Collections relating to the practice of Common Law
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Contents: ff. 2r-624v: Collections relating to the practice of Common Law. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 1v: Notes in French and Latin, beginning: ‘Virtutem posuere dei sudore parandam’.
Copy of the Visitation book of Devonshire, 1564 by William Hervey, Clarenceux. In narrative form. Includes tricks of: Arms of the City of Exeter (f. 1v) Arms of the Merchant Taylors of Exeter (f. 2)Arms of the Corporation of Smiths, Cutlers, Armorers, Lorimers and Brasiers of Exeter (f. 2v)Arm...
Contents: Pascon agan Arluth, a poem in 259 stanzas containing a detailed description of the Passion of Christ. This is the earliest copy of a full text in the Cornish language to have survived, and the only Cornish manuscript with miniatures (see Murdoch, Cornish Literature (1993), p. 19). It...
Treatise for Catholic novices entering a religious life
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Contents: ff. 1r-262r: A treatise for Catholic novices entering a religious life, divided into 37 chapters, beginning with a chapter entitled 'Of the Basenes of all temporall things', beginning: 'The whole drift of religious life and the very essence of yt consisteth in this, whollie to remove ...
Contents: ff. 1v-57r: A discourse on geomancy dedicated to King James II (r. 1685-1688), beginning: 'Most Gratious and Dread Soveraigne, before I can discover the Inchanted Island the Garment Shem and Iapheth cast over the Father of Mankind when they went backwards must be taken of And the vai...
Contents: ff. 1r-26v: A Gospel Harmony of the Passion of Christ (beginning 'Matheus: dixit Jesus dicipulis suis scitis quia post biduum Pascha fiet'). Decoration: 1 4-line and 1 2-line initial with floral motifs in colours on gold grounds (f. 1r). Line-fillers in red, blue, and gold (f. 1r...
Contents: ff. 1r-79v: an index to Augustine of Hippo, De civitate dei, elsewhere attributed to Robert Kilwardby (beginning 'Ut de infrascripta tabula notitiam pleniorem habere valeas'). Decoration: Large initial with reserved lines and red pen-flourishing (f. 1r). Capitals marked in yellow.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Contents: ff. 1r-32r: 'This boke Intictualled to the Practysed Soldiers for Remembraunce and to the unexpert for Instruckc[ion] Touching the noble [? art of ] the wars set on […] hand [...] B […]'. Beginning: 'When the prince of the lande is moved to the Warres and hath chosen his lyfftenaunt ...