Pedigrees and coats of arms of English and Welsh kings, nobility and gentry
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Contents: f. 1*recto: A full-page drawing of the coat of arms of Navarre, with a comment in French. f. 2*recto: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. f. 3*recto: A Latin note on the origin of the word ‘honour’ from the Hebew Hon ('Riches') and the French Or ('Go...
Radulphus Brito, Quaestiones super Isagogen Porphyrii; Quaestiones super Praedicamenta Aristotelis; Quaestiones super Peri hermeneias Aristotelis
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This manuscript contains three works by Radulphus Brito (b. c. 1270, d. 1320), an influential grammarian and philosopher and one of the Modistae, based in Paris. Contents: ff. 1r-41r: Radulphus Brito, Quaestiones super Isagogen Prophyrii. ff. 41v-73v: Radulphus Brito, Quaestiones super Pra...
Four Gospels. Imperfect, lacking several leaves throughout the MS. The right column of f 107 has been excised. ff 65, 243 are supplied by a 14th cent. hand, and f 154 by a 12th cent. hand. One half-leaf is part of Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.17.20. Gregory-Aland 011; Scrivener4 evan. G; von Soden ε 87 (Ki).
This manuscript contains a miscellany of tales, sermons and short treatises. Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Excerpt from the Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth concerning Merlin, ending, '...proferrem taceret spiritus qui me docet nec aliter ualerem loqui quam ceteri homines. Hec sunt s...
Contents: ff. 1r-63v: Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Satyrae, ends in the middle of Satire 15, as last folio is lacking f. 64r-64v: former pastedown with ruling and some annotations. Decoration: Early green and white vine initial in colours on a blue or pink ground at the beginning of each satire...
This 14th-century manuscript contains a copy of the Heroides (The Heroines), a collection of 15 epistolary poems by the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (b. 43 BC, d. 17/18 AD), also known as Ovid. Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Ovid, Heroides. Decoration: Partial foliate border in colours and gol...
Letters in Latin from Albertus Joachim, ambassador of the United Provinces, to Sir Simonds D’Ewes on English and continental affairs. Chiefly written from London, Chester and other places in England, with some from abroad, 1627-1641. Arranged chronologically. Interspersed with copies and extract...
Folio manuscript volume containing an index to a book of law precedents, compiled by Thomas Cole of the Court of Wards and Liveries. Inscribed on f. 1: 'A Table to my Booke of Presedents marked Cole. B.'. The location of this book is not known.
Folio manuscript volume. Contents: f. 1: Incomplete table of contents. ff. 2-27: An Act to punish mutiny, sedition and desertion in soldiers; for preventing false musters; and concerning soldiers’ pay. To take effect from 10 January 1691 [1692?]. ff. 29v-74: Copy of a Bill for regulating the co...