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Reference | Title | Dates | Language |
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Add Ch 10392 | Will of Sibylla Frances of Dunwich | 1455 | Latin |
Add Ch 10594 | Grant by Richard de Camville and Eustacia Basset, his wife, to Bicester Priory | 1200-1217 | Latin |
Add Ch 10605 | Grant by Richard de Campville and Eustacia his wife to Bicester Priory of tithes in Bicester, Stratton and Wretchwick | 1st half of 13th century | English, Middle; Latin |
Add Ch 10608 | Confirmation by Sybilla of Kaversfeld, widow of Hugh Gargate, to Bicester Priory of land in Stratton | Early 13th century | Latin |
Add Ch 10619 | Quitclaim by Ela de Audley to Bicester Priory of land in Wrethwick | 1273-1274 | Latin |
Add Ch 11271 | Acknowledgement by Marie, abbess of St Stephen's Abbey, Soissons, to the Knights Templar of Mont-de-Soissons | 1233 | French, Middle; Latin |
Add Ch 11282 | Grant by Odelina de Trachy, abbess of St Mary of Soissons, to the Knights Templar of Mont-de-Soissons, of Ermengarde and her daughter Helota | 1264 | French; Latin |
Add Ch 12634 | Acknowledgement by Guy, count of Flanders, and Isabeau, his wife, countess of Namur, of a debt to Raoul de Harcout | 1294 | French, Middle |
Add Ch 12731 | Acknowledgement of the supremacy of Baldwin, archbishop of Trier, by Gerlach of Limburg, Kunegunde, his wife, and Gerlach, their son | 1344-1345 | German |
Add Ch 12733 | Sale by Katherine von Solmesse and Salentin, lord of Isenburg, her husband, to Baldwin, archbishop of Trier | 1346 | German |
Add Ch 13038 | Letter of attorney from Ismania, widow of Laurence Berkerolles | 1411 | Latin |
Add Ch 1390 | Chirograph of Fredescendis, abbess of Maubeuge, granting land to Guarin, abbot of Vicogne | between 1129 and 1151 | Latin |
Add Ch 13945 | Confirmation by Alfonso of Brienne, count of Eu, and his wife Marie de Lusignan, of a grant to the Abbey of St Anthony, Paris | Mar 1255 | Latin |
Add Ch 1528 | Letter of Margaret, Archduchess of Austria, to the Council of Flanders, concerning a treaty between the Holy Roman Emperor and the King of France | 13 Oct 1521 | French |
Add Ch 15340 | Bill of sale by Antonio Colona to Angelo Gadi of Florence, selling Marta, an enslaved Russian woman | 1450 | Latin |
Add Ch 15584 | Grant by Matilda, abbess of Barking Abbey, to Henry Lohot, of tenements in Tollesbury | 1175-1202 | Latin |
Add Ch 16789 | Will of Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Paytfyn of Heddingley, with probate certificate | 1342 | Latin |
Add Ch 17295 | Will of Gunnilda atte Denne | 1318 | Latin |
Add Ch 17741 | Lease by Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England, to John Wode, of the hundreds of Gallow, Brothercross and North Greenhoe | 24 Nov 1467 | Latin |
Add Ch 18199 | Acquittance by Margaret of France, Queen of England, to John de Sandale, Keeper of the Exchange of London, for a payment into her wardrobe | 30 Sept 1301 | Latin |
Add Ch 18791 | Will of Katherine Cook of St Andrew's parish, Lewes | 1504-1505 | Latin |
Add Ch 19146 | Will of Margaret, widow of John de Covert | 1367 | Latin |
Add Ch 19573 | Grant by Adeliza of Louvain, widowed Queen of England, to Reading Abbey, for the maintenance of the lights before the body of Henry I | between 1135 and 1151 | Latin |
Add Ch 19574 | Order of Adeliza of Louvain, widowed Queen of England, to Abbot Edward and Reading Abbey, commanding them not to alienate the church of Stanton or her other grants | between 1138 and 1151 | Latin |
Add Ch 19576 | Confirmation by Empress Matilda to Reading Abbey of lands in Windsor and Catteshall | 1141 | Latin |
Add Ch 19577 | Grant by Empress Matilda to Reading Abbey of lands in Blewbury | between 1143 and 1147 | Latin |
Add Ch 19578 | Notification by Empress Matilda of her confirmation of the grant of the church of Stanton to Reading Abbey | 1141 | Latin |
Add Ch 19579 | Grant by Empress Matilda to Reading Abbey of lands in Blewbury (duplicate) | between 1143 and 1147 | Latin |
