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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15116
Title:: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching a war with Spain
Scope & Content:: Copy of ‘Considerations touching a war with Spain’, by Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban (1561–1626), Lord Chancellor, politician and philosopher. Written in 1624 and first published in 1629. This copy addresses Prince Charles as ‘the King’, indicating that it postdates the accession of Charles I...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1625-c.1640
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15225
Title:: Religious poems and songs
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–60v: A collection of poems and songs, chiefly of a religious character, written in the reign of James VI and I, but containing many of an earlier date. It is likely to have been composed by a Catholic. ff. 1r–2r: Ballad, ‘A jollie sheppard that sate on Sione hill.’ Printed in Old English...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1616
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15232
Title:: Verse miscellany ('The Bright MS')
Scope & Content:: Verse miscellany, containing songs and sonnets from ‘Astrophil and Stella’ by Sir Philip Sidney, author and courtier (1554-1586); anonymous autograph verses with authorial corrections; astronomical notes; and a signed autograph letter from Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621) to Barbar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15233
Title:: Volume of music, plays, religious songs and poems, possibly connected with St Mary-at-Hill, Billingsgate
Scope & Content:: A manuscript containing organ music, the incomplete text of John Redford's The Play of Wyt and Science (c. 1540), and religious songs and poems. Several leaves (including the first seven) are missing. ff. 1-10: John Redford (Master of the singing boys at St Paul's School), Organ fantasias, writ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1555
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15248
Title:: Bible moralisée
Scope & Content:: Contents: Bible moralisée, a picture Bible containing excerpts from the Old and New Testaments, with a moralising commentary, ff. 1r-3v: Preface, incipit, 'Comment la sainte scripture se puet exposer en quatre manieres'; ff. 3v-15v: Preface, incipit 'Cy commence la declaration de plusieurs ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1455
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15254
Title:: The first volume of a five-part Latin Bible
Scope & Content:: The first volume of a five-part Latin Vulgate Bible (the other volumes are Add MS 15255-15258). This volume contains the Old Testament books of Genesis to Ruth. The Bible was produced at the Benedictine abbey of St James in Liège, where it was restored by Abbot Egidius Briamont in 1657 (see insc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1430
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15410
Title:: A fifteenth-century manuscript containing Old Testament books from a Dutch History Bible, featuring commentary from the Historia Scholastica by the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1179).
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Old Testament books, from the Book of Genesis until the Book of Esther, in a Dutch History Bible in which the biblical text alternates with commentary from the Historia Scholastica by the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1179). In the fifteenth century the History Bi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch
Date Range:: c 1440
Extent:: Parchment manuscript

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15411
Title:: Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: An Armenian manuscript containing: The Four Gospels. ff.1v-2r, 3v-4r, 5v-6r, 7v-8r Canon tables ff.10r-90r Gospel of St Matthew ff.92r-147v Gospel of St Mark ff.148r-241r Gospel of St Luke ff.242r-310r Gospel of St John ff.310r-311v Colophons Further notices of ownership and interc...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Armenian
Date Range:: 1321
Extent:: 1 item

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