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1. Stowe MS 31-53

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Stowe MS 31-53
Title:
CLASS III. THEOLOGY, WITH LIVES OF SAINTS.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, French, and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-18th century
Extent:
23 items

2. Stowe MS 50-51

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Stowe MS 50-51
Title:
LA LEGENDE DORÉE: the French version of the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine, made by Jean de Vignay, circ. 1340, including the additional Lives given by De Vignay for which there is no original in Jacobus. There are in all 236 narratives, including those which refer to Festivals as well as the Lives of the Saints. Begins, without title, with the rubric "Cy comence le prologue de lacteur de ce liure," etc., which introduces the translator's preface, beg. "Monseigneur saint iherome." The ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
2 items

3. Stowe MS 45

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Stowe MS 45
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TWO SERMONS or treatises, on Prayer (Ps. xxxiv. 17) and on the Sacraments. The beginning and end of the latter are lost. At the head of the former is the name "Mr. Ewens." Paper; ff. 49. Early XVIIIth cent. Duodecimo. Sermons: On prayer and the sacraments, by - Ewens: 18th cent. Ewens: Owned o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 37

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Stowe MS 37
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" HENCHERIDIOM Magistri Alani [de Insulis] de Conquestione Naturae ": a treatise against immorality, in mixed prose and verse, beg. " In lacrimas risus, in luctus gaudia verto." Printed in Migne, Patrologia, vol. ccx. 429-482. At the end, in a somewhat later hand and on two leaves which original...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 41

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Stowe MS 41
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TRANSLATION Of the dialogue entitled "Octavius," in defence of Christianity, by M. Minucius Felix. The following note is appended: "Translated by my selfe at Pyrton in the Intervalls of my Hunting & Hawking times, Anno 1632: I dare not say well, but as I coulde. Ignoscat Lector. Henry Knappe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1632
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 44

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Stowe MS 44
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RELIGIOUS MEDITATIONS and Bible Texts, written by Margaret [Penn], wife of Anthony Lowther; with a list of her family, and an account of the last illness and death of her eldest son, Robert Lowther, in Jan. 1694/5. The last entry is of the death of her eldest surviving son, Sir William Lowther, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1695-1705
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 40

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Stowe MS 40
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"DE SACRO Jesu Christi triumpho habito Lauduni adversus daemonem mulierculae corpus agitantem compendiosa historia": a narrative, in Latin, of certain miracles alleged to have occurred at Laon in 1565 and 1566, edited by Jean Boulaese, priest first of Chartres and then of Laon, professor "litera...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1565-1570
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 36

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Stowe MS 36
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EIGHT SERMONS "de Morte," and eleven "de Passione" Christi, in Latin. A short introduction is prefixed to the first series, beg. "Cum propriam imperitiam," and each sermon begins with the words "Omnes morimur." The second series begins, "Rorantes sanguine lacrimas" (f. 29b). The end of the volum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 48

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Stowe MS 48
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GENEALOGY of Christ from Judah son of Jacob; in the handwriting of Thomas Astle. Paper roll. XVIIIth cent. Thomas Astle, ob. 1803: Genealogy of Christ: 18th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 47

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Stowe MS 47
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"THE FAMOUS BOOK intitled De Tribus Impostoribus, translated from the original Latin into French, and now faithfully Englished, with a preface, annotations, and additions by the French translator ": an English version of the work published by Pierre Frédéric Arpe in 1716, which professed to be a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item