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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10066
Title:: Treatise on Greek grammar; selection of Homeric epimerisms
Scope & Content:: Treatise on Greek grammar; selection of Homeric epimerisms
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10067
Title:: Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata
Scope & Content:: Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, including: Index of names of kings, generals, philosophers and orators: Κατάλογος βασιλέων, στρατηγῶν, φιλοσόφων τε καὶ ῥητόρων, ἐξ ὧν τὰ ἐνταῦθα ἀποφθέγματα συνελέγησαν κατὰ στοιχεῖον. Debtor's note. Private note mentioning Amsterdam and Smyrna. Init...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10075
Title:: Vassileios Vatatzes, Poem about Voyages
Scope & Content:: Vassileios Vatatzes, Poem about Voyages , in two parts, entitled Περιήγησις Βασιλείου Βατάτζη; ed. E. Legrand, in Nouveaux Mélanges Orientaux (Paris, 1886), pp. 185-295. Part one ff 3v-24v; part two ff 25-51. The text is preceded by some unedited verses and epigrams, one addressed to the author o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Modern
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10109
Title:: Account book of payments made by James Nedam, 1542–1543
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–213v: Account book of the payments made by James Nedam, Surveyor General of the Works to King Henry VIII, in the years 1542–1543. It includes payments for the following: ff. 2r–9v: the new office for the King’s Surveyors in the Fish Yard; ff. 10r–49r: the new office for the King’s Surve...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1542-1543
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10112
Title:: Inventory of paintings and statues belonging to King Charles I, 1639
Scope & Content:: Inventory of paintings and statues belonging to King Charles I, 1639. Compiled by Abraham van der Doort, artist and curator (1575x85-1640). Contains details of 40 paintings and 12 statues, originally held in the King’s Chair Room, in the Privy Gallery at Whitehall. With an index of items deliver...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1639
Extent:: 1 volume.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10290
Title:: The Middle Dutch Historie van Jason and Dat Scaecspel
Scope & Content:: This paper manuscript contains two separately produced parts with Middle Dutch texts. The first part contains De Historie van Jason, the only extant handwritten copy of the Middle Dutch translation of l’Histoire de Jason written in 1460 by Raoul Lefèvre (15th century): an author who is thought t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch
Date Range:: c 1470 - c 1480
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10302
Title:: Thomas Norton, Ordinal of Alchemy
Scope & Content:: Contents: Thomas Norton (c. 1433-1513/14) of Bristol, Ordinal of Alchemy, ''Of Alkimy the Ordinal, the Crede Mihi, the Standard Perpetuall'', chapters 1-5 (lines 1-2682, with lines 2503-2622 lacking). This is the earliest surviving manuscript of the text, composed in 1477, perhaps a copy of th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10303
Title:: The Isle of Ladies
Scope & Content:: This volume contains one of only two surviving manuscripts of The Isle of Ladies, a 15th-century Middle English poem in rhyming couplets. The poem takes the form of a dream vision, in which the dreamer awakens to find himself in a beautiful island inhabited only by women. It also includes a copy...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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