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471. Add MS 65194

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Title:
Abridgement of the Book of Assizes, bound by the 'Scales Binder'
Scope & Content:
Contents: The abridgement of the Book of Assizes, an anonymous alphabetical abridgement of material from the year books of the Court of Assizes, compiled in the mid fifteenth century, and distinct from the fourteenth-century Liber Assisarum. This abridgement was first published in 1509 by Rich...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1456-1465
Extent:

Paper codex

472. Add MS 65381

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Title:
''VOLUME THE THIRD'': notebook containing two early novels, ''Evelyn'' and ''Catharine, or the Bower'', by Jane Austen; 6 May 1792-19 Aug. 1809, n.d.
Scope & Content:
Mostly autograph. This is the third of the surviving three volumes of Jane Austen's juvenilia; ''Volume the First'' is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (MS Don.e.7) and ''Volume the Second'' is in the British Library (Add. 59874). All contain copies, with some later additions and revisions, of or...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 May 1792-19 Aug 1809
Extent:
1 item

473. Add MS 70513

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Title:
Collection of metrical saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French ('The Campsey Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving medieval collection of rhymed saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French. It is known as the 'Campsey Manuscript', after the female Augustinian priory of Campsey, in Suffolk, where it was housed during the 14th century. An added inscription in the manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

474. Add MS 71544

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JOHN LENTON: ‘Instrumentall Musick for New Yeares Day’; 1699. 1st treble part only. In the hand of the same scribe throughout: the fact that the end of the music (f. 8) is signed ‘J: L:’ suggests that the manuscript may well be autograph. The title page reads: ‘Instrumentall Musick For New Yeares day 1699. By John Lenton, Composer to his Ma[jes]tie’. Dedication (f. 1v) ‘To The Most Illustrious Princess, Her Royall Highness Princess Ann of Denmark, The Author humbly Dedicates’. The music comp...
Scope & Content:
Anne of England: 'Instrumentall Musick for New Yeares Day 1699' by John Lenton, dedicated 'To The Most Illustrious Princess, Her Royall Highness Princess Ann of Denmark': 1699. John Lenton, violinist and composer: 'Instrumentall Musick for New Yeares Day', 1st treble part: 1699: possibly autogr.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1699
Extent:
1 item

475. Add MS 74233 A

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Title:
Cutting from a Missal
Scope & Content:
This is a single cutting from a leaf originally part of a large missal (as yet untraced). On the recto, the cutting comprises a very large historiated initial 'D' in gold and colours, within a frame border on a blue background. The initial combines architectual and foliate forms. To the left, t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:

1 leaf

476. Add MS 74233 B

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Title:
Cutting from an Antiphoner
Scope & Content:
This is a single cutting from f. 146 of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Codice Corale MS 1. This large manuscript - the seventh part of a twelve volume antiphoner - contains an antiphoner for the Proper Time (Easter to Trinity Sunday), with a section of antiphons for the Common of Sain...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1396-1442
Extent:

1 leaf

477. Add MS 74236

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Title:
Missal ('The Sherborne Missal')
Scope & Content:
The Sherborne Missal is the largest, most lavishly decorated late medieval English service book to have survived the Reformation intact. The manuscript was made for the Benedictine abbey of St Mary’s in Sherborne, Dorset. It was probably produced between 1399-1407, since it contains portraits of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1399-1407
Extent:
A parchment codex

478. Add MS 74286

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Title:
Collection of original letters from Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, to Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
This manuscript principally contains a collection of 43 original letters written from Robert Devereux (b. 1565, d. 1601), 2nd Earl of Essex, to Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603). Although some of the letters are undated, all but the first were written between the time of Essex's expedition to Fra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1590-1601
Extent:
1 volume

479. Add MS 74287

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Title:
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, autograph draft of Discourse on War with Spain
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is an autograph draft of Discourse on War with Spain, by Robert Devereux (b. 1565, d. 1601), 2nd earl of Essex. Essex wrote the work on board his ship the Due Repulse, during his return voyage from Cadiz to England in early August 1596. The Discourse is written in the form of a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1596
Extent:

1 volume

480. Add MS 78425

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLVIII. Miscellaneous collected papers of John Evelyn; 17th cent.
Scope & Content:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLVIII. Miscellaneous collected papers of John Evelyn; 17th cent. 1. `Avertimente & precetti &c'; 17th cent. [italics]Italian[/italics]. An anonymous treatise in short sections, including those on health, honour and reputation, fashion, negotiation, etc. Presumably ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

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