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51. Add MS 8159

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Title:
Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I at Greenwich, 1 Jan 1588
Scope & Content:
Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I at Greenwich, 1 Jan 30 Elizabeth I (1588). The recto contains a list of donors, grouped in order of precedence, with a description of the gifts made by each and a note as to their disposal. The gifts include a lavish (and lavishl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1588
Extent:
1 parchment roll

52. Add MS 8928

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Title:
Medical and herbal treatises, including an illustrated Apuleius Platonicus Herbarius
Scope & Content:
The longest treatise in this medical and herbal compendium is the Apuleius Platonicus Herbarius, illustrated with outline drawings of herbs and plants in the margins of the text. The manuscript was produced in the 10th century, most likely in southern Italy (see Collins, Medieval Herbals (2007),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:

1 volume

53. Add MS 8994

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Title:
Miscellaneous Zoroastrian works
Scope & Content:
A collection of Zoroastrian works in Avestan (in Persian script) and Persian containing: ff. 1v-37. Orhrmazd yasht, Avestan in Persian scriptff. 37r-45v. Sawgand nāmah, on taking oaths, in Persianff. 46r-61r. Obligations and religious observances in Persianff. 61v-73v. Naṣīḥat nāmah-i Buzurjmihr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Persian
Date Range:
1857
Extent:

Codex; ff. 139+ii

54. Add MS 8995

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Title:
Selection of yashts
Scope & Content:
A collection of yashts in Avestan, followed by patēt, transcribed in Persian script. Imperfect at the beginning with the first folio numbered 40 in Persian. Contents comprise: Ohrmazd yasht, beginning with verse 5 (ff. 2r-10v) Ardibihisht yasht (ff. 10v-17r) Srōsh yasht hadōkht (ff. 17r-24v) ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan, Pahlavi, and Persian
Date Range:
1775
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+53+ii

55. Add MS 8996

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Title:
Selection of yashts and prayers
Scope & Content:
A collection of yashts and prayers in Avestan and Middle Persian, transcribed into Persian script. Contents include: Bahrām yasht (ff. 1r-17v) Ātash Niyāyish (ff. 18r-22v) Miscellaneous prayers (ff. 22v-63v) Prayer against the evil eye in Avestan script (f. 64) Colophon (f. 65r): copied by Kay...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Pahlavi
Date Range:
1855
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+65+i

56. Add MS 9381

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Title:
Gospel-book with added Cornish records of manumissions ('The Bodmin Gospels' or 'St Petroc Gospels')
Scope & Content:
Contents: The four Gospels. The text of the Gospels displays Irish variants with the interpolation of Mass formulae common in Breton gospel-books (Cohen and Teviotdale, 'Getty Anglo-Saxon Leaves' (1999), p. 67). ff. 2r-5v: Epistles and prologues; ff. 5v-7v Preface and chapter list to St Matt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
875-1025
Extent:
1 volume

57. Add MS 9772

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Title:
Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I, 1 Jan 1567
Scope & Content:
Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I, 1 Jan 9 Elizabeth I (1567). The recto contains a list of donors, grouped in order of precedence, with a description of the gifts made by each and a note as to their disposal, the total of money received being given at the foot as...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1567
Extent:
1 parchment roll

58. Add MS 9832

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of The Legend of Good Women, written by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The Middle English poem takes the form of a dream vision and tells the stories of ten women from Classical history and mythology. This handwritten copy of the poem ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

59. Add MS 10064

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Title:
Simplicius, Commentary on Epictetus' Enchiridion; Tractatus de quinque dialectis; Herodian, De encliticis nominibus Græce
Scope & Content:
Simplicius, Commentary on Epictetus' Enchiridion; Tractatus de quinque dialectis; Herodian, De encliticis nominibus Græce
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
15 Nov 1469
Extent:
3 items

60. Add MS 10066

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Title:
Treatise on Greek grammar; selection of Homeric epimerisms
Scope & Content:
Treatise on Greek grammar; selection of Homeric epimerisms
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
2 items

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