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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34294, ff 167r-250r
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome (the 'Sforza Hours'), volume 3
Scope & Content:: The third volume of the book of hours known as the Sforza Hours including: ff. f. 167v-169v: Seven Prayers of St Gregory. ff. 170r-177r: Prayer to the Virgin 'Obsecro te'. ff. 177v-186r: Prayer to the Virgin 'O intemerata'. ff. 186r-212r: Suffrages. ff. 213r-235v: Seven Penitential Psalms. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1490-1521
Extent:: 84 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34294, ff 251r-348v
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome (the 'Sforza Hours'), volume 4
Scope & Content:: The fourth volume of the book of hours, known as the Sforza Hours including: ff. 251r-257r: Litany, continuation from volume 3. ff. 258r-342v: Office of the Dead. ff. 343r-348v: Prayer to the name of Jesus, 'Oratio de Nomine Iesu ex Paulinis Epistolis congesta': a probably Spanish addition of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1490-1521
Extent:: 98 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34320
Title:: Household book of Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Household book of Queen Elizabeth I, with additional material relating to the royal household during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I. ff. 1r-1v, 154r-154v Binding material: portions of two leaves from a 14th-century parchment manuscript, containing theological matter. f. 2r Note...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 14th century-1603
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34360
Title:: Collection of poems, including works by John Lydgate and Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of poems in Middle English, principally written by John Lydgate (b. c. 1370, d. c. 1451) and Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The volume also contains four roundels in Middle French, attributed to William de la Pole (b. 1396, d. 1450), 1st Duke of Su...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34361
Title:: Abraham Fraunce, ‘The Sheapheards Logike’
Scope & Content:: Volume of three works by Abraham Fraunce (1559?–1592/3?), poet and lawyer, partly in his hand. Dedicated to Edward Dyer (1543–1607), courtier and poet. f. 2r: Title-page: ‘The Sheapheards Logike: conteyning the præcepts of that art put downe by Ramus; examples set owt of the Sheapheards Kalende...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c. 1580-c. 1585
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34554, ff 1v-4v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Life of Ephraem the Syrian (BHG 583), imperfect and mutilated, inc. αὐτὸν λέγει ὁ ἅγιος Ἐφραίμ πρὸς αὐτὴν, ff 3r-4v, preceded by a table of contents, ff 1v-2r.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 4 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34554, ff 4v-6r
Title:
Scope & Content:: Περὶ ἀγάπης καὶ διακρίσεως λόγος, tale of a decision of a dispute between reapers about wages, inc. έναν καὶρὸν τρεῖς ἀδελφοί.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 2 folios

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