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3311. Stowe MS 956

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 956
Title:
John Croke, Psalms in English verse
Scope & Content:
A girdle-book containing a collection of thirteen Psalms, translated into English verse and apparently written by the legal official John Croke (b. 1489, d. 1554) in his own hand. Another copy of the text, without the hymn ‘Veni Creator’ but including Psalm 31, is now Add MS 30981, which is al...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1540
Extent:
1 volume

3312. Stowe MS 1067

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1067
Title:
Bestiary
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of the 'First Family' of bestiaries, with a text derived from the Physiologus with additions from Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636)'s Etymologies (Etymologies) (see McCulloch, Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries (1962) p. 31; Payne, Medieval Beasts (1990) p. 12). ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

3313. Topham Ch 19

Reference (shelfmark):
Topham Ch 19
Title:
Receipt of Dorothy Comberford, abbess of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate, London, for the lease of the rectory of Hartington
Scope & Content:
Receipt by Dorothy Comberford, abbess of the Abbey of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate, London, confirming she and the convent had received from George [Talbot] (1468-1538), earl of Shropshire [Shrewsbury], £26 30s 4d, for the lease of the rectory of Hartington, Derbyshire, and the hou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1526
Extent:
1 leaf

3314. Wolley Ch IX 70

Reference (shelfmark):
Wolley Ch IX 70
Title:
Grant by William Ireland of Yeldersely to Dulcissa, widow of Robert Ireland, of messuages, lands and rents
Scope & Content:
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: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1435
Extent:
1 leaf

3315. Wolley Ch XII 31a

Reference (shelfmark):
Wolley Ch XII 31a
Title:
Probate certificate of the will of Agnes Fearne
Scope & Content:
Probate certificate by Matthew Parker (1504-75), archbishop of Canterbury, for the will of Agnes Fearne; dated 8 February 1575.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1575
Extent:
1 leaf

3316. Yates Thompson MS 3

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 3
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Dunois Hours')
Scope & Content:
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.'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1439-c 1450
Extent:

1 volume

3317. Yates Thompson MS 10

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 10
Title:
Apocalypse, in French
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1370-c 1390
Extent:

1 volume

3318. Yates Thompson MS 11

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 11
Title:
Collection of moral tracts
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1290-c 1300
Extent:

1 volume

3319. Yates Thompson MS 12

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 12
Title:
William of Tyre, Histoire d'Outremer
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1232-1261
Extent:

1 volume

3320. Yates Thompson MS 17

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 17
Title:
Peter Lombard, Sententiae
Scope & Content:
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. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

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