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3221. Sloane MS 3103

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3103
Title:
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Liber Confortatorius; An incomplete account of St Thomas Becket's death; An excerpt from a chant on the martyrdom of St Catherine; An antiphon with neumes; A hymn on St Catherine; Brevis relatio; A genealogy of the kings of England; St Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistula ad Eugenium (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the unique extant witness of the Liber Confortatorius (ff. 1r-117v) written by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin (d. c. 1107) for an English recluse named Eve. Eve left her convent for an anchoritic life in France, under the guidance of Hervé, a monk of Vendôme, near Tours, and s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

3222. Sloane MS 3525

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3525
Title:
Aldobrandino of Siena, Le Régime du corps; Le livre de toutes herbes; Roger Frugard, Chirurgia; Antidotarium Nicolai; and other medical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v, 1r-7v, 22v, 23r-v: Recipes in a hand of the 17th century. ff. 3r-5v: Table of contents, probably compiled by the scribe; this does not accurately list all contents, but contains a list of the chapters of the Régime du corps, and of the texts on ff. 82-108. ff. 6r-16v: A ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

3223. Sloane MS 3705

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3705
Title:
Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love (Long Text)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Long Text of the Revelations of Divine Love written by Julian of Norwich (b. 1342, d. after 1416). There are two distinct versions of Julian's account of and reflections on a sequence of visions of the Crucified Christ that she experienced as she was lying on her si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

3224. Sloane MS 4024

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 4024
Title:
Scope & Content:
Robert Hooke, FRS: Diary: 1688-1692/3.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1688-1693
Extent:
1 item

3225. Stowe Ch 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 1
Title:
Grant of King Wihtred of Kent (d. 725) to St Mary’s Church, Lyminge
Scope & Content:
King Wihtred of Kent grants 4 sulungs (aratra) at Pleghelmestun, Kent, to St Mary’s Church, Lyminge; dated July 697 or 712 (Sawyer, no. 19). Endorsed in a 10th- or 11th-century hand, ‘ðæs landes boc æt berƿicum’; in another 10th- or 11th-century hand, ‘nunc ƿigelmignctun’; in another 10th- or 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
697-712
Extent:

Parchment leaf

3226. Stowe Ch 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 2
Title:
Grant of King Wihtred of Kent (d. 725) to the churches and monasteries of Kent
Scope & Content:
King Wihtred of Kent grants privileges and immunity to the churches and monasteries of Kent, with specific prohibition of lay domination over St Peter’s at Upmynster, Reculver, Minster-in-Thanet, Dover, Folkestone, Lyminge, Minster-in-Sheppey and Hoo; dated 699 × 716, Bapchild, Kent. With confir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

3227. Stowe Ch 3

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 3
Title:
Grant of King Eardwulf of Kent (d. in or before 762) to Abbot Heaberht and the familia of Reculver minster
Scope & Content:
King Eardwulf of Kent grants one sulung (aratrum) at Perhamstede in Higham Upshire, Kent, to Abbot Heaberht and the familia of Reculver minster; dated 748 × 762 (Sawyer, no. 31). Endorsed in an 8th-century hand, ‘[Per]hamstede’; in a 10th- or 11th-century hand, ‘Perstede’; in a 12th-century ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 8th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

3228. Stowe Ch 4

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 4
Title:
Grant of King Offa of the English (d. 796) to Archbishop Jænberht of Canterbury (d. 792)
Scope & Content:
King Offa of the English grants three sulungs (aratra) at Lydd, Kent, to Archbishop Jænberht of Canterbury; dated 774 (Sawyer, no. 111). Endorsed in a hand of the 2nd half of the 10th century, ‘to hlidum’, repeated by a slightly later hand; in a 12th-century hand, ‘Offa rex. dedit Iamberto. arc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

3229. Stowe Ch 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 5
Title:
Grant of King Offa of the Mercians (d. 796) to Ealdbeorht, minister, and Selethryth, his sister
Scope & Content:
King Offa of the Mercians grants 14 sulungs (aratra) at Ickham and Palmstead (in Hardres), Kent, to Ealdbeorht, minister, and Selethryth, his sister, with swine-pastures in the Weald, and in Blean Forest a fishery and rights to gather wood for timber and fuel; dated 785, Chelsea, Middlesex (Sawy...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half 8th century-1st half 9th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

3230. Stowe Ch 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 6
Title:
Grant of King Offa of the Mercians (d. 796) to Ealdberht, minister, and his sister, Abbess Selethryth
Scope & Content:
King Offa of the Mercians grants to Ealdberht, minister, and his sister, Abbess Selethryth, 15 sulungs (aratra) at Ickham, Palmstead and Ruckinge, Kent, with swine-pastures in the Weald, in Buckholt and Blean Forest, wood-gathering privileges in Harres, Buckholt and Blean, the urban tenement (ui...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

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