Add Ch 19858 | Letter of Anne of Woodstock, countess of Stafford, appointing John Harper as her steward | 1428 | French, Middle |
Add Ch 19989 | Chirograph by Agatha La Bernarde, widow of Lord Ralph Fitz Bernard, granting a grove to her daughter Johanna | 1313 | Latin |
Add Ch 20394 | Grant by Matilda de Wateville to Bruern Abbey of land in Colesbourne | Middle of the 12th century | Latin |
Add Ch 20396 | Grant by Anne of Bohemia, Queen of England, to John del Shagh, vicar of Prestbury, of lands in the town of Macclesfield | 1390 | French, Middle |
Add Ch 20420 | Confirmation by Empress Matilda to Bordesley Abbey of lands in Bordesley and elsewhere | 1141 | Latin |
Add Ch 20559 | Grant by Hawise, countess of Aumale, to Fulk de Oiri, of land in Hedon | 1179-1214 | Latin |
Add Ch 20568 | Quitclaim by Alice de Lacy, mother of the earl of Lincoln, to Holy Trinity Abbey, York | 1310 | Anglo-Norman |
Add Ch 21703 | Grant by Matilda, countess of Clare, to Stephen of Chewat, her clerk, of lands in Dralston | c 1170 | Latin |
Add Ch 22566 | Quitclaim by Isabella, widow of Warin of Bassingburn, to William de Briançon, lord of West Thurrock, of her rights to land in Breckenham and elsewhere | 1287-1310 | Latin |
Add Ch 23365 | Inspection and confirmation of a grant to William Aumbesas and Johanna, his wife, of the manor of Carshalton | 1307 | Latin |
Add Ch 23674 | Quitclaim by Gonnora, widow of William Banastre of Wallington, to the Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr, Southwark, of half the rent owed on lands given by her husband | Middle of the 13th century | Latin |
Add Ch 24243 | Will of Margery, widow of John Todenham, knight | 1411-1416 | English; English, Middle; Latin |
Add Ch 24804 | Confirmation by Alfonso X of Castile and Violante of Aragon, his wife, of a previous grant of lands by Alfonso VIII and Leonor Plantagenet, his wife, to the Hospital del Rey of Burgos | 1254 | Latin; Spanish |
Add Ch 24806 | Grant of Doña Blanca of Portugal, Lady of Santa María de las Huelgas, Burgos, to the abbey of las Huelgas, of rents from the saltworks of Añana and Poza | 1313 | Spanish |
Add Ch 24813 | Confirmation by the Catholic Monarchs, Isabel and Fernando, to the Hospital del Rey, Burgos, of the rights of free pasture | 1476 | Spanish |
Add Ch 24814 | Judgement by Isabel and Fernando, the Catholic Monarchs, in the case of a claim made by the Hospital del Rey of Burgos | 1484-1485 | Spanish |
Add Ch 26317 | Will of Joanna Lane, widow of Nicholas Lane of Snape | 1500-1501 | English, Middle; Latin |
Add Ch 27703 | Covenant between Joan, Dowager Princess of Wales, and Beverley, regarding an annual rent | 20 Apr 1380 | Latin |
Add Ch 28479 | Grant by Isabella de Brus to Hatfield Regis Priory | between 1238 and 1252 | Latin |
Add Ch 28654 | Arbitration between Elizabeth of Katzenelenbogen, abbess of St Mary's in the Capitol in Cologne, and Herman of Hachinberch, canon of the same church | [30 Jan 1352] | Dutch, Middle; Latin |
Add Ch 28766 | Will of Isabella Russell, widow of John Churchhay of Frome | 1361 | Latin |
Add Ch 37381 | Grant by Agnes Kamlerin and Barbara Regensburgerin to Hans Schmuckhner of land in Enns, Austria, for the benefit of the sick poor | Jun 1559 | German |
Add Ch 46402 | Grant of Berengaria of Navarre, widowed Queen of England, of rents and lands to the abbey of L'Épau | 1230 | Latin |
Add Ch 46912 | Confirmation by Alix, countess of Eu, to Hastings Priory, of grants in the county of Eu | 1241 | Latin |
Add Ch 47517 | Grant by Hawise, countess of Gloucester, to Nuneaton Priory, of land at Pimperne | 1191-1197 | Latin |
Add Ch 47552 | Confirmation by Petronilla, countess of Leicester, to Nuneaton Priory, of the donation made by her son Robert, earl of Leicester | 1190-1204 | Latin |
Add Ch 47584 | Grant by Isabel, countess of Northampton, to Nuneaton Priory, of land in Groby | Late 12th century | Latin |
