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Container Reference (shelfmark) Stowe MS 1081-1085

1. Stowe MS 1081

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Stowe MS 1081
Title:
Twelve ink drawings of persons and groups, elaborately executed by a French artist, generally without removing the pen from the surface. Opposite each drawing are one or more anonymous French songs for voice with a bass for harpsichord, in score. On the covers are two similar figures cut out of the upper vellum skin with a penknife.
Scope & Content:
The first six songs are described as 'Airs,' the others as 'Chansons à boire, à dancer,' etc. 'Philis, quel destin dois-ie suiure.' f. 4. 'Me veux tu voir mourir ' (cf. Add MS 17991, f. 47b, the date of which is about 1620-1621). f. 5b. 'Source des plus aymables charmes.' f. 8. 'Puisque ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (32 folios)

2. Stowe MS 1082

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Stowe MS 1082
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Scope & Content:
TRANSLATIONS of oriental letters, etc., viz.: (a) The Shah of Persia to Charles I.; 1635. From the original in the Public Record Office. f.1;-(b) The Shah of Persia to Charles II.; 1667. With critical remarks by the translator, Thomas Hyde, D.D., Professor of Arabic at Oxford (ob. 1703). f. 2;-(...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1635
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 1083

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Stowe MS 1083
Title:
Composite volume of miscellaneous contents brought together from various volumes in the Stowe Collection, including of: Trials, and Pardons, Deeds, Writs, Council correspondence debating killing, dressing or eating flesh in Lent; Speeches, Execution Declarations, Papers and Verses on the Scottish Rebellion of 1745, Scotch Peer House of Commons rights, Parliamentary Proceedings; observational writings on antiquarian matters; drawings, and engravings of seals, familial Pedigrees and Regencies;...
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1. Vellum leaf of a 13th cent. MS., containing Amos i. 9-13, with commentary (cf. Harley MS. 1700). In the margin is the name of Thomas Burdett, of Purstoun Jacklyne [Purston Jaglin, co. York]; and, with other scribbling of the 16th cent., "The Idol of Winchester Stephen Gardiner [Bis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (135 folios)

4. Stowe MS 1084

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Stowe MS 1084
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Scope & Content:
TRANSCRIPTS Of papal bulls relating to England, 1476-1533, most of the originals being now Stowe Charters 580-600 (see below). According to a note on f. 2, these transcripts were collated by Peter Le Neve, Norroy, in 1717, with the originals then in the possession of James Gibson, Town Clerk of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 1085

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Stowe MS 1085
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DESCRIPTIONS and transcripts, made by or for Thomas Astle, of Anglo-Saxon charters in his own possession or among the Cotton MSS. in the British Museum. The name of John Lewis, as copyist, is inscribed on f. 91 b, with the date Dec. 1766. The volume formerly contained Astle's original charters a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1766
Extent:
1 item