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1. Add MS 22924

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Title:
Household accounts of Queen Elizabeth I, Michaelmas 1590-Michaelmas 1592
Scope & Content:
Household accounts of Queen Elizabeth I, Michaelmas Term, 1590-Michaelmas Term, 1592. The accounts containing payments made to members of the royal establishment, judges, pensioners and others, with the signatures of the recipients or their attorneys in the margin. Their range included musicians...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1590-1830
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 22937

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Title:
Guillaume de Diguleville, Les Trois Pèlerinages
Scope & Content:
Les Trois Pèlerinages, three poems composed in 1330-1358 by Guillaume de Diguleville (or Guillermus de Deguilevilla, Degulleville, Deguileville), a monk of Chaalis in Valois. ff. 1r-74v: Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine, prologue and four books containing the first recension of the text, an allegory ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:

A parchment codex, 191 folios

3. Add MS 22975

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Title:
Chapter book of the Convent of San Pablo in Manila
Scope & Content:
"LIBRO de Consultas," or Chapter-book of the Convent of St. Paul at Manila; 10 Aug. 1751-14 Dec. 1761; with autograph signatures of Pedro Espineyra, Provincial, Juan Facundo Meseguer and Pedro Velasco, Priors, and others. Span. Paper. Folio. Manila, the Philippine Islands: Chapter-book of the C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Spanish
Date Range:
10 Aug 1751-14 Dec 1761
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 23002

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Title:
Collection of scientific treatises, including Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of scientific treatises, including the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', an instructional manual written by Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The manuscript's contents closely resemble another 15th-century treatise collection (now Egerton MS 2622). Conte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume