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1. Add MS 8267

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, tracts, and financial accounts relating to the Papacy, Venice, France, Spain, Tunisia, Ethiopia, and England; circa 1532-1573. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes (ff. 231-232v) the final sentence pronounced by Pope Clement VII refusing divorce to Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon, annulling his marriage to Anne Boleyn, restoring Catherine to her royal state, and excommunicating the king, 11 July 1533, in Latin, inc. 'La sentenza d'Inghilterra...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. includes: ff. 2-53v Marc Antonio Cornaro, Venetian envoy at Nice: Niccolò Tiepolo, Venetian envoy at Nice: Paul III; Pope: Francis I of France: Charles V; Emperor of Germany: Andrea Gritti; Doge of Venice: Relazione of the Congress of Nic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
c 1532-1573
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 8280

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, discourses, tracts, letters, treaties, papal instructions and investitures relating to the Papacy, Venice, Turkey, Siena, Tuscany, the Council of Trent, Aragon, Sardinia and Corsica, Sicily, Genoa, Portugal, France, Poland, Spain; circa 1297-1302, 1518-1573. Italian and Latin. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. includes (ff. 335-420) a long excerpt from the diary of Paris de Grassis relating to the papacy of Leo X (February 1518 - July 1521). For a complete MS....
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. includes: ff. 3-9v Turkey; General: Political Tracts: Venice: Discourse in favour of Venice rel. to the peace with the Turks: after 1572: Ital: Copy. ff. 10-23v Siena, Italy: Gian Giacomo Medici, Marchese di Marignano; called 'Medeghino':...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 14252

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Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Anglie; ‘Prester John’, Epistola Manueli Comneno Imperatori Graecorum; Hildebert of Lavardin, De Tribus Mortuis a Christo Suscitatis; a prose description of England based on Henry of Huntingdon’s Historia Anglorum; Laws related to the Commune of London; genealogies
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This manuscript is the second volume of a collection of legal treatises, of which Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS lat. 155 is the first volume. Add MS 14252 mainly contains law texts related to England and the ‘Commune of London’: a corporation of London citizens which had been r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
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A parchment codex

4. Add MS 22349

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1. "Cronica summorum pontificum ac imperatorum, de gestis eorundem, per fratrem Martinum [Polonum] de ordine predicatorum, domini pape penitentiari[um] et capellanum, compilata:" ending with the year 1272, but continued by another writer down to 1292. The story of Pope Joan is not included. f. 1 b. 2. "Epistola Beati Bernhardi abbatis, ad fratres de Monte-Dei," de perfectione religiosorum; cum præfatione. This tract has also been ascribed to Guigues Duchâtel, Prior of La Grande Chartreuse,...
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includes: ff. 1 b-120 Court of Rome: Cronica summorum Pontificum, per M. Polonum: 14th cent. ff. 1 b-120 Martinus Polonus, Dominican Papal Chaplain, Archbishop of Gnese: Chronica: 14th cent. ff. 121-162 b Saint Bernard,; Abbot of Clairvaux: Sermones,: 13th, 15th centt. f. 166 Nicodemus, Monachu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 23930

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Title:
Guiron le Courtois
Scope & Content:
Contents: An incomplete version of the second part of Guiron le Courtois (common version) in two sections: ff. 1r-26r: The first section, from an account by the knight with 'l'escu mi partis' up to the adventures of Guiron (here, 'Guron') and Ser, is mostly effaced at the beginning, incipit,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
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A parchment codex, 93 folios.

6. Add MS 24847

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"THE Treasure of Pollicye: wherin ar conteyned Discourses, Relations and instructions of great importance for ye managing of negotiations, dependencies, affairs and deseignments of Princes." Apparently translated from the Italian. The author speaks of having served under the Duke of "Mania" in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 26770

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TRACTATUS philossphici et theologici: 1.Johannes de Sacro Bosco de algorismo. Imperfect. f. 3;- "De Sp[h]era," f. 7;-"Nova compilatio de computo," f. 21 b. 2. "Summa maoistri Willelmi de Conchis de naturis rerum," f. 46 b. 3. Excerpts from SS. Gregory, Jerome, and Augustine. Imperfect at the beginning. f. 65. 4. "Exempla magistri Jacobi de Vitriaco," f. 75. 5. "De infanciis Domini nostri Jhesu Christi:" the apocryphal Gospel of the Infancy, f. 80 b. 6. "Visio sancti Pauli Apostoli ...
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Theology LATIN: Tractatus varii: 12th - 15th cent. includes: ff. 3-46 Johannes de Sacro Bosco: Tractatus philosophici: 13th-14th centt. ff. 46 b-63 Willihelmus de Conchis: De naturis rerum: 14th cent. f. 65 Gregory I; Pope; the Great: Extracts from his works,: 14th, 15th centt. ff. 65-74 Saint...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 34763

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THEOLOGICAL TRACTS and commonplaces, in Latin:- 1. Commonplace-book including, inter alia, (a) "Quare ieiunamus in die veneris." f. 1;-(b) "De baptismo." f. 2;-(c) "De beata virgine." f. 2;-(d) "De satisfactione." f. 2 b;-(e) Qualities necessary for a bishop. f. 7;-(f) "Quid est perfecte uiuer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Cotton MS Titus A XXVII

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Cotton MS Titus A XXVII
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Brittaniae; Note on British genealogies; Note on place-names in the Historia Regum Brittaniae; Quadripartitus; Instituta Cnuti Aliorumque Regum Anglorum; Marbod of Rennes, De Lapidibus; ‘Prester John’, Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum; Anonymous chronicle of England; Gesta Alexandri Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem de Situ Indie; Epitaphium Alexandri; Epigram on Alexander
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This manuscript contains three parts that were produced in the same style in the late 12th or early 13th century and joined together at an early stage (ff. 2v-88r; 89r-174v; 176r-217v). The manuscript most likely originates from St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, where it was listed in a 15th-cen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
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A parchment codex

10. Egerton MS 1087

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Egerton MS 1087
Title:
A COLLECTION of Italian Relations, chiefly by Venetian Ambassadors, transcribed in the xviiith century; in the following order:- Relation of France, by Giovanni Corer [Cornaro], in 1569, p. 1 ;-Relation of France, by Michele Soriano, in 1562, p. 56;-Relation of Spain, by Carolo Visconti, (afterwards Cardinal,) Nuntio from Pius IV. in 1564, p. 116;- " Memoria di quel che fruttano al Rè di Spagna, un anno per l'altro, le bolle della Crucciada, et altre bolle di chiesa et monasterii partico...
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includes: p.1 Charles IX of France: Relation of France by G. Cornaro: 1569.: Ital. p. 56 Michele Soriano: Relation of France: 1562.: Ital. p..56 Charles IX of France: Relation of France, by M. Soriauo: 1562.: Ital. p.56 Giovanni Cornaro: Relations of France: 1569, 1570.: Ital. p. 116 Carlo Visc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item