Add Ch 47615 | Grant by Amicia de Craft, to Nuneaton Priory, of a moiety of her mill in Sapcote and her body | Early 13th century | Latin |
Add Ch 54007 | Grant of Eleanor of Aquitaine, widowed Queen of England, to Fontevraud Abbey of a house in Poitiers | 1199 | Latin |
Add Ch 54069 | Grant by Philip II of Spain and Mary I of England to Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel, of property in the hundreds of Bury and Rotherbridge | 1555 | Latin |
Add Ch 6026 | Grant by Aubrey de Vere and Isabel de Bolebec to Woburn Abbey of tenements in Warndon | 1184-1194 | Latin |
Add Ch 60433 | Will and probate certificate of Margaret Hervy of Ryburgh | 1508 | English, Middle; Latin |
Add Ch 62464 | Grant by Philip and Mary to Anne Fortescue, of manors in Gloucestershire | 1557 | Latin |
Add Ch 62467 | A set of instructions from Margaret III, Dowager Duchess of Burgundy, to her commissioners to make a treaty of commerce with England | 19 Dec 1404 | French, Middle |
Add Ch 62759 | Acquittance by Eleanor, abbess of Fontevrault, of a payment from the tolls of Blois | 1326 | Latin |
Add Ch 6290 | Will of Joan Ward, widow, of St Saviour's Parish, Southwark | 22 Aug 1544 | English, Middle; Latin |
Add Ch 65797 | Commission by Thomas Bourgchier, Archbishop of Canterbury to administer the will of Emota Newton, widow | 1481 | Latin |
Add Ch 66585 | Acknowledgement of fealty by Jehanne de Longueioe, abbess of St Antoine des Champs, Paris, to the Celestines of Paris, for land held of them | 1534 | French |
Add Ch 66715 | Bull of Pope Adrian IV granting privileges to Neasham Priory | 3 Feb 1157 | Latin |
Add Ch 66988 | Notarised copy of the divorce of Alexander Stewart, duke of Albany, and Lady Katherine Sinclair | 1515 | Latin; Scots |
Add Ch 67089 | Petition to Celestine III by Vaggia, widow of Bernardo di Bardi, and her sons, to choose a confessor | between 1455 and 1458 | Latin |
Add Ch 67394 | Testimony by Friar John Bradfield and others of a deathbed statement by William of Lener concerning the divorce of Robert Pilkington of Rovington and Alice of Astley | 1447 | English; English, Middle |
Add Ch 70471 | Bond between Peter Senthracve of Antwerp, Cristian Tack of Calais and Agnes Martin, Merchant of the Staple of Calais | 1496 | English, Middle; Latin |
Add Ch 70581 | Will of Margaret Canon, granting to John Lye and Thomas Russell of Hythe all of her lands and tenements in Hythe | 1424 | Latin |
Add Ch 70587 | Will of Margery Loqmer, widow of John Loqmer of Newington-next-Hythe, leaving a bequest to John Curte and his wife Beatrice | 1473 | Latin |
Add Ch 70593 | Will of Joanna Chiltern, widow, wife of John Chiltern, of Newington-next-Hythe | 1481-1516 | Latin |
Add Ch 70601 | Will of Agnes Leigh, widow, of the parish of Cheriton | 1516-1518 | English, Middle; Latin |
Add Ch 74042 | Indenture between Isabel, wife of Henry of Torbok, and John Dunville and several others, cancelling a debt | 1396 | Latin |
Add Ch 74114 | Will of Elizabeth Ayrer, widow of Sebald Neyrer of Nuremberg | 1534 | German |
Add Ch 7483 | Grant by Edward III to Isabella, his daughter, of a dowry for her marriage to Louis, count of Flanders | 14 Mar 1347 | French, Middle |
Add Ch 75578 | Foundation charter of Lacock Abbey, granted by Ela, countess of Salisbury | between 1227 and 1231 | Latin |
Add Ch 75719 | Will of Katherine de Bassi of Tournai | 1360 | French, Middle |
Add Ch 75724 | Foundation charter of Bordesley Abbey by Empress Matilda | between 1141 and 1142 | Latin |
Add Ch 76067 | Grant by Isabella de Boville to Sir William de Ulchot and Elizabeth, her daughter, of a mill in Glosthorpe | c 1230-1240 | Latin |
Add Ch 76275 | Will of Johanna, wife of John Godfrey of South Creake | 1368 | Latin |
Add Ch 76757 | Grant by Charles VII of France of a dower for Margaret Stewart, daughter of James I of Scotland, for her proposed marriage to Louis, Charles' son | 12 Mar 1429 | Latin |
