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Name Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, 6th son of George III, 1773-1843

1. Add MS 15268

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Title:
Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César
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Contents: The Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César is a universal chronicle covering the period from Creation to the rise of Julius Caesar. It was compiled early in the 13th century. This manuscript, with the alternative title Li Livre des Ansienes Estoires, contains the first redaction of the text...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 314 folios.

2. Add MS 15277

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Title:
Old Testament Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy and Joshua (the 'Paduan Bible Picture Book')
Scope & Content:
Contents: A cycle of miniatures illustrating the Old Testament, from Exodus I:11 to the end of the Book of Joshua, with short captions in Italian. All pages are fully illuminated, with the exception of 12 text pages (ff. 19v, 20r, 24v-30r, 56v-57v), one half text page (f. 24r) and blank folios...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:

A parchment codex, 80 folios

3. Add MS 15281

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Title:
Prayer book of Sigismund I of Poland
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a collection of prayers known as the Prayerbook of Sigismund I of Poland, composed of two separate parts: ff. 4r-85v and 86r-197v, which were copied, decorated and assembled in the workshop of Stanisław Samostrzelnik. The Prayerbook is appended by a collection of prayer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1524-Early 17th century
Extent:

Parchment codex; 222 folios

4. Add MS 15403

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Title:
Collection of Irish medical material
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of Irish medical material, concerning three classes (animal, mineral and plant), arranged alphabetically. For a detailed description of the manuscript, see O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts (1926), I, pp. 222-31. For a list of subject head...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 15418

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Title:
Hildegard von Bingen, Liber divinorum operum
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This manuscript contains the Liber divinorum operum (Book of Divine Works) by Hildegard von Bingen (b. c. 1098, d. 1179), a German Benedictine abbess, polymath and medieval mystic. Hildegard originally composed the work between 1163 and 1173. It is arranged in three parts and provides details of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 15760

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Title:
Henricus Martellus Germanus, Insularium illustratum
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This volume is one of only five surviving manuscripts of the Insularium illustratum (Illustrated Book of Islands), a descriptive atlas of island maps, made by Henricus Martellus Germanus (also known as Heinrich Hammer), a German miniaturist and cartographer who was active in Florence between 148...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1490
Extent:

1 volume

7. Add MS 20042

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Title:
"A TREATISE concerning the nauie of England, written in anno 1570, by John Mountgomery, with an addicion thereto made by the saide author in anno 1588." See Add. 18,035. Paper; XVIth cent. With the names of John Treherne and Will. Austin on f. 1, and the book-plate of the Duke of Sussex. Small Quarto.
Scope & Content:
Political Tracts: Treatise on the navy of England, by J. Montgomery: 1588. Navy; England: Treatise on, by J. Mountgomery: 1588. John Mountgomery: Treatise on the English navy: 1570, 1588.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 20065

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Title:
SERMONS preached at Whitehall before King Charles I., 27 Dec. 1631-1 Aug. 1641 ; by Robert Skinner, Chaplain in Ordinary to the King, and Bishop successively of Bristol, Oxford, and Worcester. Autograph. At f. 134 are two sermons in another hand, and noted as preached at Newland in the years 1730-1755. Paper; XVIIth and XVIIIth centt. Small Quarto.
Scope & Content:
Robert Skinner, Bishop Successfully of Bristol, Oxford, and Worcester: Sermons preached before Charles I.: 1631-1641.: Autogr. Sermons: Sermons preached before Charles I., by R. Skinner: 1631-1641. includes: ff. 134, 150 Sermons: Sermons preached at Newland: 1730-1755.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 23100

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MISCELLANEOUS original letters; 1621-1851. Fr. The writers are: 1. J. V. B. van Heuvel to Prince Maurice of Nassau; Soest, 23 Mar. [? 1621]; with seals, f. 1. 2. Prince Frederic Henry of Nassau to Constantin Huygens, Heer van Zuylichem; Boxtel, "du Camp près Em[m]erick," "du Quartier près Rees...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1621-1851
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 28278

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Title:
"VALERII Maximi dictorum memorabilium et f[ac]torum" libri ix.; with marginal and interlinear notes and gloss. and with an index prefixed. At the end is a lunar table, compiled at Paris and written in 1428. Paper; written in Italy, by two different hands, early in the xvth cent. From the library of H.R.H the Duke of Sussex. Quarto.
Scope & Content:
Valerius Maximus: De dictis et factis memorabilibus: 15th cent. Almanacs: Lunar table, compiled at Paris: 1428.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

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