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3301. Stowe MS 56

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 56
Title:
Baudri de Bourgueil, Historia Hierosolymitana; Historia Danica; Pseudo-Cornelius Nepos, Pseudo-Dares Phrygius, De Excidio Troiae Historia; Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri; Historia Alexandri Magni; Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem; Collatio Alexandri et Dindimi; Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-59r: Baudri de Bourgueil (b. c. 1046, d. 1130), Historia Hierosolymitana (The History of Jerusalem). ff. 59r-63v: Historia Danica (The Danish History). ff. 64r-75r: De Excidio Troiae Historia (The History of the Fall of Troy), authorship attributed to Dares Phrygius and trans...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

3302. Stowe MS 57

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 57
Title:
Scutum Bede, a collection of Latin treatises, including a Libellus de nominibus naturalium rerum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of a compilation of Latin moral, grammatical and historical treatises in prose and verses including interlinear and marginal glosses, probably collected by Geoffrey of Ufford (fl. c. 1154) and entitled 'Scutum Bede Collectivus Gaufridi de Ufford' (f. 1r); this appears to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Old, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1154
Extent:

1 volume

3303. Stowe MS 62

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 62
Title:
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum; Sermons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from c. 1200 originates from the Augustinian priory of St Mary, Newburgh, in North Yorkshire. It contains the works of the abbey’s most prolific author: the Historia rerum Anglicarum (History of English Affairs) by William of Newburgh (b. 1135/6, d. in or after 1198). The Histori...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

3304. Stowe MS 84

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 84
Title:
Proceedings of the rehabilitation trial of Joan of Arc
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of only three official copies made of the Processus justificationis Johanne D'Arc, or proceedings of the rehabilitation trial of Joan of Arc (b. c. 1412, d. 1431). Joan had been put on trial before a Church court headed by Bishop Pierre Cauchon (b. 1371, d. 1442), an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1455-1456
Extent:
1 volume

3305. Stowe MS 104

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 104
Title:
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert, Epistola de Obitu Bede with Bede's Death Song; Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis (extracts); Aelred of Rielvaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris; Hugh of Saint-Victor, De Beate Marie Virginitate (extract)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-112r: Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People), includes the last paragraph of the prologue at the end (f. 112r). ff. 112v-113v: Cuthbert (fl. 735), abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow, Epistola de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

3306. Stowe MS 559

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 559
Title:
Collections relating to Crown regalia and jewels
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–84v: A volume of collections relating to the Crown regalia and jewels, annotated throughout by the antiquarian Thomas Astle (1735–1803). ff. 1r–54v: Extracts from the Patent Rolls, Wardrobe Accompts, and other public records, from the reigns of John to Henry VI, including (ff. 11r–23v) a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

3307. Stowe MS 582

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 582
Title:
Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France, an anonymous French account of the consecration, coronation, and royal entrée into Paris of Claude de France (b. 1499, d. 1524), Queen of France, and wife of Francis I (r. 1515-1547), which took place on 10-12 May 15...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1517
Extent:
1 volume

3308. Stowe MS 584

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 584
Title:
Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne; Discours des Ceremonies du Sacre et mariage d'Anne de Foix avec Ladislaus Roy de Hongrie
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two French works attributed to Pierre Choque (b. c. 1450, d. 1530), herald and king of arms at the court of Anne of Brittany (b. 1477, d. 1514), Queen of France. The first text is the Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne, beginning with a dedication to the 'Sire de ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1514
Extent:
1 volume

3309. Stowe MS 776

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 776
Title:
Cartulary of the estates of John de Vaux and his daughter and co-heiress Petronilla de Narford
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a cartulary, containing copies of charters and deeds in Latin, relating to the estates of the English nobleman Sir John de Vaux, alias Vallibus (b. c. 1220, d. 1287), in Norfolk and Suffolk, and particularly the inheritance of his daughter and coheiress Pernel, also known as P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3310. Stowe MS 947

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 947
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Content: The Roman de la Rose was begun by Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1230) and continued by Jean de Meun approximately forty years later. ff. 1r-155v: beginning: 'Maintes gens dient/ Que en songes/ Na se fables non/ Et menconges/ Mais len puet tel/ Songes songier/ Qui ne sont mie mencongier/ Ain...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

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