A collection of historical materials on Norfolk and Suffolk compiled by Thomas Gibbons
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Collections of Thomas Gibbons Esquire. Third of three volumes (Harley MS 970-971 are vols 1-2). Transcripts of records and other documents, chiefly in Latin. History of notable families and towns of Norfolk and Suffolk. In this and the preceding two volumes of Gibbons’ collections, much materi...
Richard Lloyd: A Dictionarie in English and Brittish, commonly called the Welsh tongue
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Manuscript draft English Welsh dictionary by Richard Lloyd. Incomplete, with annotations and corrections. Loose notes pasted in at front of volume. Although never apparently printed, it includes a printed title page (f. 12), followed by a manuscript title page (f. 12*).
Account of gunpowder received and delivered at the Tower of London and Portsmouth
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Manuscript volume, from the Office of Ordnance. Contents: ff. 1v-2v: Proportions of gunpowder allowed to each great ordnance, 4 November 1638. ff. 3v-28: Account of gunpowder received and delivered at the Tower of London, June 1636-May 1638 ff. 29v-31 (upside down): Account of gunpowder receive...
Collection of theological writings, mostly by or about Jerome, and Nicolas of Cusa
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ff. 1r-125v: collection of Patristic writings, mostly by or about Jerome, imperfect, beginning mid-sentence with Jerome Letter 65, to Principia, the first leaves of which are missing. Ends mid-sentence . Texts include a disputation on the origin of the soul between Jerome and Augustine (ff. 2v-6...
A transcription and interlinear Latin translation of the Arabic Lead Books of Granada
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A transcription and interlinear Latin translation of all the apocryphal Arabic texts found on the so-called Lead Books of Granada by Bartolome de Pettorano. Contents: ff. 1r-10r: Liber fundamentorum fidei Thesiphonis Aben attar discipuli Jacobi Apostoli. ff. 12r-16v: Liber Thesiphonis Abenat...
Extracts from letters relating to occurrences in the Low Countries and Germany, 1562-1566
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Contents: ff. 2r-41v: Extracts from letters relating to occurrences in the Low Countries and Germany, dated 1562-1566. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Breviats of lettore sente out of the Lowe Contreys and Jarmany of Accorrants about Anno 1615’; added by Ralph ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
An Account of the Quakers’ Sufferings, upon Statutes made against the Papists, 1676-1679
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An account of Quakers’ sufferings 1676-1679, addressed to the King, and marked as having belonged to King James. Provenance inscription at head of f. 1: ‘This did belong to King James. I had it from Coll. Grahame’. f.1: ‘To the King. The Case of the People called Quakers who are still sufferers...
Devotional book with prayers, indulgences and religious instructions
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Contents: ff. 1r-26r: Office of the Dead, use of Syon; with English saints listed in the Litany (ff. 8v-11v). ff. 27r-28v: Stabat Mater, with a rubric offering indulgences: 'In honore beate marie virginis magna indulgencia concess a bonefacio papa hanc oracionem dicentibus'; beginning: 'Sal[...