Grant by William Ireland of Yeldersely to Dulcissa, widow of Robert Ireland, of messuages, lands and rents
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Chirograph between William Ireland of Yeldersley, esquire, and Dulcissa, once the wife of Robert Ireland of the same, granting Dulcissa messuages, land and rents in Yeldersley and Locko as her dower for life, with a description of their location; given at Yeldersley, 1 November 1435. Endorsed: ...
Book of Hours, use of Rome, known as the 'The Dunois Hours', including: ff. 1r-12r: Calendar, use of Paris. ff. 13r-22r: Excerpts from the Four Gospels. ff. 22v-32r: Two prayers to the Virgin, 'Obsecro te' (ff. 22v-27r) and 'O intemerata' (ff. 27r-32r). ff. 32v-35r: Prayer 'Deus propicius.'...
A manuscript of the Apocalypse (Book of Revelation) with commentary, in French (ff. 1r-139v), beginning "Saint Pol l'apostre dit que touz ceulz qui veulent piement vivre en Ihesucrist souffreront persecucion...", and ending "...Que nous puissions ovec lui en sa gloire en coprs et en ame sanz reg...
This collection of moral tracts originally formed one volume with the Somme le Roy, Add. MS 28162. The manuscript includes: ff. 2r-7r: Traité de la sainte abbaye; incipit: 'La sainte abbaie e la religion doit estre fondee...' ff. 7r-28: Traité de l'amour de Dieu; incipit: 'Vous vouliez que je...
The Histoire d'Outremer, a French translation of the Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum by William, archbishop of Tyre (d. 1185), with a continuation to 1232. The manuscript must have been written after 1232, and probably before c. 1261, when a further continuation of the Histoire ...
Contents: ff. 2r-142r: Peter Lombard (b. c. 1100, d. 1160), Sententiae (Sentences), preceded by the prologue (ff. 2r-4r): 'Cupientes aliquid de penuria ac tenuitate nostra'. ff. 1v; 142v-143v: A fragment from an anonymous treatise on the seven sins, several quires are lacking, beginning on f. ...
This manuscript contains a copy of Li Livres dou Trésor (The Book of the Treasure), written by the Florentine philosopher, notary, and statesman Brunetto Latini (b. c. 1220, d. 1294) during his exile in France between 1260 and 1266. The Trésor is an encyclopaedic work, notable as one of the firs...
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, Roman de la Rose; Le Pèlerinage de mestre Jehan de Meung; le Testament
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Content: Le pèlerinage de Jehan de Meun (ff. 1r-2v) is an addition in a later hand of the first quarter of the sixteenth century. This is likely an abridged and reworking version of Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine, a moralizing poem by Guillaume de Diguleville written in 1330. The Roman de la...
This manuscript is a single detached leaf that once belonged to a large illuminated Antiphonal, containing the chants to be sung during the celebration of the Mass. The leaf carries part of the music for the feast of Easter. Other detached leaves from the same manuscript include Victoria &...
