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51. Add MS 15418

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Add MS 15418
Title:
Hildegard von Bingen, Liber divinorum operum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Liber divinorum operum (Book of Divine Works) by Hildegard von Bingen (b. c. 1098, d. 1179), a German Benedictine abbess, polymath and medieval mystic. Hildegard originally composed the work between 1163 and 1173. It is arranged in three parts and provides details of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

52. Add MS 16165

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Add MS 16165
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece; Edward of Norwich, The Master of the Game; John Lydgate, The Temple of Glas, and other literary works, written by John Shirley
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a compilation of works in Middle English and Latin, written by John Shirley (b. c. 1366, d. 1456). Shirley was secretary to Richard Beauchamp (b. 1382, d. 1439), 13th Earl of Warwick, as well as a translator and scribe who is now best known for his transcriptions of works by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1423-1439
Extent:
1 volume

53. Add MS 17392

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Add MS 17392
Title:
Psalter with gloss in Latin
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-229v: Psalter, with interlinear and marginal glosses embedding extracts from the Parva glossatura (The Small Gloss) of Anselm of Laon (b. 1050, d. 1117) and his school; followed by Canticles (ff. 152r-229v), beginning of Psalms: 'Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum'; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

54. Add MS 21082

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Add MS 21082
Title:
Notes and papers of Henry Dodwell (b. 1641, d. 1711).
Scope & Content:
f. 1: Two notes by Henry Dodwell about the letter corpus in the manuscript. f. 1v: blank f. 2: Table of content f. 2v: blank ff. 3-59v: Latin correspondence of William Lloyd, bishop of St Asaph (later Worcester) (b. 1627, d. 1717) with Antoine Pagi (b.1624, d. 1699) on Roman consular chronol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
c 1700
Extent:

1 volume

55. Add MS 22285

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Add MS 22285
Title:
The Martyrology of Syon Abbey
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts used by the nuns and brothers of Syon Abbey, including liturgical guides, obituaries, historical notices, a calendar, and a martyrology. For an edition and translation of the manuscript, see Gejrot, ed. The Martiloge of Syon Abbey (2015); for a list of book donors to Syon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Latin, and Portuguese
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

56. Add MS 23002

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Add MS 23002
Title:
Collection of scientific treatises, including Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of scientific treatises, including the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', an instructional manual written by Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The manuscript's contents closely resemble another 15th-century treatise collection (now Egerton MS 2622). Conte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

57. Add MS 23938

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Add MS 23938
Title:
Receipts and expenses of the expedition to bring Queen Margaret of Anjou to England
Scope & Content:
This account records the expedition to bring Queen Margaret of Anjou (b. 1430, d. 1482) to England for her marriage to King Henry VI (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471). The account was compiled by two royal clerks, John Breknoke and John Everdon, covering the period between 17 July 1444 and 16 October 14...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17 July 1444-16 October 1445
Extent:
1 volume

58. Add MS 24066

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Add MS 24066
Title:
Ranulf of Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regum Angliae; Leges Edwardi Confessoris, Statutes of England; various legal texts
Scope & Content:
This English manuscript contains a number of legal texts from the 12th and the 14th centuries. It includes, among other texts, the Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regum Angliae (The Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Realm of England Commonly called Glanvill) and the earliest copy o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1190-14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

59. Add MS 24202

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Add MS 24202
Title:
A Middle English theological anthology with orthodox and reformist writings
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains theological texts in Middle English that were copied in the decades just before or after the year 1400. On the one hand, the collection contains orthodox treatises, such as selections from the late 14th-century Lay Folk’s Catechism by John of Gaytryge ['Gaysteke' or 'Cat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1380-c 1425
Extent:
1 volume

60. Add MS 24663

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Add MS 24663
Title:
Collection of prophecies in prose and verse, attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer, Jean de Roquetaillade, Merlin, Thomas Becket and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-48r: Collection of prophecies in prose and verse attributed variously to Geoffrey Chaucer, Jean de Roquetaillade, Merlin, Thomas Becket and others, written in Middle English, Latin and French. f. 48v is blank.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

61. Add MS 25718

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Add MS 25718
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-88v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, fragmentary, including portions of ten of the Tales, arranged as follows: ff. 1r-24v: The Knight's Tale, comprising A, ll. 1394-1524, 1584-1706, 1829-1950 and 2011-3108. ff. 24v-30v: The Miller's Prologue and Tale, comprising A,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

62. Add MS 27329

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Add MS 27329
Title:
Henry Daniel, De Re Herbaria and De Arboribus; Anonymous, De Pestilentia Libellus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript primarily contains the work of Henry Daniel (b. c. 1315-1320, d. after 1385), a scholar, gardener and healer. During his life, Daniel studied medicine, cultivated a large garden at Stepney in London (in which he claims to have had 242 different plants), and, at a later age, joine...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:

