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1. Add MS 43703

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Title:
Laurence Nowell, Transcripts of Old English texts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Old
Date Range:
1562
Extent:

Paper codex

2. Add MS 43703-43710

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Title:
NOWELL TRANSCRIPTS
Scope & Content:
Transcripts of Old English and other material made for the most part by Laurence Nowell, Dean of Lichfield (d. 1576); 1562-1566 and n.d. Nowell's transcripts appear to have been given by him before his death to William Lambarde (d. 1601), the Kentish antiquary, and at least five of the volumes i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1562-1566
Extent:
8 items

3. Add MS 43704

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NOWELL TRANSCRIPTS. Vol. II (ff. iv+ 110). Transcripts, etc., by Nowell as follows, viz.:-(1) Transcript of the Peterborough Chronicle from Bodleian MS. Laud Mise. 636 (MS. E of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle), made in 1565 (see Nowell's inscription, f. 2), possibly while the original MS. was in the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1565
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 43705

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NOWELL TRANSCRIPTS. Vol. III (ff. iv+ 102). Extracts by Nowell made in 1566 'Ex Mariano Scoto' (see the inscription f. 3), i.e. from a MS. of the Marianus Scotus-Florence of Worcester Chronicle, stated by Lambarde (see his inscriptions, ff. 2b, 3) to have been in the possession of the administra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1566
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 43706

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NOWELL Transcripts. Vol. IV (ff. iii+ 64). Topography and Itinerary of Wales by Giraldus Cambrensis, transcribed by Nowell in 1562, see the inscription, f. 2. The Topography (ff. 3-15) is taken from a MS. of the first edition closely resembling Cotton MSS. Nero D. viii, ff. 176-183, and Vitelli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1562
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 43707

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NOWELL TRANSCRIPTS. Vol. V (ff. iv+61). Extracts, etc., by Nowell, made in 1566 (see the inscription, f. 1), all apparently from a MS. then in the possession of William Bowyer (see the memorandum by William Lambarde on f. 49). The latter MS. was also the source of excerpts and transcripts by Now...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1566
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 43708

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NOWELL TRANSCRIPTS. Vol. VI (ff. ii+ 96). Historical Commonplace-Book of Nowell, apparently intended originally for notes on French words and phrases (ff. 2-96 passim) but afterwards used entirely for historical memoranda in Latin, arranged annalistically, A.D. 466-A.D. 1336, and incorrectly ent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1]562
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 43709

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NOWELL TRANSCRIPTS. Vol. VII (ff. iii+ 24). Transcripts, in an unidentified hand, of charters of the Royal Hospital of St Katharine-by-the- Tower, now the Royal Foundation of St Katharine, in Ratcliffe, London. Latin, with descriptive captions at the head of each charter in English. The transcri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1564?
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 43710

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NOWELL TRANSCRIPTS. Vol. VIII (ff. iii+ 50). 'The Peregrinatio(n) of Androe Boorde, Doctor in Phisicque, called of many, Doctor perforatus, i.(e). boared.' Transcribed for the most part in the hand of an unidentified copyist, but with some passages in the hand of William Lambarde (ff. 12, 15b, 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1545-1550
Extent:
1 item