian Priory of Kirkham in North Yorkshire, in the first or second quarter after its foundation in the 1120s. Its founder, Walter Espec (d. 1153), also foun...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

349. Arundel MS 60

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Arundel MS 60
Title:
Psalter with gloss in Old English; A Lunarium for bloodletting; The Six Ages of the World; A list of the bishops of Winchester
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A lunarium (lunar calendar) for bloodletting. ff. 1v-12r: A liturgical calendar including computational material ('Winchester computus') for the moveable feasts (f. 8r). The Dogs days (dies caniculares) and Egyptian days are mentioned (ff. 2r-7v). ff. 13r-119r: A Gallican ve...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

350. Arundel MS 91

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Arundel MS 91
Title:
Passionale, 21 September-9 November; Lections on St Nicholas extracted from the Vita Sancti Nicholai translated by John the Deacon of Naples
Scope & Content:
The main part of this manuscript consists of a Passionale, a collection of lives of saints for liturgical reading throughout the year. The lections on St Nicolas (ff. 227r-229v) have been added at an early period. The manuscript was originally a companion volume to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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