A parchment codex

63. Add MS 28504

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Add MS 28504
Title:
John Skelton, The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng; rule-book for the Esquire Youths, a society of bell-ringers
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an attempted facsimile of an early printed edition of The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng, by the English poet John Skelton (b. c. 1463, d. 1529). The satirical poem concerns the eponymous Elynour, the owner of a pub in southern England. It is written in a style known as 'Ske...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

64. Add MS 28617

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Add MS 28617
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a fragmentary copy of The Legend of Good Women, written by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The Middle English poem takes the form of a dream vision and tells the stories of ten women from Classical history and mythology. Other copies of the po...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

65. Add MS 29250

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Add MS 29250
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', with incunables printed by Peter Liechenstein and Johann Trechsel
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', written by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The treatise has been bound together with some late 15th-century incunables: Ephemerides sive Almanack perpetuus by the Castilian astronomer and historian Abraham Za...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

66. Add MS 33241

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Add MS 33241
Title:
Encomium Emmae reginae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an account praising Emma (d. 1052), the second consort of both Æthelred II (d. 1016), king of England, and Cnut (d. 1035), king of England, Denmark and Norway. The work was composed by a Flemish monk at Emma's behest. This manuscript also contains an image of the author ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

67. Add MS 34360

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Add MS 34360
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 Su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

68. Add MS 35286

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Add MS 35286
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-238v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect, wanting many leaves. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-7v: The General Prologue, imperfect, wanting two leaves before and after f. 1 (A, ll. 1-153, 234-396). ff. 7v-28r: The Knight's Tale, imperfe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

69. Add MS 35294

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Add MS 35294
Title:
Wardrobe account of Eleanor of Castile
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the wardrobe account, or Liber Garderobe, of Eleanor of Castile, (b. c. 1240, d. 1290), Queen consort to King Edward I (r. 1272-1307). The account was compiled by Queen Eleanor's treasurer, John of Berewyk (fl. 1279-1312), and records a set of her receipts and expenses...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
[29 Sep 1289-30 Dec 1290]
Extent:
1 volume

70. Add MS 37656

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Add MS 37656
Title:
Wardrobe account of Thomas of Brotherton and Edmund of Woodstock, sons of Edward I and Margaret of France
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the wardrobe account of Thomas of Brotherton (b. 1300, d. 1338), and Edmund of Woodstock (b. 1301, d. 1330), afterwards Earls of Norfolk and Kent. Princes Thomas and Edmund were the fifth and sixth sons of King Edward I (r. 1272-1307), and the oldest by his second marria...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1305
Extent:
1 volume

71. Add MS 38130

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Add MS 38130
Title:
Vita Sancti Neoti; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from the early 12th century mainly contains a life and sermons concerning the 9th-century Benedictine monk St Neot, and the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by the Benedictine monk Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735). Its script and op...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

72. Add MS 38818, ff 136-190

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Add MS 38818, ff 136-190
Title:
Indices of words and concepts related to works of St Augustine and Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini; a table of chapters of Isidore of Seville, Sententie libri tres
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 136r-185v: Indices of words and concepts related to different works of St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430). It includes also an index for Prosper of Aquitaine (b. c. 390, d. c. 463), Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini (Epigrams on St Augustine's Sentences). Indices on St Augusti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
A part of Add MS 38818

73. Add MS 38818, ff 191-262

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Add MS 38818, ff 191-262
Title:
A collection of sermons; Robert of Basevorn, Forma predicandi; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma de lamentatione animae peccatricis (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
Formerly bound in a different order. This part was originally prefaced by Robert of Basevorn (fl. 14th century), Forma predicandi (Form of Preaching). Contents: ff. 191r-255v: A collection of sermons in several hands. The original order of this collection is given at the end in a list of cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
Part of Add MS 38818

74. Add MS 38819

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Add MS 38819
Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Contents: Psalter, use of York. ff. 1r-6v: An Augustinian Calendar, with some Cistercian additions. ff. 7r-135v: The Book of Psalms, imperfect, some Psalms are lacking (lacking Psalms 1:1-5; 9:3-15; 10:4; 11:7; 31:8; 33:7; 34:16; 36:4; 45:1; 47:13; 77:17-33; 91:1; 93:12; 101:11; 105:28; 112:4...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

75. Add MS 43827 A

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Add MS 43827 A
Title:
Autobiographical account of the life of Rose Lok
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an autobiographical account of the life of Rose Lok (b. 1526, d. 1613), an English businesswoman and Protestant exile during the Tudor period, written by her in c. 1610 when she was 84. Rose was the daughter of Sir William Lok (b. 1480, d. 1550), a gentleman usher to Hen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

