Contents: ff. 1r-7v: The Athenian calendar, imperfect; entitled: ‘An Atticll [sic: 'Attic'] Kalendar of their Yeare’; preceded by an introduction beginning: ‘The ancient yeare of the Athenians was Lunar, and by that they reckoned their feasts, which was made from replications of its monethly co...
Contents: ff. 1r-285r: Blazoned arms of English nobility and gentry, organised according to their heraldic device. ff. 286v-358v: An index of surnames and titles included in this manuscript. Decoration: A few coats of arms in brown ink. 2 pencil drawings of men’s heads wearing berets, in...
Contents: f. 1r: A table of contents: ‘Les tiltres de ce que est contenui en ce livre’. ff. 2r-7r: ‘Une Epistre de la tressacree maieste Imperialle aux elateurs de saint empire de Romme’. ff. 7r-13r:‘Apollogie ou contradiction du Roy de France alemontre du tractat entre luy faict et Limperi...
‘A List of the Kts. Citizens & Burgesses of Parliamt. Call’d to meet at Westminster the 20th of Augt. 1702. And which was Dissolv’d the 5th of April, 1705. Together with a List of the Kts. Citizens & Burgesses of Parliamt. Called to meet By Writt. bearing Test. The 2d May 1705. And retur...
Contents: ff. 1r-223v: Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC, AD 17/18), also known as Ovid, Metamorphoses, some sections with interlinear and marginal glosses. Decoration: Blank spaces left for decorated initials. Rubricated numbers at the beginning of books.
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: a hymn with musical notation (beginning 'Exsurge Domine adiuva nos'), followed by collects. ff. 4r-15v: a combined liturgical and astrological calendar. ff. 16r-18v: lunar and planetary tables. ff. 19r-109v: Cistercian Ordinal. ff. 110r-110v: an added hymn with mus...
Contents: A portable physician's folding almanac based on the 'Kalendarium' of John Somer (d. in or after 1409), Franciscan friar at Bridgwater and astronomer. It was apparently made for the sons of a northern noble family. This is the only known surviving almanac of its kind written in Englis...
Arms and descent of English Kings and nobility, by John Withie (1593-c. 1678), arms painter, with some later additions. Includes several printed items (ff. 42, 44, 356). f. 2*: Title: ‘In this Booke are conteined the Armes of the Kings of England from Brute the first King of Great Brittaine, ...
Copy of John Leland’s Itinerary. Title: ‘Itinerarium Joh[ann]is Lelandi inceptum A.D. MoDoXXXVIII. 30o Hen. VIII’. Includes some marginal place names and cross references. ff. 254-261: Index of names by William Dugdale, dated 15 July 1657. Headed: ‘Index hujus voluminis compositus per me Will...