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1501. Royal MS 15 A IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A IX
Title:
Jane Lumley, translations of Isocrates, Orationes, and Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis
Scope & Content:
This volume is a commonplace book containing the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley, and written in her hand. Two of the orations are prefaced by dedicatory epistles to her f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1502. Royal MS 15 A VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A VII
Title:
Collection of Latin poetry and fables, including Statius, Achilleis, and Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of Latin works, probably arranged as part of a school curriculum. They include the unfinished epic poem, the Achilleid, by the Greco-Roman author Publius Papinius Statius (b. c. 45, d. c. 96); a popular collection of proverbial wisdom, known as the Catonis D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1503. Royal MS 15 A XVI, ff 1r-73v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A XVI, ff 1r-73v
Title:
Juvencus, Evangelia, Aldhelm of Sherborne, Enigmata (imperfect); Bede the Venerable, De arte metrica (extract, chapter 25)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A table of contents written by different hands including an inscription referring to the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine, Canterbury, preceded by a medieval pressmark. A seal with a ship at the bottom of the folio. ff. 2r-57r: Juvencus (fl. c. 330), Evangelia (Gospels) with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 15 A XVI

1504. Royal MS 15 A XVI, ff 74-84

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A XVI, ff 74-84
Title:
Martin the Irishman, Scholica graecarum glossarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 74v-83v: Martin the Irishman (b. 819, d. 875), Scholica graecarum glossarum; alphabetical glossary of words chiefly of Greek origin: Decoration: Initial and rubric in red (f. 74v). Added in the 11th century: full page outline drawing of a Romanesque building with towers (f. 84 u...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 15 A XVI

1505. Royal MS 17 B XXVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 B XXVIII
Title:
Book of expenses of Princess Mary, with an inventory of her jewels; catalogue of printed books in the Royal Library
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a record of the household expenses of Princess Mary, later Mary I (r. 1553-1558), Queen of England, for the period 1536-1544. The accounts feature marginal notes and corrections written in Mary's hand, and her signature inscribed at the end of each month for the first ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1536-1581
Extent:
1 volume

1506. Royal MS 18 C II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 C II
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. i recto: A fragment of two inquisitions post-mortem of Elizabeth, wife of John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby, written in Latin, the second dated 7 August, 1 Hen [IV, i.e. 1400]. f. 1r: 'Counsels of Prudence', an 8-line extract from John Lydgate's Troy Book (Bk. II, ll. 1849-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1507. Royal MS 19 B IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B IV
Title:
Les Dits Moraulx des Philosophes, a French translation of Guillaume de Tignonville's Dicta moralia antiquorum philosophorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Les Dits Moraulx des Philosophes (The Moral Sayings of the Philosophers), a French translation of the Latin Dicta moralia antiquorum philosophorum by Guillaume de Tignonville, or Thignonville (d. 1414), Councillor to King Charles VI of France and Prevost of Par...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1508. Royal MS 20 D XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 D XI
Title:
Cycle of Guillaume d'Orange
Scope & Content:
A collection of chansons de geste known as the Grand cycle de Guillaume d'Orange about the deeds of the legendary French hero William of Orange and his extended family. The Grand cycle comprises both the Cycle de Guillaume and the Cycle de Narbonne. These include tales of Guillaume's ancestors, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1509. Sloane Ch XXXII 13

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane Ch XXXII 13
Title:
Chirograph of an arbitration between Lady Katherine and John Latimer
Scope & Content:
Chirograph of an arbitration by Thomas of Hamstead, John Warduton, John Wakelin, parson of Cotsbrook, and John of Wardford, chaplain, granting to Lady Katherine in her dispute with John Latimer that she may have the rooms from the chapel to the great hall in Braybrooke Castle (Northamptonshire) ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1355
Extent:
1 leaf

1510. Sloane Ch XXXIII 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane Ch XXXIII 6
Title:
Grant by Cecilia Minchun to her granddaughters Margery and Clarice, of land in Redmarley
Scope & Content:
Grant by Cecilia Minchun of Redmarley, widow, to Margery and Clarice, daughters of Helie, daughter of Cecilia, of two acres of land in the Broadfield (lato campo) of Radmarley (Gloucestershire), in return for a payment of half a mark of silver. Endorsed: in a 16th-century hand, ‘Rydmaleye’. Af...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

