Chirograph of an arbitration between Lady Katherine and John Latimer
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Chirograph of an arbitration by Thomas of Hamstead, John Warduton, John Wakelin, parson of Cotsbrook, and John of Wardford, chaplain, granting to Lady Katherine in her dispute with John Latimer that she may have the rooms from the chapel to the great hall in Braybrooke Castle (Northamptonshire) ...
Grant by Margaret Taylour, widow, to William Saundre, Robert Bristow, John Baker, Nicholas Lathell and John Wyborn, of a shop and a messuage
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Grant by Margaret Taylour, widow, to William Saundre, Robert Bristow, John Baker, Nicholas Lathell and John Wyborn, of a shop with a solarium above, and an attached messuage and garden, which John Taylour once held, in the parish of Charlwood, Surrey; given at Charlwood, 9 January 1460. Endorse...
Grant by Cecilia Minchun to her granddaughters Margery and Clarice, of land in Redmarley
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Grant by Cecilia Minchun of Redmarley, widow, to Margery and Clarice, daughters of Helie, daughter of Cecilia, of two acres of land in the Broadfield (lato campo) of Radmarley (Gloucestershire), in return for a payment of half a mark of silver. Endorsed: in a 16th-century hand, ‘Rydmaleye’. Af...
Grant by Margaret de Sapy, widow of Thomas de Sapy, to John Tailor of Inardston
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Grant by Margaret de Sapy, widow of Thomas de Sapy, to John Tailor [Parmonter] of Inardston within the manor of Redmarley d’Abitot [Worcestershire], of a messuage with a croft in Inardston; given at Inardston, Wednesday after the feast of St Luke the Evangelist [24 October] 1380. Endorsed: in a...
Medical treatises in Middle English by Hunain Ibn Ishak, Al-'Ibadi, William of Saliceto, John Arderne and others
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A collection of medical treatises: ff. 1r-9r: Hunain Ibn Ishak, Al-'Ibadi: Isagoge in parvam artem Galeni, in Latin and English; Claudius Galenus: Ars, parva cum isagoge Johannitii. ff. 10r-13v: A treatise on medicines and physick, including 'A table of knowledge of symple medecines'; 'Example...
This manuscript contains a presentation copy of De Ornatu Mulierum (On Women's Clothing), a Latin prose treatise by Nicolosa Sanuti (d. 1505). Sanuti was a wealthy Bolognese noblewoman and the wife of Nicolo Sanuti (b. 1407. d. 1482), Count of the Porretta. Her treatise first appeared in 1453 an...
Contents: f. [ii] recto: Added notes relating to Anne Felbrigge, the Felbrigge family, and their arms, written by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum. f. 1r: A number of former shelfmarks lined through, and an added paper label, featuring an 18...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Aldobrandino of Siena, Le Régime du corps; Le livre Ypocrae; medical charms and recipes
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This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of Le Régime du corps, a handbook for health composed by Aldobrandino of Siena (d. 1296/1299), an Italian physician. Three other copies of Le Régime du corps also contain roughly 140 historiated initials with comparable subject matter: Cambridge, Uni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Collection of medical texts, including treatises on anatomy, surgery and gynaecology
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Contents: ff. 2r-52v: A treatise on anatomy with a prologue beginning, 'Galyene that was lanterne of ffysiciens and of srgens seyth in the sevententhe book de utilitate p[ar]ticulari.'. ff. 51v-151v: 'The book of operations' (see colophon on f. 151v), a book on surgery and other treatments, p...
Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love (Long Text)
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This manuscript contains the Long Text of the Revelations of Divine Love written by Julian of Norwich (b. 1342, d. after 1416). There are two distinct versions of Julian's account of and reflections on a sequence of visions of the Crucified Christ that she experienced as she was lying on her si...