76. Add MS 43827 B

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Add MS 43827 B
Title:
Autobiographical account of the life of Rose Lok, copied by Elizabeth Hickman
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an autobiographical account of the life of Rose Lok (b. 1526, d. 1613), an English businesswoman and Protestant exile during the Tudor period, written by her in c. 1610 when she was 84. Rose was the daughter of Sir William Lok (b. 1480, d. 1550), a gentleman usher to Hen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1667
Extent:
1 volume

77. Add MS 44839

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Add MS 44839
Title:
Chart of the Thames estuary drawn by Robert Adams, showing existing and proposed defences on the Thames, against the Spanish Armada
Scope & Content:
A pictorial chart of the Thames estuary, drawn in pen-and-ink with coloured wash, in 1588 by Robert Adams (b. 1540, d. 1595), architect and surveyor of buildings for Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603), and endorsed across the end, in a contemporary hand, 'Thamesis Descriptio'. The chart shows the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1588
Extent:
1 roll

78. Add MS 48027/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 48027/1
Title:
Drawings and documents on the sentence against and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:
This volume contains two leaves that were originally part of Add MS 48027, where they followed f. 569 and f. 650, but without modern foliation. The leaves are now mounted separately in this volume and are referred to by the folio numbers they would have been given in the modern foliation of Add ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1587
Extent:
1 volume

79. Add MS 48039/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 48039/1
Title:
A medieval bifolium, previously used as binding for Add MS 48039
Scope & Content:
This bifolium was previously used as the cover of Add MS 48039: Papers of Robert Beale relating to religious affairs, c. 1584-1591. Contents: This unfoliated bifolium contains hitherto unidentified fragmentary sections of the Franciscan teacher Nicholas of Lyra (b. c. 1270, d. 1349)’s Postilla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 bifolium

80. Add MS 48984

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Add MS 48984
Title:
Gregory the Great, Homiliae in evangelia
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Homiliae in Evangelia (Sermons on the Gospel) by the pope and theologian St Gregory the Great (b. c. 540 , d. 604). The manuscript was donated by the Cistercian abbey of Caerleon to the Cistercian abbey of Hailes in 1248. Contents: ff. 4r-126v: Gregory the Great, H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

81. 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

82. Add MS 61822/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 61822/1
Title:
Papers relating to William Briton's miscellany of Tudor prose and verse (Add MS 61822)
Scope & Content:
A collection of notes by William Ringler Jr, R. B. McKerrow and Quaritch on William Briton's miscellany of Tudor prose and verse (Add MS 61822), kept in a separate folder as Add MS 61822/1. ff. 1r–7r: Typewritten, signed description of Add MS 61822 by William Ringler Jr, 12 August 1950: 'The Ho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1927-1950
Extent:
1 volume

83. Add MS 70513

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 70513
Title:
Collection of metrical saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French ('The Campsey Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving medieval collection of rhymed saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French. It is known as the 'Campsey Manuscript', after the female Augustinian priory of Campsey, in Suffolk, where it was housed during the 14th century. An added inscription in the manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

84. Add MS 74286

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Add MS 74286
Title:
Collection of original letters from Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, to Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
This manuscript principally contains a collection of 43 original letters written from Robert Devereux (b. 1565, d. 1601), 2nd Earl of Essex, to Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603). Although some of the letters are undated, all but the first were written between the time of Essex's expedition to Fra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1590-1601
Extent:
1 volume

85. Add MS 74287

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 74287
Title:
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, autograph draft of Discourse on War with Spain
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is an autograph draft of Discourse on War with Spain, by Robert Devereux (b. 1565, d. 1601), 2nd earl of Essex. Essex wrote the work on board his ship the Due Repulse, during his return voyage from Cadiz to England in early August 1596. The Discourse is written in the form of a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1596
Extent:

1 volume

86. Add MS 81592

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 81592
Title:
An original letter of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, addressed to an unnamed nobleman, probably the Earl of Rutland
Scope & Content:
This item is an autograph letter, written by Robert Devereux (b. 1565, d. 1601), 2nd Earl of Essex, and addressed to an unnamed nobleman, most likely the Earl of Rutland, offering advice on military service and the pursuit of honour in war. The letter takes the form of a brief discourse and wa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 May [1596]
Extent:
1 bifolium

87. 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

88. Add MS 89442

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89442
Title:
Lewis of Caerleon, collected astronomical and mathematical works
Scope & Content:
An opera omnia of the Welsh physician and astronomer Lewis of Caerleon (d. in or after 1495), representing the largest and most complete collection of his astronomical and mathematical works. Written under Lewis's supervision, the manuscript contains self-referential rubrics (‘per me Lodowycum ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1485-c 1495
Extent:

1 volume

89. Add Roll 17253

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Roll 17253
Title:
Will of Margaret Paston
Scope & Content:
Will of Margaret Paston (1422-84), widow, wife of John Paston senior and daughter and heir of John Mautby. She leaves her body to be buried in the aisle of Mautby Church, Norfolk, before the image of the Virgin Mary and beside the bodies of her ancestors, and gives 20s to the church. She makes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1482
Extent:
1 roll