1511. Sloane Ch XXXIV 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane Ch XXXIV 1
Title:
Writ of King Edward the Confessor (r. 1042–1066)
Scope & Content:
Writ of King Edward declaring that he intends to have legal possession of the land at Ickworth, Suffolk (which he possesses for Westminster Abbey), and that it is to be transferred to him as soon as the present writ is read; 1047 × 1065 (Sawyer, no. 1124). Endorsed in a contemporary hand, ‘Icki...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

1 leaf

1512. Sloane MS 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 6
Title:
Medical treatises in Middle English by Hunain Ibn Ishak, Al-'Ibadi, William of Saliceto, John Arderne and others
Scope & Content:
A collection of medical treatises: ff. 1r-9r: Hunain Ibn Ishak, Al-'Ibadi: Isagoge in parvam artem Galeni, in Latin and English; Claudius Galenus: Ars, parva cum isagoge Johannitii. ff. 10r-13v: A treatise on medicines and physick, including 'A table of knowledge of symple medecines'; 'Example...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1513. Sloane MS 146

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 146
Title:
Trilingual medical and botanical recipes; trilingual botanical glossary
Scope & Content:
This manuscript with medical and botanical texts was largely written in the 13th century, but also include a botanical glossary in Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English that has been written in the late 12th century. Contents: ff. 1r-68v: A collection of medical and botanical recipes in Lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

1514. Sloane MS 261

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 261
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', revised by Walter Stevins
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a revised version of Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', undertaken by an otherwise unknown editor called Walter Stevins, and dedicated by him to Edward Courtenay (b. c. 1527, d. 1556), 1st Earl of Devon. The volume can be dated between 1553, the year Courten...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1553-1556
Extent:
1 volume

1515. Sloane MS 314

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 314
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', with a treatise on geomancy and an account of a necromantic ritual
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', written by poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400), together with a treatise on geomancy, an account of a necromantic ritual, and a fragment of a baptismal office from a 13th-century missal. It has been suggested that the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1516. Sloane MS 446

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 446
Title:
Compilation of astronomical and astrological material, including excerpts from Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-104v: Compilation of astronomical and astrological material, entitled 'Astronomiae aphorismi', including excerpts from Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe' (ff. 50r, 56r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

1517. Sloane MS 475

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 475
Title:
Medical texts, prognostics, recipes and charms divided into 5 books, including Marcellus, De Medicamentis; Remus Favinus, Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris; Oxiepate; Pseudo-Galen, Liber de dinamidiis; Bede, De Temporum Ratione (excerpt); Medical texts; prognostics and charms including extracts from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Pseudo-Galen, De febribus; recipes and a treatise on uroscopy
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts (ff. 1r-124v; 125r-231r) bound together at an unknown period, both containing medical recipes, charms, various medical treatises and prognostics in a medical context. The first part was produced at the beginning of the 12th century in England. The ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

1518. Sloane MS 475, ff 1r-124v

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 475, ff 1r-124v
Title:
Medical texts, prognostics, recipes and charms divided into 5 books, including Marcellus, De Medicamentis; Remus Favinus, Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris; Oxiepate; Pseudo-Galen, Liber de dinamidiis; Bede, De Temporum Ratione (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Medical recipe, imperfect. ff. 4v-6r: Observatio mensium secundum Bedam (Observation of Each Month according to Bede), dietary and health advice for each month, including verses on Egyptian days, followed by a caution against the dies caniculares and the three critical Mo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
Part of Sloane MS 475

1519. Sloane MS 475, ff 125r-231v

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 475, ff 125r-231v
Title:
Medical texts; prognostics and charms including extracts from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Pseudo-Galen, De febribus; recipes and a treatise on uroscopy
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 125r-130v: Extracts from Isidore of Seville (d. 636)'s Etymologiae (Etymologies), book 4, chapters 5-7. ff. 131rv-v: Pseudo-Galen, De febribus (On Fevers). ff. 131v-132r: A text on purgation, beginning: 'Hec est purgatio Ypocratis'. ff. 133r-v: A version of the Sphere of Apul...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
Part of Sloane MS 475

1520. Sloane MS 702

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 702
Title:
Collection of texts, excerpts and notes on astrology and astronomy, with accompanying tables and diagrams
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Added ownership inscriptions and former shelfmarks. ff. 1v-33v: A collection of texts, excerpts and brief notes on astrology and astronomy, using or citing authorities including Al-Qabisi (or Alcabitius), Mashallah ibn Athari (or Messahallah), Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (or Album...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1521. Sloane MS 809

