Contents: Romances from the cycle of Guiron le Courtois: Roman de Guiron, also known as Meliadus or Palamedes (imperfect at the beginning, after ff. 163, 173, 261, and at the end). This manuscript lacks the prologue and the early sections of the romance, and begins with the account of Meliadus...
Collection of Latin Sequences, Tropes, Cantiones, with music, of various authors, many with verse, and in two parts, arranged in series, for purposes which include ceremonial Feasts.
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ff. 28. Collection of Sequences, Tropes, and other Cantiones with music, many of them having two or three verses set, like hymns, to the same music, which is, unless where the contrary is stated, in two parts, written on 4 lines scratched on the vellum, but not coloured, and preceded by the C, P...
Gallican Psalter with Canticles (The 'Psalter of Cormac')
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Psalter in the later recension of the Gallican version, with prefatory material and Canticles beginning and ending imperfectly (a leaf lacking at the beginning and two at the end): f. 1r: Part of the treatise, De Psalmorum usu, here with the rubric, 'Expositio sancti Augustini in psalmis', inc...
Collection of poetic and devotional texts in Middle English, including Cursor Mundi, The Pricke of Conscience, The Three Kings of Cologne, and minor poems by Geoffrey Chaucer and John Lydgate
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This manuscript contains a collection of poetic and devotional works in Middle English, including the Cursor Mundi, a retelling of the history of Christianity from Creation to Doomsday; The Three Kings of Cologne, a Middle English prose abridgment of John of Hildesheim's Historia Trium Regum; an...
Carthusian miscellany of poems, chronicles, and treatises in Northern English, including an epitome or summary of Mandeville's travels
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The contents of the manuscript are as follows: (References to 'Boffey' are to: Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (2005)). f. 1r: A fragment, imperfect at the beginning, of a legenda or apocryphal gospel, in Latin on the recto of the first of two vellum lea...
Memoirs of the diplomat Sir James Melville of Hallhill (1559–1594)
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An autograph copy of Melville's memoirs. This manuscript is most likely the one Robert Trail found in Edinburgh Castle in 1660 and identified as Melville's handwriting. Trail gave it to Melville's grandson George Scott of Pitlochie, who published it with significant alterations in 1683. The 182...
Music, etc., viz.:-(a) Italian cantata, by Handel; 18th cent. f. 1;-(b) Signature of Haydn; circ. 1791. f. 5;-(c) "Quatuor énigmatique," by Charles Simon Catel; 1811. Autograph. f. 6 b; -(d) Canon by Beethoven; 1825. Autogr. f. 8;-(e) First violin part of overture "Polonia," by Wagner; [1833]. A...
Music, viz.:- (a) Miserere à 9, by Pergolesi. Apparently autograph. f. 1;-(b) "Già la morte in manto nero": aria, with instrumental accompaniment, by G. Scolari. f. 26;-(c) Orchestral fragment, etc., said to be "Original von Mozart." f. 42;-(d) Canons by J. G. Albrechtsberger. Apparently autogr....
ff. 1r–39v: Fragments from John Leland’s Collectanea. The manuscript seems to have become separated from the rest of the Collectanea at some point before the middle of the 17th century (see his Itinerary, ed. Lucy Toulmin Smith, 1907, i, p. xxx, ii, p. 117). More than half of it was copied by St...
Declaration against the papal supremacy in England
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ff. 3r–4v: Declaration against papal supremacy in England in these words: ‘Romanus episcopus non habet maiorem aliquam iurisdictionem collatam sibi a deo in sacra scriptura in hoc regno Angliae quam alius quiuis externus episcopus.’ It is signed by both the Archibishops (Thomas Cranmer and Edw...