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1. Add MS 7138

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The Plegmund Narrative or Crediton Claim (with letters from Sir Walter Trevelyan and Henry Petrie)
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Statement of Crediton’s claim to certain estates in Cornwall, giving an account of the purported creation of new bishops and their consecration in 905 (Winchester, Ramsbury, Sherborne, Wells, Crediton, Selsey and Dorchester), and statement of the assignment to Crediton, on that occasion, of land...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century
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Parchment leaf bound with paper correspondence

2. Add MS 8166

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GILBERT CRISPIN: collection of works primarily of Gilbert Crispin, Abbot of Westminster (d. 1118); mid-late 12th cent. Latin. Origin: England. See Cat. Romances, ii, pp. 352-354; G. R. Evans, 'Gilbert Crispin, Abbot of Westminster: the forming of a monastic scholar', Studia Monastica, xxii (1980), pp. 63-81. Marginals in main hand of text: one marginal in a contemporary cursive (f. 4). Owned probably by Joseph Ames, antiquary (d. 1759), see signature f. 42v. Ames may have written the inscrip...
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Theology LATIN: Gilbert Crispin, abbot of Westminster: Works of Gilbert Crispin: 12th cent: Lat. includes: f. 3 Logic: Table of syllogistic forms: 12th cent: Lat. f. 3v Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Decorated initial: 12th cent. ff. 3-3v Dictionaries: Interpretation of names: 12th c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century-Late 12th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8167

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DICTAMINAL TREATISES: collection of dictaminal treatises, etc., formerly belonging to Westminster Abbey; early-mid 13th cent. Latin. Origin: England. See M. Camargo, 'The English manuscripts of Bernard of Meung's Flores Dictaminum', Viator, xii (1981), pp. 197-219. Acquired for Westminster Abbey by William de Hasele, who died as sub-prior before May 1283: see ex libris, f. 2, and H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles, 'Early Coronation Records', BIHR, xiii (1935), p. 135. Hasele probably acquire...
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Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Penwork initials: early 13th cent. Formularies: Collection of Dictaminal treatises, etc.,: 13th cent: Lat. includes: f. 2 Richard de Crokesle, abbot of Westminster: Record of death: 1258: Lat. f. 2 Jo- Bulkley: Signature: late 16th-early 17th cent. f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 13th century-Mid 13th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 21905

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PAPERS relating to the transcription of the Monumenta Britannica, comprising copies of letters, tables of the contents of some of the volumes, and original letters from 1. W[illiam] Howley, Bishop of London; 30 Mar. 1825, f. 7. 2. [Christian Charles Josias] Chevalier de Bunsen [Prussian Chargé d'Affaires at Rome], to W. R. Hamilton; 7 May, 1825-18 June, 1826, ff. 8, 10, 14, 16, 20, 24. 3. Henry Petrie, Keeper of the Records at the Tower, to the same; 27 Feb. 1826, 25 June and 17 July, 18...
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Monumenta Britannica: Preface and papers relating to the transcription of: 19th cent. includes: f. 7 William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury: Letter to -: 1825. ff. 8, 10, 14, 16, 18, 20, 24, 27, 28 William Richard Hamilton, antiquary and diplomatist: Letters to, from the Chev. de Bunsen and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 28872

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1. Copy by Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Bart., of the charter of Æthelstane to the church of Exeter, presented by him to the British Museum [now Add. Ch. 19,516]; with notes, f. 1. 2. Letters relating to the same instrument from - Henry Petrie, Keeper of Records in the Tower; 18 Aug. s.a., f. 5-Sir John Edward Swinburne, 6th Bart.; Capheaton, 14 Feb. 1816, f. 6 - and Christopher Knight Watson, Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries; London, 9 March, 1872, f. 7. 3. Letters relating to...
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Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, 6th Baronet; naturalist: Copy of a charter of Æthelstan (Add. Ch. 19,516), with notes, etc.: 19th cent. Monkton, Devon: Grant of, by Æthelstan, to Exeter Abbey, and correspondence relating thereto.: in 938. Exeter; Benedictine Abbey, and Cathedral: Charter of Æt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 34567

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Vol. I. (ff. 475). 1729-1814. Reverend Philip Bliss, DD; Registrar of Oxford University: Bookplates: 19th cent. Bookplates: Bliss (Rev. Philip): 19th cent. includes: f. 1 Paul Batcheller: Letter to his father: 1729. ff. 3, 5, 13, 370, 428, 430, 434 Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Baronet: Le...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1729-1814
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 34568

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Vol. II. (ff. 573). 1815-1823. George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer: Letters to Rev. P. Bliss: 1812-1833. Reverend Philip Bliss, DD; Registrar of Oxford University: Bookplates: 19th cent. Bookplates: Bliss (Rev. Philip): 19th cent. includes: f. 2 George Murray, Bishop of Sodor and Man and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1815-1823
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 34570

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Vol. IV. (ff. 522). 1828-1831. includes: ff. 1, 442 Thomas Thomson: Letters to Rev. P. Bliss: 1820-1832. f. 3 Edward Wedlake Brayley: Letters to Rev.P. Bliss: 1818-1828. f. 5 Reverend Alexander Akehurst: Letters to Rev. P. Bliss: 1809-1828. ff. 7, 11, 21, 56, 60, 67, 144, 195, 304, 331, 348, 3...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1831
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 34571

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Vol. V. (ff. 537). 1832-1835. includes: f. 1 William Buckland, geologist: Letters to Rev. P. Bliss: 1827-1849, n.d. f. 2 Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet; Second Secretary to the Admiralty: Letter to Rev. P. Bliss: 1832. f. 3 Thomas Thorpe, bookseller: Letters to Rev. P. Bliss: 1832-1844. f. 5 Jos...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1832-1835
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 34581

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Vol. XV. (ff. 622). Undated. includes: f. 1 John Adams, Junior: Letter to Rev. P. Bliss: n.d. f. 3 Louisa Anstruther, (?) wife of Colonel R Anstruther: Letter to Rev. P. Bliss: n.d. f. 5 Kerchever William Arnold: Letter to Rev. P. Bliss: n.d. f. 7 Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham: Le...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1806-1857
Extent:
1 item