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191. Egerton Ch 8256

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton Ch 8256
Title:
Will and probate certificate of Agnes Sowle
Scope & Content:
Recto: Will of Agnes Sowle, leaving her body to be buried in the parish church of Glatton [Huntingdonshire] and making bequests to the church, her daughter Isabelle, and to her executors John Sowle, John Vance, and John Schulde. Given at Glatton, 10 May 1465. Dorse: Probate certificate of Agnes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1465-1470
Extent:
1 leaf

192. Egerton MS 675

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 675
Title:
Collection of sermons in Middle Dutch
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of sermons, principally by the Burgundian abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090, d. 1153), as well as Nicholas of Clairvaux (fl. 1145/6-1176/8), Guerric of Igny (b. c. 1070/80, d. 1157) and Fulgentius of Ruspe (b. 462/467, d. 527/533), translated from the orig...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1461
Extent:
1 volume

193. Egerton MS 945

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 945
Title:
Collection of devotional texts with musical notation
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-11r: Added prayers, chants and collects in Latin, including a series of four prayers to the Virgin, each beginning, '[P]recor te S[anc]ta M[ari]a perpetua virgo' (f. 9r). ff. 12r-15v: Dits des Trois morts et des trois vifs (The Three Living and Three Dead) in Old French, begi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old, Latin, and Occitan
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

194. Egerton MS 984

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 984
Title:
Proceedings of the condemnation trial of Joan of Arc; extracts from Martial d’Auvergne, Les Vigiles du roi Charles VII
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a later copy of the condemnation trial or processus against Joan of Arc (b. c. 1412, d. 1431). Joan was put on trial following her capture by the Burgundian army outside the walls of Compiègne on 23 May 1430. Pierre Cauchon (b. 1371, d. 1442), Bishop of Beauvais, conduct...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

195. Egerton MS 1637

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1637
Title:
Calendar and obituary calendar of Schmerlenbach Abbey
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a calendar and obituary calendar compiled for the Benedictine Abbey of Schmerlenbach in Bavaria, Germany. Obituary calendars were liturgical calendars that recorded the death anniversaries of a religious house’s former members, patrons, and other local figures. Contents...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

1 volume

196. Egerton MS 1782

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1782
Title:
Collection of Irish religious, historical, mythological and legal texts in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a collection of religious, historical and mythological Irish texts in verse and prose, including the only extant copy of Aislinge Óenguso. The manuscript is the work of several scribes of the Ó Maolconaire, a learned family of lawyers and historians, known as also for compil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish
Date Range:
1516-1518
Extent:
1 volume

197. Egerton MS 2006

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2006
Title:
The Booke of Gostlye Grace
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the two extant copies of The Booke of Gostlye Grace.The work is a Middle English translation of an abridged version of the Liber Specialis Gratiae, a large collection of the revelations of Mechtild of Hackeborn (b. 1240/1, d. 1298). Mechtild was a nun of the Bened...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

198. Egerton MS 2341/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2341/1
Title:
Instructions for the stained glass windows of Greyfriars Church, Greenwich
Scope & Content:
A roll of instructions for the glaziers creating stained glass windows for Greyfriars Church, Greenwich. The text describes each figure to be depicted, including their physical appearance, dress, attributes, and their heraldry. The figures are Edward the Confessor, Edmund the Martyr, St Aethel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1485-1503
Extent:
1 roll

199. Egerton MS 2341/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2341/2
Title:
Instructions for the stained glass windows of Greyfriars Church, Greenwich
Scope & Content:
A roll of instructions for the glaziers creating stained glass windows for Greyfriars Church, Greenwich. The text describes each figure to be depicted, including their physical appearance, dress, attributes, and their heraldry. The figures are Eadburga, daughter of St Aethelberht, St Kenelm, Cha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1485-1503
Extent:
1 roll

200. Egerton MS 2482

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2482
Title:
Inquisition post mortem of Anne Montagu, duchess of Exeter
Scope & Content:
Inquisition post mortem of Anne Montagu, duchess of Exeter. These were inquiries into the property of tenants-in-chief (people who held land directly from the Crown). Royal officials would summon jurors to testify to what property the deceased held, what rent they owed, and who was the heir, in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1458
Extent:
1 roll

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