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371. Add MS 78829

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Add MS 78829
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BRIAN CRON MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. I. Vulgate Bible; France; mid 13th cent. Latin. Owned by Henry Pomeroy, 2nd Viscount Harberton. Purchased by Eric George Millar at Christie’s through Quaritch, 24 March 1953 (lot 523). Bequeathed by him to Brian Cron, 11 February 1967 (f. ii recto). Vellum; ff. iii...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:
1 item

372. Add MS 74236

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Add MS 74236
Title:
Missal ('The Sherborne Missal')
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The Sherborne Missal is the largest, most lavishly decorated late medieval English service book to have survived the Reformation intact. The manuscript was made for the Benedictine abbey of St Mary’s in Sherborne, Dorset. It was probably produced between 1399-1407, since it contains portraits of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1399-1407
Extent:
A parchment codex

373. Add MS 89036/1/17

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Add MS 89036/1/17
Title:
William Dacres Adams: Political Correspondence of William Pitt, the Younger
Scope & Content:
The file comprises letters from 1806 (1-41), followed by miscellaneous other material (42-57(ii)) that is largely undated but includes items from 1770 and 1906. 1. Downing Street, Robert Wigram Junior to Adams, [3 January 1806]. Seeking a Seat in the Commons. 2. 13 Clement's Inn, Capt. G. P. Mon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1770-1906
Extent:
1 file

374. Stowe MS 180

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Stowe MS 180
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COLLECION Of Miscellaneous papers relating to state affairs and ecclesiastical, local and other matters in the 17th century; followed by poetical pieces, mostly of an amatory character, but of which a few are on political subjects. The most important are:- 1. Summary of events in the reign of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

375. Add MS 44949

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Add MS 44949
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PSALTER, with Calendar, executed in northern England for secular use (see artt. 2, 4 below); 14th cent. (temp. Edw. III). Latin and French. See also A. Långfors, 'Notice et extraits du manuscrit Additional 44949 du Musée Britannique', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen (Bulletin de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki), xl, 1948, pp. 97-123; E. G. Millar, 'The Egerton Genesis and the M. R. James Memorial MS.', Archaeologia, lxxxvii, 1938, pp. 1-5, and pls. I-IV; Brit. Mus. Quart., xi, 1936-1937...
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Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Psalter: miniatures, initials and borders: 14th cent. Tyrwardreath Priory; Cornwall: Psalter from(?): 14th cent. Liturgies LATIN: Psalter, etc., from Northern England: 14th cent.: Lat. and Fr. Montague Rhodes James, OM; Provost of Eton College: present...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

376. Add MS 47682

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Add MS 47682
Title:
Bible (the 'Holkham Bible Picture Book')
Scope & Content:
A biblical picture book with explanatory text of varying length, sometimes in rhyming couplets, in Anglo-Norman French, with some English. The material covers Genesis from Creation to Noah (ff. 1-9), the Life of Christ from the Annunciation (preceded by genealogies of Mary and Jesus) to the Asce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:
c 1327-1335
Extent:

A parchment codex, 42 folios

377. Royal MS 10 A XII

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Royal MS 10 A XII
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SERMONS and theological notes, with some other tracts, in Latin (artt. 1-3, 24 are on fly-leaves), viz. :- 1. Part of a civil law treatise, probably a late I2th cent. work on procedure, resembling in form the Ordo judiciarius of Ricardus Anglicus, and consisting mainly of extracts from the Cor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 13th century
Extent:
1 item

378. Arundel MS 213

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Arundel MS 213
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A homiletic and theological miscellany, including excerpts from the works of St Gregory the Great, St Augustine, St Jerome, Caesarius of Arles, Fortunatianus of Aquileia and others.
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This early 9th-century manuscript is a theological florilegium (or collection of extracts and citations) of moral, exegetical and catechetical material taken from various books of the Bible and the writings of several Church Fathers. The separate entries tend to consist of excerpts from various ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

379. Royal MS 1 E IX

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Royal MS 1 E IX
Title:
Bible (the 'Big Bible' or the 'Great Bible'), with the Gospel of Nicodemus and the Interpretation of Hebrew names
Scope & Content:
Bible, in Latin, of St Jerome's version with the Gospel of Nicodemus. Produced in England (probably London) during the first quarter of the fifteenth century. The manuscript is also known as the Bible of Richard II, but Richard's ownership questioned by Krochalis 1988 and Scott 1996 on chronolog...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex.

380. Royal MS 8 C IV

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Royal MS 8 C IV
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MISCELLANEOUS TREATISES, chiefly in Latin, bound (since the 15th cent.) with a medical collection, viz.:- 1. 'Summa Lincolniensis que vocatur Templum Domini' (so 15th cent. table of contents): the tract of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln 1235-1253 (cf. 7 A. IX, art. 20). Beg. 'Templum do...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13th century-14th century
Extent:
1 item

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