Collection of texts relating to the Franciscan Order, including Stationes ecclesiarum urbis Rome (2v–9r); The rewle and the lif of the brethern minoris (Regula et uita fratrum minorum) (10r–24v); The testament of owre holy fadre seynt Ffrancis (Francis of Assisi, Testamentum) (24v–32r); Pope Clement V (1305–1314), articles for the Franciscan Order (42r–43r); statutes of the chapter of Bercynode (44v–50v); The nine perfections (51r–56r); The absey of seynt Bonaventure or the lyffe of a religio...
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin (1v–9r, 32v–33v, 71v–73v, 80v–83v); Middle English (10r–71r, 74v–80r)
A Large Treatise of Prohibitions with the Arguments pro & contra betweene the Lord Archbishopp of Canterburie [George Abbot, d. 1633] & Sr Edward Cooke [Sir Edward Coke, d. 1634] (Lord Cheife Justice of the Court of Comon Pleas) and the rest of the Judges Ecclesiasticall & Temporall concerning Prohibitions Modus Decimandi &c
Heraldic papers of William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms (d. 1623), incorporating numerous original documents, among them the grant of arms to Sir Walter Mildmay (d. 1589), 20 May 1552 (ff. 15–16), and A brief rehersall of the causes of the present disorder in the Office of Armes, and how the same may be remedyed (269r–271v)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): English, Latin, Anglo-Norman French
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Genealogical papers, including excerpts relating to the foundation of Pipewell Abbey (216r–220v); lists of the gentry of Kent, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Gloucestershire and Lancashire, temp. Henry VII (1485–1509) (222r–226v); an alphabetical list of arms granted temp. Elizabeth I (1558–1603) (232r–245r); the coats of arms of Sigismund Báthory, prince of Transylvania (d. 1613) (246r), and an unidentified family (247r) (printed papers); and a treatise on the office of heraldry (250r–257r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 17th century