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Container Reference (shelfmark) Egerton MS 2003-2018

1. Egerton MS 2003

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Egerton MS 2003
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COMMISION from Giovanni Cornaro, Doge of Venice, to Benedetto Ciurano, as Proveditor and Captain of the Island of Corfu; dated 6 Aug. 1717. Vellum. Octavo. Venice; Ducali: Commissions by Giovanni Cornaro: A.D.1717. Benedetto Ciurano: Commission to, as Proveditore of Corfu: 1717.: Ital.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
6 Aug 1717
Extent:
1 item

2. Egerton MS 2004

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Egerton MS 2004
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PARISH register of Staines, co. Middlesex, 1653-1694; containing entries of marriages, 1653-1660, baptisms, 1665-1694, births, 1653-1661, and burials, 1653-1660. At the beginning are a few entries of births in the families of Chamberlaine, Hoptkins, and Andrewes, 1644-1680. Vellum; in the origin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1653-1694
Extent:
1 item

3. Egerton MS 2005

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Egerton MS 2005
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THE Elements of Law, Naturall and Politique," with a dedicatory epistle to William [Cavendish], Earl of Newcastle, 9 May, 1640; by Thomas Hobbes. The treatise was printed in 1650, in two parts, with the titles, "Humane Nature, or the Fundamental Elements of Policie," and "De Corpore Politico, or...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Egerton MS 2006

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2006
Title:
The Booke of Gostlye Grace
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the two extant copies of The Booke of Gostlye Grace.The work is a Middle English translation of an abridged version of the Liber Specialis Gratiae, a large collection of the revelations of Mechtild of Hackeborn (b. 1240/1, d. 1298). Mechtild was a nun of the Bened...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

5. Egerton MS 2007

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Egerton MS 2007
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1. "THE Pleasures of Hope," by Thomas Campbell: an autograph draft, containing 390 lines, the first 44 of which differ from the printed version, and of the rest many passages have been altered, amplified, or suppressed, f. 2. 2. "The Irish Harper's Lament for his Dog," by the same. Autograph. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Egerton MS 2008

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Egerton MS 2008
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ORIGINAL correspondence of Jean Paul Friedrich Richter with Pastor E. F. Vogel; 1781-1810. At the end is a printed programme of the ceremony to be observed at the unveiling of Jean Paul's statue at Wunsiedel, his birthplace, 8 July, 1845. Paper. Folio. Erhard Friedrich Vogel, Pastor: Correspond...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1781-1810
Extent:
1 item

7. Egerton MS 2009-2012

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Egerton MS 2009-2012
Title:
Glees and madrigals for five voices, the tenor parts wanting; some being the compositions of William Byrd
Scope & Content:
The altos originally formed part of another set. Among the pieces are some having reference to historical events and characters, as-The murder of the two princes by the Duke of Gloucester, Jane Shore, Lady Jane Grey, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, etc. Includes: Part-song on the death of Queen ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
4 volumes

8. Egerton MS 2013

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Egerton MS 2013
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ENGLISH songs, seventy, in number; set to music by various composers of the xviith century, among whom are Nicholas Lanneire, William Lawes, Henry Lawes, Richard Deering, John Hilton, Simon Ives, Dr. John Wilson, and John Lenton. At the beginning is a harmonisation of the scale for the lute. Pap...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Egerton MS 2014

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Egerton MS 2014
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ORIGINAL letters and autographs, viz.:- 1. Louis [Duke of Orleans, afterwards Louis XII. of France] to [Charles VIII.] of France; Novaire [Novara], 17 July, [before 1498]. Fr. Signed. f. 1. 2. Henry VIII. of England to Maximilian, Duke of Milan; reporting his successes against the French, in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1498-1589
Extent:
1 item

10. Egerton MS 2015

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2015
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Scope & Content:
ORIGINAL letters of Italian artists, and others, viz.:- 1. Matteo Boiardo to his Podestà of Scandiano, instructing him to restore certain property to "Maestre Pollo di Mazo," of Bologna; dated Reggio, 12 Feb. 1490. ltal. Holograph. f. 1. 2. Pietro [Vanucci] Perugino to Isabella [widow of Fra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1531-1534
Extent:
1 item