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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89791
Title:: Middle English sermons
Scope & Content:: A collection of Sunday gospel sermons in Middle English (ff. 1r–120r). Preceded by a prologue beginning ‘As we findin in the laste end of the gospel of Matheu and of Mark’ (f. 1r–v). The author is unnamed but has been identified as the writer of Dives and Pauper, an influential commentary on the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89792
Title:: Arma Christi
Scope & Content:: A collection of devotional texts including Arma Christi, written by Theodericus Werken, a Dutch-born scribe resident in London from c. 1450, and decorated by one or more English artists. ff. 1r–6v: John Lydgate, ‘Kalendar’: ‘Ihesu lord fo þi holy Circumcision / In þe bigynnynge of þe newe yere’ (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1460s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 233303
Title:: Taʾrīkh al-khulafāʾ
Scope & Content:: Author: Sūyūtī, 1445-1505 VIAF ID: 90051632 Subject: Islamic Empire--History
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1231
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 892341/12/48
Title:: D'Oyly Carte: Correspondence with three London Theatres (Aldwych, Cambridge, Golders Green Hippodrome)
Scope & Content:: Brief correspondence with Aldwych Theatre (1989), Cambridge Theatre (1988), and Golders Green Hippodrome (1961).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1961-1989
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Additional MS 59678
Title:: Le Morte Darthur
Scope & Content:: This is a unique manuscript of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, which was composed in Newgate Prison, London between March 1469 and March 1470. This copy was made shortly before the earliest printed version was published by Caxton in July 1485. The text differs significantly from the printe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1471-c 1483
Extent:: 473 + 8 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Early 14th century
Title:: LEGAL COLLECTION: early 14th cent. Imperf. at beginning and end. Latin and French. Origin: England. For current bibliographical information on many of theses texts, see Baker and Ringrose (1996), which has an index of manuscripts. Marginal legal memoranda, 15th cent., ff. 43, 94v, 107v, 209. Presented? to the British Museum, date and donor unknown. See Manuscripts Department Archives, Register of Donations to the Department of Manuscripts. . .1756-1837. Vellum; ff. 348. Sec. fol. imperf. a...
Scope & Content:: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Legal collection: initials: early 14th cent. Law OF ENGLAND: Statutes and treatises: early 14th cent: Lat. and Fr. includes: ff. 160-194 Ralph de Hengham, Chief Justice of Common Pleas: 'Fait assovoir', attrib. to: early 14th cent: Fr: Imperf. ff. 160-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: MPS 13379
Title:: Playscript of The Pass by John Donnelly
Scope & Content:: First performance at Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs London SW1W on 13 January 2014
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2014
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: MPS 13380
Title:: Playscript of Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby by Samuel Beckett
Scope & Content:: First performance at Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs London SW1W on 9 January 2014
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2014
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 1160
Title:: Divan-i Sabit - ديوان ثابت
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the collected poetry of Sabit (Alaeddin) of Bosnia (died 1124 AH/1712-13 CE). He belonged the Ulema and was appointed successively the Kadı of Bosnia, Konya and Diyarbakır. It consists of the following sections: ff 1v-33r : Kaside in praise of the Prophet Muhammad ص; ff 3...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 text, 99 ff

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