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651. Add MS 88966

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Title:
Letter of Queen Elizabeth I concerning the imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–4v: Original letter from Queen Elizabeth I to Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, her ambassador in Scotland, concerning the imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots at Loch Leven by the Lords of the Council. Written 27 July 1567, Windsor, and signed 'Elizabeth R' at the head of the letter. Elizabeth...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jul 1567
Extent:
2 bifolia

652. Add MS 88991

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Title:
Prayer book ('The Taverner Prayer Book')
Scope & Content:
Prayer book of Psalms and prayers in English, probably made for Anne Seymour [née Stanhope] (b. c. 1497, d. 1587), Countess of Hertford and later Duchess of Somerset. The manuscript contains a selection of prayers from Richard Taverner’s translation from the Latin of Wolfgang Capito’s Precatione...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1540
Extent:

Parchment codex

653. Add MS 89166

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Title:
Grant of arms of Sir Gilbert Dethick (d. 1584) to Jean Belmaine
Scope & Content:
A presentation copy of a grant of arms from Sir Gilbert Dethick (b. c. 1510, d. 1584), Garter Principal King of Arms, to Jean Belmaine (fl. 1546–1559), French tutor to King Edward VI (r. 1547–1553) and Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558–1603), dated 20 November 1552. The blazon of Belmaine's Arms is a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
20 Nov 1552
Extent:

1 leaf

654. Add MS 89168

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Title:
Cartulary of Combermere Abbey
Scope & Content:
ff. 2r–9v: Register of the lands and tenements of Combermere Abbey, containing copies of 42 leases and indentures from the 13th to 16th centuries: ‘Registerium Omnium et singularum terrarum et tenementum ad monasterium de Cambirmere pertinentum in Wico malbano Jacentum, et per Indenturas ad term...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1524-1529
Extent:

1 volume

655. Add MS 89250/1

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Title:
Former boards of the Mostyn Psalter-Hours
Scope & Content:
These boards formerly served as part of the binding for the Mostyn Psalter-Hours (Add MS 89250). The upper board may be made from ash wood and appears to be a replacement, perhaps made in the seventeenth century. The lower board may be original (dating to the last quarter of the thirteenth centur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1300-c 1700
Extent:
Binding

656. Add MS 89309

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris (‘The Southwark Hours’)
Scope & Content:
A Book of Hours in Latin with some French, made in Paris for an unknown female patron. The illumination is attributed to the ‘Ravenelle Master’, active in Paris between c. 1390 and c. 1410. Ker dates it to ‘probably not long after 1387’ as it contains a memoria of Peter of Luxembourg (b. 1369, d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

657. Add MS 89320

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Title:
News of Europe (Ευρώπης ειδήσεις)
Scope & Content:
Collection of political reports from the capitals of Europe, received in the months October to December 1740. ff. 2-4v Reports from October 1740 on events taking place in St Petersburg, London, Regensburg, Paris, Spain, Warsaw, Naples, Hannover, Vienna ff. 4v-16v: Reports from November 1740 on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1740
Extent:
30 folios

658. Add MS 89378

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Title:
Leaf from an Anglo-Saxon benedictional
Scope & Content:
A leaf from a 10th-century English benedictional, containing the conclusion of the benediction for Easter Day, benedictions for Monday and Tuesday, and the beginning of the benediction for Wednesday after Easter. Begins ‘Ut ad beatae uitae audiae festinantes’; ends ‘dignatus est pro’. Correspon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
920-970
Extent:
1 volume

659. Add MS 89427

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Title:
CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur. Autograph manuscript ‘XIII/The Darker Side’, unpublished chapter from The Land of Mist.
Scope & Content:
Unpublished ‘lost’ chapter from Arthur Conan Doyle’s third Professor Challenger novel The Land of Mist, published in 1926. 9 page manuscript, written in Conan Doyle’s hand, and containing extensive corrections and additions made by the author throughout. A note on the first folio, in the author’s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925
Extent:
1 file

660. Add MS 89477/1/1

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Title:
A copy of Frances Cornford's Spring Morning annotated and decorated by Virginia Woolf
Scope & Content:
Printed volume of Frances Cornford’s, Spring Morning,with woodcuts by Gwendolen Raverat (published in 1915) and decorated withannotations and additional illustrations in coloured pencil, charcoal and chalkpastels by Virginia Woolf. Mentioned in Quentin Bell's biography of Woolf, thisvolume was a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 volume

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