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 809
Title:
Walter of Bibbesworth, Tretiz de langage
Scope & Content:
Contents: Walter of Bibbesworth ('Biblesworth'), Tretiz de langage, a poem in Anglo-Norman French verse with an English glossary, composed in the mid 13th century as a tool for teaching useful French vocabulary to English landowners. It exists in a long and a short version. This text resembles...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, and French
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:

1 roll

1522. Sloane MS 1009/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1009/1
Title:
Collection of miscellaneous papers, including the Memoriale Credencium; Reclusorium Anime; Three Workings on Man's Soul; Geoffrey Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus; Speculum sacerdotis; Computacio daniele prophete sive sompniale; Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus; Astrological tracts; Correspondence of Gédéon Bonnivert; Collection of puzzles with cards and dice in French; Gédéon Bonnivert, L'A. B. C. du Monde; De virtutibus herbarum; Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first part of a large collection of miscellaneous texts, tracts, and letters that may have been gathered by Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), and is now divided in two parts. The second part is Sloane MS 1009/2. The collection contains a large number of early modern it...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

1523. Sloane MS 1009/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1009/2
Title:
Collection of early modern literary papers in English and French
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second part of a large collection of miscellaneous texts, tracts and letters that may have been gathered by Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), and is now divided in two parts. The first part is Sloane MS 1009/1. The manuscript contains a large number of early modern ite...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1524. Sloane MS 1047

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1047
Title:
Medical recipes devised by King Henry VIII and his royal physicians
Scope & Content:
An important witness to the amateur interest in and practice of pharmaceutical medicine by King Henry VIII (b. 1491, d. 1547). Contains a collection of more than 100 medical recipes that have been organised into six sections: plasters; spasmadraps (dipped plasters); ointments; balms; waters, lot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1540-c. 1545
Extent:
1 volume

1525. Sloane MS 1580

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1580
Title:
Collection of sermons, moral and theological sentences, poems, hymns with monophonic and polyphonic music, prayers, tracts on law, grammar and the computus; including Samson of Canterbury, Excerptae ex diversis voluminibus;Walter of Châtillon, Carmina; De Clarevallensibus et Cluniacensibus; Questiones Adriani Imperatoris Secundo philosopho in silencio philosophantis;Charm against infirmities;Adam of Saint-Victor, Lux iucunda lux insignis; De hominum deificatione (excerpt); Philippe de Thaon,...
Scope & Content:
This 13th-century miscellany mainly contains theological and liturgical works, including monophonic and polyphonic music. However, it also includes a copy of the Comput (Computus), the oldest extant scientific text in the vernacular, that Philippe de Thaon (fl. 1113-1150), the first Anglo-Norman...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

1526. Sloane MS 1685

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1685
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-222v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, beginning and ending imperfectly, with many leaves wanting throughout. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-3v: The General Prologue, beginning imperfectly. ff. 4r-33r: The Knight's Tale, imperfect. 1 folio is w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1527. Sloane MS 1686

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1686
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-295v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect at the beginning. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-13r: The General Prologue, beginning imperfectly. ff. 13r-49v: The Knight's Tale. ff. 49v-51r: The Miller's Prologue. ff. 51r-61v: The Miller...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1528. Sloane MS 1777

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1777
Title:
Thomas Becket, Epistolae; hymns; a compilation of theological texts; Querolus or Aulularia; a compilation of theological works
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains a large number of Thomas Becket (d. 1170)'s Epistulae (Letters), the 5th-century play Querolus (The Complainer), and two compilations of theological works and hymns. Contents: ff. 1r-47v: Thomas Becket, Epistolae. One folio is missing between ff. 8-9, causin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

1 volume

1529. Sloane MS 1835

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1835
Title:
Extracts from Evagrius Scholasticus, Historia Ecclesiastica (TLG 2733.001; CPG 7500), with Latin translations by Petrus Joannes Olivarius, preceded by his dedication to Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
Chalcedonian Definition (ACO II.i.2 126), in Latin (ff 3r-8r) and Greek (ff 13r-17r). Emperor Zeno, Henoticon (PG 862.2620), in Latin (ff 9r-12v) and Greek (ff 17v-22r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

