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1711. Stowe MS 977

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Stowe MS 977
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"THE SEIGE of Londonderry": a prose drama, by Colonel John Michelburne, one of the governors of the town during the siege, and author of a history of it. With a dedicatory letter, apparently addressed to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in which the author styles his work an "unhewne peice" and a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

1712. Stowe MS 978

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Stowe MS 978
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"LITIGATION, a Comedy in 5 Acts" according to a note by Dr. Charles O'Conor on the title-page, written by his cousin Hugh McDermot, of Coolavin and Moylurg, co. Sligo, Ireland, and offered at Drury Lane Theatre. Dated 14 Apr. 1812. Paper; ff. 38. Folio. Hugh McDermot: "Litigation": a comedy: 18...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Apr 1812
Extent:
1 item

1713. Stowe MS 979

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Stowe MS 979
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"ELIS SAGA": the romance of Élie de Saint-Gille, in Icelandic. Transcribed by Grim Jonsonn Thorkelin from MS. 533, quarto, of the Arna-Magnæan Library at Copenhagen, which was used by E. Kölbing in his edition of Elis Saga og Rosamundu (Heilbronn, 1881): see his introd., pp. viii. x.-xiii. Paper...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Icelandic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

1714. Stowe MS 980

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Stowe MS 980
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"SAGA af Partalopa ok Marmoriu": the romance of Partonopeus de Blois, in Icelandic. Transcribed by Grim Jonsson Thorkelin, from Arna-Magnæan MS. 533, quarto (see above), which was edited by O.Klockhoff in the Upsala Universitets Årsskrift for 1877. Another copy is in Add. MS. 4860 (ff. 189-208),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Icelandic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

1715. Stowe MS 981

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Stowe MS 981
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"SUMMA que vocatur Catholicon, edicta (sic) a fratre Johanne de Janua, ordinis fratrum predicatorum": a glossary of the Latin language by Giovanni de' Balbi, of Genoa, beg. "Prosodia quedam pars grammatice nuncupatur." Under the word 'janua' the author gives his own name as Johannes Januensis de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item

1716. Stowe MS 981-1015

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Stowe MS 981-1015
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CLASS XXII. PROSE WORKS, PHILOLOGICAL, MORAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, ETC, WITH LITERARY COLLECTIONS AND COMMONPLACES.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
14th century-19th century
Extent:
35 items

1717. Stowe MS 982

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Stowe MS 982
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COLLECTIONS of miscellaneous tracts, as follows:- 1. The Boke of Kervynge; without title and beg. "Thow shall be pantere or butler." Printed by Wynken de Worde in 1513, re-edited by F. J. Furnivall for the Early English Text Society, 1868, vol. xxxii. p. 261. After the colophon (f. 7 b), "Thus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1718. Stowe MS 983

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Stowe MS 983
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MORAL TREATISE and texts from Scripture, addressed to [Sir] Allen Cotton, alderman and Lord Mayor of London [1625], by his son-in-law Thomas E[yre]. A note at the end states that it was "begonne and intended for a Newe Yeares guifte on Newe Yeares Day in the Yeare of our Lord Christ 1625, of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1625
Extent:
1 item

1719. Stowe MS 984

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Stowe MS 984
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"BISHOP Bedle [?William Bedell, Bishop of Kilmore, 1629-42, and Ardagh, 1629-33] his groundes for the lawfullnesse of usury." The tract is not included in the lists of Bedell's works given by his biographers. Paper; ff. 47. XVIIth cent. Belonged, 18th cent., to John Keymer. Duodecimo. Usury: Tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1720. Stowe MS 985

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Stowe MS 985
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"COLLECTANEA quædam Anglo-Saxonica e codicibus manuscriptis hinc inde congesta," by William Elstob, M.A. (ob. 1715), and Elizabeth Elstob, his sister. The extracts are mostly taken from manuscripts formerly belonging to Francis Junius, and by him bequeathed to the Bodleian Library. They were pro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1712
Extent:
1 item

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