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1. Lansdowne MS 383

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 383
Title:
Psalter ('The Shaftesbury Psalter') with calendar and prayers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: former pastedown from a 13th century text. ff. 2r-179v: Psalter, preceded by a calendar, Easter table, and cycle of full-page miniatures, and followed by Canticles, a Litany, Collects, and various longer prayers. Decoration: 8 full-page miniatures in colours and gold (f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. 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.

3. Lansdowne MS 355, f 23r

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 355, f 23r
Title:
Scope & Content:
Fragment of text.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1652-1701
Extent:

1 folio

4. 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.

5. Lansdowne MS 763, ff 89

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 763, ff 89
Title:
13. "Declaracio trianguli superius positi et figure de tribus primis figuris quadratis et earum speciebus ac etiam scuti, per Magistrum Johannem Torkesey." Inc. "Ad habendam perfectam noticiam." fo. 89.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Lansdowne MS 763, ff 53

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 763, ff 53
Title:
4. A resolution of tones and semitones, set to musick. fo. 53.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Lansdowne MS 763, ff 67v

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 763, ff 67v
Title:
9. "Octo tonorum tractatus metricus." Inc. "Primus est tonus re la, re fay quoque secundus." fo. 67 b.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Lansdowne MS 763, ff 54r

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 763, ff 54r
Title:
5. "Anti ona, per quam ascendit a Gamma usque ad Delasol." fo. 54.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Lansdowne MS 355, f 22r

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 355, f 22r
Title:
Scope & Content:
Paesius, Patriarch of Constantinople, Diploma, 1652. Signed by Paesius and other bishops.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1652
Extent:
1 folio

10. Lansdowne MS 763, ff 1-48

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 763, ff 1-48
Title:
1. "Hunc librum vocitatum Musica Guidonis scripsit Dominus Johannes Wylde quondam exempti monasterii Sancte Crucis de Waltham precentor. Quem quidem librum ut [aut?] hunc titulum qui maliciose abstulerit vel deleverit Anathema sit." fo. 1*.
Scope & Content:
This work is also intitled "Monacordum," and divided into two parts; the first being called by the author "Musica Manualis," and the second "Tonale." The whole has been accurately analysed and commented on in the valuable Histories of Musick composed by Sir John Hawkins (vol. ii. p. 202), and Dr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item