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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4894
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Scope & Content:: BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XXXVIII (ff. 74). 'Graduale'. A series of metrical psalms for all Sundays and holidays throughout the year, founded on the epistle of the day, by Pétr Einarsson, a provincial Judge at Ballará in West Iceland (d. 1666). Icelandic. Copied by Einar Oddson the Younger at Stein...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Icelandic
Date Range:: 1751
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4895
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Scope & Content:: BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XXXIX (ff. 96). Book of Hours, etc., containing prayers and hymns in Latin, followed by some prayers in Icelandic; 15th cent. Vellum. 'No. 30' according to a note on f. 1. Viz:- (1) Miscellaneous prayers. ff. 1 b-13;- (2) Hymns and prayers to the Virgin. ff. 13-33b;- (3) H...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4896
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Scope & Content:: BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XL (ff. 58). Hymns and prayers in Latin, followed by Icelandic versions of the two final prayers; 1717. '28' according to a note on the flyleaf. Hymns: Hymnbook used in Iceland: 1717.: Latin and Icelandic. includes: ff. 43b-58 Prayers: 'Precatio matutina' and 'precati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Icelandic, and Latin
Date Range:: 1717
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4897
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Scope & Content:: BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XLI (ff. 271). Medical treatises, receipts, etc., mostly by writers of the 14th century, transcribed by several hands, probably in the Netherlands, mainly in 1494-1496. Latin and Low German. The principal items are:- (1) A short treatise in four parts on the plague by J...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Latin, and Low German
Date Range:: 1460-1499
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4898
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Scope & Content:: BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XLII (ff. 140). Collection of medical receipts; 15th cent. Begins (f. 25) 'Nota quod dicimus illam-medicinam esse calidam' and continues on ff. 25b-130b (contemporary foliation 1-104b), being followed by an alphabetical index (ff. 131-136b) giving references to the origina...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4899
Title:: Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a selection of the Sermones (Sermons) by Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090, d. 1153), abbot of Clairvaux and one of the leading theologians of the 12th century. The manuscript was produced in England in the 12th century and belonged to the Carthusian abbey of Witham in the 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4900
Title:: Banks collection. Vol. XLIV. Miscellaneous writings, ornamented with initials, portraits of saints, royal arms, etc., cut from a printed book.
Scope & Content:: The principal items are:- (1) Fragments of a transcript of a calendar (latest date 1537), for the months of May to October, giving the dates on which fairs are held in those months in various towns of England and Wales (Carmarthen). A few dates are also given in the lives of British sovereigns...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume (68 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4901
Title:: Transferred
Scope & Content:: Transferred to the Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4902
Title:: WHITELOCKE PAPERS
Scope & Content:: 'A Journall of the Swedish Ambassy in the yeares 1653 & 1654 Impartially written by the Ambassadour' (i.e. the English Ambassador to Sweden, Bulstrode Whitelocke). Autograph. Published in 1772 by Dr. Charles Morton; another edition was published in 1855 by Henry Reeve. For some additional ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1653-1654
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4903
Title:: LETTERS TO QUEEN ANNE, from the Elector of Hanover, the Duke of Savoy, etc.; 1701-1714
Scope & Content:: French. The names of the writers are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Paper. ff. 141. Folio. 1701-1714. Presented by Dr. Charles Morton, 2 July 1774. Anne of England: Letters to: 1700-1714. includes: ff. 2, 20, 28, 42, 61-134 passim Hanover, Electors of. George Louis (afte...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1701-1714
Extent:: 1 item

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