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4431. RSPA 230

Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 230
Title:
Videvdād sādah
Scope & Content:
Videvdād sādah. Copied by Mihrbān son of Anūshīrvān son of Bahrām Shāh in Yazd on 15 Isfand 1016 Yazdagirdi (1647), for a Zoroastrian of Kirman, Marzbān son of Sandal son of Khusraw. Lacks first page and several at end. Text begins on f. 2r Colophon in form of 44 Persian verses (f.151r) Illus...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Persian
Date Range:
1647
Extent:

272 ff.

4432. RSPA 231

Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 231
Title:
Vīdevdād with Pahlavi translation
Scope & Content:
The Avestan Vīdevdād with Pahlavi and Persian translation, with the Persian title Vandīdād bā tafsīr-i ān. Includes glosses in Persian. Lacks chapters 2- middle of 8, and 12. Former number: P&A CCXXXI
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Pahlavi
Date Range:
1861
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+300+iv

4433. Sloane Ch XXXII 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane Ch XXXII 1
Title:
Marriage licence from Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, for Edward Griffith and Elizabeth Palmer
Scope & Content:
Licence from Thomas Cranmer (r. 1532-53), archbishop of Canterbury, for Edward Griffith of Braybrooke and Elizabeth Palmer to marry; given at Lambeth, 27 September 1535. Endorsed: in a 17th-century hand, ‘Licence for marriage to / Thomas Griffyn / Elizabeth Palmer’. Affixed with a fragmentary ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1535
Extent:
1 leaf

4434. Sloane MS 93

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 93
Title:
Gabriel Harvey's letters and poems
Scope & Content:
ff. 1*r–104r: Volume of holograph transcripts of letters and poems by Gabriel Harvey, of Saffron Walden, Fellow of Pembroke and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1573–1578. It includes his poems upon the death of the poet George Gascoigne (1534–1577), an account (either fictional or truthful) of the sedu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1573-1578
Extent:
1 volume

4435. Sloane MS 116

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 116
Title:
A small-size luxury prayerbook
Scope & Content:
This small-sized luxury prayerbook was produced in France around 1520, but apparently owned by an anonymous English woman in or before 1530. It features holograph inscriptions of King Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey addressed to her. The manuscript’s full-page illustrations are in the style of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1520
Extent:
1 volume

4436. Sloane MS 226

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 226
Title:
Roger Marbeck, An account of the taking of Cadiz, 1596
Scope & Content:
Roger Marbeck, "A breefe and a true discourse of the late honorable voyage unto Spayne and the wynning, sacking and burning of the famous Towne of Cadiz there, and of the miraculous overthrowe of the Spanishe Navie at that tyme, with a reporte of all other Accidents thereunto appertayning, by Do...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1596-1597
Extent:
1 volume

4437. Sloane MS 261

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 261
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', revised by Walter Stevins
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a revised version of Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', undertaken by an otherwise unknown editor called Walter Stevins, and dedicated by him to Edward Courtenay (b. c. 1527, d. 1556), 1st Earl of Devon. The volume can be dated between 1553, the year Courten...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1553-1556
Extent:
1 volume

4438. Sloane MS 278

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 278
Title:
Hugh of Fouilloy, Aviarium; a Bestiary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-43v: Hugh of Fouilloy or Hugo de Folieto (b. c. 1100, d. c. 1172), prior of St.-Nicholas-de-Regny, Aviarium, or De avibus, consisting of 60 chapters in two sections: 37 chapters of mostly scriptural exegesis, drawing on the Bible and the Greek Physiologus. The first 11 chapt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

4439. Sloane MS 314

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 314
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', with a treatise on geomancy and an account of a necromantic ritual
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', written by poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400), together with a treatise on geomancy, an account of a necromantic ritual, and a fragment of a baptismal office from a 13th-century missal. It has been suggested that the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4440. Sloane MS 324

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 324
Title:
Michael Apostolis, Oratio ad Discipulos Suos, autograph copy
Scope & Content:
Autograph copy of an invective by Michael Apostolis, Greek humanist, directed against his student Emmanuel Atramyttenos and another Emmanuel (possibly, Manuel Gregoropoulos, according to Barker p. 14). Tit. Μιχαήλου Ἀποστόλη τοῦ Βυζαντίου, Λόγος κατὰ Ἐμμανουηλοῖν μιαρωτάτοιν αὐτοῦ φοιτηταῖν, τοῦ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1460?
Extent:

1 volume

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