New Search Name Heber, Richard, book collector, 1773-1833

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1. Add MS 10289

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Title:
Li Romanz du Mont Saint-Michel, a miscellany of romances, moralistic and religious texts and medical recipes.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64r: Guillaume de Saint Pair or Guillelme de Seint Paier, Li romanz du Mont Saint Michel or Roman de Mont Saint Michel, incipit, 'Molz pelerins qui vunt al munt', explicit, 'Longue de corne ou il est mis'. ff. 64r-81v: André de Coutances or Andreu de Costances, Roman de la Résurrect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1275-1300
Extent:

A parchment codex, 179 folios

2. Add MS 10292-10294/1

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Title:
Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle)
Scope & Content:
The entire French Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle) in four separate volumes (order separately): Add MS 10292: L'estoire del Saint Graal; L'estoire de Merlin. Add MS 10293: The Lancelot propre. Add MS 10294: La Queste del Saint Graal; Morte Artu. Add MS 10294/1: The first folio from Add MS 10...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
1316
Extent:

A parchment codex divided into 4 volumes

3. Add MS 10302

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Title:
Thomas Norton, Ordinal of Alchemy
Scope & Content:
Contents: Thomas Norton (c. 1433-1513/14) of Bristol, Ordinal of Alchemy, ''Of Alkimy the Ordinal, the Crede Mihi, the Standard Perpetuall'', chapters 1-5 (lines 1-2682, with lines 2503-2622 lacking). This is the earliest surviving manuscript of the text, composed in 1477, perhaps a copy of the orig...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A paper codex

4. Add MS 10303

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Title:
The Isle of Ladies
Scope & Content:
This volume contains one of only two surviving manuscripts of The Isle of Ladies, a 15th-century Middle English poem in rhyming couplets. The poem takes the form of a dream vision, in which the dreamer awakens to find himself in a beautiful island inhabited only by women. It also includes a copy of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 10308

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Title:
Poems of Sir Robert Ayton
Scope & Content:
Collection of poems in English and Scots by Sir Robert Ayton (1570–1638), poet and courtier. Collected by his nephew and executor, Sir John Ayton. f. 1r: Title page, ‘Some fewe English and Scotts amorous Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, late Secretarye to the most Illustrious, Anna and Henrietta Mary, Que...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Scots
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 10309

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Title:
Commonplace book of Margaret Bellasys
Scope & Content:
Commonplace book containing characters, poems and dramatic extracts. Formerly belonging to one Margaret Bellasys. Containing copies and extracts of works by Philip Sidney, John Donne, Edward Radcliffe, Thomas Carew, Ben Jonson, Thomas Randolph, Sir John Harington, Richard Brome, Thomas Middleton, Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1630
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 10449

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Title:
Stage plots of five Elizabethan plays
Scope & Content:
Stage plots were working documents for the practicalities of theatrical performances, sketching out entrances, and characters and actors in scenes, and with material on properties, stage business and music and noises. They were documents made up as part of the preparation of productions. The plots d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1589-1603
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 34360

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Title:
Collection of poems, including works by John Lydgate and Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of poems in Middle English, principally written by John Lydgate (b. c. 1370, d. c. 1451) and Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The volume also contains four roundels in Middle French, attributed to William de la Pole (b. 1396, d. 1450), 1st Duke of Suffol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 34361

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Title:
Abraham Fraunce, ‘The Sheapheards Logike’
Scope & Content:
Volume of three works by Abraham Fraunce (1559?–1592/3?), poet and lawyer, partly in his hand. Dedicated to Edward Dyer (1543–1607), courtier and poet. f. 2r: Title-page: ‘The Sheapheards Logike: conteyning the præcepts of that art put downe by Ramus; examples set owt of the Sheapheards Kalender; no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1580-c. 1585
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 36529

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Title:
Poetry miscellany, collected by the Harington family
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–82r: Poems by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (d. 1547), Sir Thomas Wyatt (d. 1542), and others, collected by Sir John Harington of Stepney (c. 1517–1582) and his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (d. 1612). On f. 29v are the names ‘Francis Haryngton’ and ‘Ellina Harrington’ (whose name is also...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1560-1600
Extent:
1 volume