This manuscript contains a presentation copy of the Panegyricus ad Cardinalem, a prose work written by John Leland, English poet and antiquary (b. c. 1503, d. 1552), and dedicated to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (b. 1473, d. 1530), Archbishop of York. The text features in a list of Leland's collected ...
Miscellaneous fragments, including parts of a liturgical text (ff. 1–2); a neumed gradual (f. 3); a computistical text (ff. 4–5); Paulinus of Aquileia (Ps.-Augustine of Hippo), Liber exhortationis (ff. 6–7, 10); a computistical text with a diagram of the winds (f. 8); Gregory the Great, Uita sancti Benedicti abbatis (f. 9: BHL 1102); Oratio sancti Brendani (ff. 11–12); a papal bull (ff. 13–14); a Bible (f. 15); a medical text (ff. 18–19); a pontifical (ff. 27–30); a chronicle (f. 33); the end...
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Language(s): Latin; French (f. 68); English (f. 109)
Regulations for the Royal Navy and Dockyards, temp. King James I of England (1603–25) (1r–9r); astronomical treatise (10r–20v); Thomas Billon, Anagrammata historica ex rebus gestis Lodovici decimi tertii [King Louis XIII of France, 1610–43] de prompta (22r); Thomas Billon, Anagrammata addressed to King James I (‘Humilis et pia cohortatio, ad potentissimum principem Iacobum, primum magnæ Britanniæ regem’) (Avignon: I. Bramereay, 1615) (ff. 23–24: printed paper); inscription of a votive altar i...
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Language(s): English (1r–20v, 26r–40v); Latin and French (22r, ff. 23–24); Latin (25v); English and Latin (41r–50r) Dated: 1st quarter of the 17th century; 1615 (ff. 23–24)
Notes relating to English and Continental history, primarily by Sir Robert Cotton (ff. 1–22, 32–34, 39–71); articles for an alliance between Queen Elizabeth I of England (1558–1603) and the Protestant princes of Germany (ff. 23–25); mercantile documents (ff. 26–31); miscellaneous letters and documents (ff. 35–38)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): English and Latin; French (ff. 28–31)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century