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1. Add MS 70506-70509

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PORTLAND PAPERS. Vols. DVI-DIX (29/55, 56, 58, 59). Documents relating to the Premonstratensian Abbey of the Assumption, Titchfield, co. Southt.; late 14th cent.-1567. See N. R. Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (1964), p. 190, and G. R. C. Davis, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain (1958), p. 111, Nos. 973-976. On the abbey see H. M. Colvin, The White Canons in England (Oxford, 1951), pp. 184-189. Four volumes.
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Orders Religious. Premonstratensians: Documents rel. to Titchfield Abbey, co. Southt.: late 14th cent.-1567: Lat. Bindings ENGLISH: Wooden boards, covered with sheepskin: 15th cent. Titchfield Abbey; Hampshire: Documents rel. to Titchfield Abbey: late 14th cent-1567: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century-1567
Extent:
4 items

2. Add MS 70510

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PORTLAND PAPERS. Vol. DX (29/330). Chartulary of the Cistercian Abbey of the Virgin, Beaulieu, co. Southt.; 13th-16th cent. Latin. Most of the cartulary is temp. Henry III, with some additions temp. Edward I and others of 16th cent. Extracts circa 1739 by Rev. George Harbin are Harley 6603, ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-16th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 70511

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PORTLAND PAPERS. Vol. DXI (29/57). Chartulary of the Preceptory of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem, North Baddesley, co. Southt.; 1397-1398. Latin. The cartulary which comprises copies of private deeds arranged topographically and preceded (ff. 1-5) by a table of contents is stated in the ti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1397-1398
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 70512

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PORTLAND PAPERS. Vol. DXII (29/60). Chartulary of Sir Henry Pierrepont, of Holme Pierrepont, co. Nott.; 1482. Latin. The cartulary was compiled by Sir Henry's chaplain Thomas Wyse and comprises copies of 13th-15th-cent. deeds relating to lands in cos. Nott., Derby and York. Bodleian Library, Dod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1482
Extent:
1 item

5. 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

6. Add MS 70514

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PORTLAND PAPERS. Vol. DXIV (29/331). Fragment of the Brut Chronicle relating to Edward III and Richard II; circa 1461-1482. The present manuscript which includes caps. 211-241 (The Brut or Chronicles of England (Early English Text Society, original series, vols. 131, 136), ed. F. W. D. Brie (190...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1461-1482
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 70515

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Title:
A miscellany of medical texts in Middle Dutch
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This late fourteenth-century medical miscellany in Middle Dutch is one out of at least six extant Dutch medical manuscripts that contains excerpts from the natural encyclopedia and bestiary Der nature bloeme (The Flower of Nature) that the Dutch poet Jacob van Maerlant (b. c. 1235, d. c. 1300) w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch and Latin
Date Range:
1377
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Parchment and paper codex

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PORTLAND PAPERS. Vol. DXVI (29/333{2}). Collection of fragments; 9th-17th cent. Latin, Greek, Irish, German and Italian. Heraldic bookplate of 6th Duke of Portland, f. i. Vellum and paper; ff. iv+90. A. Fragment of a patristic text relating a story of a pimp and a notary to illustrate the po...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
9th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 70517

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Title:
Folding calendar
Scope & Content:
Recto: A sequence of seasons and months of year; a table of Latin numerals i-xxx. Verso: A perpetual calendar with saints' days; calculations of the number of years since biblical events, ending with 1412 years since the birth of Christ. Decoration: Miniatures in colours: the labours of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
? 1412
Extent:
1 folded calendar

10. Add MS 70518

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Title:
Miscellaneous letters and papers, 1540-1706
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These letters are calendared in Historical Manuscripts Commission, Portland Manuscripts, II, 5-64. They form part of a section of miscellaneous manuscripts amongst the Portland Papers, which were originally held at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. The Portland Papers were deposited at the British...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1540-1706
Extent:
1 volume