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481. Add MS 38823

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Title:
Sir Edward Hoby, Commonplace book
Scope & Content:
Commonplace book of Sir Edward Hoby, politician and diplomat (1560-1617), containing entries on various subjects including America, Parliament, the Isle of Sheppey, the siege of Calais (1346-1347), and Mary, Queen of Scots. ff. i-ii) Remains of two parchment fragments of a 13th-century manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1582-c 1596
Extent:

1 volume

482. Add MS 38892

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Add MS 38892
Title:
Sir Philip Sidney, The Old Arcadia (‘Phillipps MS’)
Scope & Content:
Copy of the first version of the pastoral romance ‘The Arcadia’, composed by Sir Philip Sidney, author and courtier (1554-1586), between c. 1577 and c. 1580, and first published in 1590. Previously owned by Sir John Harington (bap. 1560, d. 1612), courtier and author, and partly in his hand. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1590
Extent:
1 volume

483. Add MS 38895 B

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Add MS 38895 B
Title:
Sale of a Vineyard (TM 97890)
Scope & Content:
The document records the purchase of a vineyard by a man named Denes from another named Aspomaces. It included two versions of the text, following the format of Doppelurkunde (“double document”). There are important differences between both versions. Dated to 22/21 BC if the date (year 291) is a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
22-21 BC or 43-44
Extent:
Parchment sheet, complete, with little surface damage and few holes, located in the upper portion. Written on one side, the back bearing the British Museum red stamp and the inventory number. The front has 30 lines, and all margins are extant. The sheet is housed in a glass case named Add MS 38895 B. The original clay seals and string used to seal the documents are housed in another frame, named Add MS 38895 C.

484. Add MS 39626

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Title:
Gospel book ('The Serres Gospels')
Scope & Content:
A manuscript of the Four Gospels, illuminated in 1354-1355 for Jacob, metropolitan of Serres. Each Gospel text is preceded by a table of kephalaia (numbered chapters) and followed by a colophon providing the traditional date and number of stichoi (lines). Included at the end of the manuscript ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Old Church Slavonic
Date Range:
1354-1355
Extent:

Parchment codex.

485. Add MS 39758

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Title:
Chronicle and cartulary of Peterborough Abbey ('The Book of Walter of Whittlesey')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a chronicle and cartulary of the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter, St Paul, and St Andrew, Peterborough, partly compiled by the monk Walter of Whittlesey around 1322 to 1329, and largely written in his hand. Whittlesey was also the author, and possibly the illuminator, of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1322-1329
Extent:
1 volume

486. Add MS 39828

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Title:
Tresham family correspondence and papers, volume 1
Scope & Content:
Volume 1 of papers relating to the Tresham family of Northamptonshire. Correspondence and papers of Thomas Tresham, gentleman and recusant (1543-1605). ff. 1r-7v Calendar of the Tresham Papers at Rushton Hall. 19th century. ff. 8r-8v Account of the discovery of the Tresham papers in 1828 at Ru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1440-1597
Extent:

1 volume

487. Add MS 39829

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Title:
Tresham family correspondence and papers, volume 2
Scope & Content:
Volume 2 of papers relating to the Tresham family of Northamptonshire. Correspondence and papers of Thomas Tresham, gentleman and recusant (1543-1605). ff. 1r-2v Correspondence. Letter from G. Shurrock to Thomas Tresham. 1598. ff. 3r-4v Correspondence. Letters from John Andrew to Thomas Tresha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1598-1605
Extent:
1 volume

488. Add MS 39830

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Title:
Tresham family correspondence and papers, volume 3
Scope & Content:
Volume 3 of papers relating to the Tresham family of Northamptonshire. Correspondence and papers of Thomas Tresham, gentleman and recusant (1543-1605). Historical and theological material. ff. 2r-3v Oath of allegiance of the Lords to King Henry VI; 24 July 1455. ff. 4r-7v Notes on the divorce ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1455-1605
Extent:
1 volume

489. Add MS 40010

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Add MS 40010
Title:
Rentals of Fountains Abbey
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of entries from manorial court records and extracts from manorial rentals of the tenants of the Cistercian monastery of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire during the 14th and early 15th centuries. The manuscript's original parchment binding is now housed sep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

490. Add MS 40010/1

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Add MS 40010/1
Title:
Detached former binding from Add MS 40010
Scope & Content:
Detached binding from Add MS 40010, a collection of entries from manorial court records and extracts from manorial rentals of the tenants of the Cistercian monastery of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire during the 14th and early 15th centuries. A parchment binding with a metal clasp fastened ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 detached binding

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