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731. Stowe MS 1010

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Stowe MS 1010
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COMMONPLACE-BOOK, including extracts from Sir R. Fanshawe's translation of Guarini's Pastor Fido [first published in 1646], and from [G.J.] Vossius, Rhetorices Contracta. On the fly-leaf is roughly scribbled the name of Richard Temple. Paper; ff. 18. XVIIth-XVIIIth centt. Duodecimo. Gerard Joha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

732. Stowe MS 1053

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Stowe MS 1053
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C0MMONPLACE-BOOK Of Philip Morant (ob. 1770), Rector of St. Mary's, Colchester, and author of the History of Essex, consisting of extracts and notes on the following, among other, subjects:-(1) Anglo-Saxon Parliaments. f. 2;-(2) Homage and tenures. ff. 38, 40;-(3) The Nature and Attributes of Go...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

733. Stowe MS 1059

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Stowe MS 1059
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ARCHAISMUS GRAPHICUS: an introduction to Palaeography by [Sir] Henry Spelman, written for the use of his sons in 1606. lt contains notes in Latin on the history of letters, and on MSS. and the means to determine their age, together with a glossary, which occupies nearly the whole volume, of abbr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1606
Extent:
1 item

734. Stowe MS 63

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Stowe MS 63
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THE CHRONICLE Of Walter Hemingburgh (al. Hemingford, al. Walter de Gisburne), from the Conquest to 1312, in Latin. The first leaf has been cut out; the second begins with the words "Normannie clam direxit" (ed. Hamilton, vol. i. p. 6). Ends "terra siluit et quievit" (ibid., vol. ii. p. 296). Aft...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1533
Extent:
1 item

735. Stowe MS 982

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Stowe MS 982
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COLLECTIONS of miscellaneous tracts, as follows:- 1. The Boke of Kervynge; without title and beg. "Thow shall be pantere or butler." Printed by Wynken de Worde in 1513, re-edited by F. J. Furnivall for the Early English Text Society, 1868, vol. xxxii. p. 261. After the colophon (f. 7 b), "Thus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

736. Stowe MS 39

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Stowe MS 39
Title:
The Abbey of the Holy Ghost; The Desert of Religion
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Contents: ff. 4r-9v: The Abbey of the Holy Ghost, written in Middle English prose, beginning, 'My dere syster, I se þat many wuld be in religyon, bot þai may noght...' ff. 10r-31v: The Desert of Religion, written in Middle English verse, beginning, 'David þat prophet was ay. In þe sauter boke ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

737. Stowe MS 157

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Stowe MS 157
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1. " ORIGINAL LETTERs of Mary, Queen of Scots, to James, Earl of Bothwell " : a transcript of eleven love-letters so entitled, each having a short explanatory introduction. They are not identical, either in number or contents, with the " Casket Letters " generally so called. Letters 1-3 relate t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

738. Stowe MS 460

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Stowe MS 460
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RICHARDS COLLECTIONS. Vol. XIV. (ff. 45). Copies of letters to and from Jacob Richards, and of other documents connected with his engagement in the Venetian service as "Sergente Generale"; 29 Nov. 1696-30 Mar. 1699. Italian. They deal principally with the organisation of the artillery, fortifica...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
29 Nov 1696-30 Mar 1699
Extent:
1 item

739. Stowe MS 7

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Stowe MS 7
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BIBLIA PAUPERUM, consisting of rudely executed and Coloured drawings representing the typical events of Old Testament History and their corresponding fulfilments in the Life of our Lord, with appropriate texts from the Vulgate. There are in addition numerous drawings of heads of prophets, kings,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

740. Stowe MS 25

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Stowe MS 25
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HOURS of the Virgin, etc., in Latin and French. The contents are: — (1) Calendar, in French. f. 1; — (2) Lessons from the four Evangelists, with prayers to the Virgin. f. 13; — (3) Office of the Virgin. f. 35; — (4) The Penitential Psalms, with Litany. f. 120; — (5) Office of the Holy Cross. f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

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