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3561. Stowe Ch 560

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 560
Title:
Acquittance by Tomasina de Crepilis and other nuns of the monastery of Santa Giulia, Brescia, to Peter de Cayno, shoemaker of Brescia
Scope & Content:
Acquittance by Tomasina de Crepilis, Tomasina de Damis, Romana de Romanis, Petra de Mediolano, and Antonina de Cluxono, nuns of the monastery of Santa Giulia, Brescia [San Salvatore-Santa Giulia], to Peter de Cayno, shoemaker of Brescia, 'massarius' of the lay-brothers of St Faustinus Major of B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
21 Mar 1405
Extent:
1 leaf

3562. Stowe Ch 565

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 565
Title:
Acquittance by Tomasina de Damis, abbess of the monastery of Santa Giulia, Brescia, to Mafeus de Monte
Scope & Content:
Acquittance by Tomasina de Damis, abbess of the monastery of Santa Giulia, Brescia [San Salvatore-Santa Giulia], to Mafeus de Monte, in the name of the lay-brothers of St Faustinus Major of Brescia ('discipline albe laycorum S. Faustini Majoris'), for the rent of a house. Given at the hall calle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13 Jan 1409
Extent:
1 leaf

3563. Stowe Ch 567

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 567
Title:
Acquittance by Tomasina de Damis, abbess of the monastery of Santa Giulia, Brescia, to Michael de Castelanis, dyer of Brescia
Scope & Content:
Acquittance by Tomasina de Damis, abbess of the monastery of Santa Giulia, Brescia [San Salvatore-Santa Giulia], to Michael de Castelanis, dyer of Brescia, on behalf of John, son of Toninus Quazo de Zenobbio, for rent of a house in the city. Given at the hall called ‘glorietta’ in the above mona...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
27 Jan 1415
Extent:
1 leaf

3564. Stowe Ch 579

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 579
Title:
Letter from Pope Martin V to John Kemp, archbishop of York, regarding a dispensation for William Kellum to marry Catherine Schakersdale
Scope & Content:
A letter addressed to the archbishop of York from Pope Martin V (r. 1417-31), informing him of the dispensation to marry granted to William Kellum and Catherine Schakersdale; the Church of the Holy Apostles, Rome, 24 June 1428. The archbishop of York at this time was John Kemp (b. 1380/81, d. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
[24 Jun 1428]
Extent:
1 leaf

3565. Stowe Ch 607

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 607
Title:
Indulgence addressed to Margery and Anna Dicks
Scope & Content:
A mass-produced indulgence by Peter de Monte (b. c. 1400, d. 1457), apostolic notary and papal collector. In exchange for money towards the conversion of the Greeks and defending the borders of Christendom from non-Christians, Margery Dicks and her sister Anna may choose a confessor who can offe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
8 Apr 1439
Extent:
1 leaf

3566. Stowe Ch 619

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 619
Title:
Grant of confraternity by Sir Thomas Norton, master of the Hospital of Burton of St Lazarus of Jerusalem, to Elizabeth Vachell
Scope & Content:
A grant of confraternity by Sir Thomas Norton (fl. 1505-1526), knight and master of the Hospital of Burton Lazars of the Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem, to Elizabeth Vachell; 1512. The text lists the spiritual benefits of membership. The document was mass produced, with blank spaces left for t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1512
Extent:
1 leaf

3567. Stowe Ch 643

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 643
Title:
Petition by Joan Astley, nurse of Henry VI, for an increase in salary
Scope & Content:
Recto: Petition by Joan, nurse of the king and wife of Thomas Astley, esquire, to Henry VI asking if her letter patent of 28 April 1423 granting her £20 a year could be cancelled in return for a new letter patent granting £40 a year. Dorse: Endorsement noting that Joan’s petition was accepted; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1424
Extent:
1 leaf

3568. Stowe MS 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 2
Title:
Psalter with gloss in Old English
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a decorated Gallican Psalter and Canticles (ff. 168v-180v), made in England in the mid-11th century. The Psalter was glossed in Old English in the second half of the 11th century. This Psalter might be related to fragments/binding strips of a glossed Psalter in Cambrid...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

1 volume

3569. Stowe MS 3

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 3
Title:
The Four Gospels; a Lectionary
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Four Gospels with prologues and tables of contents, followed by a lectionary in which readings from the Gospels are divided over the liturgical year. The manuscript has, on stylistic grounds, been identified as a product of the Benedictine abbey of St Remaclus in Sta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:

1 volume

3570. Stowe MS 4

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 4
Title:
Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Chronica de tribus maximis circumstantiis gestorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Historia Scholastica (Scholastic History) by the theologian Petrus Comestor (d. 1187). The Historia offers a retelling of the Old and New Testaments and was a popular work in the later Middle Ages. It also includes excerpts from the Chronica de tribus maximis circums...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

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