1530. Sloane MS 2030

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2030
Title:
Bede the Venerable, De Natura Rerum; Divisio Scientiarum; Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium; Masha 'Allah Ibn Athari, Liber Receptionis; Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra'ili, Liber Iudiciorum; Martianus Capella, De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii; Abū Ma`shar Ja`far, Ysagoga Minor; Proportiones competentes in Astrorum Industria; Pseudo-Aristotle, Physiognomia; Abu `Ali al-Husain ibn `Abdallah Ibn Sina, Physiognomia; C. Plinius Secundus, Historia Naturalis; Pseudo-Aristotle, De Conductibus Aquarum; Solinus,...
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is made up of three parts bound together perhaps in the early modern period. The three parts include compilations of scientific texts by various authors. Contents: ff. 3r-9r: Bede the Venerable (b. 672, d. 735), De Natura Rerum (On the Nature of Things). ff. 9v-10r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

1531. Sloane MS 2030, ff 3-30, 95-135

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2030, ff 3-30, 95-135
Title:
Bede the Venerable, De Natura Rerum; Divisio Scientiarum; Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium; Pseudo-Aristotle, Physiognomia; Abu `Ali al-Husain ibn `Abdallah Ibn Sina, Physiognomia; C. Plinius Secundus, Historia Naturalis; Pseudo-Aristotle, De Conductibus Aquarum; Solinus, De Mirabilibus Mundi; Pseudo-Aristotle, Chiromantia; De Quatuor Partibus Animi Qualiter Cavende Sit Infirmitates; various scientific tracts, some in epistolary form.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-9r: Bede the Venerable (b. 672, d. 735), De Natura Rerum (On the Nature of Things). ff. 9v-10r: Divisio Scientiarum (The Division of the Sciences), beginning: ‘Ut dicit Boecius in commento super Por[phyrio]’. ff. 11r-30r: Pseudo-Ptolemy (fl. 10th century), Centiloquium (One H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Sloane MS 2030

1532. Sloane MS 2030, ff 31-78

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2030, ff 31-78
Title:
Masha 'Allah Ibn Athari, Liber Receptionis; Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra'ili, Liber Iudiciorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 31v-40v: Masha 'Allah Ibn Athari (also known as Messahalah) (d. 815), Liber Receptionis (The Book of Receptions), beginning: ‘Invenit quidam vir ex sapientibus librum ex libris secretorum’. ff. 41r-76v: Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra'ili (also known as Zahel) (b. 786, d. 845), Liber Iudi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
Part of Sloane MS 2030

1533. Sloane MS 2030, ff 79-94

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2030, ff 79-94
Title:
Martianus Capella, De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii; Abū Ma`shar Ja`far, Ysagoga Minor; Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium; Proportiones competentes in Astrorum Industria
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 79r-83r: Martianus Capella (b. 360, d. 428), De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (The Marriage of Philology and Mercury) (excerpts from Book 8), beginning: ‘[A]strigere iam sedis iter cursumque’ with occasional marginal glosses and corrections. ff. 83r-87r: Abū Ma`shar Ja`far (als...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Sloane MS 2030

1534. Sloane MS 2052

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2052
Title:
Sir Theodore de Mayerne, Pictoria, sculptoria et quae subalternarum artium (the 'Mayerne manuscript')
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains miscellaneous notes on the subject of artistic techniques, including the making of pigments, oils and varnishes, the priming and preparation of surfaces for painting, and the repair and conservation of paintings. The manuscript also contains notes of chemical experiments,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1620-1646
Extent:

1 volume

1535. Sloane MS 2401

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2401
Title:
Aldobrandino of Siena, Le Régime du corps; Le livre Ypocrae; medical charms and recipes
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of Le Régime du corps, a handbook for health composed by Aldobrandino of Siena (d. 1296/1299), an Italian physician. Three other copies of Le Régime du corps also contain roughly 140 historiated initials with comparable subject matter: Cambridge, Uni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1536. Sloane MS 2463

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2463
Title:
Collection of medical texts, including treatises on anatomy, surgery and gynaecology
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-52v: A treatise on anatomy with a prologue beginning, 'Galyene that was lanterne of ffysiciens and of srgens seyth in the sevententhe book de utilitate p[ar]ticulari.'. ff. 51v-151v: 'The book of operations' (see colophon on f. 151v), a book on surgery and other treatments, p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1537. Sloane MS 2732 A

