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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2711
Title:: Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt
Scope & Content:: An album consisting primarily of fair copies of the poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt. ff. 2r–3v: Sir John Harington, Miscellany. f. 4r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Behold, love, thy power how she dispiseth!’. f. 4r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘What vaileth trouth? or, by it, to take payn?’. ff. 4v–5r: Sir Thomas Wya...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1530s
Extent:: Paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2724
Title:: Folding calendar-almanac
Scope & Content:: Contents: A folded calendar-almanac (imperfect), beginning at July, with tables of dominical letters, astronomical diagrams and prognostications and dates of significant biblical and historical events. The 13 inner folds contain the following diagrams and tables: ff. 1r-3r: Calendar pages with...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1404
Extent:: 3 strips of parchment sewn together, folded into squares

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2781
Title:: Book of Hours, use of Sarum (The 'Neville of Hornby Hours')
Scope & Content:: Contents: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, consisting of: ff. 2r-7v: A calendar, with numerous English saints; ff. 9r-20v: 23 Salutations of the Virgin in Latin, each beginning 'Ave et gaude'; ff. 21r-25r: Prayers to the Virgin in Latin, some with rubrics in Anglo-Norman; ff. 25v-26r: Prayer f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2782
Title:: Haimo of Auxerre, Super Isaiam
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a commentary on the Book of Isaiah by Haimo (or Haymo) of Auxerre (d. 853). Haimo was one of the key figures in the revival of learning in the Carolingian period. Contents: ff. 1-124v: Haimo of Auxerre, Super Isaiam (Commentary on Isaiah). [ff. 125r-125v are blank]. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2809
Title:: Grant of manors from King Henry VIII to Anne of Cleves
Scope & Content:: Deed whereby King Henry VIII grants to Anne of Cleves, in part satisfaction of dower and jointure, the manors of Great Waltham, Mashbury, Dunmow, Great Leighs, Great Baddow and Farnham in Essex. These were worth 312 marks 8 s. 1.25 d. yearly, and formerly held by Henry’s third wife Jane Seymour....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 5 January 1540
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2818
Title:: Benedict of Peterborough, Passio et Miracula Sancti Thome Cantuariensis (imperfect); John of Salisbury, Passio Sancti Thome
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consist of two parts bound together immediately after their execution at Pontigny. It was likely intended for the office of St Thomas, which was celebrated at Pontigny from 1174. The order of the two text were revised probably in the early modern period. The Passion of St Thoma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2828
Title:: Philip Massinger, 'Believe As You List' (1631)
Scope & Content:: 'Beleeve as you List' (1631) by Philip Massinger was never published, and this is the only original text that survives. It is also of particular interest for three other reasons. The text of the play is in Massinger's own hand (ff 4r-27v). It was the copy allowed by the Master of the Revels, Sir...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1631
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2831
Title:: Jerome, Commentarium in Isaiam, book 14 to book 18
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is thought to date from before Alcuin's arrival at the abbey of Marmoutiers (or Saint-Martin de Tours) in 796, on the basis of the owner inscription (see Provenance). It is one of the surviving witnesses of the early collaboration between Insular and Continental scribes at the Be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 8th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2832
Title:: Collection of Canon Laws, Lex Salica; Lex Ripuaria; Capitulare Legibus Additum; Capitulare Missorum; Recapitulatio Solidorum; Capitulare Missorum Specialia; Capitulare Haristallense; Capitula Legi Addita; Capitula Legibus Addenda
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists of a collection of canon laws of the Merovingian and Carolingian period. It was produced in Northern France at the very end of the 9th century. This volume was originally bound together with Paris, BnF lat. MS 4633 and Egerton MS 269. It has been divided in t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2900
Title:: Constantinus Africanus, Viaticum; various medical tracts
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the Viaticum (Provision for a Journey) by Constantine the African (b. c. 1020- d. 1098/9). This is a Latin adaptation of a standard medical manual in Arabic, entitled Kitab Zad al-musafir wa-qut al-hadir (Provision for the Traveller and the Nourishment of the Settled), by Ib...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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