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1. Add MS 34581

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Vol. XV. (ff. 622). Undated. includes: f. 1 John Adams, Junior: Letter to Rev. P. Bliss: n.d. f. 3 Louisa Anstruther, (?) wife of Colonel R Anstruther: Letter to Rev. P. Bliss: n.d. f. 5 Kerchever William Arnold: Letter to Rev. P. Bliss: n.d. f. 7 Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham: Le...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1806-1857
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1 item

2. Add MS 37967

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Vol. III. includes: f. 2 John Dickinson; and Co., paper dealers: J. Martin's accompt: 1833. f. 4 Henry Adlard: J. Martin's accompt with: 1833-4. f. 5 Archibald Leighton, bookbinder: Letter to J. Martin: 1834. f. 6 Cotton: Letter to J. Martin: 1834. f.7 James Henry Nixon: Accompt with J. Martin...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
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Unspecified
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1 item

3. Add MS 39810

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PSALTER, etc., in Latin, known as the Psalter of the St. Omer family. Contents:- (1) Calendar. f. 1 ;- (2) Psalter, Gallican version. f. 7 ;- (3) Canticles. " Audite, celi " wants Deut. xxxii, 25-38, through loss of one leaf after f. 162, and " Quicumque vult " is imperfect through loss of a leaf after f. 166. f. 156 ;- (4) Litany. f. 167. The Calendar (15th cent., in blue, red, and black) is of Sarum use. Entries include St. Anne (26 July), SS. David. Chad (1, 2 March), and Winifred (3 Nov....
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Henry Yates Thompson, manuscript collector: Bookplates. St. Omer family; of Mulbarton, Norfolk: Psalter begun for member of: circ. 1325; completed 15th cent. Liturgies LATIN: Psalter of the St. Omer family of Mulbarton, co. Norf.: circ. 1325, and 15th cent. Nicolas Denis Derome le jeune: Bind...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th and Early 15th century
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1 item

4. Add MS 40075

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HISTORIA Hierosolymitana abbreviata: the historical and topographical work of Jacques de Vitry (Bishop of Acre 1216, Cardinal 1228, d. 1244). In two books and a prologue, lacking the doubtful third book. The prologue, headed "Incipit prologus magistri Iacobi Acconensis episcopi in hysloria Iheroiosolimitana," begins "Postquam diuine propitiationie munificentia," and is followed by a list of chapters (100) of Bk. I. Bk. I, headed "Incipit hystoria Iherosolimitana abbreuiata a magisntro Iacobo...
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Jacques de Vitry: Historia Hierosolymitana: 13th cent. Palestine: J. de Vitry, Historia Hierosolymitana: 13th cent. Bookplates: Hurt (Charles), junior: 1819. Bookplates: Brooke (Sir Thomas), Bart.; F.S.A.: 19th cent. Bindings FRENCH: Brown calf, blind- and gilt-tooled, by Larriviere: 19th ce...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13th century
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1 item

5. Add MS 45557

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MORALISING WORKS, in Latin, viz.:- (1) Disticha Catonis. Book I (without prologue) and four lines of Book II, including the line 'humanos si forte velis depellere morbos', for which see Marcus Boas, Disticha Catonis, Amsterdam, 1952, pp. 91-92. The text appears to belong to the Traditio Vulgata recentior of Boas (op. cit., pp. lx-lxii), and resembles that of MS. V in his apparatus. Interlinear glosses in Latin and English. ff. 2-4. (2) Gesta Romanorum. Forty-three chapters from the branc...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Limp vellum: 15th cent. includes: f. iv Bookplates and Book-stamps: Ashburnham Appendix CCXLVI: affixed 1897.ff. 2-4 Dionysius Cato: Disticha Catonis: 15th cent.: Lat.: Imperf.ff. 5-80b Romances: Gesta Romanorum: 15th cent.: Lat.ff. 81-84b Sermons: On Job xvii. 1, and...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half 15th century
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1 item

6. Add MS 70848

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MCCRIMMON COLLECTION. Vol. X (ff. 122). Correspondence of Directors and Principal Librarians; 1849-1939, n.d. English and Latin. Contents: 1. ff. 1-88. John Winter Jones, Keeper of Printed Books 1856-1866, Principal Librarian 1866-1878; 1849-1878, n.d. A few of the letters are addressed to J...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1849-1939
Extent:
1 item

7. Egerton MS 3050

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Egerton MS 3050
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'L'HISTOIRE DES TROIS MARIES': a French poem in octosyllabic rhyming couplets, composed and finished in 1357 (see below) by Jehan de Venette, Provincial of the Carmelites in France. For an analysis of the poem see J. Bonnard, Les traductions de la Bible en versfrancais, 1884, pp. 196-206, who gives extracts from three MSS. in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris, fonds francais 1531, 1532 and 12468). The poem tells the story of St Anne and her three daughters, St Mary the Virgin, St Mary Salome...
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Jehan de Venette, Provincial of the Carmelites in France 1341-1366: 'L'Histoire des trois Maries': 15th cent.: Fr. Bindings NETHERLANDISH: Crimson velvet with silver gilt knobs and plaques of B.V.Mary, etc.: 17th cent. includes: f. 1 * Art. Engravings, etc: German woodcut: late 15th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1357
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 1062

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Stowe MS 1062
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"LEXICON Diplomaticum Graecum: or an Interpretation of abbreviations in Greek manuscripts, compiled by John Caravalla, a native of Greece, from original manuscripts, for the use of Doctor Mead" [Richard Mead, M.D., 1673-1754]. Paper; ff. 51. XVIIIth cent. Presented to Tho. Astle by Edwin [Sandys...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item