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461. Add MS 35318

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:
This Book of Hours, which features the Use of Rome, comes from a Parisian workshop called the 'Bellemare group', which was active c 1530 and responsible for the illuminations of at least ten other Books of Hours (see Orth, Renaissance Manuscripts (2015), II, no. 52). These manuscripts are closel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1530
Extent:

Parchment codex

462. Add MS 35324

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Title:
Drawings of funeral processions, 1557–1603
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Drawings of funeral processions, mostly in Indian ink (opaque black); those of Lady Lumley and Elizabeth I are in colour. Originally in rolls, the drawings are now inlaid in cardboard. Volume XV of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild's bequest to the British Museum. ff. 1r–6v: 'Funeral processions o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

463. Add MS 35830

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Title:
State letters and papers (Hardwick Papers vol. 482)
Scope & Content:
State letters and papers, principally the correspondence of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (1515/16-1571), diplomat and member of parliament. He was appointed ambassador to France in May 1559, two months before the death of King Henry II, and his letters give detailed accounts of his interviews wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1557-1561
Extent:
1 volume

464. Add MS 35831

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Title:
State letters and papers (Hardwicke Papers vol. 483)
Scope & Content:
State letters and papers including the correspondence of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, diplomat and Member of Parliament (1515/16-1571) during his time as Ambassador in France, 1561-1564. f. 1 Letter from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Queen Elizabeth I: as Queen Elizabeth I is not satisfied with her pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1562-1599
Extent:
1 volume

465. Add MS 35832

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Title:
Hardwicke Papers, Vol. 484. Miscellaneous State Letters, Vol. III, 1615-1625
Scope & Content:
This is one of three volumes of Miscellaneous State Papers, Add MSS 35830-35832, covering the period 1425-1625, a subset of the massive collection of Hardwicke Papers in the British Library (Add MSS 35349-36278): Correspondence and collections of the first four Earls of Hardwicke and other membe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1615-1625
Extent:
1 volume

466. Add MS 35840

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Title:
Roger Ascham's letterbook
Scope & Content:
The letterbook of Roger Ascham as Latin Secretary to Queen Mary I (1553–1558). Volume CCCCXCII of the Hardwicke Papers. It contains copies of letters in Latin from Mary to foreign sovereigns, princes and others, 1554–1558, and is largely holograph. Royal MS 13 B I is the continuation of Ascham’s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1554-1558
Extent:
1 volume

467. Add MS 36271 A

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Title:
Letter of King Charles I to Murad IV, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, 20 Feb 1630
Scope & Content:
A letter of King Charles I to "Morathan", i.e. Murad IV, Sultan of Turkey, 20 Feb 1629[/30]. King Charles complains of the ill-treatment of English merchants and accredits John Wainsford (i.e Wandesford) to co-operate with Sir Peter Wych, the English Ambassador at Constantinople, in obtaining re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Feb 1630
Extent:
1 letter

468. Add MS 36529

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Title:
Poetry miscellany, collected by the Harington family
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–82r: Poems by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (d. 1547), Sir Thomas Wyatt (d. 1542), and others, collected by Sir John Harington of Stepney (c. 1517–1582) and his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (d. 1612). On f. 29v are the names ‘Francis Haryngton’ and ‘Ellina Harrington’ (whose name is ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1560-1600
Extent:
1 volume

469. Add MS 36617

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Title:
Al-Zahrawi, Chirurgia d'Albucasis, in a Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona; Arabic-Latin glossary of medical terms
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated Latin translation of the Chirurgia d'Albucasis, a treatise on surgery by the Arabic physician and surgeon Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-'Abbās al-Zahrāwī al-Ansari (b. 936, d. 1013), commonly known as 'al-Zahrawi'. The treatise represents the 30th and final...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

470. Add MS 36678

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Title:
Fragments of John Bellenden's translation of Livy's Ab urbe condita into Scots English
Scope & Content:
Commissioned by James V, king of Scots (1512–1542). Fragments of corrected drafts, partly in Bellenden's hand, and annotations. The fragments comprise Book I, ch. 5–10, 11–14, 16–21, and Book III, ch. 1–5, fragments of 9, 10, 11 and ch. 15–18. Part of ch. 15–17 of the latter book is in a double...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1533
Extent:
1 volume

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