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1. 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

2. Lansdowne MS 331

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 331
Title:
Physician's almanac
Scope & Content:
Contents: Almanac, comprising a calendar (ff. 3r-18v), tables for the calculation of eclipses and of the moon's influence (f. 19r) and a list of the signs of the zodiac (f. 20v). Decoration: Large 'KL' letters in blue with red penwork decoration. Small initials in red or blue. Tables in bro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1463
Extent:

A parchment codex, formerly a folded parchment

3. 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

4. Lansdowne MS 782

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 782
Title:
Chanson d'Aspremont
Scope & Content:
Contents: Chanson d'Aspremont, part of the second of three chansons de geste of the Charlemagne cycle from the late 12th century, narrating Charlemagne's early expedition across the Alps to Aspremont in Italy to retake land in Calabria from the Saracen king, Agolant. The text here is imperfect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:
c1240 - c1250
Extent:

1 volume

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Lansdowne MS 335

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 335
Title:
John Foxe's account of Wycliffe and his followers
Scope & Content:
ff. 2v–119v: Autograph account in Latin of John Wycliffe and his followers by the martyrologist John Foxe. Prefixed is a dedication to some unnamed person whom he calls his friend and patron, perhaps either the young Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, or William Cecil. Apart from the dedication...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1563
Extent:
1 volume

9. Lansdowne MS 127

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 127
Title:
Copy of Edmund Dudley's accounts
Scope & Content:
A 17th-century copy of Edmund Dudley's account book; the original is lost. Dudley began writing it on 23 January 1505, recording fines and duties he received for the use of Henry VII, from 9 September 1504 (when he entered Henry's service) to 28 May 1508. It includes an index, and each page is i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Lansdowne MS 355

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 355
Title:
Miscellaneous letters of Greek patriarchs, metropolitans, etc., together with letters to John Covel, D.D. and his copies and drafts
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous letters of Greek patriarchs, metropolitans, etc., together with letters to John Covel, D.D. and his copies and drafts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern and Latin
Date Range:
1652-1701
Extent:

1 volume