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4561. Egerton MS 3879

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3879
Title:
Sir Philip Sidney and Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: The Psalms of David translated into English verse; circa 1584-1599. Copy, circa but before 23 April 1632. Psalms 1-43 had been translated in the 1580s by Sidney (d. 1586), possibly in collaboration with his sister Mary (d. 1621), 3rd wife of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, who continued the work up to Psalm 150 by circa 1599. The complete text was first printed in 1823 by Samuel Weller Singer in an edition based on the Penshur...
Scope & Content:
Sir Philip Sidney, soldier, statesman and poet: Psalms: Mary Herbert, neé Sidney, wife of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke: Verse-translation of the Psalms: 1632: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 23 Apr 1632
Extent:
1 item

4562. Egerton MS 3880

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3880
Title:
Richard Symonds (1617-1660), royalist and antiquary: Commonplace-book, circa 1637-1677, with later additions partly by Sir Richard Gipps (d. 1708), circa 1685-1715. Mainly autograph. Partly Latin, Greek and Italian, and engraved. Several distinct stages are apparent in the compilation of this large and varied collection. It was begun, perhaps circa 1637 (cf. watermark), as a commonplace-book of moral and related topics the heads of which were listed in a prefatory ‘Index Capitum’ (ff. 2-3) a...
Scope & Content:
Commonplace Books: Richard Symonds, royalist and antiquary: Sir Richard Gipps, Suffolk antiquary: Entries in commonplace-book formerly bel. to R. Symonds by Sir Richard Gipps: circa 1685-1708: Autograph. Commonplace Books: Richard Symonds, royalist and antiquary: Commonplace-book of Richard Sym...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1632-1715
Extent:
1 item

4563. Egerton MS 3881

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3881
Title:
Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester: Docquet-book as First Commissioner for the Great Seal; 1621; with personal and estate notes; 1611-1640. Partly autograph. The docquets (ff. 1-18) emanate from the period between 1 May and 6 July 1621, when the Great Seal was held in Commission (see f. 1) by Montagu, then Viscount Mandeville and Lord Treasurer, the Duke of Lennox, and the Earls of Pembroke and Arundel. Each docquet or group of docquets is assigned in the left-hand margin to a named clerk...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-18 Sir Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester: James I of England: Docquet-book as First Commissioner for the Great Seal of Sir Henry Montagu: 1621. ff. 19v-32 Sir Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester: James I of England: Personal and estate notes by Sir Henry Montagu: 1611-1640...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1611-1640
Extent:
1 item

4564. Egerton MS 3882

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3882
Title:
Collection of letters to Hermann Peschmann from Dylan Thomas and other British poets
Scope & Content:
Egerton MS 3882. Purchased from Mrs P A Smith, Hermitage Farm, Ventnor, Isle of Wight.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
1 item

4565. Egerton MS 3883

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3883
Title:
Book of Hours with verses by John Lydgate and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar, with 16th-century additions, including the feasts of St Thomas of Canterbury, which had previously been erased; ff, 13r-19v: Odes of St Bridget with the rubric, 'Oratio devota ad Christum'; f. 19v: A note on the age of the Virgin Mary at the time of her death (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex, 179 folios

4566. Egerton MS 3884

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3884
Title:
Melford Hall Manuscript: Poems by John Donne with others by Francis Beaumont, Thomas Carew, Richard Corbet, Thomas Overbury, John Roe, Henry Killigrew, and Thomas Weelkes
Scope & Content:
Known as the ‘Melford Hall Manuscript’ this volume contains 145 poems by John Donne, poet and Church of England clergyman (1572 – 1631), with others by Francis Beaumont, Thomas Carew, Richard Corbet, Thomas Overbury, John Roe, Henry Killigrew, Thomas Weelkes and several unattributed works copied...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1620-1759
Extent:
1 volume

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