Recto: A sequence of seasons and months of year; a table of Latin numerals i-xxx. Verso: A perpetual calendar with saints' days; calculations of the number of years since biblical events, ending with 1412 years since the birth of Christ. Decoration: Miniatures in colours: the labours of the ...
PORTLAND PAPERS. Vol. DXIV (29/331). Fragment of the Brut Chronicle relating to Edward III and Richard II; circa 1461-1482. The present manuscript which includes caps. 211-241 (The Brut or Chronicles of England (Early English Text Society, original series, vols. 131, 136), ed. F. W. D. Brie (190...
PORTLAND PAPERS. Vol. DXXI (29/328). William Brooke, Survey of the Harbours of Ireland; after 1633. William Brooke: Survey of the Harbours of Ireland by William Brooke: aft. 1633.
PORTLAND PAPERS. Vol. DXXIII (29/243). Thomas Baskerville, Account of Journeys (Cambridge to Oxford, etc.); temp. Charles II [between 1649-1685]. See H.M.C. Portland, II, pp. 263-314. Thomas Baskerville, topographer: Account of journeys: temp. Chas. II.
This late fourteenth-century medical miscellany in Middle Dutch is one out of at least six extant Dutch medical manuscripts that contains excerpts from the natural encyclopedia and bestiary Der nature bloeme (The Flower of Nature) that the Dutch poet Jacob van Maerlant (b. c. 1235, d. c. 1300) w...
PORTLAND PAPERS. Vol. DXI (29/57). Chartulary of the Preceptory of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem, North Baddesley, co. Southt.; 1397-1398. Latin. The cartulary which comprises copies of private deeds arranged topographically and preceded (ff. 1-5) by a table of contents is stated in the ti...
PORTLAND PAPERS. Vol. DX (29/330). Chartulary of the Cistercian Abbey of the Virgin, Beaulieu, co. Southt.; 13th-16th cent. Latin. Most of the cartulary is temp. Henry III, with some additions temp. Edward I and others of 16th cent. Extracts circa 1739 by Rev. George Harbin are Harley 6603, ff. ...
PORTLAND PAPERS. Vol. DXXII (29/329). James II, Memoirs as Duke of York; 1652-1655. French translation. Copy certified by his Queen, Mary of Modena; 1704. Phillipps MS. 12209. James II of England: Memoirs as Duke of York: 1652-1655: Fr. transl: Copy, certified by Mary of Modena, 1704.
PORTLAND PAPERS. Vol. DXII (29/60). Chartulary of Sir Henry Pierrepont, of Holme Pierrepont, co. Nott.; 1482. Latin. The cartulary was compiled by Sir Henry's chaplain Thomas Wyse and comprises copies of 13th-15th-cent. deeds relating to lands in cos. Nott., Derby and York. Bodleian Library, Dod...