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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 873
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-4r: Prologus quattuor evangeliorum. The Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew. ff. 4r-6r: Pseudo-Jerome, Epistula Hieronymi ad Damasum papam (St Jerome's Epistle to Pope Damasus), preceded by a preface (ff. 4r-v). ff. 6r-8v: The preface of the Gospel of St Matthew...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 945
Title:: Collection of devotional texts with musical notation
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-11r: Added prayers, chants and collects in Latin, including a series of four prayers to the Virgin, each beginning, '[P]recor te S[anc]ta M[ari]a perpetua virgo' (f. 9r). ff. 12r-15v: Dits des Trois morts et des trois vifs (The Three Living and Three Dead) in Old French, begi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old, Latin, and Occitan
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 984
Title:: Proceedings of the condemnation trial of Joan of Arc; extracts from Martial d’Auvergne, Les Vigiles du roi Charles VII
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a later copy of the condemnation trial or processus against Joan of Arc (b. c. 1412, d. 1431). Joan was put on trial following her capture by the Burgundian army outside the walls of Compiègne on 23 May 1430. Pierre Cauchon (b. 1371, d. 1442), Bishop of Beauvais, conduct...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1046
Title:: Old Testament Vulgate Fragments (Egerton Wisdom Codex)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Vulgate version of Proverbs (imperfect, from Proverbs 4:9 to the end), Ecclesiates, the Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus (imperfect, from Ecclesiasticus 1:1-35, 4:10-44:13), and the Song of Songs. The middle section of the codex, from ff. 17-31, is written in a dif...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 8th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1139
Title:: Psalter (The 'Melisende Psalter')
Scope & Content:: The Psalter conforms to the standards of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Office of the Dead is the use of Bayeux (according to Dondi, The Liturgy, 2004, p. 64). The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-12v: Prefatory cycle of illumination from the lives of the Virgin Mary and Christ; ff. 13r-19r: Calenda...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1131-1143
Extent:: A parchment codex, 218 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1637
Title:: Calendar and obituary calendar of Schmerlenbach Abbey
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a calendar and obituary calendar compiled for the Benedictine Abbey of Schmerlenbach in Bavaria, Germany. Obituary calendars were liturgical calendars that recorded the death anniversaries of a religious house’s former members, patrons, and other local figures. Contents...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1761
Title:: ORDERS "by ye Commissioners of ye Parliament of the Commonwealth of England for the affairs of Ireland," on miscellaneous matters connected with the government of the country, the administration of the revenue, etc.; 3 Feb. 1650[1]-12 June, 1654. Transcribed from the original books in the Birmingham Tower, Dublin. Paper; xviiith cent. Folio.
Scope & Content:: Henry Ireton, regicide: Orders for the government of Ireland: 1650-1651. Ireland: Orders by the Commonwealth commissioners: 1650-1655.: Copies, 18th cent. England; Commonwealth: Orders for the government of Ireland: 1651-1655. Miles Corbett, MP for Yarmouth, Commissioner for Ireland, etc: Ord...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1650-1654
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1762
Title:: ORDERS of the Parliamentary Commissioners for the affairs of Ireland, made on petitions of individuals and on general affairs of government; 19 Aug. 1651-28 June, 1655. At the end, f. 192, are extracts from the books of the Council of Ireland relating to grants of forfeited lands, etc.; 8-29 Jan. 1657[8]. Transcribed from the original books in the Birmingham Tower, Dublin. Paper; xviiith cent. Folio.
Scope & Content:: Henry Ireton, regicide: Orders for the government of Ireland: 1650-1651. Ireland: Orders by the Commonwealth commissioners: 1650-1655.: Copies, 18th cent. England; Commonwealth: Orders for the government of Ireland: 1651-1655. Miles Corbett, MP for Yarmouth, Commissioner for Ireland, etc: Ord...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19 Aug 1651-28 Jun 1655
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1782
Title:: Collection of Irish religious, historical, mythological and legal texts in verse and prose
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a collection of religious, historical and mythological Irish texts in verse and prose, including the only extant copy of Aislinge Óenguso. The manuscript is the work of several scribes of the Ó Maolconaire, a learned family of lawyers and historians, known as also for compil...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish
Date Range:: 1516-1518
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1787
Title:: Deed of mortgage by William Shakespeare
Scope & Content:: Original deed of mortgage by William Shakespeare, of Stratford-on-Avon, gentleman, and others, to Henry Walker, of London, of a dwelling-house in Blackfriars. 11 March, 1612/13. With autograph signature ‘Wm Shakspe’, one of six surviving signatures of William Shakespeare. Includes the signatur...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 11 Mar 1613
Extent:: 1 item

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