Records and papers concerning mines, coinage, and weights and measures
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Codex chartaceus, in folio, ignis strage semideletus, ex foliis constans 347. 1. A repertory of privileges and immunities granted to miners in various parts of England; with references to the patents, and other records. 1. 2. A fragment, concerning a gold mine in Scotland. 12. 3. A tract, entit...
Papers relating to levies, musters and the defence of ports, temp. Henry VIII (1509–1547) and Elizabeth I (1558–1603)
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Codex chartaceus, in folio, ignis strage semideletus; foliis constans 417. 1. Collections about levying men for the service of war; out of ancient records. (Lat.) much burnt. 1. 2. An order of Henry VIII. for the levy of troops. (Orig?) 20. 3. William (Warham, Abp. of) Canterbury, to Card. Wols...
Contents: f. 178r-178v: a genealogy of West Saxon kings to Edward the Martyr. This genealogy was originally part of the same manuscript as the B-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Cotton MS Tiberius A VI, ff. 1-35), which was probably copied between 977 and 978. Decoration: 1 small initial i...
These folios contain two texts copied in the 4th quarter of the 10th century. Contents: ff. 179r–179v: a Horologium in Old English. f. 179v: a mass prayer in Latin. Decoration: One small initial in red ink. Several small initials in brown ink. Rubrics in red.
Miniature of Æthelwold, Edgar and Dunstan; Regularis Concordia; collection of prognostics; confessional prayers; prayers and devotions; Ælfric, Colloquy; prognostics; Bede, De Temporibus, revised by Ælfric; Life of St Margaret; Ælfric, homily for Palm Sunday; miscellaneous texts including a collection of homilies; contents page; miniature of St Benedict, enthroned; Rule of St Benedict; various texts including capitula of the Council of Aachen, 817
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These folios contain an 11th-century copy of Regularis Concordia, the Rule of St Benedict, prognostics, prayers, homilies, other texts and two miniatures. It may have originally formed a miscellany for a churchman or archbishop (see Cooper, Monk-Bishops (2015), p. 263). Late 11th- or early 12th-...