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331. Add MS 25582

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OFFICIAL copies of minutes of proceedings of the Court of Directors of the South Sea Company with respect to reservations, from 23 Aug. 1722 to 19 Dec. 1723. Paper. Large Folio.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Aug 1722-19 Dec 1723
Extent:
1 item

332. Add MS 25707

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Verse compilation ('The Skipwith MS')
Scope & Content:
Composite volume containing papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire. Includes verse and prose by John Donne; Henry King; Thomas Carew; Sir Walter Ralegh; William Skipwith; Sir Henry Skipwith; Ben Jonson; William Strode; Sir John Beaumont; Sir Henry Goodyer; George Morley; Willia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1620-1650
Extent:
1 volume

333. Add MS 25718

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-88v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, fragmentary, including portions of ten of the Tales, arranged as follows: ff. 1r-24v: The Knight's Tale, comprising A, ll. 1394-1524, 1584-1706, 1829-1950 and 2011-3108. ff. 24v-30v: The Miller's Prologue and Tale, comprising A,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

334. Add MS 26116

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Title:
Job
Scope & Content:
This volume contains fragments from the Book of Job 1:8-5:18; 6:26-28:21. At least one first bifolio is missing but the continuation of the manuscript is found in Sinai Ar. 1, which besides Job contains Daniel, Bel and the Dragon, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Ezekiel. For extracts, see Cureton a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. 15

335. Add MS 26769

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Title:
Genealogical chronicle of the kings of France to Charles VII
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A genealogical chronicle of the kings of France known as ‘A tous nobles’. The chronicle consists of: Membranes 1-7: A central diagram with roundels in brown containing the names of kings joined by a line of descent in red. Roundels concerning the deeds of rulers (founding of religious orders or...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 roll

336. Add MS 26787

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John Skelton, Speculum principis
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ff. 1r–30v: Imperfect moral treatise in Latin by John Skelton, poet laureate, and dated Eltham, 28 August 1501. It was revised for presentation to King Henry VIII between June 1509 and May 1512. It is probably the manuscript entitled 'Methodus Skeltonidis laureati' that was once in the library o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1509-1512
Extent:
1 volume

337. Add MS 27429

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Title:
Le Sette Savi di Roma (The Seven Sages of Rome)
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Le Sette Savi di Roma (The Seven Sages of Rome), consisting of a frame tale, introducing and providing the background to 14 short moral tales told to the 'Emperor of Rome' by the Seven Sages and the Empress, arranged as follows: f. 1r: Blank paper flyleaf with a paste-down containing a descript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

338. Add MS 27539

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Title:
Universal chronicle, including a genealogical chronicle of the kings of France
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Contents: A universal chronicle, including genealogical chronicle of the kings of France up to King Louis XI. Each column of text is accompanied by a genealogical diagram. Begins imperfectly, as the upper part of the first membrane is lacking, incipit ‘... de tous biens … ne doleur ne fain.’ ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 roll

339. Add MS 27932

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A collection of arias, songs, hymns, airs, and other melodies
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passim. Arias, etc., with a figured bass for harpsichord (except where the contrary is stated), in score; first half of 18th cent., etc. 1. 'A soldier and a sailor' [from 'Love for love,' by John Eccles, 1695]. f. 3b. 2-4. Three arias, the first with an additional violin part, from 'Rinaldo,' by...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

340. Add MS 28617

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a fragmentary copy of The Legend of Good Women, written by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The Middle English poem takes the form of a dream vision and tells the stories of ten women from Classical history and mythology. Other copies of the po...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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