Letters and state papers relating to the treaties and embassies of Ferdinand de Boisschot, Baron of Saventhem
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Letters and state papers concerning certain treaties and embassies. Principally relating to Ferdinand de Boisschot (c. 1560s-1649), Baron of Saventhem and Dutch Ambassador to England. With genealogies and arms of several families, 1615-1647. ff. 2r-10v Documents relating to the embassy of Ferdi...
Notes and papers of Henry Dodwell (b. 1641, d. 1711).
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f. 1: Two notes by Henry Dodwell about the letter corpus in the manuscript. f. 1v: blank f. 2: Table of content f. 2v: blank ff. 3-59v: Latin correspondence of William Lloyd, bishop of St Asaph (later Worcester) (b. 1627, d. 1717) with Antoine Pagi (b.1624, d. 1699) on Roman consular chronol...
Contents: Le Livre des Quatre Dames, a poem of 3531 lines that was composed by Alain Chartier ( b. 1385, d. c.1433), political writer and ambassador for Charles VII of France, shortly after the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. The poet meets four ladies who tell of the fates of their four lovers w...
Genealogical roll chronicle of English kings to Richard II
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Contents: A genealogical chronicle from the reign of Egbert to Richard II with a commentary in Anglo-Norman French up to Henry III. Face: Membrane 1 is damaged, so that the Heptarchy diagram and the beginning of the commentary is lacking; begins ' [...]ment cum en Engleterre. E pur ceo ke En...
Autograph presentation manuscript titled ‘Anglorum Feriæ, Englandes Hollydayes, celebrated the 17th of November last, 1595, beginninge happyly the 38 Yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth. By George Peele Master of arte in Oxforde’. Narrative verse description of the Acce...
1. TRACTATUS "de mensurabili musica," f. 3. 2. Tractatus "de discantu et contranota;" preceded by an English version of the first part, f. 9. Paper; XVth cent. Small Quarto. Presented by the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker.
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Music: De mensurabili musicâ, et de discantu et contranota: 15th cent.
Household book of Henry VII for the years 1499-1505
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A household book for the court of Henry VII (b. 1457, d. 1509), recording the royal receipts and disbursements for the years 1499-1505, partially written by John Heron (b. 1470, d. 1522), Treasurer of the Chamber, sometimes personally signed by the King. Contents: ff. 2r-7r: Payments, ‘Payment...
Household book of Henry VIII for the years 1509-1518
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A household book for the court of Henry VIII (b. 1491, d. 1547), including lists of monthly loans, revenues, bonds, obligations, taxes, rents and for the years 1509-1518 written by John Heron (b. 1470, d. 1522), Treasurer of the Chamber, signed by the King on almost every page. Contents: ff. 4...
Edmund Spenser, A view of the present state of Ireland
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‘A view of the present state of Ireland discoursed by way of a dialogue between Eudoxus and Irenaeus’. A contemporary scribal copy, which originally belonged to Sir Arthur Chichester, Lord-Deputy of Ireland, 1604–1613 (signature on f. 1r). First published in Sir James Ware (ed.) The Historie of...