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631. Add MS 71009

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Title:
Descriptions of Tudor court ceremonies
Scope & Content:
Collection of papers concerning the organisation of the royal household, including detailed descriptions of sacred and secular court ceremonies, during the reigns of King Edward IV, King Henry VIII, King Edward VI and Queen Mary I. Gathered by John Norris (1522/23-91), courtier, who served as a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1530-1570
Extent:
1 volume

632. Add MS 71118 A

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Title:
Leaf from a Book of Hours, St Catherine
Scope & Content:
Contents: A folio from a Book of Hours with a miniature of St Catherine on the recto. The verso is blank. Decoration: A full-page miniature in colours on a gold ground in a frame with foliate decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment folio

633. Add MS 71118 B

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Title:
Leaf from a Book of Hours, St Margaret
Scope & Content:
Contents: A folio from a Book of Hours with a miniature of St Margaret on the recto. The verso is blank. Decoration: A full-page miniature in colours on a gold ground in a frame with foliate decoration (recto). The verso is blank with an added two line verse in Latin, beginning, 'Dum filiu' dil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment folio

634. Add MS 71118 C

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Title:
Leaf from a Book of Hours, with part of the Office of Matins
Scope & Content:
Contents: A folio from a Book of Hours with the the beginning of the Office of Matins in the Hours of the Virgin. Decoration: A historiated initial, 'D'(omine), of the Annunciation in colours on a gold ground, with a full decorated border (recto) and decorated initials in red and blue or gold ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment folio

635. Add MS 71118 D

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Title:
Leaf from a Book of Hours with part of the Office of Lauds
Scope & Content:
Contents: A folio from a Book of Hours with the the beginning of the Office of Lauds. Decoration: A historiated initial, 'D'(eus), of Christ's Betrayal and Arrest, in colours on a gold ground, with a full decorated border (recto) and decorated initials in red and blue or gold and purple (recto...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment folio

636. Add MS 71118 E

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Title:
Leaf from a Book of Hours with part of the Office of the Dead
Scope & Content:
Contents: A folio from a Book of Hours with the beginning of Vespers in the Office of the Dead. Decoration: A historiated initial, 'D'(ilexi), of a funeral with clerics singing, in colours on a gold ground with a full decorated border (recto) and decorated initials in red and blue or gold and p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment folio

637. Add MS 71118 F

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Title:
Leaf from a Book of Hours with a prayer for the Dead and the beginning of Psalm 118
Scope & Content:
Contents: A folio from a Book of Hours with a prayer for the Dead (recto) and Psalm 118: 1-15 (recto and verso). Decoration: A historiated initial, 'B'(eati) of the soul of a woman lifted to heaven from the tomb by two angels, in colours on a gold ground with a full decorated border (recto) and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment folio

638. Add MS 71131 A-X

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Title:
Heralds' orders of London funeral processions
Scope & Content:
Twenty-four volumes of heralds’ orders of funeral processions of Lord Mayors and aldermen, etc., of London; 1605–1673. Partly drafts. Each document records the names and order of the mourners; several (Add MS 71131 H, J, M–P, S, U) incorporate notes of heralds present, with their fees, etc.; one...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1605-1673
Extent:

24 volumes

639. Add MS 71687

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Title:
Aldhelm of Sherborne, De virginitate (prose), with added glosses in Old English
Scope & Content:
This bifolium once belonged to one of the earliest known surviving copies of the prose version of the De virginitate (On Virginity), a treatise on virginity addressed to the nuns of the double monastery at Barking, written by Aldhelm (b. c. 639, d. 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey and Bishop of S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
1 bifolium

640. Add MS 72412

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Title:
Remonstrance of the House of Commons to King James I against Impositions, 1610, and the Treatise of James Whitelocke against Impositions, 1610
Scope & Content:
Trumbull Papers. In 1610 the House of Commons was very concerned with the issue of impositions - that is, new customs duties imposed by the Crown without parliamentary sanction - as an arbitrary exaction against the property rights of the subject and the authority of Parliament. This manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1610-1642
Extent:
1 volume

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