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2732 A
Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle from Noah to Henry VI of England
Scope & Content:
A genealogical roll chronicle beginning with Noah and tracing the lineage of the Kings of England through Brutus to Henry VI (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471), consisting of a genealogical diagram with a series of roundels accompanied by brief biographical entries. The roll is believed to have been mad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1438-1441
Extent:
1 roll

1538. Sloane MS 2839

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2839
Title:
Liber cirurgium cauterium; medical recipes; Epistola Peri Hereseon; Tereoperica
Scope & Content:
This 11th-century manuscript contains a collection of didactical texts on practical and theoretical medicine. The format of this volume suggests that it was used as a medical textbook. It includes an illustrated account on cautery points, which was one of the principal medieval treatments, and a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

1539. Sloane MS 3525

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3525
Title:
Aldobrandino of Siena, Le Régime du corps; Le livre de toutes herbes; Roger Frugard, Chirurgia; Antidotarium Nicolai; and other medical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v, 1r-7v, 22v, 23r-v: Recipes in a hand of the 17th century. ff. 3r-5v: Table of contents, probably compiled by the scribe; this does not accurately list all contents, but contains a list of the chapters of the Régime du corps, and of the texts on ff. 82-108. ff. 6r-16v: A ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

1540. Sloane MS 4100/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 4100/1
Title:
Volvelle, with a set of instructions concerning its use
Scope & Content:
A single parchment leaf featuring a circular volvelle on the recto, decorated in colours and gold, the verso originally blank. The volvelle is comprised of several moveable parts arranged in concentric circles and fastened with a central pivot upon a base sheet marked with the hours of the day...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1541. Stowe Ch 83

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 83
Title:
Quitclaim by Margery, daughter of Elias the porter of Burton, to John of Branston and his wife Petronilla of land in Branston
Scope & Content:
Quitclaim by Margery, daughter of Elias the porter of Burton, once the wife of Ralph the clerk of Stapenhill [Derbyshire], to John of Branston [Staffordshire] and his wife Petronilla of a bovate of land and a croft in Branston. In return, John gave Margery 4½ marks of silver. Endorsed: in a lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

1542. Stowe Ch 158

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 158
Title:
Confirmation by Hugh, earl of Chester, of his mother Countess Matilda’s grant to Repton Priory
Scope & Content:
Confirmation by Hugh (b. 1147, d. 1181), 5th Earl of Chester, of his mother Countess Matilda’s grant to Repton Priory of ten librates of land in Gransden [Huntingdonshire], for the soul of his father, Ranulf, earl of Chester, himself, and all his ancestors. Endorsed: in an 18th-century hand, ‘I...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1164-1172
Extent:
1 leaf

1543. Stowe Ch 159

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 159
Title:
Grant by Matilda, countess of Chester, to Repton Priory, of land in Gransden
Scope & Content:
Grant by Matilda (d. 1189), countess of Chester, with the consent of her son, Hugh, earl of Chester, to Repton Priory [Derbyshire], of all her land in Gransden, for the love of God, the souls of King Henry and his heirs, his mother the empress [Empress Matilda] her friend, the countess’s father ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1172-1189
Extent:
1 leaf

1544. Stowe Ch 291

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 291
Title:
Foundation charter of Flixton Priory by Margery de Crek
Scope & Content:
Grant by Margery de Crek for the souls of her parents Geoffrey de Hanes and Sarra, her ancestors, her former husband Bartholomew de Crek, her successors, and her children, with the consent of her eldest son Robert de Crek, giving her manor house, lands, services, tenants, etc., in Flixton [Suffo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
[1258-1259]
Extent:
1 leaf

1545. Stowe Ch 305

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 305
Title:
Acknowledgement by Agnes, widow of Bartholomew le Heyward of Flixton, that she has received lands in Flixton from Beatrice of Ratlesden, prioress of Flixton, as a dowry
Scope & Content:
Acknowledgement by Agnes, widow of Bartholomew le Heyward of Flixton, that she has received as a dowry from Beatrice of Ratlesden, prioress of Flixton, two and a half acres and five roods of land acquired by Bartholomew, with houses and other lands in Flixton, for the term of her life in return ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1263
Extent:
1 leaf

1546. Stowe Ch 607

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 607
Title:
Indulgence addressed to Margery and Anna Dicks
Scope & Content:
A mass-produced indulgence by Peter de Monte (b. c. 1400, d. 1457), apostolic notary and papal collector. In exchange for money towards the conversion of the Greeks and defending the borders of Christendom from non-Christians, Margery Dicks and her sister Anna may choose a confessor who can offe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
8 Apr 1439
Extent:
1 leaf

