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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52585
Title:: Miscellany of verse and prose ('The Waferer Commonplace Book')
Scope & Content:: Miscellany volume of verse and prose. Owned by Richard Waferer of Buckinghamshire. Includes verse and prose works by: Joseph Hall; Sir Walter Raleigh; William Shakespeare; Sir Edward Dyer; Robert Southwell, S.J.; Nicholas Breton; and Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex. f. i r Remains of vell...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1597-1628
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52913
Title:: Record of a court case between Canonsleigh Priory and the parishioners of Morden
Scope & Content:: Record of a court case between the abbess and convent of Canonsleigh Priory, Devon, and Thomas Chaplain, William Holbele, John Partridge and others of the poor of Morden, Dorset. The case was held at Salisbury Cathedral by John Maydenheth, Vicar-General of the Bishop of Salisbury, in the consist...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Last decade of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 roll

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 54229
Title:: Glossed Psalter
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a Psalter, with the marginal Gloss on the Psalms (Magna glosatura) by Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160). It was probably made in England in the 3rd quarter of the 12th century, making it a particularly early copy of Peter Lombard’s Gloss on the Psalms, possibly made wi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 54782
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hastings Hours', or 'London Hours of William Lord Hastings')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-17v: Gospel extracts. ff. 19r-72r: Devotions, consisting of a prayer to Christ, a memorial to the Trinity, Psalm 53 followed by a prayer to Christ and Psalm 129, two prayers to the Virgin, a prayer to Christ, the Eight Verses of St Bernard, memorials...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1480
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 57337
Title:: The Anderson Pontifical
Scope & Content:: The Anderson Pontifical (also known as the Brodie Pontifical) contains an imperfect Pontifical and an imperfect Benedictional, probably written in a major southern English scriptorium at the end of the 10th century or the first quarter of the 11th century. A few Old English glosses and musical n...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: c 988-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58853
Title:: ITALIAN CANTATAS: 'Parole di Gio. Patritio Carey messe in musica da Diuersi Autori', settings for soprano solo accompanied by a figured bass; mid-17th cent. The signature of 'Guglmo Reymes' (i.e. William Reymes) is on ff. 1 and 83v (for comparison see Sloane 514). Folio i is the bookplate of 'Maurice Burrus', 1937. For a discussion on the identification of the author of the texts as the minor English poet, Patrick Cary see Pamela J. Willetts, 'Patrick Cary and his Italian poems', B.L.J. 2, n...
Scope & Content:: Poetry ITALIAN: Music: Patrick Cary, English poet: 'Parole di Gio. Patritio Carey messe in musica da Diuersi Autori', settings for soprano solo accompanied by a figured bass: mid-17th cent.: Ital. includes: ff. 2-35b, 78-83b Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect, composer and instrumentalist: Five...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: Mid 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 59874
Title:: JANE AUSTEN: ''Volume the Second'', comprising later autograph copies of early compositions dating from circa 1790-1793. Imperfect, lacking twelve leaves. Included are two brief epistolary novels ''Love and Friendship'' and ''Lesley Castle'', and a parodic ''History of England'', the latter illustrated with coloured vignettes by Jane Austen''s sister Cassandra. Other contents include ''A Collection of Letters'' dedicated to a childhood friend Miss Cooper and ''Scraps'' dedicated to a niece F...
Scope & Content:: Jane Austen, novelist: `Volume the Second'' of Jane Austen: circa 1790-1793.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1790-1793
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62122
Title:: St Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew; Commentary on the Book of Daniel
Scope & Content:: This is one of the few manuscripts to survive from the Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Rumon at Tavistock (Devon). This manuscript was produced in the 12th century, and contains biblical commentaries by the Church father St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), whose writings were central to the st...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62540
Title:: Atlas of Sicily, England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland
Scope & Content:: Atlas book containing two maps by Laurence Nowell (1530-c. 1570), antiquary, covering Sicily, England, Wales, Ireland and part of Scotland. With itineraries partly in the hand of William Cecil, first Baron Burghley (1520-1598), royal minister. f. 2v: Map of Sicily by Laurence Nowell, possibly ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1564
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 63077
Title:: Glossed Book of Genesis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a glossed Book of Genesis. The glosses are that of the Glossa Salomonis (Salomo's Gloss), a commentary on the Book of Genesis, attributed to Salomo III Ranschwag (b. 890, d. 922), Bishop of Constance and abbot of St Gall. It survives in three English manuscripts (see Hut...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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