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221. Add MS 35254 C

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Title:
Cutting from a Gradual (Sanctorale)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a single cutting from a leaf originally part of a large choirbook, now Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Codice Corale 2. On the recto, the cutting comprises a very large historiated initial 'R' in gold and colours, within a border and on a gold background. Human heads...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1375
Extent:

Cutting from a parchment leaf

222. Add MS 35254 V

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Title:
Detached miniature from a Book of Hours ('The Hours of Louis XII')
Scope & Content:
This single leaf originally belonged to a Book of Hours, known as 'The Hours of Louis XII', after Louis XII (r. 1498-1515), King of France, for whom it was made. The recto contains a framed miniature of the Virgin of the Annunciation, praying with an open book on her knees. The verso contains th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1498
Extent:

1 leaf

223. Add MS 35286

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-238v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect, wanting many leaves. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-7v: The General Prologue, imperfect, wanting two leaves before and after f. 1 (A, ll. 1-153, 234-396). ff. 7v-28r: The Knight's Tale, imperfe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

224. Add MS 35289

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Title:
Chanson d'Aspremont
Scope & Content:
Contents: Chanson d’Aspremont, verses 24-376 and 395-540. Aspremont is the second of three chansons de geste of the Charlemagne cycle from the late 12th century, narrating Charlemagne's early expedition across the Alps to Aspremont in Italy to retake land in Calabria from the Saracen king, Ag...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

225. Add MS 35318

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:
This Book of Hours, which features the Use of Rome, comes from a Parisian workshop called the 'Bellemare group', which was active c 1530 and responsible for the illuminations of at least ten other Books of Hours (see Orth, Renaissance Manuscripts (2015), II, no. 52). These manuscripts are closel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1530
Extent:

Parchment codex

226. Add MS 35324

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Title:
Drawings of funeral processions, 1557–1603
Scope & Content:
Drawings of funeral processions, mostly in Indian ink (opaque black); those of Lady Lumley and Elizabeth I are in colour. Originally in rolls, the drawings are now inlaid in cardboard. Volume XV of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild's bequest to the British Museum. ff. 1r–6v: 'Funeral processions o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

227. Add MS 35830

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Title:
State letters and papers (Hardwick Papers vol. 482)
Scope & Content:
State letters and papers, principally the correspondence of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (1515/16-1571), diplomat and member of parliament. He was appointed ambassador to France in May 1559, two months before the death of King Henry II, and his letters give detailed accounts of his interviews wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1557-1561
Extent:
1 volume

228. Add MS 35831

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Title:
State letters and papers (Hardwicke Papers vol. 483)
Scope & Content:
State letters and papers including the correspondence of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, diplomat and Member of Parliament (1515/16-1571) during his time as Ambassador in France, 1561-1564. f. 1 Letter from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Queen Elizabeth I: as Queen Elizabeth I is not satisfied with her pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1562-1599
Extent:
1 volume

229. Add MS 35832

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Title:
Hardwicke Papers, Vol. 484. Miscellaneous State Letters, Vol. III, 1615-1625
Scope & Content:
This is one of three volumes of Miscellaneous State Papers, Add MSS 35830-35832, covering the period 1425-1625, a subset of the massive collection of Hardwicke Papers in the British Library (Add MSS 35349-36278): Correspondence and collections of the first four Earls of Hardwicke and other membe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1615-1625
Extent:
1 volume

230. Add MS 35840

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Title:
Roger Ascham's letterbook
Scope & Content:
The letterbook of Roger Ascham as Latin Secretary to Queen Mary I (1553–1558). Volume CCCCXCII of the Hardwicke Papers. It contains copies of letters in Latin from Mary to foreign sovereigns, princes and others, 1554–1558, and is largely holograph. Royal MS 13 B I is the continuation of Ascham’s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1554-1558
Extent:
1 volume

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