Transcripts and extracts from the Parliament Rolls from the time of Richard III and Henry VII
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Transcripts and extracts from the Parliament Rolls from the time of Richard III and Henry VII in the Chapel of the Rolls in Chancery Lane London, compiled by Simonds d'Ewes. Transcripts not in D’Ewes’s hand, but he has added running titles and original folio numbers and devised the title pages in...
Walter Hilton, The Eight Chapters on Perfection; Treatise of Discretion of Spirits
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Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Walter Hilton, The Eight Chapters on Perfection, English translation of a work by written by the Aragonese Franciscan Luis de Fontibus (fl. 1383-1394); beginning: ‘Heere bigynneþ a tretis of viij chapitres necessarie for men þat ʒiven hem to perfection . whiche was founden...
Collection of excerpts and sermons from the works of Augustine of Hippo
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Contents: ff. 1v-3r: 'Capitula excerptorum de quibusdam opusculum sancti Augustini'. ff. 3v-82v: Excerpts and sermons from the works of Augustine of Hippo. Decoration: Large (3- to 5-line) decorated initials in red, some with a reserved design and penwork decoration, including balls and o...
Notes relating to a Mize on the lands of the Prince of Wales in Denbighshire; the Original Mize-book of the Assessment for Cheshire
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ff. 1v-2v: Fragmentary notes relating to a Mize on the lands held by the Prince of Wales in Denbighshire. ff. 3r-9v: The Original Mize-book of the Assessment for Cheshire. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 10r: An inscription: 'A mize of Cheshire and the Hundreds and other notes...
The life and acts of William the Conqueror; fragment of a history of Scotland (1291); Metrical History of the Deposition of Richard II
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Contents: ff. 2r-4r: A tract on the acts of William the Conqueror, beginning: ‘These thynges whiche folow of the lyfe and actes of the gloryous William Duke of Normandye , and victoryous Kynge of Englande were detracted out of a certen auncyent boke of the monasterye of St Stephen of Cane [Abbe...
A Bible followed by Interpretatio Nominorum Hebreorum
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Contents: ff. 3r-476v: A Bible with numbered chapters. ff. 477r-519r: Interpretatio Nominorum Hebreorum (Interpretation of Hebrew Names). ff. 519v-520v: Theological notes based on Hugh of Saint-Victor. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1v, 2r, 521r-526r: Notes and lists of bible ...
Theological miscellany, including Tertullian, Testamenta xii patriarcharum
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ff. 1r–15r: Tertullian, Testamenta xii patriarcharum, translated by Robert Grosseteste. ff. 15r–20r: Anonymous versification of Richard of Saint-Victor, Beniamin minor, ‘Incipit libellus a magistro Ricardo de sancto victore prosaice editus. Beniamin ab eodem intitulatus. A quodam in metrum rude...
Giannozzo Manetti, De dignitate et excellentia hominis
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This volume contains a copy of De dignitate et excellentia hominis (On the Dignity and Excellence of Man), a treatise written by the Italian politician and diplomat Giannozzo Manetti (b. 1396, d. 1459). The work in four books was a response to Pope Innocent III's De miseria humane conditionis (O...