Add Ch 77131 | Charter of Marie de St Pol, countess of Pembroke, and four others, appointing John Shaftsbury and John Cheshunt as their attorneys | 25 Jul 1372 | Latin |
Add Ch 77136 | Indenture between Margaret of Brotherton, Countess of Norfolk, Bruisyard Abbey and Sir Robert Carbevell, concerning lands to be granted to the abbey | 6 Jul 1378 | French, Middle |
Add Ch 77153 | Will of Isabella Storke | 25 Mar 1496 | Latin |
Add Ch 77735 | Inspeximus by Henry III of a grant of Aethelred the Unready to Wherwell Abbey | 1260 | Latin |
Add Ch 77738 | Marriage contract between Prince Edward of England and Philippa of Hainault | 1326 | French, Middle |
Add Ch 8043 | Isabel of Portugal claims her rights to the crown of England and declares herself universal heiress of Henry VI, the late king | 17 Jun 1471 | Latin |
Add Ch 8129 | Letter of Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England, granting power to William de Verges to do fealty in her name to Guy, Count of Flanders | 1280 | Latin |
Add MS 10037 | Jane Segar, The Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills | 1589 | English; Latin |
Add MS 10084 | Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Gallicum; Bellum Civile; Bellum Alexandrinum; Bellum Africanum | 4th quarter of the 11th century | Latin |
Add MS 10445 | A collection of compositions for strings, as well as melodies, and instrumental arrangements of songs and ballets | 2nd half of the 17th century | Not applicable |
Add MS 10459 | Jonas of Orléans, De Institutione Laicali; Epistola Concilii Aquisgranensis ad Pippinum Regem Directa | 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 9th century | Latin |
Add MS 10546 | Bible (The 'Moutier-Grandval Bible') | c 830-c 840 | Latin |
Add MS 10767 | Caterina Vigri, Le sette armi spirituali, and other devotional works | 15th century | Italian; Latin |
Add MS 11034 | Arator, Historia apostolica; Pseudo-Priscian, Carmen de sideribus; Modoin of Autun, Ecloga; Bede, Versus de die iudicii | 10th century | Latin |
Add MS 11283 | Bestiary | 4th quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 11390 | Jacob van Maerlant, Der naturen bloeme | c 1300 - c 1325 | Dutch, Middle |
Add MS 11430 | Margareta Ebner, Offenbarungen, and related texts | 1744-1747 | German; Latin |
Add MS 11440 | Two canon law compilations | 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 11662 | A versified chronicle from the priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs (imperfect), followed by a modern copy of the cartulary | 4th quarter of the 11th century | French; Latin |
Add MS 11847 | Psalter ('The Alheide Psalter') | 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century | German, Middle High; Latin |
Add MS 11849 | The Four Gospels | 2nd half of the 9th century | Latin |
Add MS 11850 | The Four Gospels ('The Préaux Gospels') | 1st quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 11853 | The Pauline Epistles with Gloss | 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 11873 | Augustine of Hippo, In Epistolam Joannis Ad Parthos Tractatus Decem, De Doctrina Christiana, Liber de vera religione | 2nd half of the 10th century | Latin |
Add MS 11878 | Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 23-24:11) | 1st quarter of the 8th century | Latin |
Add MS 11943 | Macrobius, Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis | 1st half of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 11983 | Seneca the Younger, De Clementia, Apocolocyntosis or Ludus de Morte Claudii, Proverbia, De Beneficiis; Publilius Syrus, Proverbia Senecae Secundum Ordinem Alphabeti; Ausonius, Versus de Duodecim Caesarum, Tetrasticha; Epitaphium Senecae; anonymous… | c 1075-c 1125 | Latin |
Add MS 12042 | Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose | 1st quarter of the 15th century | French, Old |
Add MS 12219 | Incidental music to Macbeth, which has been attributed to John Eccles | Late 17th century | English |
