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Name Stow, John, chronicler

1. Add MS 48031 A

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Add MS 48031 A
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PRECEDENT BOOK, etc.; 15th cent. Some Latin. Contains copies of royal letters, extracts from chronicles and state papers, etc., 1326 - temp. Edward IV, the latest dated item being art. 26, 1482. Also included are some later historical notes (artt. 1, 2, 41) partly by Beale. Contents list, ff. 1-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1369-1499
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 57945

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Add MS 57945
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JOHN STOW (d.1605): list of English and Welsh parish livings and religious establishments; circa 1541. Autograph. This work, which was compiled late 16th cent., is based on an unidentified source to which Stowe appears to allude in a note (f. 14v), appended to the list of Somersetshire parishes, of 'diverse cap in com[m] sumess omisse in libro'. The original may be roughly dated by the inclusion of Henry VIII's newly-created sees of Westminster (f. 15), 1540, and Gloucester (f. 13), Sept. 15...
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Wales: Henry VIII of England: England, Ecclesiastical History: John Stow, chronicler: Index of religious houses, etc., in England and Wales circa 1541 compiled by John Stow: late 16th cent.-1605: Partly Lat: Autogr. includes: f. 24v Edward IV of England: Numbers of parishes by county circa 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1541
Extent:
1 item

3. Harley MS 2251

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Harley MS 2251
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Collection of poems by John Lydgate, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Benedict Burgh
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This manuscript contains poems by some of the most renowned poets from Late Medieval England, including John Lydgate (b. c. 1370, d. c. 1451), Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400), and Benedict Burgh (b. 1413, d. 1483). The collection of poems by John Lydgate is believed to be derived from a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1460-1483
Extent:
1 volume

4. Sloane MS 885

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Sloane MS 885
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John Bagford: Commonplace books: circ. 1700. includes: f. 5 John Hartcliffe, Canon of Windsor: Letter to B. Motte: 1691. f. 33 Dr John Danes: Catalogue of the British authors out of his dictionary, and the year when they flourished: circ. 1700. f. 34 b History: Catalogue of the British Histori...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1700
Extent:
1 item