1547. Stowe Ch 643

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 643
Title:
Petition by Joan Astley, nurse of Henry VI, for an increase in salary
Scope & Content:
Recto: Petition by Joan, nurse of the king and wife of Thomas Astley, esquire, to Henry VI asking if her letter patent of 28 April 1423 granting her £20 a year could be cancelled in return for a new letter patent granting £40 a year. Dorse: Endorsement noting that Joan’s petition was accepted; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1424
Extent:
1 leaf

1548. Stowe MS 39

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 39
Title:
The Abbey of the Holy Ghost; The Desert of Religion
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-9v: The Abbey of the Holy Ghost, written in Middle English prose, beginning, 'My dere syster, I se þat many wuld be in religyon, bot þai may noght...' ff. 10r-31v: The Desert of Religion, written in Middle English verse, beginning, 'David þat prophet was ay. In þe sauter boke ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1549. Stowe MS 42

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 42
Title:
Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Revelations of Divine Love by the anchoress and mystic Julian of Norwich (b. 1342, d. c.1416). It is thought to be a copy from an exemplar manuscript for a edition published in 1670 by Serenus Cressy (b. c. 1605, d. 1674). Cressy was a Benedictine confessor for the E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1675
Extent:

1 volume

1550. Stowe MS 56

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 56
Title:
Baudri de Bourgueil, Historia Hierosolymitana; Historia Danica; Pseudo-Cornelius Nepos, Pseudo-Dares Phrygius, De Excidio Troiae Historia; Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri; Historia Alexandri Magni; Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem; Collatio Alexandri et Dindimi; Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-59r: Baudri de Bourgueil (b. c. 1046, d. 1130), Historia Hierosolymitana (The History of Jerusalem). ff. 59r-63v: Historia Danica (The Danish History). ff. 64r-75r: De Excidio Troiae Historia (The History of the Fall of Troy), authorship attributed to Dares Phrygius and trans...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

1551. Stowe MS 73

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 73
Title:
A genealogical chronicle of the kings of England to Edward IV
Scope & Content:
A genealogical chronicle, formerly in concertina format, now a codex. Contents: An abbreviated version in English of a genealogical chronicle from Adam to the beginning of the reign of Edward IV, of the type known as the 'Considerans' chronicle, named from the opening words of the Latin prol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1461-1499
Extent:

1 volume

1552. Stowe MS 555

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 555
Title:
An inventory of jewels and other goods of Queen Elizabeth I, 1574-1594
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: An introduction to Queen Elizabeth I’s inventory of jewels and other goods. It explains that the inventory was made or begun on 14 March 1574 and lists ‘all suche parcelles of the Quenis Majesties Juelles, plate and other Stuff as remaine [...] in the custodie and chardge of J...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[13 Mar 1574-12 Aug 1594]
Extent:

1 volume

1553. Stowe MS 556

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 556
Title:
An inventory of jewels and other goods of Queen Elizabeth I, 1596
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: An introduction to Queen Elizabeth I’s inventory of jewels and other goods. It explains that the inventory was made or begun on 20 February 1596 and lists ‘all suche percelles of the Queenes Majesties Jewelles and plate and other stuffe as did remayne [...] in the custodie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[20 Feb 1596]
Extent:
1 volume

1554. Stowe MS 594

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 594
Title:
William Bruges’ Garter Book
Scope & Content:
The first armorial for the Order of the Garter, containing portraits of the knights founder: f. 5v: Saint George, as patron of the order of the Garter, together with another knight, possibly William Bruges. f. 7v: Edward III of England. f. 8r: Henry Duke of Lancaster. f. 8v: Jean de Grailly...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
1430s
Extent:

1 volume

1555. Stowe MS 776

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 776
Title:
Cartulary of the estates of John de Vaux and his daughter and co-heiress Petronilla de Narford
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a cartulary, containing copies of charters and deeds in Latin, relating to the estates of the English nobleman Sir John de Vaux, alias Vallibus (b. c. 1220, d. 1287), in Norfolk and Suffolk, and particularly the inheritance of his daughter and coheiress Pernel, also known as P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1556. Stowe MS 956

