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731. Add MS 74233 B

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Title:
Cutting from an Antiphoner
Scope & Content:
This is a single cutting from f. 146 of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Codice Corale MS 1. This large manuscript - the seventh part of a twelve volume antiphoner - contains an antiphoner for the Proper Time (Easter to Trinity Sunday), with a section of antiphons for the Common of Sain...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1396-1442
Extent:

1 leaf

732. Add MS 74236

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Title:
Missal ('The Sherborne Missal')
Scope & Content:
The Sherborne Missal is the largest, most lavishly decorated late medieval English service book to have survived the Reformation intact. The manuscript was made for the Benedictine abbey of St Mary’s in Sherborne, Dorset. It was probably produced between 1399-1407, since it contains portraits of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1399-1407
Extent:
A parchment codex

733. Add MS 74286

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Title:
Collection of original letters from Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, to Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
This manuscript principally contains a collection of 43 original letters written from Robert Devereux (b. 1565, d. 1601), 2nd Earl of Essex, to Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603). Although some of the letters are undated, all but the first were written between the time of Essex's expedition to Fra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1590-1601
Extent:
1 volume

734. Add MS 74287

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Title:
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, autograph draft of Discourse on War with Spain
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is an autograph draft of Discourse on War with Spain, by Robert Devereux (b. 1565, d. 1601), 2nd earl of Essex. Essex wrote the work on board his ship the Due Repulse, during his return voyage from Cadiz to England in early August 1596. The Discourse is written in the form of a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1596
Extent:

1 volume

735. Add MS 78425

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLVIII. Miscellaneous collected papers of John Evelyn; 17th cent.
Scope & Content:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLVIII. Miscellaneous collected papers of John Evelyn; 17th cent. 1. `Avertimente & precetti &c'; 17th cent. [italics]Italian[/italics]. An anonymous treatise in short sections, including those on health, honour and reputation, fashion, negotiation, etc. Presumably ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

736. Add MS 82956

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Title:
The Noyon Sacramentary
Scope & Content:
This unusually tall and thin manuscript contains a sacramentary: a manuscript that provides the texts needed for a bishop to perform Mass and carry out ordinations, blessings, and consecrations. This sacramentary was produced in the late 10th century by and for Noyon Cathedral. The sacramentary ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

737. Add MS 86841

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Title:
Jane Austen's writing desk
Scope & Content:
A wooden writing desk used by Jane Austen which was given to her by her father in 1794. This portable 'writing-box' opens to provide a slope to write on. It has various compartments, including a space for an ink pot and a lockable drawer for paper and valuables. Two pairs of tortoiseshell spect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 desk with accompanying objects

738. Add MS 88905

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Title:
Psalter of Kirkstead Abbey, including a topographical map of northern Lincolnshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Notes on the Calendar; ff. 2r–v: 'Versus ad virginem Mariam, Alma serena pia preclara beata Maria' (Walther, Initia Carminum, no. 799); ff. 3r–v: An account of the baronies of Bolingbroke and Horncastle & Scrivelsby (Lincolnshire), and the grants of pasturage in Wildmore...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1300-15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

739. Add MS 89000

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Title:
The St Cuthbert Gospel
Scope & Content:
The St Cuthbert Gospel (formerly known as the Stonyhurst Gospel) retains its original binding and is the oldest intact European book. Made in the early 8th century, the manuscript contains a copy of the Gospel of John. Previously dated to the end of the 7th century (The Stonyhurst Gospel, ed. T....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 8th century
Extent:

1 volume

740. Add MS 89137

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Title:
Rental of the lands of Worcester Cathedral Priory
Scope & Content:
Descriptive rental of Worcester Cathedral Priory, 1240, with additional material for 1253–1285 and 1365. There is a contemporary rubric on f. 2r, reading ‘Hii fuerunt redditus prioratus Wigorniensis Anno Incarnationis Domini moccoxlo’. Includes copies of charters issued in the name of various k...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1240-1365
Extent:
1 item

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