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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39656
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Scope & Content:: PARHAM MS.LXXIV. NOTE-BOOK of classical studies compiled from the printed works of 16th and 17th century scholars. Johannes Meursius, Bernardinus Ferrarius and Nicolas Rigault provide some of the more extensive extracts, but Casaubon, Scaliger, Lipsius, Gruter and others are also represented. Th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:: after 1640
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39657
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Scope & Content:: PARHAM MS. LXXV. GENESIS in pictures; with accompanying text derived from a Bible History in French. The pictures occupy the whole space of the left-hand pages, the text being inscribed on the opposite pages. Rubrics descriptive of the subjects (not deriving from the source of the text) are insc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39658
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Scope & Content:: PARHAM MS. LXXVI. " LESTRIF de Vertu et Fortune," in three books, in verse and prose, dedicated to Philip [the Good], Duke of Burgundy, by Martin Le Franc, Provost of Lausanne Cathedral and Secretary to Pope Nicholas V (1449-1455). Printed in a rare edition (Lyons, circ. 1476 ?), reprinted by Mi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39659
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Scope & Content:: PARHAM MS. LXXVII. THE FALL OF PRINCES: a poem in nine books by John Lydgate, translated from Laurent de Premierfait's French prose version of Boccaccio's Latin prose work, De casibus Virorum Illustrium. See H. Bergen, Lydgate's Fall of Princes, E.E.T.S., cxxi-cxxiii, 1924, in the introduction t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39660
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Scope & Content:: PARHAM MS. LXXVIII. PROPHECIES of the Popes, in Latin, attributed to Joachim, Abbot of Fiore (d. 1202), and Anselm, Bishop of Marsico (d. circ. 1210), with the same series of illustrations as in Add. MS. 15691, Arundel MS. 117, and Harley MSS. 1340, 3483. The extreme names are Nicholas III and I...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1410-1415?
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39661
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Scope & Content:: PARHAM MS. LXXIX. " LIBRETTO di astrologia ; et de nauicar ; et del caso de le aque, composto per Piero Capello fo de Ser Francesco el Caualliti ? " beg. " Al nome sia de dio ... Questo e uno sumario de astrologia." Two diagrams (ff. 40, 61 b). Paper ; ff. 62. 6 1/2 in. x 4 1/2 in. A.D. 1539. Cu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1539
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39662
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Scope & Content:: PARHAM MS. LXXX. ARMORIAL, in colour, of German noblemen and others killed in the Austro-Venetian war of 1487 and buried in the Cathedral of San Vigilio at Trent. The actual copy compiled by " Dominicus Custodis Antuerpianus " [Dominicus Custos (al. De Coster], the engraver, for Antony Fugger, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1589-1590
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39663
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Scope & Content:: PARHAM MS. LXXXI. MATHEMATICAL Treatises in French, viz. (a) " Arithmetique ou Science des nombres," f. 1 ;- (b) " Traité de Cosmographie," with diagrams, f. 47. A note on f. iii states that the author is M. Morin, Professor of Mathematics at Angers. Paper; ff. v + 108. Octavo. XVIII cent. Belo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39664
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Scope & Content:: PARHAM MS. LXXXII. " FABLES du Labirinte de Versailles " : a frontispiece, 38 pictures, and a tail-piece, each cut out from a single sheet of white paper and laid down on a black background, illustrating 38 out of the 39 Fables of Æsop represented on the fountains of the Labyrinth at Versailles,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1775 ?
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39665
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Scope & Content:: PARHAM MS. LXXXIII. LIVES of Irish saints, etc. Irish. The texts in this MS. are of a type commonly found in MSS. written in co. Cork in the 18th and 19th centt. For a fuller description see Catalogue of Irish MSS., vol. ii (cited below as Cat.), p. 455. 1. Geoffrey Keating's Eochair-sgiath an ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Irish
Date Range:: 1807-1808
Extent:: 1 item

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