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1. Add Ch 19858

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Title:
Letter of Anne of Woodstock, countess of Stafford, appointing John Harper as her steward
Scope & Content:
Letter of Anne of Woodstock (b. c. 1382, d. 1438), countess of Stafford, Buckingham, Hereford and Northampton, and lady of Brecknock, appointing John Harper (b. 1395, d. 1464) as her steward of Staffordshire; given at London, 15 July 1428. Affixed with a fragmentary seal, red, a quatrefoil loze...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1428
Extent:
1 leaf

2. Add MS 14252

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Add MS 14252
Title:
Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Anglie; ‘Prester John’, Epistola Manueli Comneno Imperatori Graecorum; Hildebert of Lavardin, De Tribus Mortuis a Christo Suscitatis; a prose description of England based on Henry of Huntingdon’s Historia Anglorum; Laws related to the Commune of London; genealogies
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second volume of a collection of legal treatises, of which Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS lat. 155 is the first volume. Add MS 14252 mainly contains law texts related to England and the ‘Commune of London’: a corporation of London citizens which had been r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Add MS 17492

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Title:
Anthology of Tudor courtly verse, mostly attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt, with other poems by Henry Howard, Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas Hoccleve (‘The Devonshire Manuscript’)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an anthology of early-modern Tudor courtly verse from the 1530s, which was compiled by three women who attended the royal court: Mary Shelton, Mary Fitzroy and Lady Margaret Douglas. The majority of the verses recorded in the volume are attributed to the English politi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1530s
Extent:

1 volume

4. Add MS 22139

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Add MS 22139
Title:
John Gower, Confessio amantis, with four minor poems by Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an imperfect copy of the Confessio amantis, a Middle English poem by John Gower (b. c. 1330, d. 1408), together with four minor poems by Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). Contents: ff. 1r-137v: John Gower, Confessio amantis, written in Middle English with Lati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Add MS 29301

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Add MS 29301
Title:
Collection of medical treatises and recipes, including John Arderne's Liber receptorum medicinarum and Practica de fistula in ano
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of medical treatises, written in Latin and Middle English. They include two illustrated medical works by John Arderne (b. 1307, d. 1392), a renowned English surgeon who saw active military service during the Hundred Years' War. The first, the Liber receptoru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1420-1430
Extent:

1 volume

6. Add MS 40007

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Add MS 40007
Title:
Ralph de Diceto, Opuscula; Letter to William de Longchamp; Abbreviationes Chronicorum (extracts); Letter to John of Poitiers; Ymagines Historiarum (excerpts); Geoffrey of Monmouth, Prophetia Merlini; Anonymous prophecies
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of letters and historical works written by Ralph of Diceto (d. 1199/1200), chronicler, ecclesiastic and dean of St Paul's Cathedral, London. This volume was probably produced in the scriptorium of St Paul's. The prefatory letter to William de Longchamp (d. 1197), chancel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1195
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Add MS 42518

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Add MS 42518
Title:
Thomas Speght, The Workes of our Antient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed; with autograph notes by Gabriel Harvey
Scope & Content:
This book contains the publication by Thomas Speght (d. 1621) of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The Workes of our Antient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed (London: Islip, 1598). It features autograph notes by the scholar and writer Gabriel Harvey (b. 1552/3, d. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1598
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 58078

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Add MS 58078
Title:
Miniature of the Crucifixion ('The Wyndham Payne Crucifixion')
Scope & Content:
A single leaf of a miniature of the Crucifixion, blank on the verso, probably excised from a Missal (perhaps facing the Canon of the Mass, or a prayer of consecration) as suggested by the narrower right and wider left margins (typical of the verso of a leaf in a book), and the cross in the lower...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1405-c 1410
Extent:

1 leaf

9. Add MS 89387/12

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Add MS 89387/12
Title:
St. James the Great Institute
Scope & Content:
Material relating to the company's former premises, St. James the Great Institute, in Bethnal Green, London, which the company originally moved into as tenants, in early 1984, and later purchased in the latter half of the 1990s; the property was sold in 2013.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1984-2012
Extent:

6 files

10. Add MS 89442

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Add MS 89442
Title:
Lewis of Caerleon, collected astronomical and mathematical works
Scope & Content:
An opera omnia of the Welsh physician and astronomer Lewis of Caerleon (d. in or after 1495), representing the largest and most complete collection of his astronomical and mathematical works. Written under Lewis's supervision, the manuscript contains self-referential rubrics (‘per me Lodowycum ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1485-c 1495
Extent:

1 volume

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