An account of Queen Elizabeth I's expenses on food ('ordinarye dyett') for the year 1576, along with 'Estimates of the Board Wages, Bouche of the Court, Wast & other Incidents.' It has been annotated in several places by William Cecil.
Contents: ff. 1r-77r: Liber Niger Domus Regis Edwardi IV or 'The Coppye of the Blacke Book of the Orders of the Kinges Howshould kepte in the custodye of the Comptroler'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Jewels and other treasures delivered to Mary Tudor
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Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A letter to William Paulet, Lord High Treasurer, 1st Marques of Winchester, concerning jewels, gold, silver and books delivered by him to Lady Jane Grey, dated 1 September 1553; with an autograph signature of Queen Mary I [Mary Tudor]: ‘Mary the quene’. f. 2r: A declarat...
Birgitta of Sweden, Liber Celestis Revelacionum, with tracts and documents relating to her canonisation
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This manuscript contains a collection of texts from and about St Birgitta of Sweden, divided into 14 books, and copied by Thomas Colyngbourn for the Bridgettine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary the Virgin and St Bridget of Syon [Syon Abbey], Isleworth, Middlesex. It is one of three surviving Latin m...
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa
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Contents: ff. 1r-242r: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa. Decoration: 1 historiated initial of St Christopher carrying the Christ Child with a bar-border and sprays with foliate motifs in gold and colours (f. 5r). 2 decorated initials ...
Genealogies of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Shropshire
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Contents: ff. 3r-6r: An index of names. ff. 7r-243r: Genealogies of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Shropshire, copied by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Heralds, at his Visitation of 1569; made at the order of Alexander Evesham. The manuscript contains a few later addi...
First volume of the Bible (Genesis-Psalms), incipit: 'Cist livres est apelez Genesis por ce que il est de la generation du ciel et de la terre'; ends imperfectly in Psalm 109, explicit: 'De ci a tant que je aie miste ennemis souz les...'. The second volume, containing Proverbs-Revelation, is no...
Contents: ff. 1r-31v: The ‘Issue of the saide office conteyninge the charge of redie money for all Provisions delivered only by warrant from the Quenes majestie and her honorable Counsell for her service in sundrie her highnes Townes, Castles, Fortes, and Bulwarkes, as well within the Realme, a...