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111. Add MS 22285

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Title:
The Martyrology of Syon Abbey
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts used by the nuns and brothers of Syon Abbey, including liturgical guides, obituaries, historical notices, a calendar, and a martyrology. For an edition and translation of the manuscript, see Gejrot, ed. The Martiloge of Syon Abbey (2015); for a list of book donors to Syon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Latin, and Portuguese
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

112. Add MS 22562

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Title:
Vitae Patrum et Verbis Seniorum, written by Ava Trici and Gheeza Ysenoud
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Vitae Patrum et Verbis Seniorum (Lives and Sayings of the Fathers), an encyclopaedic work comprised of hagiographical writings on the Desert Fathers and Desert Mothers of early Christianity. According to the manuscript's colophon (f. 158v), this copy of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1449
Extent:
1 volume

113. Add MS 22754

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Title:
Angela da Foligno, Lume amoroso divino
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Lume amoroso divinio, a collection of texts written in Italian, recounting the visions and discourses of Angela da Foligno (b. c. 1248, d. 1309), an Umbrian lay penitent, mystic and visionary. Accounts of Angela's experiences were compiled by her confessor, who subse...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1451-c 1457
Extent:
1 volume

114. Add MS 23938

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Title:
Receipts and expenses of the expedition to bring Queen Margaret of Anjou to England
Scope & Content:
This account records the expedition to bring Queen Margaret of Anjou (b. 1430, d. 1482) to England for her marriage to King Henry VI (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471). The account was compiled by two royal clerks, John Breknoke and John Everdon, covering the period between 17 July 1444 and 16 October 14...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17 July 1444-16 October 1445
Extent:
1 volume

115. Add MS 24153

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Title:
German prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This highly decorated prayer-book was designed for a female member of the aristocratic family of the ‘Freiherren von Freyberg’ in Southwestern Germany. She is depicted, with her family’s coat of arms, in several of the manuscript’s full-page miniatures, often as a witness to the events of the Pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High
Date Range:
1509
Extent:

1 volume

116. Add MS 27926

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Title:
Gospels of St Luke and St John
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the second half of a Gospel-book, comprising the Gospels of St Luke and St John, made in Germany at the end of the 12th century and later housed in the library of the Augustinian nunnery of St Peter and St Paul, Heiningen, in the diocese of Hildesheim, lower Saxony. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

117. Add MS 28504

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Title:
John Skelton, The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng; rule-book for the Esquire Youths, a society of bell-ringers
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an attempted facsimile of an early printed edition of The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng, by the English poet John Skelton (b. c. 1463, d. 1529). The satirical poem concerns the eponymous Elynour, the owner of a pub in southern England. It is written in a style known as 'Ske...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

118. Add MS 29986

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Title:
Le Miroir des Dames (an anonymous French translation of Durand de Champagne's Speculum dominarum)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Le Miroir des Dames, an anonymous French translation of the Speculum dominarum, a treatise on queenship written for Jeanne de Navarre (b. 1273, d. 1305), Queen of France and wife of Philip IV (r. 1285-1314), by her confessor, Durand de Champagne. The manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1407-1410
Extent:
1 volume

119. Add MS 35069

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Title:
Single leaves and cuttings from illuminated manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1: Leaf from the end of book 5 and the beginning of book 6 of Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah, 12th century (possibly from the same manuscript as f. 2). Decoration: 1 decorated initial 'Q' in red ink, with spirals of foliage and a dragon. Dimensions: 340 x 228 mm (text space: 260 x...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-14th century
Extent:
1 volume

120. Add MS 35294

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Title:
Wardrobe account of Eleanor of Castile
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the wardrobe account, or Liber Garderobe, of Eleanor of Castile, (b. c. 1240, d. 1290), Queen consort to King Edward I (r. 1272-1307). The account was compiled by Queen Eleanor's treasurer, John of Berewyk (fl. 1279-1312), and records a set of her receipts and expenses...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
[29 Sep 1289-30 Dec 1290]
Extent:
1 volume

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