This manuscript contains a presentation copy of the Panegyricus ad Cardinalem, a prose work written by John Leland, English poet and antiquary (b. c. 1503, d. 1552), and dedicated to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (b. 1473, d. 1530), Archbishop of York. The text features in a list of Leland's collected ...
Miscellaneous fragments, including parts of a liturgical text (ff. 1–2); a neumed gradual (f. 3); a computistical text (ff. 4–5); Paulinus of Aquileia (Ps.-Augustine of Hippo), Liber exhortationis (ff. 6–7, 10); a computistical text with a diagram of the winds (f. 8); Gregory the Great, Uita sancti Benedicti abbatis (f. 9: BHL 1102); Oratio sancti Brendani (ff. 11–12); a papal bull (ff. 13–14); a Bible (f. 15); a medical text (ff. 18–19); a pontifical (ff. 27–30); a chronicle (f. 33); the end...
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Language(s): Latin; French (f. 68); English (f. 109)
Regulations for the Royal Navy and Dockyards, temp. King James I of England (1603–25) (1r–9r); astronomical treatise (10r–20v); Thomas Billon, Anagrammata historica ex rebus gestis Lodovici decimi tertii [King Louis XIII of France, 1610–43] de prompta (22r); Thomas Billon, Anagrammata addressed to King James I (‘Humilis et pia cohortatio, ad potentissimum principem Iacobum, primum magnæ Britanniæ regem’) (Avignon: I. Bramereay, 1615) (ff. 23–24: printed paper); inscription of a votive altar i...
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Language(s): English (1r–20v, 26r–40v); Latin and French (22r, ff. 23–24); Latin (25v); English and Latin (41r–50r) Dated: 1st quarter of the 17th century; 1615 (ff. 23–24)