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1. Add MS 38816-38824

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Title:
Dunn Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Purchased at the sale of the library of the late Mr. George Dunn of Woolley Hall, Maidenhead.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Turkish
Date Range:
12th century-18th century
Extent:
9 items

2. Add MS 38819

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Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Contents: Psalter, use of York. ff. 1r-6v: An Augustinian Calendar, with some Cistercian additions. ff. 7r-135v: The Book of Psalms, imperfect, some Psalms are lacking (lacking Psalms 1:1-5; 9:3-15; 10:4; 11:7; 31:8; 33:7; 34:16; 36:4; 45:1; 47:13; 77:17-33; 91:1; 93:12; 101:11; 105:28; 112:4...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Add MS 38818

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A collection of works by Palladius, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Justinian, St Augustine, Prosper of Aquitaine, Isidore of Seville, and Robert of Basevorn
Scope & Content:
This manuscripts consists of three different parts that were bound together before 1592, as follows: ff. 1-135: Palladius, De Agricultura; Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura; Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari;Justinian, Institutiones (extracts). ff. 136-190: Indices of words and c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Add MS 38824

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PRECEDENT-BOOK of Ralph Howland of Maidenhead as J.P. for Berkshire, relating chiefly to events in the neighbourhood of Maidenhead, 1711-1732, with a note of his appointment (f. 2), a list of constables, overseers, surveyors, etc., for Cookham and Bray, 1710-1733 (f. 60), and an index (f. 64). M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 38822

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PSALTER, with calendar of Sarum use. The contents are: "Oracio de sancta Trinitate" (beg. "Domine deus omnipotens qui es trinus et unus qui es semper in omnibus") and other prayers. f. 1 ; Calendar, witli numerous English saints and the Sarum feast of relics (Sund. after Transl. of St. Thomas in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 38820

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Scope & Content:
THEOLOGICAL and ethical compilations, viz.: 1. "Auctoritates pro virtutibus contra vitia" (so the modern title on the back) : a collection of biblical texts suitable for texts of sermons (a section de tempore and de sanctis, including St. Francis, is at the end of pt. ii, ff. 46-59) divided into...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of 13th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 38817

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Title:
Bede, De Tabernaculo (excerpt); Revelatio Sancti Ragneri Martyris; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert, De Obitu Venerabilis Bede
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains De Tabernaculo (On the Tabernacle) and the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), an English Benedictine monk, theologian, and historian, followed by a letter about his de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

8. Add MS 38816

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MISCELLANEOUS volume containing : 1. Hexham Saints and their miracles, by Ethelred (Ailredus), Abbot of Rievaulx, headed "Incipiunt miracula sanctorum patrum qui in sancta Hagustaldensi ecclesia requiescunt, dictata a uenerabili Hethelredo abbate." Beg. "Presentis diei festiuitas." Printed in Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 38823

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Title:
Sir Edward Hoby, Commonplace book
Scope & Content:
Commonplace book of Sir Edward Hoby, politician and diplomat (1560-1617), containing entries on various subjects including America, Parliament, the Isle of Sheppey, the siege of Calais (1346-1347), and Mary, Queen of Scots. ff. i-ii) Remains of two parchment fragments of a 13th-century manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1582-c 1596
Extent:

1 volume

10. Add MS 38821

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Scope & Content:
REGISTRUM BREVIUM, statutes and other legal collections, temp. Edw. I, doubtless compiled for use in Lincolnshire. Contents: 1. "Registrum": a register of writs in the name of Edward I, and evidently compiled in the first years (1272-1275) of his reign, since the formulae of the writs of De nati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1285
Extent:
1 item