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751. Add MS 89790

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Title:
Richard Rolle’s ‘The Form of Living’ and related works
Scope & Content:
A collection of devotional texts in Hiberno-English, made for a noblewoman living in the region of Dublin. This manuscript is important for containing the works of Richard Rolle of Hampole (d. 1349), in a version dedicated uniquely to his disciple Margaret of Kirkby (d. 1391x1394). It also contai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

752. Add MS 89791

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Title:
Middle English sermons
Scope & Content:
A collection of Sunday gospel sermons in Middle English (ff. 1r–120r). Preceded by a prologue beginning ‘As we findin in the laste end of the gospel of Matheu and of Mark’ (f. 1r–v). The author is unnamed but has been identified as the writer of Dives and Pauper, an influential commentary on the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

753. Add MS 89792

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Title:
Arma Christi
Scope & Content:
A collection of devotional texts including Arma Christi, written by Theodericus Werken, a Dutch-born scribe resident in London from c. 1450, and decorated by one or more English artists. ff. 1r–6v: John Lydgate, ‘Kalendar’: ‘Ihesu lord fo þi holy Circumcision / In þe bigynnynge of þe newe yere’ (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1460s
Extent:
1 volume

754. Add Roll 17253

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Title:
Will of Margaret Paston
Scope & Content:
Will of Margaret Paston (1422-84), widow, wife of John Paston senior and daughter and heir of John Mautby. She leaves her body to be buried in the aisle of Mautby Church, Norfolk, before the image of the Virgin Mary and beside the bodies of her ancestors, and gives 20s to the church. She makes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1482
Extent:
1 roll

755. Add Roll 34271

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Title:
Account of John Key, receiver general of St Radegund’s Priory, Cambridge
Scope & Content:
Account of John Key, receiver general of St Radegund’s Priory, Cambridge, from Pentecost [10 June] 1481 to the feast of the d-[illegible] be-[text missing] of the Virgin. The roll lists income and expenses, including rents, sales, costs of hospitality, necessary expenses, repairs, and staff wage...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1481
Extent:
1 roll

756. Add Roll 47398

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Title:
Cartulary of Nuneaton Priory
Scope & Content:
Cartulary of Nuneaton Priory, Warwickshire, containing copies of 21 grants to the nuns there. No. 1 is a grant by Henry II; no. 2 by Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury; nos 3-20, grants by various bishops and popes down to 1293. No. 21, written in a later hand, is a grant by a chaplain, da...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 roll

757. Add Roll 61157

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Title:
Papal licence for Maria and Caterina Foscari to wear dresses with trains
Scope & Content:
Licence by Pope Nicholas V (r. 1447-1455) to Maria and Caterina, daughters of Jacopo Foschari of Venice, son of Doge Francesco Foscari (b. 1373, d. 1457), of the right to wear dresses with trains, elaborate shoes, girdles, and gold and silver ornamentation, signed by Pietro de Noreto. Given at...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1450
Extent:
1 roll

758. Add Roll 61174

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Title:
Notarised copy of the will of Cecilia Foscari
Scope & Content:
A notarised copy of the will of Cecilia, daughter of John Veneno and widow of Frederico Foschari, made by Caesar Ziliolus, notary and secretary to the doge of Venice. 5 May 1567, bearing the notarial mark of Caesar Ziliolus and signatures. The original will was made by Jacopo Grasolarius of St...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1567
Extent:

1 roll

759. Add Roll 63207

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Title:
Household roll of Katherine de Norwich
Scope & Content:
The household roll of Katherine de Norwich (d. c. 1341-1343), containing a set of accounts produced in her household. Katherine de Norwich was the daughter of Sir John de Hethersett, and the widow respectively of Piers Braunche (d. 1296) and Walter de Norwich (d. 1329). The first five membrane...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
29 September 1336-29 September 1337
Extent:
1 roll

760. Add Roll 75855

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Title:
Household expenses of Philippa of Hainault, queen of England
Scope & Content:
This roll contains a fragmentary account of the household expenses of Queen Philippa of Hainault (b. c. 1314, d. 1369), wife of King Edward III (r. 1327-1377). This roll is a loose middle membrane from a larger roll, now lost. Records payments made by the queen’s household between 20 November ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
1 roll

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