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81. Add MS 49597/1

Reference (shelfmark):
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

Reference (shelfmark):
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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