Add MS 12346 | Bugis poems | 18th-early 19th century | Buginese |
Add MS 12348 | La Galigo | 18th-early 19th century | Buginese |
Add MS 12349 | Bugis diary from Bone, 1780-5 | 1780-5 | Arabic; Buginese |
Add MS 12350 | Bugis diary, 1808-1812 | 1813 | Buginese |
Add MS 12353 | Bugis poems | 18th-early 19th century | Buginese |
Add MS 12355 | Bugis diary from the court of Bone, 1774-1793 | 1774-1812 | Buginese |
Add MS 12356 | Copy of the Bugis diary of the Sultan of Bone, 1775-1795 | 1806-1814 | Buginese |
Add MS 12357 | Bugis diary from Bone, 1795-1812 | 1795-1814 | Buginese |
Add MS 12358 | Bugis treatises on fire-arms and gunnery | 18th-early 19th century | Buginese |
Add MS 12359 | Documents in Bugis and Malay | Late 18th-early 19th century | Buginese |
Add MS 12360 | Bugis notes on medicine, agriculture, etc. | 18th-early 19th century | Buginese |
Add MS 12361 | Bugis poem | Early 19th century | Buginese |
Add MS 12362 | Bugis version of Hikayat Cekel Wanengpati | 18th-early 19th century | Buginese |
Add MS 12364 | Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiah | Late 18th-early 19th century | Buginese |
Add MS 12365 | Bugis treatises on firearms and gunnery | Late 18th-early 19th century | Buginese |
Add MS 12367 | Mystical treatises in Arabic, Makasar and Bugis | Late 18th-early 19th century | Arabic; Buginese; Makasar |
Add MS 12369 | A Volume in Bugis, apparently a European Calendar for the Years 1714-1718, adapted to the Arabic months. | 1714-1718 | Buginese |
Add MS 12370 | Bugis translation of Tanbih al-Ghafilin | Late 18th-early 19th century | Buginese |
Add MS 12371 | Akhbar al-akhira | 1764 | Buginese |
Add MS 12373 | Bugis diary from the court of Bone, 1793-1799 | 1793-1799 | Buginese |
Add MS 12374 | Verses from the Quran in Arabic, with Bugis translation | Late 18th-early 19th century | Arabic; Buginese |
Add MS 14042 | Middle Dutch prayer-book | 1517-1523 | Dutch, Middle |
Add MS 14250 | Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Plympton annals for the years 1066-1177 | 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 14252 | Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Anglie; 'Prester John', Epistola Manueli Comneno Imperatori Graecorum; Hildebert of Lavardin, De Tribus Mortuis a Christo Suscitatis; a prose description of England based on Henry of… | 1st quarter of the 13th century | Anglo-Norman; English, Middle; Latin |
Add MS 14399 | A collection of mostly English songs, as well as some lute music, cantatas and duets | 2nd half of the 17th century | English; French |
Add MS 14784 | St Augustine, De nuptiis et concupiscentia; St Augustine, De perfectione iustitiae hominis; St Augustine, De cathechizandis rudibus | 2nd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 15102 | Hildegard von Bingen, Collectio epistolarum, Ordo virtutum, and other texts | 1487 | Latin |
Add MS 15103 | Collection of homilies and saints' Lives, written by Martha Felderin | 1488 | German |
Add MS 15117 | A collection, mostly comprising compositions for the lute, as well as songs, anthems, madrigals, duets, and an extract from an opera, all with lute accompaniment. This volume also contains a quartet, and an index to 'The Psalmes of David in Meter'. | after 1599 | English |
Add MS 15166 | The treble part of a collection of psalms, as well as the treble part of three madrigals | after 1567 | English |
Add MS 15219 | Bede, De Locis Sanctis, Interpretatio Nominum Graecorum, Interpretatio Nominum Hebraeorum; Pseudo-Antoninus of Piacenza, De Locis Terrae Sanctae | 2nd half of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 15222 | A collection of Ordines Romani including Angilram of Metz, De cantorum et lectorum ordinatione and a series of oaths held before the archbishop of Besançon | 1st half of the 11th century-12th century | Latin |
Add MS 15304 | The Four Gospels | 2nd half of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 15350 | Codex Wintoniensis (The St Swithun Cartulary) | 1130-1150 | English, Old; Latin |
