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1. Add MS 22049

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Title:
A Benedictional
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-2r: added ownership inscriptions. ff. 3r-13v: Order for Candlemas, beginning, ‘Ordo in purificatione sancte marie virginis ad benedicendos cereos’. ff. 13v-15v: Order for Ash Wednesday, beginning, ‘Feria quarta in capite Ieiunij. Benedictio cinerum’. ff. 16r-40r: Order for...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Add MS 35830

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Title:
State letters and papers (Hardwick Papers vol. 482)
Scope & Content:
State letters and papers, principally the correspondence of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (1515/16-1571), diplomat and member of parliament. He was appointed ambassador to France in May 1559, two months before the death of King Henry II, and his letters give detailed accounts of his interviews wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1557-1561
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 48000

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Add MS 48000
Title:
Treaties between England, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire, 1254-1599
Scope & Content:
Copies of treaties between England, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire, between 1254 and 1599, with related documents. Partly in the hand of Petruccio Ubaldini, Italian soldier, illuminator, calligrapher and scholar. ff. xxviii-xxxii: Inspeximus of King Henry VI. Of a commercial treaty with Holla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1500-1599
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 48044

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Add MS 48044
Title:
Correspondence and state papers relating to foreign affairs and parliament, 1525-1625
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers of Robert Beale (1541-1601), administrator and diplomat. Including original correspondence of English ambassadors in France and Rome, 1530-1533, as well as documents relating to the Netherlands, the 1604 Treaty of London, and the Spanish Match. ff. 4r-5v Letter from Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1525-1625
Extent:
1 volume

5. Arundel MS 501

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Arundel MS 501
Title:
Miscellany, assembled from fragments of several different codices; includes the confession of faith of a town in Germany; a fragment of the Regimen acutorum, attributed to Hipppocrates; a fragment of Hidlebert of Lavardin, Sermo de communi consensu; and medical texts
Scope & Content:
Miscellany, assembled from fragments of several different codices. The manuscript was formerly bound together with Arundel MSS 499 and 500, and foliated consecutively with these volumes, as ff. 18-43 (the current foliation is as ff. 1-26). Folios 15 and 16 were originally part of Arundel MS 44, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
11th century - 16th century
Extent:
A parchment and paper codex, 26 folios

6. Harley MS 2750

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Harley MS 2750
Title:
Publius Terentius Afer, Vita Terentii, Opera (Life and Works), with interlinear and marginal glosses
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-94r: Publius Terentius Afer, Vita Terentii, Opera (Life and Works), with interlinear and marginal glosses. f. 94v: various scribbles and notes including an annotation which is one of the earliest French vernacular songs with music in a late-11th-century hand. Decoration: Ini...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Sloane MS 361

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Sloane MS 361
Title:
Speculum humanae salvationis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-50: Speculum humanæ salvationis, consisting of the Prologue and Prohemium (ff. 1r-3v), 42 chapters consisting of 4 text columns each, with 4 miniatures above (ff. 4v-46r) and 3 final chapters without illustrations, consisting of the Seven Stations of the Passion, the Seven Sorr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

8. Sloane MS 2560

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Sloane MS 2560
Title:
Alchemical compilation
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-18r: Donum Dei (also known as the Pretiosissimum donum Dei). The beginning of this copy has the same initial paragraphs as found in another popular alchemical treatise, the Rosarium (according to the 1550 printed edition). Decoration: Eleven painted miniatures, the first acc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume