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1. Stowe MS 54

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 54
Title:: Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César
Scope & Content:: Contents: Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César (or Histoire Universelle), a universal history from the time of Thebes to 60 BC, as follows:ff. 2r-30r: The story of Thebes from the birth of Oedipus to the conquest by Theseus and the story of Hercules; ff. 30v-45r: The siege and capture of Troy, Jason and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 917
Title:
Scope & Content:: "Promissio Serenissimi Principis Domini Laurentii Prioli, Inclyti Ducis Venetiarum": the statutes of Venice, with the undertaking of the Doge, Lorenzo Priuli, to observe the same; 14 June, 1556. Latin and Italian. On f. 54 b is written "Presbyter Joannes de Vitalibus scripsit hunc librum, M.D. LVIII...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1558
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 679
Title:
Scope & Content:: ARMS, in trick, of the several dynasties that have ruled in England, from the Britons to Edw. III. f. 2;-and of peers, tempp. Will. I.-Eliz. f. 3. Followed (f. 23) by names and particulars of peers created tempp. Will. I.-Eliz. At f. 54 is the pedigree of the Bohuns, Earls of Hereford, added in a la...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1592
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 1037
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. IX. (ff. 85). MISCELLANEOUS NOTES frOM Cotton MSS., Cartæ Antiquæ, and on heraldry. The latter part (ff. 54-82) contains two indices, one of names of persons, from various ancient authors, the other of matters, partly from various authors and partly from these collections, but very incomplete.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1718-1745]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 7
Title:
Scope & Content:: BIBLIA PAUPERUM, consisting of rudely executed and Coloured drawings representing the typical events of Old Testament History and their corresponding fulfilments in the Life of our Lord, with appropriate texts from the Vulgate. There are in addition numerous drawings of heads of prophets, kings, etc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 413
Title:
Scope & Content:: LAW PRECEDENTS: a collection of specimens of deeds of various kinds, dated between 1719 and 1758, and chiefly relating to persons and places of the county of Stafford. Paper; ff. 54. Late xviiith cent. Folio.County of Stafford: Deeds relating to persons and places in: 1719-1758.Law OF ENGLAND: Prece...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1719-1758
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 900
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. XV. (ff. 54). GENERALITÉ de Poitiers, i.e. Province de Poitou; by [Gilles] de Maupeoux [Sieur d'Ableiges], Intendant, 1698. Printed by Dugast-Matifeux, État du Poitou sous Louis XIV., p. 515, from a MS. in the Bibliothèque Nationale.Province of Poitou, France: Memoir on: 1698.: Fr.Gilles de Mau...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 685
Title:
Scope & Content:: COLLECTIONS of arms in blazon, pedigrees, etc.:- 1. Arms of English nobles, temp. Eliz.; followed by an index. f. 3. 2. Names and arms of the nobility of England, with the time of their creation, from 1066 to 1586; continued to 1603. f. 13. 3. Pedigree of Richard Corbet, of Moreton-Corbet, co. Salop...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 690
Title:
Scope & Content:: ARMS in colours; with blazon, in French, as follows: (1) Knights Bannerets, temp. Edw. I. f. 3;-(2) Knights, arranged according to counties. f. 9 ;-(3) "Ces sont les nomes et les armes abatues de grant seigneurs," temp. Edw. I. f. 43;-(4) "De la tournay a la ville de Dunstable l'an second du Roy Edw...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 55
Title:
Scope & Content:: "CHRONOLOGIA tum Sacra tum profana et Romana," from Sulpicius Severus, Justinus, Cornelius Nepos, Florus, Paterculus, etc. It begins with the Creation, and was intended to be carried down to the death of Augustus, but actually ends in B.C. 354, which is given as A.M. 5098, O1. cvi. 3, and A.U.C. 401...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1745-1758]
Extent:: 1 item