Quarto manuscript volume titled 'The some of certaine sermons preached by Mr Obadiah Sedgwicke in Anno Dom. 1630 written by Thomas Gillibrand'. Contains 10 sermons, preached between 3 October 1630 and 9 January 1630 [1631].
Manuscript volume containing 'The Discourse of John Selden Esq or His Sence of Various Matters of Weight, & high Consequence; Relating especially to Religion, and State'. These discourses were recorded by Richard Milward, amanuensis to John Selden, and were published posthumously in 1689 as ...
This manuscript contains a 15th-century copy of Aulus Gellius' Noctes atticae (Attic Nights), a commonplace book comprising notes on grammar, history, antiquarianism and philosophy, drawn from a variety of sources. Contents: ff. 1r-206v: Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae. Decoration: 19 larg...
This liturgical manuscript is an Ordinal for the Use of Hereford Cathedral. It is a composite volume of which ff. 47-82 is the original portion, dating from the late 13th century. In the first quarter of the 14th century, supplementary material for developing offices and the latter part of the C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
ff. 1r–187r: Cartulary of documents relating to the abbey’s rights and privileges in churches, manors and forests. Contains numerous royal and episcopal charters, 11th century onwards, but no papal charters. Similar in date, scope and execution to Add. MS 37665, the material being substantially ...
Contents: ff. 2r-12v: A copy of a Latin catalogue of Cotton charters made by Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726) in 1703. ff. 13r-52r: A copy of an English catalogue of Cotton charters made by Richard Widmore (bap. 1681, d. 1764) after 1750 [according to a note by Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1...
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: 15 Arms of the Knights of the Garter with titles and mottos. Decoration: Arms and crests in colours; outline of an unfinished coat of arms on f. 5v
Contents: ff. 2r-206v: John Foxe, De tota sacramenti eucharistiae causa (autograph translation into Latin of Thomas Cranmer's Answer unto a Crafty and Sophistical Cavillation).
'Bonus Lombardus de Ferraria', Preciosa margarita novella
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-169r: 'Bonus Lombardus de Ferraria', Preciosa margarita novella; according to an explicit in Italian (f. 169r) the work was composed in 1330. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 171v: Two verses in English: 'The good done to a good man / Is the greatest b[...] he ca...