This manuscript is a 16th-century rutter or pilot-book known as the Roteiro do Mar Roxo (Rutter of the Red Sea). It was made by the Portuguese nobleman João de Castro (b. 1500, d. 1548) during his 1541 expedition to Suez under Estêvão da Gama (b. c. 1505, d. 1576), governor of Portuguese India. ...
Privileges of English merchants, temp. Edward III (1327–1377) to temp. Elizabeth I (1558–1603), including a map of the city of Hamburg and the river Elbe (63r)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Flemish, Anglo-Norman French, Flemish, English, French
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Flemish, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 17th century
John Tynemouth, Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae
Scope & Content:
This is the only surviving copy of John Tynemouth’s Sanctilogium, a collection of lives of British saints arranged in calendrical order from January. It is currently bound in two volumes. The lives are frequently accompanied by short prayers to the saints and occasionally by genealogies in the...