90. Arundel MS 140

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 140
Title:
Collection of legendary and devotional texts including The Prick of Conscience, Mandeville's Travels and The Seven Sages of Rome; Geoffrey Chaucer, The Tale of Melibee
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is made up of two distinct structural units joined together. The first part (ff. 1-165) contains a collection of legendary and devotional works in Middle English, including The Prick of Conscience, The Seven Sages of Rome, and Mandeville's Travels. The second part (ff. 166-181)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

91. Arundel MS 146

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 146
Title:
The Syon Additions to the Rule of St Saviour
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the text of a set of additions to the rules compiled for the sisters of the Brigittine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary, and St Bridget of Syon, founded by King Henry V (r. 1413-1422) in 1415. Other surviving versions of the Additions to the Rule include: London, Guildhall...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

92. Arundel MS 153

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 153
Title:
Liber Domesday (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains extracts from the Domesday Book, mainly concerning counties in the South-West and Midlands of England. Contents: ff. 2r-5r: Wiltshire. ff. 5r-8r: Dorset. ff. 8v-15v: Somerset. ff. 16r-23r: Devon. ff. 23r-26v: Cornwall. ff. 26v-27v: Middlesex. ff. 27v-31v: Hertfor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

93. Arundel MS 230, ff 162-180

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 230, ff 162-180
Title:
The Office of the Dead
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 162r-180v: The Office of the Dead. The manuscript contains a number of additions: f. 174r: Responsory from the Office of the Dead, beginning 'Libera me domine de viis infernie qui portas ereas confregis[ti] [et] visitati infernum et d[edisti] eiis lumen ut viderent te qui eran...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
Part of Arundel MS 230

94. Arundel MS 230, ff 181-194

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 230, ff 181-194
Title:
List of plant names (in Anglo-Norman); Romance de Alexandre (fragment); Philippe de Thaon, Comput
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 182r-194v: Philippe de Thaon, Comput (see Dean, Anglo-Norman Literature (1999), pp. 190-91 [no. 346]). The manuscript contains a number of additions: f. 181r: A list of plants in Anglo-Norman, added in the mid 14th century (see Dean, Anglo-Norman Literature (1999), p. 173 [no....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
Part of Arundel MS 230

95. Burney MS 4

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 4
Title:
Bible; the Interpretations of Hebrew names, synoptic table of biblical parallels
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two parts: the original part contains the Old and New Testament of the Latin Vulgate (ff. 1-249, 273-656). The younger part (ff. 250-277*, ff. 657-667) seems to have been added in the second half of the 14th century to replace lost or damaged parts of the Old Testamen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

96. Burney MS 28

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 28
Title:
Glossed Gospel of Mark
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the Gospel of Mark with interlinear and marginal Gloss. The manuscript’s provenance suggests that it was most likely produced in England. Contents: ff. 1r-111r: The Gospel of Mark with marginal and interlinear gloss. [f. 111v is an empty leaf]. Decora...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

97. Burney MS 326

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 326
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Etymologiae (Etymologies), also known as Origenes (Origins), by Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636). This is an encyclopedic work that discusses the origin of words related to the liberal arts and a vast range of other subjects. The manuscript appears to have been...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

98. Cotton Ch I 3/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch I 3/3
Title:
Confession of John Stephenson, accused of defamation by Sir Robert Cotton
Scope & Content:
Confession of John Stephenson of St Margaret's Parish, Westminster, who has been summoned in a case of defamation by Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631), 1st baronet, knight. Stephenson confesses that in August or September 1630, he falsely accused Cotton of attempting to have carnal knowledge of Mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1630
Extent:
1 leaf

99. Cotton Ch I 3/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch I 3/4
Title:
Testimony of Amphillis Ferrours that John Wilcox and others had falsely accused Sir Robert Cotton of having had carnal knowledge of Margaret Ferrours
Scope & Content:
Testimony of Amphillis Ferrours, widow, of St Margaret's Parish, Westminster, that John Wilcox, Jane, his wife, and Thomas Jones had falsely accused Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631), 1st baronet, knight, of having had carnal knowledge of Margaret Ferrours, her daughter and the wife of John Stephens...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1630
Extent:
1 leaf

100. Cotton Ch I 5/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch I 5/5
Title:
Dossier for the case of Sir Thomas Cotton against John Milton, scrivener, and John Bower concerning a debt
Scope & Content:
Collection of documents relating to a court case. Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Draft complaint by Sir Thomas Cotton (1594-1662), 2nd baronet, against John Milton of Bread Street, London (1562-1647), father of the poet of the same name, concerning a debt owed by Thomas’ uncle, John, for whom Thomas is ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1630s
Extent:
1 booklet

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