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 956
Title:
John Croke, Psalms in English verse
Scope & Content:
A girdle-book containing a collection of thirteen Psalms, translated into English verse and apparently written by the legal official John Croke (b. 1489, d. 1554) in his own hand. Another copy of the text, without the hymn ‘Veni Creator’ but including Psalm 31, is now Add MS 30981, which is al...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1540
Extent:
1 volume

1557. Stowe MS 1065

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1065
Title:
Physician's folding almanac
Scope & Content:
Contents: A physician's portable almanac consisting of: ff. 1r-4v: Calendar, with tables of cycles calculated from 1482 to 1520; f. 5r-v: Indictiones, Festa Mobilia, Tabula planetarum; f. 5v: Tabula lunæ, and Homo Signorum (the influence of the signs of the Zodiac on man); f. 6r: Homo ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1482
Extent:

6 parchment folios, each folded into eight parts

1558. Stowe MS 1066

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1066
Title:
Calendar and almanac
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A set of religious devotions in English, written by Edward Seymour (b. c. 1500, d. 1552), duke of Somerset, from the Tower of London, on the day before his execution, 22 January 1522. f. 2r-v: Table of contents. f. 3r-v: Calendar. ff. 4r-31v: An almanac, containing a ser...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1540-1550
Extent:
1 volume

1559. Stowe MS 1067

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1067
Title:
Bestiary
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of the 'First Family' of bestiaries, with a text derived from the Physiologus with additions from Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636)'s Etymologies (Etymologies) (see McCulloch, Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries (1962) p. 31; Payne, Medieval Beasts (1990) p. 12). ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

1560. W3219(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
W3219(2)
Title:
'Passing Beechy-Head.' Plate 2 from T. and W. Daniell, A Picturesque Voyage to India; by the way of China.' Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. London: 1810. Artist(s): Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840), and Daniell, William (1769-1837)
Scope & Content:
'Passing Beechy-Head.' Plate 2 from T. and W. Daniell, A Picturesque Voyage to India; by the way of China.' Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. London: 1810.. Artist(s): Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840), and Daniell, William (1769-1837)
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1810
Extent:
1 Item

1561. WD354

Reference (shelfmark):
WD354
Title:
The Mary Anne at anchor off Portsmouth sketched from Binstead (Isle of Wight). July 1827. Artist(s): James, John Thomas (1786-1828)
Scope & Content:
The ‘Mary Anne’ at anchor off Portsmouth sketched from Binstead (Isle of Wight). July 1827. Inscribed on mount and on back in ink: ‘Binstead, Isle of Wight, July 1827. Mary Anne at anchor off Portsmouth.’ Pen-and-ink and wash; 5.25 by 8 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1827
Extent:
1 Item

1562. WD1282

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1282
Title:
An English landscape, 24 July 1845. Artist(s): Prinsep, Edward Augustus (1828-1900)
Scope & Content:
An English landscape, 24 July 1845. Inscribed on front in ink: (illegible), ‘July 24, '45.’ Water-colour and pen-and-ink; 9 by 14 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1845
Extent:
1 Item

1563. WD1364

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1364
Title:
Album of 27 drawings; 26 portraits and caricatures of members of the India Office Social Club. 1901-4. Artist(s): Wickham, William Allen (1857-1938)
Scope & Content:
27 drawings (60 pages); 26 portraits and caricatures of members of the India Office Social Club. 1901-4. Some portraits signed: ‘W.A.W’. and inscribed with subject and notes. Pencil, pen-and-ink, and wash; size of volume 14.5 by 10 ins. Presented. Note: A menu for the twelfth dinner in 1907...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1901-1904
Extent:
1 Item

1564. WD1419

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1419
Title:
View of Kenilworth Castle (England). Artist(s): Trapaud, Elisha (1750-1828)
Scope & Content:
View of Kenilworth Castle (England). c.1807. Inscribed on front in pencil: ‘Kenilworth Castle.’ Pencil and wash; 13 by 19.75 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1807
Extent:
1 Item

1565. WD2439

Reference (shelfmark):
WD2439
Title:
Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper's Hill (England). Artist(s): Winny, Thomas Herbert (1861-1960)
Scope & Content:
Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper's Hill (England). 1926. Inscribed on front in water-colour: ‘T.H.W.’ Water-colour; 16.5 by 24.5ins. Presented by the artist, 1926. Note: Cooper's Hill was a college for the training of civil engineers from 1871 to 1906. Winny had been connected with...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1926
Extent:
1 Item

