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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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18396
Title:: AVESTA YAZISHNA, one of the sacred books of the ancient Persians. Zend. Paper; written in the year 1105 of Yezdegerd (A.D. 1737). Small Folio. [Add. 18,396.]
Scope & Content:: Avesta Yazishna: : Zend.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan
Date Range:: 1737
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18647
Title:: Poems by John Donne
Scope & Content:: Collection of 121 poems and epigrams, with the Paradoxes and Problems of John Donne (1572–1631), poet and Church of England clergyman. Known as the ‘Denbigh MS’. Copied from Trinity College, Cambridge MS R.3.12 (the ‘Puckering MS’). Including a copy of ‘Had she a glass and feared the fire’ (f. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1620s-1630s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18714
Title:: A JACOBITE LECTIONARY from the Gospels, for the whole year. Syriac. Vellum; written in the year of the Greeks 1525 (A. D. 1214). Folio. [Add. 18,714.]
Scope & Content:: Dated Mss. Oriental Syriac: Lectionary: 1214. Liturgies Syriac: Jacobite Lectionary.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1214
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18719
Title:: Bible moralisée
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains one an illustrated Bible moralisée. The Bible moralisée functioned as a picture book of the Bible, but also offered the reader biblical interpretation: it presents a large cycle of biblical images and accompanying biblical texts each of which is connected with another im...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1280 - c 1295
Extent:: Parchment codex

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