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221. 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

222. 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

223. 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

224. 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

225. 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

226. 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

227. 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

228. 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

229. 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

230. 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

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