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41. Stowe MS 37

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Stowe MS 37
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" HENCHERIDIOM Magistri Alani [de Insulis] de Conquestione Naturae ": a treatise against immorality, in mixed prose and verse, beg. " In lacrimas risus, in luctus gaudia verto." Printed in Migne, Patrologia, vol. ccx. 429-482. At the end, in a somewhat later hand and on two leaves which original...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 item

42. Stowe MS 38

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Stowe MS 38
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"A TRETIS þat suffisiþ to eche cristen man and womman to lyuen þeraftir," beg. "This tretis compilid of a pore caitif," and hence commonly known as "The Poor Caitiff." The authorship has been attributed to Wiclif, but see Shirley, Fasciculi Zizaniorum, 1858, p. xiii. n. 3. The headings of the di...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

43. Stowe MS 39

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Stowe MS 39
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The Abbey of the Holy Ghost; The Desert of Religion
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Contents: ff. 4r-9v: The Abbey of the Holy Ghost, written in Middle English prose, beginning, 'My dere syster, I se þat many wuld be in religyon, bot þai may noght...' ff. 10r-31v: The Desert of Religion, written in Middle English verse, beginning, 'David þat prophet was ay. In þe sauter boke ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

44. Stowe MS 40

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Stowe MS 40
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"DE SACRO Jesu Christi triumpho habito Lauduni adversus daemonem mulierculae corpus agitantem compendiosa historia": a narrative, in Latin, of certain miracles alleged to have occurred at Laon in 1565 and 1566, edited by Jean Boulaese, priest first of Chartres and then of Laon, professor "litera...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1565-1570
Extent:
1 item

45. Stowe MS 41

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Stowe MS 41
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TRANSLATION Of the dialogue entitled "Octavius," in defence of Christianity, by M. Minucius Felix. The following note is appended: "Translated by my selfe at Pyrton in the Intervalls of my Hunting & Hawking times, Anno 1632: I dare not say well, but as I coulde. Ignoscat Lector. Henry Knappe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1632
Extent:
1 item

46. Stowe MS 42

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Stowe MS 42
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Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
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This manuscript contains the Revelations of Divine Love by the anchoress and mystic Julian of Norwich (b. 1342, d. c.1416). It is thought to be a copy from an exemplar manuscript for a edition published in 1670 by Serenus Cressy (b. c. 1605, d. 1674). Cressy was a Benedictine confessor for the E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1675
Extent:

1 volume

47. Stowe MS 43

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Stowe MS 43
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"THE LIGHT IN DARKNESS, or The True Religion long sought, at last found out, amongst all the religions of the world here mention'd, by Martin Brethon, a true prozelyte to the Church of England, Aug. 26, 1685"; consisting of a dictionary of churches, sects, and religious opinions, in alphabetical...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Aug 1685
Extent:
1 item

48. Stowe MS 44

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Stowe MS 44
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RELIGIOUS MEDITATIONS and Bible Texts, written by Margaret [Penn], wife of Anthony Lowther; with a list of her family, and an account of the last illness and death of her eldest son, Robert Lowther, in Jan. 1694/5. The last entry is of the death of her eldest surviving son, Sir William Lowther, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1695-1705
Extent:
1 item

49. Stowe MS 45

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Stowe MS 45
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TWO SERMONS or treatises, on Prayer (Ps. xxxiv. 17) and on the Sacraments. The beginning and end of the latter are lost. At the head of the former is the name "Mr. Ewens." Paper; ff. 49. Early XVIIIth cent. Duodecimo. Sermons: On prayer and the sacraments, by - Ewens: 18th cent. Ewens: Owned o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

50. Stowe MS 46

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Stowe MS 46
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DRAFTS of, and notes for, sermons, by the Rev. Philip Morant, Rector of St. Mary's, Colchester (ob. 1770). Paper; ff. 66. Folio. Sermons: Drafts and notes, by the Rev. P. Morant: 18th cent. Philip Morant, rector of St. Mary at the Walls, Colchester, historian of Essex: Drafts and notes for ser...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

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