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1. Add MS 54179-54180

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Title:
MILLAR BEQUEST. Edith Mary Millar Memorial Manuscripts: manuscripts bequeathed to the British Museum by Dr Eric George Millar (b.1887, d.1966), Keeper of Manuscripts 1944-1947, in memory of his mother Edith Mary Millar. For the remainder of Millar's bequest, see Add. 54229-54323 and Add. Chs. 75641-75722. See The Eric George Millar Bequest of Manuscripts and Drawings 1967. A Commemorative Volume. BMQ, xxxiii, 1-2 (1968). Acquired 8 April 1967 at the bequest of Dr Eric George Millar. Vellum...
Scope & Content:
includes: inside upper boards Bookplates and Book-stamps: Eric George Millar, DLitt.; Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum: Bookplates of E. G. Millar: 20th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
[1255-1299]
Extent:
2 items

2. Add MS 54179

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Title:
Psalter with elements of York and Augustinian use ('The York Psalter')
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1. Calendar. Contains a number of highly graded feasts of the York diocese, see Surtees Society, Breviarum Ad Usum Insignis Ecclesie Eboracensis (1880): John of Beverley (7 May), William (8 June), Wilfrid (12 October) and other northern elements: Gilbert of Sempringham (4 February) a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1260
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Add MS 54180

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Title:
Laurent d'Orléans, La Somme le Roi
Scope & Content:
La Somme le Roi, a moral compendium compiled in 1279 by the Dominican Friar Laurent for King Philip III of France (r. 1270-1285), incipit: 'Le premier comandement'; preceded by a rubric: 'Ce sont les X commandemenz nostre seigneur jesus'; explicit (including the date of the compilation): 'Cest l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
c 1295
Extent:

208 folios.