Commentary on Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphera
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Commentary on Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphera, entitled In Spheram Iohannis de Sacro Bosco commentarius, incipit: 'Compendium quodam est...'
A quarto notebook of verse and prose in English, Latin and French, in various hands. Probably partly compiled by Edmund Killingworth of Winchester College and New College, Oxford (see Kelliher). The manuscript is made up of the remains of 2 notebooks. The first notebook (ff. 1-11) contains misce...
A quarto verse miscellany in various hands. Compiled mainly by Thomas Crosse in the 1630s, whose name appears in a poem, ‘An Acrostick upon my name’, at f. 1r. Later additions at ff. 63r-65r are dated 1677-1681. Contents include: f. 1*r: An acrostic poem on the name ‘Edward’ [deleted]. f. 1r: ...
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Warwickshire families
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Contents: ff. 2*recto-4*recto: An alphabetical index of surnames. ff. 5*recto-5*verso: Coats of arms (20 per page) of ‘Knightes of warwickeshire about the tyme of Edward the first’. ff. 6*recto-6*verso: Coats of arms (20 per page) of ‘Warwickshire [gentry] as they are in Theobalds Gallery’. ...
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Escutcheons in brown ink (12 per page); all are empty except for those on f. 1r, which feature coats of arms with crests drawn in pencil, and without family names. f. 7r: A coat of arms in brown ink. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [8]recto: A list (pencil...