Vassileios Vatatzes, Poem about Voyages , in two parts, entitled Περιήγησις Βασιλείου Βατάτζη; ed. E. Legrand, in Nouveaux Mélanges Orientaux (Paris, 1886), pp. 185-295. Part one ff 3v-24v; part two ff 25-51. The text is preceded by some unedited verses and epigrams, one addressed to the author o...
Account book of payments made by James Nedam, 1542–1543
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ff. 1r–213v: Account book of the payments made by James Nedam, Surveyor General of the Works to King Henry VIII, in the years 1542–1543. It includes payments for the following: ff. 2r–9v: the new office for the King’s Surveyors in the Fish Yard; ff. 10r–49r: the new office for the King’s Surve...
Inventory of paintings and statues belonging to King Charles I, 1639
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Inventory of paintings and statues belonging to King Charles I, 1639. Compiled by Abraham van der Doort, artist and curator (1575x85-1640). Contains details of 40 paintings and 12 statues, originally held in the King’s Chair Room, in the Privy Gallery at Whitehall. With an index of items deliver...
The Middle Dutch Historie van Jason and Dat Scaecspel
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This paper manuscript contains two separately produced parts with Middle Dutch texts. The first part contains De Historie van Jason, the only extant handwritten copy of the Middle Dutch translation of l’Histoire de Jason written in 1460 by Raoul Lefèvre (15th century): an author who is thought t...
Contents: Thomas Norton (c. 1433-1513/14) of Bristol, Ordinal of Alchemy, ''Of Alkimy the Ordinal, the Crede Mihi, the Standard Perpetuall'', chapters 1-5 (lines 1-2682, with lines 2503-2622 lacking). This is the earliest surviving manuscript of the text, composed in 1477, perhaps a copy of th...
This volume contains one of only two surviving manuscripts of The Isle of Ladies, a 15th-century Middle English poem in rhyming couplets. The poem takes the form of a dream vision, in which the dreamer awakens to find himself in a beautiful island inhabited only by women. It also includes a copy...
Collection of poems in English and Scots by Sir Robert Ayton (1570–1638), poet and courtier. Collected by his nephew and executor, Sir John Ayton. f. 1r: Title page, ‘Some fewe English and Scotts amorous Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, late Secretarye to the most Illustrious, Anna and Henrietta Mary...
Commonplace book containing characters, poems and dramatic extracts. Formerly belonging to one Margaret Bellasys. Containing copies and extracts of works by Philip Sidney, John Donne, Edward Radcliffe, Thomas Carew, Ben Jonson, Thomas Randolph, Sir John Harington, Richard Brome, Thomas Middlet...