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Stowe MS 54

1. Stowe MS 54

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Stowe MS 54
Title:
Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César
Scope & Content:
Contents: Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César (or Histoire Universelle), a universal history from the time of Thebes to 60 BC, as follows: ff. 2r-30r: The story of Thebes from the birth of Oedipus to the conquest by Theseus and the story of Hercules; ff. 30v-45r: The siege and capture of Troy, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Add MS 46354

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Add MS 46354
Title:
WRIOTHESLEY'S HERALDIC COLLECTIONS. Vol. IV. 'Writhe's Book of Knights': collections made apparently by John Writhe, Garter King of Arms 1478-1504, and his son Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms 1505-1534, mainly consisting of lists of knights arranged chronologically under the occasion of their creation, ff. 2b-29, and in the second part, ff. 72b-192b, of the volume painted drawings of their arms and of arms granted by Sir Thomas Wriothesley (see A. R. Wagner, Cat. of English Media...
Scope & Content:
John Writhe, Garter King of Arms: Heraldic collections: 15th-16th centt. Heraldry: Heraldic collections of J. Writhe and Sir T. Wriothesley: 15th-16th centt. Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms: Heraldic collections: 15th-16th centt. includes: f.1b Sir William Fitzwilliam, Earl of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-16th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Royal MS 17 B L

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Royal MS 17 B L
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TRANSCRIPTS of letters, &c., chiefly connected with Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, circ. 1590-1600, viz.:- 1. 'Verses made by the Earle of Essex in his Trouble'; printed in A. B. Grosart's Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies Library, iv, p. 97, W. B. Devereux' Lives of the Earls of Es...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Egerton MS 3165

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Egerton MS 3165
Title:
POEMS OF SIR ARTHUR GORGES, circ. 1586-1625, viz.:- (1) One hundred poems entitled 'The Vanytyes of Sr Arthur Gorges Youthe' (f. 1) and 'Sr Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth' (f. 1b). The first ninety-eight, with one exception (see below), were copied for Gorges in 1586 or soon after, the latest dateable poems being two laments (nos. 96, 97; ff. 100b, 101) for Sir Philip Sidney (d. 17 October 1586); shortly afterwards another hand, not found elsewhere in the MS., inserted the ...
Scope & Content:
Sir Arthur Gorges, poet and translator: Poems, 1584-1614. Copies, with autogr. corrections and additions: circ. 1586-1625. includes: ff. 44, 45, 51 Elizabeth I of England: Verse tributes by Sir A. Gorges: circ. 1586.: Copies.f. 59b Thomas Churchyard, writer: Verses attrib. to,: n.d.: Copy,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1586-1625
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 40851

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Add MS 40851
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ORDINARY and Roll of Arms: an early example (second half of the 15th cent.) of the collection known as Jenyns' Ordinary, so called because other copies of a similar armorial derive from a transcript stated to have been made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, certificated 12 Feb. 157 from an old paper copy in the possession of Thomas Jenyns (cf., for transcripts deriving from the Glover MS., Stowe MS. 696, f. 1; Cotton MS. Tiberius E. ix, ff. 236, 133). Other copies in the Museum are in Harle...
Scope & Content:
Heraldry: Ordinary and Roll of Arms ("Jenyns "): 15th cent. Bindings ENGLISH: Brown Calf, with heraldic stamp of Sir E. Walker, Garter: 17th cent. includes: ff. 1-2, 72 John Anstis, heraldic writer and Garter King of Arms: Notes by.: 1744.f. 5 Heraldry: Shield of arms of Qu. Margaret of A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 61683

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Add MS 61683
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BLENHEIM PAPERS. Vol. DLXXXIII (ff. 93). Political, literary and family papers; [1601?]-1659, n.d. The position of some of these papers in the list in H.M.C. 8th Report, pt. 1, pp. 2-12, suggests that they may be associated with Add. MSS. 61681 and 61682 above. F. 82 derives from the Boteler fam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1601?]-1659
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 5812

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Add MS 5812
Title:
Mr Cole’s General Collections, Volume 11. ‘An exact copy of a MS Visitation of Cambridgeshire in 1619, belonging to the Library of Gonville & Caius College in Cambridge, numbered 542. 1240. To which are added several Pedigrees [etc.]'
Scope & Content:
Vol. XI of Cole’s Collections, bearing the following title: ‘An exact copy of a MS Visitation of Cambridgeshire in 1619, belonging to the Library of Gonville & Caius College in Cambridge, numbered 542. 1240. To which are added several Pedigrees I transcribed from some MS in the Heralds’ Offi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1735-1782]
Extent:
1 volume (231 folios, 232-251 pages)

8. Egerton MS 2810

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Egerton MS 2810
Title:
LIVES OF SAINTS, in English verse: a MS. of the same group as Harley MS. 2277, Egerton MS. 1993, Stowe MS. 949, etc. (cf. C. Horstmann, Altenglische Legenden, Paderborn, 1875, and The Early South-English Legendary or Lives of Saints, Early English Text Soc., 1887). The following are the contents (the names being given as they stand at the beginning of the several legends):- 1. Circumcision. f. 4. 2. Epiphany. [italics]ib[/italics]. 3. St. Hillari. [italics]ib[/italics]. 4. St...
Scope & Content:
Saints: Lives, in Engl. verse: 14th cent. Poetry: Lives of the Saints: 14th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 57836

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Add MS 57836
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Scope & Content:
SUPPLEMENTARY GRENVILLE PAPERS. Vol. XXXIV (ff. 146). 1. ff. 1-125v. Poems and verses, some published; circa 1729-circa 1801. 2. ff. 126-135v. Eight MS. numbers of 'The Impartialist'; [1763?], n.d. 3. ff. 136-138. Advice to a son; probably composed by Grenville for his eldest son George Nu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1724-1806
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 140

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Stowe MS 140
Title:
Scope & Content:
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS, chiefly relating to the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II.; copied by a single hand. The contents are: - 1. " De pace Francie et Anglie" : the articles of the peace of Bretigni, as amended at Calais, promulgated by Edward III. and Edward, Prince of Wales, with an addit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

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