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1. Add MS 4155

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Add MS 4155
Title:
English political and diplomatic papers, 1587-1689
Scope & Content:
This is a miscellaneous collection of papers, including Elizabethan political and military matters; the parliamentary politics of the 1620s; and a number of early 17th-century diplomatic letters. There are probably some originals amongst the collection, but it is evidently mainly a collection of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1587-1740
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 32091

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Title:
State papers and documents, 1087-1575
Scope & Content:
Volume I of state papers and documents owned by the Malet family, baronets, of Wilbury, Wiltshire. Covering the period 1087-1575. ff. 1r-2v Transcript of the foundation charter of Battle Abbey, Sussex [1086-1087]. Latin. Another copy is in Harley Ch. 83 A. 12. ff. 3r-12v Leaves from a manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-1575
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 38132

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Title:
Fragments from John Leland's Collectanea
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–39v: Fragments from John Leland’s Collectanea. The manuscript seems to have become separated from the rest of the Collectanea at some point before the middle of the 17th century (see his Itinerary, ed. Lucy Toulmin Smith, 1907, i, p. xxx, ii, p. 117). More than half of it was copied by St...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1536-1545
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 48064

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Add MS 48064
Title:
Papers of Robert Beale relating to Elizabethan religious affairs
Scope & Content:
Papers of Robert Beale (1541-1601) relating to Elizabethan religious matters. This volume is largely a matter of copies, often with headings, notes and corrections by Robert Beale. There are some items which are pre-Reformation precedents, and others which relate to religious authority and to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1559-1601
Extent:

1 volume

5. Egerton MS 2642

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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

6. Royal MS 12 A XLVII

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Royal MS 12 A XLVII
Title:
Complimentary addresses in prose and verse to Elizabeth I on her visit to Woodstock and Oxford, 31 August 1566, by members of Oxford University
Scope & Content:
Complimentary addresses in prose and verse to Elizabeth I on her visit to Woodstock and Oxford, 31 Aug. 1566, by members of Oxford University. In Latin and Greek. Printed in Nichols 1788. Greek prose address by Nicholas Balgay, afterwards Master of the Temple (ff 11v-12) and Greek verse by Samuel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1566
Extent:

27 folios