Certen centences of the scripture and certen notes and doctrines gathered uppon the scriptures
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Contents: ff. 1r-4v: An index of subjects. ff. 5r-94v: A collection of 'Certen centences of the scripture and certen notes and doctrines gathered uppon the scriptures', signed R. H. and dated 3 May 1582. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: An English note, largely illegib...
Relatione dell’origine delle Casa d’Austria; Relatione dello Stato e Forze di tutti li Prencipi d'Italia
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Contents: ff. 1r-43r: Relatione dell’origine delle Casa d’Austria: delli Acquisti fatti da loro, e le Cause per le quasi sono nate le presenti Revolutioni di Germania. ff. 44r-74v: Relatione dello Stato e Forze di tutti li Prencipi d'Italia.
Richard FitzNeal, Dialogus de Scaccario; Chronica Joannis Wallingford; Gesta Edwardi II per Monachum de Bridlington; continuation of Nicholas Trevet's Annales Sex Regum Angliae
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Contents: f. 1*recto: A table of contents. ff. 1r-94v: Richard FitzNeal, Dialogus de Scaccario; here entitled ‘De necessariis observantiis Scaccarij’; attributed to Gervase of Tilbury [‘Ex Codice Antiquo Bibliothecae Cotton: Cleopat. : A.16’]. ff. 95r-251r: Pseudo-John of Wallingford [here ...
Pedigrees copied or tricked by John Withie from the collections of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
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Pedigrees copied or tricked by John Withie (1593-c. 1678), arms painter, from pedigrees belonging to Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, preceded by quarterings of the Earls of Strafford. Contents: f. 2v: Quarterings of William Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, amended and enlarged. 1661. Late...
De Etate quarundam domorum ordinis Cisterciensis; De inceptione quorundam ordinum; tracts pertaining to the Cistercians in Scotland; the proceedings of the Scottish parliament of James V; a chronicle of Scottish affairs down to 1556; anonymous verses on the Passion; ecclesiastical formulas
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Contents: ff. 1*v, 74r: fragments of an unidentified manuscript containing philosophical diagrams. ff. 1r-1v: De Etate quarundam domorum ordinis Cisterciensis. ff. 2r-2v: De inceptione quorundam ordinum. ff. 3r-17r: Tracts pertaining to the Cistercians in Scotland. ff. 18r-43v: The proceedi...
Pseudo-Isidore, Liber de Ortu et Obitu Patriarcharum; a Eucharist miracle; Pseudo-Caesarius, De Tribus Habitaculis Animae; Pseudo-Bernard, Speculum Peccatoris
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Contents: ff. 1r-39r: Pseudo-Isidore (here attributed), Liber de Ortu et Obitu Patriarcharum, here entitled: ‘Liber ysidori de obitu patriarcharum et apostolorum ceterorumque sanctorum et ubi nati sunt et ubi sepulti’. ff. 39v-44r: The history of a Eucharist miracle at the church of a Cisterc...
Legal tracts including the Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus Regni Angliae and the Leges Willelmi
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A compilation of various legal tracts, including the Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus Regni Angliae (Treatise on the laws and customs of the kingdom of England), attributed to Ranulf Glanville (d. 1190). The Leges Willelmi, a late-12th-century translation of the French treatise known as L...