Add MS 15418 | Hildegard von Bingen, Liber divinorum operum | Late 15th century | Latin |
Add MS 15456 | Obituary calendar of the Abbey of St Quirinus, Neuss | 1421-17th century | German, Low; Latin |
Add MS 15535 | PLANS of military operations, in North America, etc. ; namely, of Fort Edward, 1755;-of Fort William Henry, and Camp at Lake George; -of the battle fought on the plains of Abraham, 13 Sept. 1759 ;-of Fort Niagara, and the attack made thereupon, July,… | 1716-1783 | English |
Add MS 15600 | Decimus Junius Juvenal, Satires with scholia | 3rd or 4th quarter of the 9th century | Latin |
Add MS 15601 | Boethius, Consolatio Philosophiae; Lupus of Ferrières, De Metris Boetii Libellus; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Saturae; Commentary on Persius' Satires; Calcidius, Commentary on Plato's Timaeus; Prudentius, Psychomachia, Cathemerinon; a short tract on… | Late 10th century-Early 11th century | Latin |
Add MS 15602 | Institutio Canonicorum Aquisgranensis | 2nd half of the 9th century | Latin |
Add MS 15603 | Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae | 4th quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 15606 | Anthology of religious and didactic texts | Early 14th century | French |
Add MS 15686 | The Rule of the Minorite Order of Sisters of St Clare | c 1480 | German; Latin |
Add MS 15722 | Liturgical hymns and sermons | 2nd quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century | Latin |
Add MS 15732 | Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae | 2nd half of the 12th century | French; Latin |
Add MS 16414 | Pseudo-Castor of Apt, Epistula ad Cassianum; John Cassian, De Institutis Coenobiorum; John Cassian, Collationes; John Cassian, De Incarnatione Domini Contra Nestorium | 4th quarter of the 11th century | Latin |
Add MS 16606 | Gregorius the Great, Dialogi; Ephraim the Syrian, Sermons | 2nd half of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century | Latin |
Add MS 16918 | Usuard, Martyrology; lections for Sundays and liturgical feasts | c 1129 | Latin |
Add MS 16950 | Gradual, Cistercian Use ('The Seligenthal Gradual') | 1260 | German; Latin |
Add MS 16961 | Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, Commentary on the Rule of St Benedict | 3rd quarter of the 9th century | Latin |
Add MS 16963 | John the Deacon, Vita Gregorii Magni | 10th century-11th century | Latin |
Add MS 16964 | John Cassian, De Institutiones Coenobiorum; Collationes Sanctum Patrum | 4th quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 16974 | St Jerome, Commentary on Matthew (books I-IV); Eusebius of Caesara, Chronicon (with additions); Stephen of Saint Trond, Miracula Sancti Trudonis; Passio Sancti Gorgonii; Passio Sancti Cornelii Pape | 4th quarter of the 9th century-4th quarter of the 11th century | Latin |
Add MS 16979 | Necrology from the Benedictine abbey of St Gilles (diocese of Nîmes); Regula Sancti Benedicti | 2nd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 16984 | Cicero, De Inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium | 4th quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 17012 | Books of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Book of Joan Vaux') | c 1500 | English; Latin |
Add MS 17333 | Apocalypse (the 'Val-Dieu Apocalypse') | c. 1320-1330 | French, Old; Latin |
Add MS 17392 | Psalter with gloss in Latin | 3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 17399 | Prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée (ff. 2r-3v); Apocalypse (Revelation) in prose with glosses (ff. 3v-58v). | 4th quarter of the 15th century | French, Middle |
Add MS 17739 | The Four Gospels | 1st quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 17798 | Compositions for violins, and bass, in the hand of William Lawes | 1st half of 17th century | English; Latin |
Add MS 17808 | Scientific treatises on Music, Mathematics, Astronomy and Astrology | 2nd quarter or 2nd half of the 11th century | Latin |