1566. WD2440

Reference (shelfmark):
WD2440
Title:
Front of the East India House, Leadenhall Street, London. Classical design with Ionic columns, and pediment with sculptured tympanum, surmounted by statues. c. 1798
Scope & Content:
Front of the East India House, Leadenhall Street, London. Classical design with Ionic columns, and pediment with sculptured tympanum, surmounted by statues. c.1798. Pen-and-ink and wash; 18.25 by 31 ins. Circumstances of acquisition unrecorded. Note: This is probably one of the original dra...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1798
Extent:
1 Item

1567. WD2442

Reference (shelfmark):
WD2442
Title:
The Inner Court of the India Office, King Charles Street, London, decorated for a reception on 4 July 1902
Scope & Content:
The Inner (Durbar) Court of the India Office, King Charles Street, London, decorated for a reception on 4 July 1902. Water-colour; 381 by 251 ins. circumstances of acquisition unrecorded. Note: The drawing appears to illustrate a scheme of decoration by the Ministry of Works for a reception h...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1902
Extent:
1 Item

1568. WD2768

Reference (shelfmark):
WD2768
Title:
Scene with shipping off Gravesend (England). Artist(s): Parish, Charles Samuel Pollock (1822-1897)
Scope & Content:
Scene with shipping off Gravesend (England). 1845. Inscribed on front in pencil: ‘C.P. Ship ... 1845. Gravesend’. Pencil; 6 by 8 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1845
Extent:
1 Item

1569. WD3675

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3675
Title:
River banks, England. Artist(s): Brown, Percy (1872-1955)
Scope & Content:
River banks, England. Inscribed: ‘Percy Brown’. Water-colour; 30.4 by 38.5 cm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909-1929
Extent:
1 Item

1570. WD3676

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3676
Title:
Water meadows with cows, England. Artist(s): Brown, Percy (1872-1955)
Scope & Content:
Water meadows with cows, England. Inscribed: ‘Percy Brown’. Water-colour; 24 by 34.5 cm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909-1929
Extent:
1 Item

1571. WD3800

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3800
Title:
Fortified gateway with a soldier on guard and two sailors on the parapet, probably England. Artist(s): Parker, William Neville (1774-1853)
Scope & Content:
Fortified gateway with a soldier on guard and two sailors on the parapet, probably England c.1810. Inscribed on original backing: ‘Capt. Parker’. Water-colour; 38 by 26 cm. Presented by Professor J.P. Brenan, 1980.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1810
Extent:
1 Item

1572. WD4140

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4140
Title:
Summer landscape. Artist(s): Brown, Percy (1872-1955)
Scope & Content:
Summer landscape
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909-1929
Extent:
1 Item

1573. WD4141

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4141
Title:
Summer landscape. Artist(s): Brown, Percy (1872-1955)
Scope & Content:
Summer landscape
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909-1929
Extent:
1 Item

1574. WD4142

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4142
Title:
Summer landscape. Artist(s): Brown, Percy (1872-1955)
Scope & Content:
Summer landscape
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909-1929
Extent:
1 Item

1575. WD4143

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4143
Title:
Summer landscape. Artist(s): Brown, Percy (1872-1955)
Scope & Content:
Summer landscape
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909-1929
Extent:
1 Item

1576. WD4144

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4144
Title:
Summer landscape. Artist(s): Brown, Percy (1872-1955)
Scope & Content:
Summer landscape
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909-1929
Extent:
1 Item

1577. WD4431

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4431
Title:
Gabled house in a summer landscape, England. Artist(s): Home, Robert (1834-1896)
Scope & Content:
Gabled house in a summer landscape, England. Inscribed: ‘Elm tree at Rumwell Lodge. R.H. 9/80.’ Pencil; 15.5 by 28.8 cm. Bequeathed by Mr. E.P. Westby in 1996, along with WD4426-4430, F888 (Robert Home's miniature painting cabinet) and miscellaneous Home family papers (WD4431(Additional)). ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880
Extent:
1 Item

1578. Yates Thompson MS 52

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 52
Title:
Wycliffite Psalter and Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Modern note on the removal of a leaf, pastedown. f. 3r: Erased ownership inscription. f. 3v: Ownership inscriptions and summary of the volume’s contents, 15th and 18th century, Latin and English. ff. 4r-9v: Calendar, Latin. ff. 10r-45v: Book of Hours. ff. 46r-163r: Wycliff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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