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501. Add MS 86841

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Title:
Jane Austen's writing desk
Scope & Content:
A wooden writing desk used by Jane Austen which was given to her by her father in 1794. This portable 'writing-box' opens to provide a slope to write on. It has various compartments, including a space for an ink pot and a lockable drawer for paper and valuables. Two pairs of tortoiseshell spect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 desk with accompanying objects

502. Add MS 88905

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Title:
Psalter of Kirkstead Abbey, including a topographical map of northern Lincolnshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Notes on the Calendar; ff. 2r–v: 'Versus ad virginem Mariam, Alma serena pia preclara beata Maria' (Walther, Initia Carminum, no. 799); ff. 3r–v: An account of the baronies of Bolingbroke and Horncastle & Scrivelsby (Lincolnshire), and the grants of pasturage in Wildmore...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1300-15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

503. Add MS 89000

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Title:
The St Cuthbert Gospel
Scope & Content:
The St Cuthbert Gospel (formerly known as the Stonyhurst Gospel) retains its original binding and is the oldest intact European book. Made in the early 8th century, the manuscript contains a copy of the Gospel of John. Previously dated to the end of the 7th century (The Stonyhurst Gospel, ed. T....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 8th century
Extent:

1 volume

504. Add MS 89137

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Title:
Rental of the lands of Worcester Cathedral Priory
Scope & Content:
Descriptive rental of Worcester Cathedral Priory, 1240, with additional material for 1253–1285 and 1365. There is a contemporary rubric on f. 2r, reading ‘Hii fuerunt redditus prioratus Wigorniensis Anno Incarnationis Domini moccoxlo’. Includes copies of charters issued in the name of various k...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1240-1365
Extent:
1 item

505. Add MS 89250

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Title:
The Mostyn Psalter-Hours
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Additions made in the late fifteenth century. f. 1r: Instruction for making the sign of the cross with a prayer, '[rubric:] Mane cum surrexeris signum cruces orationi imprimendo dices [prayer:] [H]unc labia mea aperies [etc.]'. ff. 1r-1v: Prayers to God the Father, the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1275 - c 1325
Extent:
Parchment codex

506. Add MS 89428

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Title:
A Psalter (the 'Lucas Psalter')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 6r-11v: a calendar, with English saints; ff. 12r-181r: the Psalter portion of a Breviary, possibly Use of Sarum, with hymns and antiphons; ff. 181r-188r: the Litany, with English saints; f. 188v: added liturgical text, with spaces left for initials. Added musical notation ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1480-1490
Extent:

1 volume

507. Add MS 89442

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Title:
Lewis of Caerleon, collected astronomical and mathematical works
Scope & Content:
An opera omnia of the Welsh physician and astronomer Lewis of Caerleon (d. in or after 1495), representing the largest and most complete collection of his astronomical and mathematical works. Written under Lewis's supervision, the manuscript contains self-referential rubrics (‘per me Lodowycum ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1485-c 1495
Extent:

1 volume

508. Add MS 89480

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Title:
Letter of Mary, Queen of Scots, to Jacques Bochetel de la Forest, French ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
An original letter from Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1542, d. 1587; r. 1542-1567), to Jacques Bochetel de la Forest (d. 1595), French ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603), sent from Carlisle and dated 26 June 1568. The letter asks the ambassador to send George Douglas as an emissary to F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
26 Jun 1568
Extent:
1 leaf

509. Add MS 89485

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Title:
Leaves from the manuscript of Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
Scope & Content:
Two folios of the autograph manuscript of Kenilworth, numbered 16 and 17 by Scott, with insertions and corrections on the versos. The two folios belong to chapter four of volume II of the manuscript, the greater part of which is found at Egerton MS 1661. The text begins halfway through chapter ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1820
Extent:
2 folios

510. Add MS 89486

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Title:
Charlotte Brontë, 'Characters of the Celebrated Men of the Present Time by Captain Tree'
Scope & Content:
Miniature book by Charlotte Brontë titled, 'Characters of the Celebrated Men of the Present Time by Captain Tree'. Written in ink on hand cut paper. In ten chapters, each signed by 'CB', 'Captain Tree', 'C. Tree' or 'CT' and dated between 12 and 17 December 1829. Contents: ‘Chapter the first C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Dec 1829-17 Dec 1829
Extent:
1 volume

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