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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17259
Title:
Scope & Content:: HYMNS; very imperfect. On paper; of the xiiith or xivth century. Duodecimo. [17,259.] Liturgies Syriac: Various prayers and hymns.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13th century-14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17275
Title:: Vie des Saints, a French prose Legendary consisting of the lives of 154 saints
Scope & Content:: Contents: The Vie des Saints (Lives of the Saints), a Legendary partially taken from Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea (Golden Legend). The translation is attributed to Jehan Beleth (or Jean Belet) (d. c. 1185), liturgist and theologian of Amiens and Paris: the preface to the table of rubric...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1325-1340
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17492
Title:: Anthology of Tudor courtly verse, mostly attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt, with other poems by Henry Howard, Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas Hoccleve (‘The Devonshire Manuscript’)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an anthology of early-modern Tudor courtly verse from the 1530s, which was compiled by three women who attended the royal court: Mary Shelton, Mary Fitzroy and Lady Margaret Douglas. The majority of the verses recorded in the volume are attributed to the English politi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1530s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17725
Title:: THE LITURGIES of S. Basil, S. Gregory, and S. Cyril, adapted to the use of the Coptic Church in Abyssinia. In Coptic and Arabic. Paper; XVIth cent. Quarto. [Add. 17,725.]
Scope & Content:: Liturgies and Martyrologies: Liturgies of SS. Basil, Gregory, and Cyril, adapted to the use of the Abyssinian Church: 16th cent. Liturgies Coptic: Liturgies for the Coptic Church in Abyssinia.: Copt. and Arab.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Coptic, and English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17799
Title:: Masque of "Cupid and Death," written by James Shirley, with music by Matthew Locke and Dr. Christopher Gibbons, and played before the Portuguese Ambassador, in 1653, and a transcript of this volume, enables a subsequent presentation at the Military Ground in Leicester Fields, in 1659.
Scope & Content:: Music: Masque of Cupid and Death by M. Locke. Matthew Locke, composer: "Masque of Cupid and Death, " etc. 'Cupid and Death: a Masque by J[ame]s Shirley, 1653.' Presented before the Portuguese Ambassador, on the 26th of March of that year. The music by Matthew Lock and [Christopher] Gibbons. Th...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1659
Extent:: 1 of two volumes (36 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17983
Title:: Peshíṭtā - ܦܫܝܛܬܐ
Scope & Content:: The Peshíṭtā, or Syriac simplified version of the New Testament, in bilingual format, with the original Syriac text matched against its Garshuni Arabic translation. The text contains all four Gospels, albeit with several passages wanting. The contents of the manuscript are as follows: ff. 1v-3...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:: 1438
Extent:: 1 text, 318 ff.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18002
Title:: Genealogical roll chronicle from Noah to Henry VI
Scope & Content:: Contents: A genealogical roll chronicle beginning with Noah, and tracing the lineage of the Kings of England from Brutus to Henry V, consisting of a genealogical diagram with a series of roundels accompanied by brief biographical entries. The genealogy of the English kings is depicted in the c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Between 1438 and 1441
Extent:: 1 roll

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18069
Title:: BURMESE maps, roughly sketched by an English hand, with names of places in the Burmese character. On black paper, folded. [Add. 18,069.]
Scope & Content:: Burmese MSS:.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18144
Title:: Psalter
Scope & Content:: Illuminated Psalter with a Calendar, Canticles and Litanies. ff. 2v-8r: Calendar, imperfect due to the loss of leaves. ff. 17r-154r: Psalter, imperfect due to the loss of leaves. ff. 154r-166v: Canticles. ff. 166v: Litanies, ends imperfectly. Decoration: 11 full-page framed miniatures in ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18295
Title:: BAR-HEBRÆUS, Ethics; with several short tracts. Syriac. Paper; written in the year of the Greeks 1914 (A.D. 1603). Small Quarto. Add. 18,295.
Scope & Content:: Bar Hebræus: Ethics and Theology.: Syr. and Arab.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:: 1603
Extent:: 1 item

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