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1. Add MS 49597/1

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Add MS 49597/1
Title:
Fragments of English medieval polyphony
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of 15 fragments of English medieval three-part polyphonic settings of the Ordinary of the Mass. The fragments originate from two disjunct leaves containing part of a Credo, three Agnus Dei (the first and third imperfect) and a Sanctus, using square notation on a black fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:

15 fragments of two leaves

2. Add MS 89067

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89067
Title:
A Traictise declaryng and plainly prouyng, that the pretensed marriage of Priestes, and professed persones, is no marriage, but altogether vnlawful, and in all ages, and al countreies of Christendome bothe forbidden and also punyshed, published under the name of Thomas Martin (London, Robert Caly, 1554). ESTC S112322; STC 17517. With extensive manuscript annotations.
Scope & Content:
In 1549, John Ponet published a treatise in favour of clerical marriage, entitled A Defence for Mariage of Priestes, by Scripture and aunciente wryters. Add. 89067 is Ponet’s personal copy of Stephen Gardiner’s refutation of his treatise, published in 1554 under the name of Thomas Martin. Ponet ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
1554-1556
Extent:

1 volume

3. Cotton MS Appendix XLV/13

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Cotton MS Appendix XLV/13
Title:
Notes of manuscripts lent by Sir Thomas Cotton
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a set of notes concerning manuscripts lent from the Cotton library by Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), broadly arranged in chronological order, and dating from 1638 to 1641, 1646 or 1647, and 1650 to 1661. The entries are frequently written in the hand of the borrow...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1637-1661
Extent:
1 volume

4. Cotton MS Nero A V, ff 83–118

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Cotton MS Nero A V, ff 83–118
Title:
Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de Vita Sancti Thome Cantuariensis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 83r-118v: Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de Vita Sancti Thome Cantuariensis. This part of the manuscript contains a later addition: f. 118v: A list of readings for liturgical feasts (‘oblaciones’) with folio numbers, added in a 13th-century script. Decoration: Medium and smal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:

A part of Cotton MS Nero A V

5. Cotton MS Nero A VII, ff 113-131

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Cotton MS Nero A VII, ff 113-131
Title:
Henry of Saltrey, Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii; Alexander of Canterbury, Liber ex Dictis Beati Anselmi; excerpts from William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum, Agobard of Lyons, De Picturis et Imaginibus and Iunianus Iustinus, Epitome of Pompeius Trogus’ lost Historiae Philippicae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 113r-120r: Henry of Saltrey (fl. c. 1184), Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii (Treatise on Saint Patrick's Purgatory), beginning: ‘Patri suo in Christo praeoptato H, abbati de Sartis’. ff. 120r-122v: Alexander of Canterbury (fl. 1109), Liber ex Dictis Beati Anselm (On the Sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
A part of Cotton MS Nero A VII

6. Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 1–23

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Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 1–23
Title:
Benedeit, Voyage of St Brendan; Navigatio sancti Brendani; Vita Longini martyris; De signis quindecim.
Scope & Content:
The 'Voyage of St Brendan' is an Anglo-Norman French poem of the journey of St Brendan commissioned in the 12th century by Adeliza of Louvain (b. c. 1103, d. 1151), bride of King Henry I (r. 1100–1135), from a certain monk named Benedeit. This poem is presented on ff. 1r-11r. It is followed by t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B X

7. Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 24–30

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Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 24–30
Title:
Robert Kilwardby, De ortu scientiarum; Pseudo-Aristotle, De morte Aristotelis sive de pomo, translated by Manfred of Sicily.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 24r-27r: Robert Kilwardby, De Ortu Scientiarum (On the rise of the sciences), imperfect. ff. 27v-30r: Pseudo-Aristotle, De morte Aristotelis sive de pomo (On the death of Aristotle, or the apple), translated by Manfred of Sicily. f. 30v: table of contents in a modern hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B X.

8. Egerton MS 3874

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3874
Title:
Detached leaf, possibly from an artist's patternbook
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises a single detached leaf believed to have formed part of an artist's patternbook. The recto of the leaf features two drawings, one depicting a swan wearing a crown around its neck attached to a ringed chain, the other depicting four cranes attacking a frog. The verso ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of 15th century
Extent:

1 leaf

9. Harley MS 336

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 336
Title:
Giovanni Gigli, Questiones de observantia quadragesimali; poems on the marriage between King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, and their first son, Prince Arthur
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-67r: Giovanni Gigli, Questiones de observantia quadragesimali; addressed to John Russell, bishop of Lincoln (1480-1494), and Keeper of the Privy Seal. ff. 67v-69v: Giovanni Gigli, Introductory letter to Richard Fox. ff. 70r-82r: Giovanni Gigli, Poem on the marriage between ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1487
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 866

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866
Title:
Collection of texts on rhetoric, mathematics and other sciences, including Alain de Lille, De planctu naturae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7v: A treatise on rhetoric, imperfect; beginning, 'Rhetorica docet ornate loqui...' and ending with a title 'De divisione monacordi'. ff. 8r-17r: Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones, with a title, 'De arte predicandi sed Ranulphum castrensis'. ff. 17r-33r: Alain de Lille...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:

1 volume

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