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3921. Lansdowne MS 355, ff 8r, 9v

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 355, ff 8r, 9v
Title:
Scope & Content:
John Covel, Letter to Dositheus, Patriarch of Jerusalem, 22 Dec. 1675. Draft.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1675
Extent:

1 folio

3922. Lansdowne MS 355, ff 8v, 9r

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 355, ff 8v, 9r
Title:
Scope & Content:
John Covel, Letter to Neophytus, Metropolites of Adrianople, 15 Dec. 1675. Draft.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern
Date Range:
15 Dec 1675
Extent:

1 folio

3923. Lansdowne MS 355, ff 10r-11r

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 355, ff 10r-11r
Title:
Scope & Content:
John Thalassenos, Letter to John Covel, 28 Feb. 1673/4. Reused by Covel for his draft reply, 2 March 1673/4.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1673-1674
Extent:
1 item

3924. Lansdowne MS 355, ff 13r-16v

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 355, ff 13r-16v
Title:
Scope & Content:
Neophytus, Metropolites of Philippopolis, Speech accepting the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology at Cambridge, [13 Sept. 1701]. Copy by John Covel, with parallel Latin translation. See ff 1r-3r.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern and Latin
Date Range:
1701
Extent:

4 folios

3925. Lansdowne MS 355, ff 17r-18r

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 355, ff 17r-18r
Title:
Scope & Content:
John Thalassenos, Letter to John Covel, 11 July 1680.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern
Date Range:
11 Jul 1680
Extent:

2 folios

3926. Lansdowne MS 355, ff 19r-20r

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 355, ff 19r-20r
Title:
Scope & Content:
Drakos Jerakis, Letter to John Covel, 7 Oct. 1676.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1676
Extent:

2 folios

3927. Lansdowne MS 383, ff 1r-1v

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 383, ff 1r-1v
Title:
Former pastedown
Scope & Content:
This folio is a former pastedown from the binding, containing a fragment of a metrical translation of the work of Henry of Saltrey, St Patrick's Purgatory, in French, from the 13th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 folio.

3928. Lansdowne MS 383, ff. 2r-179v

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 383, ff. 2r-179v
Title:
Psalter ('The Shaftesbury Psalter') with calendar and prayers
Scope & Content:
Contents include: f. 2r: Ownership inscriptions. ff. 2v-8v: Calendar, with illuminated roundels of the signs of the zodiac and labours of the month. ff. 9r: Table for calculating the celebration of Easter within a nineteen-year cycle, said to have been communicated by an angel to St Pachomius...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
178 folios.

3929. Lansdowne MS 763, ff 1-48

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 763, ff 1-48
Title:
1. "Hunc librum vocitatum Musica Guidonis scripsit Dominus Johannes Wylde quondam exempti monasterii Sancte Crucis de Waltham precentor. Quem quidem librum ut [aut?] hunc titulum qui maliciose abstulerit vel deleverit Anathema sit." fo. 1*.
Scope & Content:
This work is also intitled "Monacordum," and divided into two parts; the first being called by the author "Musica Manualis," and the second "Tonale." The whole has been accurately analysed and commented on in the valuable Histories of Musick composed by Sir John Hawkins (vol. ii. p. 202), and Dr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

3930. Lansdowne MS 763, ff 49

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 763, ff 49
Title:
2. "Tractatus de octo tonis." Inc. "Septem orbes septem planetarum cum duleissima armonia volvuntur." fo. 49.
Scope & Content:
This short treatise, in which the musical tones are assimilated to the sun and planets, occupies little more than a single page. The author's name no where appears. See an abstract of it in Hawkins's Hist. of Musick, ii. 214.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

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