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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:
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