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1. Add MS 27445

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Add MS 27445
Title:
Paston Letters and Papers
Scope & Content:
Contents: The third of a set of four volumes of letters and papers of the Paston family from the period, c. 1425 to c.1520 (Additional manuscripts 27443-27446). This volume contains documents from c.1447 to c. 1500. (Numbers in brackets refer to numbering in the edition by Davis, Paston Letters...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1445-1500
Extent:
A collection of letters and papers bound together

2. Add MS 34888

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Add MS 34888
Title:
Paston Letters and Papers
Scope & Content:
The first of two volumes in this series of letters and papers of the Paston family (Additional MSS 34888 and 34889), corresponding to Fenn, Paston Letters (1787-1823), vol. III. The label on the spine is 'Correspondence of the Family of Paston, Vol. I., 1425-1463'. (Numbers in brackets refer to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

A collection of letters and papers bound together, 221 folios

3. Add MS 43489

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Add MS 43489
Title:
Paston Letters and Papers
Scope & Content:
The 2nd of four volumes in this series of letters and papers of the Paston family. The handwritten description on f. 3r states 'This volume contains the first XXII letters written during the reign of Edward IV from 1460-1467'. (Numbers in brackets refer to numbering in Davis, Paston Letters (E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1440-1489
Extent:

A collection of letters and papers, bound together, 58 folios

4. Add MS 48018

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Add MS 48018
Title:
Formulary for a Clerk of the Privy Council, compiled by Robert Beale
Scope & Content:
Robert Beale (1541-1601), administrator and diplomat, was a Clerk of the Privy Council from 1572 until his death in 1601. This was the second of two formularies for his office that he compiled: the first (dated 1572) is now Add MS 48150. A note by Beale on f. i recto states that 'This Booke of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1575-c 1586
Extent:

1 volume

5. Royal MS 14 E I vol 1

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Royal MS 14 E I vol 1
Title:
Vincent of Beauvais, translated by Jean de Vignay, Le miroir historial (a French translation of the Speculum historiale), books 1-5
Scope & Content:
The first volume (books 1-9) of Le miroir historiale, (32 books in total) is now bound in two parts, foliated separately, of which this manuscript is part 1 and contains books 1-5 with a table of contents of book 6. Part 2 is Royal MS 14 E I, vol 2 and contains books 6-9. The original Latin work...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1479-1480
Extent:

The first part of a parchment codex bound in two volumes

6. Royal MS 14 E I vol 2

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Royal MS 14 E I vol 2
Title:
Vincent of Beauvais, translated by Jean de Vignay, Le miroir historial (a French translation of the Speculum historiale) books 6-9
Scope & Content:
The first volume (books 1-9) of Le miroir historiale, (32 books in total) is now bound in two parts, foliated separately of which this manuscript is part 2 and contains books 6-9. Part 1 contains books 1-5 and the table of contents of book 6. The original Latin work, the Speculum Historiale was ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1479-1480
Extent:

The second part of a parchment codex bound in two volumes

7. Royal MS 14 E IV

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Royal MS 14 E IV
Title:
Jehan de Wavrin, Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes the third volume of the Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre (also known as the Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre) of Jean (Jehan) de Wavrin, preceded by a list of contents (ff. 1r-9v). The text of the chronicle begins with the coronation of Richard II and ends...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1470-c 1480
Extent:
329 folios.

8. Royal MS 15 D I

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Royal MS 15 D I
Title:
Guyart des Moulins, La Bible historiale
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes volume 4 (Tobit to Acts of the Apostles) of the second edition of the Bible historiale (the so-called petite Bible historiale), a French adaptation of Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica by Guyart des Moulins (c. 1291-1295). The volume supplemented the set that includes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1470-c 1479
Extent:

439 folios.

9. Royal MS 15 E I

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Royal MS 15 E I
Title:
William of Tyre, Histoire d'Outremer
Scope & Content:
Contents: Histoire d'Outremer, or Livre d’Eracles, a history of the Crusades in French, based on Guillelmus, Archbishop of Tyre (b. 1130, d. c.1190), Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum, with a continuation to 1231. Decoration: 18 large miniatures in colours and gold with full...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c. 1479-c. 1480
Extent:

Parchment codex

10. Royal MS 15 E IV

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Royal MS 15 E IV
Title:
Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, vol. 1
Scope & Content:
The first volume of the Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne (Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre)by Jean de Wavrin, Seigneur de Forestel, contains a chronicle of British history from its mythical origins up to the reign of Edward II. This copy has been bound in two s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1471-1483
Extent:

A parchment codex bound as 2 separate volumes