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711. Add MS 47678

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Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, Pro Ligario, Pro rege Deiotaro, In Verrem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains In Catilinam (The Speech against Catiline), Pro Ligario (The Speech in Defense of Ligarius), Pro rege Deiotaro (The Speech in Defense of King Deiotarius) and the second In Verrem II (The Second Speech Against Verres) by the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

712. Add MS 47844

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Title:
Counter-tenor part-book containing Latin motets, etc., for five, six or seven voices
Scope & Content:
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. II (ff. ii+17). Counter-tenor part-book containing Latin motets, etc., for five, six or seven voices, by William Byrd (ff. 3b-5, 9b-11, 13, 13b, 15), Orlando di Lasso (ff. 11b-12b), [Robert?] Parsons (ff. 15b-16), John Shepherd (ff. 3, 12b), [Nicholas?] Strogers (f. 2b),...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1581
Extent:
1 item

713. Add MS 47967

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Title:
Orosius, Historia adversus paganos ('The Old English Orosius' or 'The Tollemache Orosius' )
Scope & Content:
The Tollemache Orosius (also known as the Lauderdale Orosius or Helmingham Hall 46) contains the oldest known copy of the Old English translation of Orosius's Historia adversus paganos. The compiler condensed this text in some places and augmented it in others to explain classical allusions and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
900-1699
Extent:

Parchment codex

714. Add MS 48984

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Title:
Gregory the Great, Homiliae in evangelia
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Homiliae in Evangelia (Sermons on the Gospel) by the pope and theologian St Gregory the Great (b. c. 540 , d. 604). The manuscript was donated by the Cistercian abbey of Caerleon to the Cistercian abbey of Hailes in 1248. Contents: ff. 4r-126v: Gregory the Great, H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

715. Add MS 51950

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Title:
Holland House dinner-book: Volume 1
Scope & Content:
The dinner-book of Holland House 1799-1806. It contains a list of names of all the guests who attended dinners at Holland House from 1799-1806. This volume contains annotations made by Charles Richard Fox, son of Lord and Lady Holland, which are dated 1871. On the first page Charles has writte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1799-1871
Extent:
1 volume

716. Add MS 52585

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Title:
Miscellany of verse and prose ('The Waferer Commonplace Book')
Scope & Content:
Miscellany volume of verse and prose. Owned by Richard Waferer of Buckinghamshire. Includes verse and prose works by: Joseph Hall; Sir Walter Raleigh; William Shakespeare; Sir Edward Dyer; Robert Southwell, S.J.; Nicholas Breton; and Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex. f. i r Remains of vell...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1597-1628
Extent:
1 volume

717. Add MS 52913

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Title:
Record of a court case between Canonsleigh Priory and the parishioners of Morden
Scope & Content:
Record of a court case between the abbess and convent of Canonsleigh Priory, Devon, and Thomas Chaplain, William Holbele, John Partridge and others of the poor of Morden, Dorset. The case was held at Salisbury Cathedral by John Maydenheth, Vicar-General of the Bishop of Salisbury, in the consist...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Last decade of the 14th century
Extent:
1 roll

718. Add MS 54229

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Title:
Glossed Psalter
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Psalter, with the marginal Gloss on the Psalms (Magna glosatura) by Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160). It was probably made in England in the 3rd quarter of the 12th century, making it a particularly early copy of Peter Lombard’s Gloss on the Psalms, possibly made wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

719. Add MS 54782

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hastings Hours', or 'London Hours of William Lord Hastings')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-17v: Gospel extracts. ff. 19r-72r: Devotions, consisting of a prayer to Christ, a memorial to the Trinity, Psalm 53 followed by a prayer to Christ and Psalm 129, two prayers to the Virgin, a prayer to Christ, the Eight Verses of St Bernard, memorials...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1480
Extent:

Parchment codex

720. Add MS 57337

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Title:
The Anderson Pontifical
Scope & Content:
The Anderson Pontifical (also known as the Brodie Pontifical) contains an imperfect Pontifical and an imperfect Benedictional, probably written in a major southern English scriptorium at the end of the 10th century or the first quarter of the 11th century. A few Old English glosses and musical n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 988-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

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