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691. Stowe MS 30

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Stowe MS 30
Title:
Prayer book presented to Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Illustrated prayer book, in various languages, dated 1578 and presented to Queen Elizabeth I for New Year. Written in inks of various colours, with illuminated titles and initials. Possibly presented by William Absolon (Lawson, ‘This Remembrance of the New Year’, p. 143). Previously also associ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1578
Extent:
1 volume

692. Stowe MS 31

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Stowe MS 31
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Scope & Content:
EPISTLES of St. Augustine, St. Jerome, and St. Anselm, viz.: — 1. "Epistola Anselmi arehiepiscopi ad papam"; Anselm's letter to Pope Paschal II., asking for a clearer declaration of his opinion on Investitures (Migne, Patrologia, vol. clix. col. 110, Ep. iii. 73). Begins (after the salutation), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 item

693. Stowe MS 31-53

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 31-53
Title:
CLASS III. THEOLOGY, WITH LIVES OF SAINTS.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, French, and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-18th century
Extent:
23 items

694. Stowe MS 32

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Stowe MS 32
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Scope & Content:
"LIBER Pastoralis Cure beati Gregorii [episcopi] urbis Rome ad Johannem Ravennatem"; with the dedicatory letter, beg. "Pastoralis cure me pondera,"addressed to John, Bishop of Ravenna (Migne, Patrologia, vol. lxxvii.). At the end (f. 61b) is added a letter from Innocent III. to King John of Engl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 13th century
Extent:
1 item

695. Stowe MS 33

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Stowe MS 33
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Scope & Content:
ANSELMI Epistolæ ccccxvii.: a transcript of Cotton MS. Claudius A. xi., containing the complete collection of St. Anselm's letters; made in 1670 under the inspection of Sir Roger Twysden, who certifies its correctness in an autograph note at the end. A table of titles of the letters is prefixed....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1670
Extent:
1 item

696. Stowe MS 34

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Stowe MS 34
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Scope & Content:
SHORT HOMILIES on the various virtues and vices, in English. The beginning is wanting; the titles of the paragraphs which now stand first are "Of Sorinesse " [Sorrow] and "Of Asolknesse, Unlust" [Sloth]. Vellum; ff. 49. Early XIIIth cent. With a strongly marked change of hand at f. 39. Bound in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 13th century
Extent:
1 item

697. Stowe MS 35

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 35
Title:
Scope & Content:
DE CORPORE ET SANGUINE DEI: a treatise on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper by B[aldwin], brother of the Abbey of Ford [in Devonshire, afterwards Abbot of Ford in 1168, Bishop of Worcester in 1180, and Archbishop of Canterbury 1184-1191], dedicated to B[artholomew], Bishop of Exeter [1159-1172]...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 13th century
Extent:
1 item

698. Stowe MS 36

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Stowe MS 36
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Scope & Content:
EIGHT SERMONS "de Morte," and eleven "de Passione" Christi, in Latin. A short introduction is prefixed to the first series, beg. "Cum propriam imperitiam," and each sermon begins with the words "Omnes morimur." The second series begins, "Rorantes sanguine lacrimas" (f. 29b). The end of the volum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 item

699. Stowe MS 37

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 37
Title:
Scope & Content:
" HENCHERIDIOM Magistri Alani [de Insulis] de Conquestione Naturae ": a treatise against immorality, in mixed prose and verse, beg. " In lacrimas risus, in luctus gaudia verto." Printed in Migne, Patrologia, vol. ccx. 429-482. At the end, in a somewhat later hand and on two leaves which original...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 item

700. Stowe MS 38

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 38
Title:
Scope & Content:
"A TRETIS þat suffisiþ to eche cristen man and womman to lyuen þeraftir," beg. "This tretis compilid of a pore caitif," and hence commonly known as "The Poor Caitiff." The authorship has been attributed to Wiclif, but see Shirley, Fasciculi Zizaniorum, 1858, p. xiii. n. 3. The headings of the di...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

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