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21. Lansdowne MS 383, ff 1r-1v

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 383, ff 1r-1v
Title:
Former pastedown
Scope & Content:
This folio is a former pastedown from the binding, containing a fragment of a metrical translation of the work of Henry of Saltrey, St Patrick's Purgatory, in French, from the 13th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 folio.

22. Lansdowne MS 383, ff. 2r-179v

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 383, ff. 2r-179v
Title:
Psalter ('The Shaftesbury Psalter') with calendar and prayers
Scope & Content:
Contents include: f. 2r: Ownership inscriptions. ff. 2v-8v: Calendar, with illuminated roundels of the signs of the zodiac and labours of the month. ff. 9r: Table for calculating the celebration of Easter within a nineteen-year cycle, said to have been communicated by an angel to St Pachomius...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
178 folios.

23. Lansdowne MS 431

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 431
Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Contents: A psalter with a calendar; ends imperfectly and is lacking Psalm 101 (there is a stub between ff. 75 and 76). Decoration: 12 large 'KL' initials in the calendar in gold with penwork decoration in green, blue, and red, with the occupations of the months and zodiac symbols in colou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

24. Lansdowne MS 456

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 456
Title:
Genealogical chronicle of English kings to Edward IV
Scope & Content:
The text is written on one side of the parchment, in three vertical columns with the central column being double the width of the two flanking columns, so that they could be folded inwards. The parchment was then folded lengthwise, concertina-style, rather than rolled, to form a winged roll-code...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1461-1466
Extent:

1 volume

25. Lansdowne MS 683

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 683
Title:
Political register compiled in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Political register, containing notes, lists, tables and records concerning political and military matters during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Possibly compiled by, or for the use of, a minister of state. ff. 1r-3r Table of contents. Titled ‘A table of the matters contayned in this booke’. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1558-1603
Extent:

1 volume

26. Lansdowne MS 699

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 699
Title:
Collection of poems by John Lydgate and Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r-v: John Lydgate, 'Life of St Giles', written in Middle English verse, imperfect comprising only the final six stanzas; the text beginning, '…Bi a spiryt oonly of prophecie...' (DIMEV 4129). ff. 3r-18r: John Lydgate, Fabula duorum mercatorum, written in Middle English verse, be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

27. Lansdowne MS 740

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 740
Title:
Miscellany of historical extracts and poetry
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–173r: A miscellany which includes extracts relating to Roman history, and poems made during the reign of King James VI and I, including several pieces by John Donne, Sir Thomas Overbury, and others. ff. 1r–6r: Extracts relating to Roman history, from Greek historians and poets. Imperfec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

28. Lansdowne MS 757

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 757
Title:
The Lancelot-Grail Cycle
Scope & Content:
Contents: Part of the prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle, containing the the early portion of the Lancelot-propre or Lancelot du Lac, which relates the courtly exploits of Lancelot. It corresponds to most of the first section of Additional MS 10293: ff. 1-129 (vol. III, pp. 122-430 of Sommer's edition...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

29. Lansdowne MS 762

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 762
Title:
Tudor commonplace book
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–99v: Tudor commonplace book, which was probably compiled during the reign of King Henry VIII, perhaps in the 1520s or 1530s. Its author would appear to be a Londoner, interested in civic affairs, religion and prophecies. f. 1r: Pen trials. f. 2r: Copy on parchment of the testament of Jo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1509-1564
Extent:

1 volume

30. Lansdowne MS 763

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 763
Title:
A Volume fairly written on vellum in the fifteenth century, and containing ancient and very interesting treatises on musick by different authors.
Scope & Content:
4to.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
20 items