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Project / Collection Egerton Manuscripts Place Windsor, England Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Egerton MS 2026

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2026
Title:
COPIES of political tracts, reports of trials, precedents, versw, etc., chiefly of the first half of the xviith century. The principal are:- 1. Song, "How happie is hee borne or taught," by S' H[enry] W[otton], f. 11 b. 2. "The names and ages of the Queene of Bohemia her children, September 1627," f. 12. 3. Satirical epitaphs upon Geo. Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, f. 12. 4. Heraldic devices for the Puritan, Jesuit, Usurer, etc., f. 14 b. 5. Report of the trial of Mervin [Touchet],...
Scope & Content:
Poetry: Collections of English political and miscellaneous pieces: 17th and 18th centt. includes: f. 11 b Sir Henry Wotton, Ambassador to Venice, and (1623) Provost of Eton: Song, " How happie is hee borne": 17th cent.f. 12 Bohemia, King of. Frederic V: Names and ages of his children: 1627...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Egerton MS 2642

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2642
Title:
Robert Commaundre's heraldic and historical commonplace book
Scope & Content:
ff. 2r–418v: ‘The Booke of Heraldrye and other thinges togither with the Order of Coronacions’; a commonplace book chiefly of heraldic and historical collections by Robert Commaundre (d. 1613), Rector of Tarporley, Chester, and Chaplain to Sir Henry Sidney (see f. 254r). The book was compiled in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1575-1625
Extent:
1 volume

3. Egerton MS 3307

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3307
Title:
WINDSOR CAROL-BOOK, in Latin, French and English, with polyphonic music, written probably for St George's Chapel, Windsor, between 1430 and 1444. See Brit. Mus. Quart., xv, 1952, pp. 33-34; G. S. McPeek, The British Museum Manuscript Egerton 3307, 1963 (where the liturgical music, drinking song and motet are published); J. Stevens, Mediaeval Carols, Musica Britannica, iv, 1952 (where the carols are published); also B. Schofield and M. F. Bukofzer, 'A Newly Discovered Fifteenth-Century Manusc...
Scope & Content:
Carols: Windsor Carol-book: 1430-1444. Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Windsor Carol-book: historiated, illuminated and decorated initials: 1430-1444. Windsor, Parks: Carol-book written for ( ?) St George's Chapel: 1430-1444. Music: Windsor Carol-book: 1430-1444.: Lat., Fr. and Engl....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1430-1444
Extent:
1 item