Geoponica. Collation by Peter Needham of the 1538 Basel edition and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. f. 3.18 (once owned by Christopher Longolius) and MS Barocci 54, together with readings added to the margins of a copy of the Basel edition owned by Sir John Cotton from a manuscript once owned by Saracenus. Prepared for use in Needham's 1704 edition.
Geographical description of the four parts of the world and of the state and trade of the countries therein; prophecies of Paul Grebner
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This manuscript contains a description of the world in English and an account of the prophecies of Paul Grebner (fl. b. c. 1563, d. 1582) that were most likely written between c. 1625 and c. 1650. The manuscript also includes a late Elizabethan indenture that has been folded and added to create ...
Asser, The Annals of St Neots; Chronicon Johannes Pike; Chronicon Roberti de Redding; Chronica Adami Myrimouth
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Contents: f. 1*r: A table of contents. f. 2*r: A title-page: ‘Asserij Menevensis Annales ex antiquissimo Codice descripti’. ff. 1r-45r: Asser, The Annals of St Neots, here entitled: ‘Annales ad annum 914’ ['ex antiquissimo Codice descripti'; ‘Codice Doctoris Gale ad A. D. 914’]. ff. 46r-...
Duets, cantatas, and operatic numbers by Italian composers of the second half of the 17th century
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ff. 1-25 and 99b-156b passim. Duets, with a figured bass, in score, by Italian composers of the second half of the 17th century. 1. 'Spiega un volo cosi altiero.' 'Luiggi Rossi.' f. 1b. 2. 'Oc[c]hi quai vaghi azuri.' Anonymous. f. 4b. 3. 'Tu sarai sempre...il mio bene.' 'Luigi Rossi.' f. 8b. 4. ...
Alcuin, De orthographia; Bede, De orthographia; Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Bella Parisiacae urbis; and other grammatical texts
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This manuscript contains texts on vocabulary and scribal practices and glossaries. It includes: ff. 1r-24r: Alcuin, De orthographia (incomplete); ff. 24v-71r: Bede, De orthographia; ff. 71v-84r: Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Bella Parisiacae urbis, book III; ff. 84r-86v: text beginning ...
Disputationes in quatuor libros Aristotelis de coelo et mundo; Disputationes in tres libros Aristotelis de anima
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Contents: ff. 1r-41v: 'Disputationes in quatuor libros [Aristotelis] de coelo et mundo'. ff. 42r-183r: 'Disputationes in tres libros Aristotelis de anima'.
The Lord's Prayer, Ave Maria, Creed, Confession; Sermons (Advent Sunday-Palm Sunday); Passion narrative; Sermons (Easter Sunday-Sunday of the Holy Fathers)
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Contents: ff. 1r-4v: The Lord’s Prayer, Hail Mary, Creed, and a confession of the Deadly Sins in Middle German, introduced as a ‘useful book for Christian people’ ('nuttelyc booc den kersten menschen'). ff. 5r-87v: A collection of sermons on the Gospels in Middle German, organised according t...
On the offices of Lord Steward, Lord High Constable, and Earl Marshall, and their jurisdictions; and a collection of extracts from records in the Tower of London 1323-1327
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Composite volume of antiquarian tracts in several professional hands, belonging to John Anstis (1669-1744), Garter King of Arms. In two main parts. f. 1*: Dedication from John Anstis to Robert Harley. Latin. Part 1 (ff. 1-90). Collected extracts on the office of Lord Steward, Lord High Consta...
An office book, providing texts for the Divine Office on feast days in the summer half of the liturgical year
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An office book providing texts for the Divine Office on feast days in the summer half of the liturgical year. It is not a full breviary and it appears to lack lections and music. Contents: ff. 1r-18v: A calendar with added obits (see Provenance). ff. 19v-118r: Temporale (from Easter to the...
Copies of the Book of Knights’ Fees of Leicestershire; catalogue of the market and fair towns; Spiritual Receipts and Escheators and Inquisitors of Leicestershire
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Contents: ff. 1r-17r: ‘Computus Johannis Saunderstedd, vicecomitis Leicestrensis, Philippi Polwill, et Willielmi Nevill de Rearefbie, collectorum rationabilis auxilii in comitatu praedicto, domino regi Edwardo tertio concessi ad primogenitum filium suum militem faciendum, anno regni ejusdem reg...