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1571. Stowe MS 950

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Stowe MS 950
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CONFESSIO Amantis, by John Gower. Imperfect, both the beginning and the end being lost, including both passages by which the editions are distinguished. The text begins near the commencement of the 1st book, with the line "He hyde it nought, for yif thou feynest" (Pauli, i. p. 47), and ends in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1572. Stowe MS 951

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Stowe MS 951
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1. HISTORY of the three Kings or Magi, Jaspar, Melchior and Balthasar, with an account of the three translations of their bodies until they were finally deposited at Cologne by Rainald of Dassel, archbishop, in 1164: an abridged English translation of the Historia Trium Regum of John of Hildeshe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1573. Stowe MS 952

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Stowe MS 952
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THE PILGRIMAGE Of the Life of Man: a translation into English octosyllabic verse of the second recension [1355] of Guillaume de Deguileville's Pèlerinage de la vie humaine. The French poem forms the first book of the author's Trois Pèlerinages, the second being the Pèlerinage de l'ame, and the t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 item

1574. Stowe MS 953

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Stowe MS 953
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NARRATIVE POEM in old English verse relating the revelation to St. Methodius of the history of the world from the Creation to the Day of Judgment. Begins:- "Sum tyme was there a man of state That was clepyd Methodius, An holy byshop, a gret prelate, A man nobyll and gracyous." It summarises th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1575. Stowe MS 954

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Stowe MS 954
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SONETTI and Canzoni of Petrarch, entitled "Lamentationes domini Francisci Petrarce de amore domine Laure." Preceded by an index of first lines, and followed in the same hand (f. 150) by the Triomphi, headed "Triumfi vi. Petrarce." The reverse of the last leaf contains a copy of Petrarch's note o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1576. Stowe MS 957

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Stowe MS 957
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DAVID AND ABSALOM: a Latin tragedy, in five acts, written in iambic trimeters and various choric meters. The characters are Joab, Absalom, Ahitopbel, Messenger, David, Abishai, Cushai, Zadok, Abiathar, Watchman, and Ahimaaz. A modern note on the first page attributes it to John Bale, Bishop of O...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

1577. Stowe MS 958

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Stowe MS 958
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COLLECTION Of pieces in verse and prose, mostly of a religious character; temp. Elizabeth. Included are:-(1) Ballad, in 37 fourline stanzas, in praise of Mary Watt, niece of Hugh Latimer and wife of Robert Glover, the martyr, beg. "Mary Wat the nyce in blud To Latemere the great." f. 8, and cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[between 1558-1603]
Extent:
1 item

1578. Stowe MS 959

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Stowe MS 959
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COLLECTION of Welsh Poems by various writers. Imperfect, and mutilated at the beginning. Among the names and headings are:- Bedo Brwynllys. ff. 4 b, 16, 37 b, 60, 198,225. Llywelyn ap Gyttyn. ff. 5, 160, 161, 162 b. Morys Dwyreth. f. 6 b. Davydd Llwyd. ff. 8 b, 25, 107 b, 116 b, 135, 159 b, 160...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Welsh
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 item

1579. Stowe MS 960

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Stowe MS 960
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POEMS by Sir John Beaumont, Bart., [1582-1628], brother of Francis Beaumont the dramatist, and author of "Bosworth Field." This volume contains several of his shorter poems, including two not printed in Grosart's edition, one (f. 8 b) entitled "Of the Assumption of our Blessed Lady," the other (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1580. Stowe MS 963

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Stowe MS 963
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"THE VANITIE and Follie of misplaced Love, a brief Reflection on Women": a collection of poems in one hand, on the subject of women, in different metres; followed by some religious meditations and miscellaneous poems. Some are dated from 1693 to 1698. Paper; ff. 331. Small Octavo. Poetry: "The ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1693-1698
Extent:
1 item