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121. Add MS 37656

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Title:
Wardrobe account of Thomas of Brotherton and Edmund of Woodstock, sons of Edward I and Margaret of France
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the wardrobe account of Thomas of Brotherton (b. 1300, d. 1338), and Edmund of Woodstock (b. 1301, d. 1330), afterwards Earls of Norfolk and Kent. Princes Thomas and Edmund were the fifth and sixth sons of King Edward I (r. 1272-1307), and the oldest by his second marria...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1305
Extent:
1 volume

122. Add MS 38604

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Title:
Breviary for Birgittine Use
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illuminated Breviary. A rubric at the beginning of the volume (f. 16r) states that it was made in 1470 for a Sister Margarita, daughter of Alessio Saluzzo, upon her entry into the Birgittine monastery of Scala Coeli in Genoa. Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, includin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1470
Extent:
1 volume

123. Add MS 40076

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Title:
Rule and Privileges of the Poor Clares
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6r: The Rule of the Poor Clares, a copy of the Bull of Clement VI, confirming that of Clement IV (made 31 December 1266), which in turn confirms and recites the Rule of the Poor Clares, as drawn up by Rinaldo, Bishop of Ostia and Velletri (afterwards Pope Alexander IV), and ap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1446-1448
Extent:
1 volume

124. Add MS 43827 A

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Title:
Autobiographical account of the life of Rose Lok
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an autobiographical account of the life of Rose Lok (b. 1526, d. 1613), an English businesswoman and Protestant exile during the Tudor period, written by her in c. 1610 when she was 84. Rose was the daughter of Sir William Lok (b. 1480, d. 1550), a gentleman usher to Hen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

125. Add MS 43827 B

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Title:
Autobiographical account of the life of Rose Lok, copied by Elizabeth Hickman
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an autobiographical account of the life of Rose Lok (b. 1526, d. 1613), an English businesswoman and Protestant exile during the Tudor period, written by her in c. 1610 when she was 84. Rose was the daughter of Sir William Lok (b. 1480, d. 1550), a gentleman usher to Hen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1667
Extent:
1 volume

126. Add MS 44839

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Title:
Chart of the Thames estuary drawn by Robert Adams, showing existing and proposed defences on the Thames, against the Spanish Armada
Scope & Content:
A pictorial chart of the Thames estuary, drawn in pen-and-ink with coloured wash, in 1588 by Robert Adams (b. 1540, d. 1595), architect and surveyor of buildings for Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603), and endorsed across the end, in a contemporary hand, 'Thamesis Descriptio'. The chart shows the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1588
Extent:
1 roll

127. Add MS 46701

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Title:
Cartulary of Stixwould Priory
Scope & Content:
The Cartulary of the Cistercian nunnery of Stixwould, Lincolnshire, containing transcripts of royal, episcopal, noble and private charters, arranged by location and usually with the witnesses omitted. The latest dated charter in the original hand is an agreement with Croyland Abbey in 1263 (f. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume

128. Add MS 52913

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Title:
Record of a court case between Canonsleigh Priory and the parishioners of Morden
Scope & Content:
Record of a court case between the abbess and convent of Canonsleigh Priory, Devon, and Thomas Chaplain, William Holbele, John Partridge and others of the poor of Morden, Dorset. The case was held at Salisbury Cathedral by John Maydenheth, Vicar-General of the Bishop of Salisbury, in the consist...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Last decade of the 14th century
Extent:
1 roll

129. Add MS 70513

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Title:
Collection of metrical saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French ('The Campsey Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving medieval collection of rhymed saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French. It is known as the 'Campsey Manuscript', after the female Augustinian priory of Campsey, in Suffolk, where it was housed during the 14th century. An added inscription in the manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

130. Add MS 89480

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Title:
Letter of Mary, Queen of Scots, to Jacques Bochetel de la Forest, French ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
An original letter from Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1542, d. 1587; r. 1542-1567), to Jacques Bochetel de la Forest (d. 1595), French ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603), sent from Carlisle and dated 26 June 1568. The letter asks the ambassador to send George Douglas as an emissary to F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
26 Jun 1568
Extent:
1 leaf

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