This composite manuscript consists of two separate parts. The first part (ff. 3r-31r) contains astrological texts copied in the 16th century; the second part (ff. 4r-133r) contains texts concerning high treason that were most likely copied in the late 16th century. Contents: ff. 3r-8v: Astrol...
‘Jus Parliamentarium: or the Antient Jurisdiction of the Most high Court [of] Parliament over the Inferior Courts in Westminster Hall, Revived and asserted by William Petit [Petyt] of the Inner Temple’. Manuscript in a single hand. The text was first published posthumously in 1739, with the tit...
Vitae sanctorum (Lives of Saints), including a version of the Life of St Godric based on that of Reginald of Durham (d. c. 1190), with the song of St Godric interpolated (f. 74v). M. R. James attributed the manuscript to Christ Church, Canterbury (Ancient Libraries (1906), p. 526), which Neil Ke...
Cartulary of Sawley Abbey, containing copies of baronial, privat, and occasional episcopal charters and deeds, arranged topographically in 12 sections by titles (titluli) or presses (casae). Miscellaneous additions throughout and at the end, ff. 188–198. ff. 1*–3*: Table of contents and inscrip...
Quarto manuscript volume containing a Latin to Anglo-Saxon dictionary, with grammatical observations. Many of the entries are in the hand of Abraham Wheelocke [or Whelock].
Contents: ff. 1r-129v: Walter Hilton, Scala perfectionis (Ladder of Perfection); imperfect, the first two parts only. With the opening rubric: ‘Here bygynyth þe boke þat is I clepyde scale perfeccionis and it haþ twey partes’; beginning: ‘Gostly broþer in Ihesu crist I preye þe þat in þe cally...
Contents: ff. 1r-65r: Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia; begins with Lucan's epitaph on f. 1r. Numerous medieval and post-medieval inscriptions and pen-trials including the outline of white-vine decoration. Decoration: 2 historiated initials in gold and colours with a lady and a man holding...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century