Add MS 18031 | Roman Missal ('The Stavelot Missal'), volume 1 | 1st quarter of the 13th century | Latin |
Add MS 18032 | Roman Missal ('The Stavelot Missal'), volume 2 | 1st quarter of the 13th century-15th century | Latin |
Add MS 18043 | Psalter with commentary in Latin | 4th quarter of the 10th century - 1st quarter of the 11th century | Latin |
Add MS 18298 | Psalter with gloss in Latin | 2nd half of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 18311 | Rules of St Augustine for the government of nunneries | 1512 | German |
Add MS 18338 | Isidore of Seville, De Ecclesiasticis Officiis; Alcuin of York, De Virtutibus et Vitiis Liber | 3rd quarter of the 9th century | Latin |
Add MS 18633 | Apocalypse in Latin with a verse translation and prose commentary in French [imperfect] (ff. 1r-50v); with a paraphrase in Middle English prose (ff. 10v-39r). | 2nd half of the 13th century | English, Middle; French, Old; Latin |
Add MS 18857 | Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible hystoriaulx) (2nd of 2 volumes) | c 1415 | French |
Add MS 19725 | A collection of anonymous sermons; Martyrology and Kalendar; Pseudo-Bede, computistical extracts; Regulæ et Instructiones Sacerdotum; Gennadius of Marseille, De Ecclesiasticis Dogmatibus; Capitula Parisiensia; Liber de Gestis Sanctorum Patrum… | 4th quarter of the 9th century | Latin |
Add MS 19758 | A TREATISE of music, By Thomas Rauenscroft, Bacheler of Musick, and one of ye children of Poules. Paper; xviith cent. Small Quarto. | 17th century | English |
Add MS 19896 | Apocalypse Picture Book; Apocalypse (Revelation) with a preface by St Jerome and commentary | 3rd quarter of the 15th century | Latin |
Add MS 19961 | Cassiodorus-Epiphanius, Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita | 2nd half of the 9th century | Latin |
Add MS 21072 | Census of St Mary Magdalene's Abbey, Cologne | 2nd half of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century | German; Latin |
Add MS 21164 | Lexicon Tironianum | 10th century | Latin |
Add MS 21177 | Revenues and expenses of St Mary Magdalene's Abbey, Cologne | Late 13th century | German; Latin |
Add MS 21914 | Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, Collectiones in Epistolas et Evangelia; A glossary of Hebrew names (imperfect) | 1st half of the 9th century | Latin |
Add MS 21917 | Collection of saints' lives | 4th quarter of the 10th century | Latin |
Add MS 21984 | Cicero, De senectute, written by Ippolita Maria Sforza | 1458 | Italian; Latin |
Add MS 21986 | Cyprian of Carthage, Epistolae | 2nd half of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 21995 | Gariopontus of Salerno, Passionarius Galeni | 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 22278 | St Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah (books 11-18) | 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 22285 | The Martyrology of Syon Abbey | 2nd half of the 15th century | English, Middle; Latin; Portuguese |
Add MS 22398 | Aileranus Sapiens, Canon evangeliorum; Ansegisus, Collection of capitularies; Edictum Pistense; Lex Salica; Capitulare legibus additum; Capitulare missorum generale; Alcuin, Disputatio Pippini cum Albino; Lex Ribuaria | 1st quarter of the 10th century | French; Latin |
Add MS 22493 | Apocalypse, fragment with commentary by Berengaudus (ff. 1-4). | 4th quarter of the 13th century | Latin |
Add MS 22562 | Vitae Patrum et Verbis Seniorum, written by Ava Trici and Gheeza Ysenoud | 1449 | Latin |
Add MS 22597 | Tenor and treble parts and incidental music for a collection of compositions, by various composers. | 16th century-17th century | English; French; Latin |
Add MS 22719 | Constantinus Africanus, Pantegni; Qusta Ibn Luqa, De Physicis Ligaturis | 1st quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 22754 | Angela da Foligno, Lume amoroso divino | c 1451-c 1457 | Italian |
Add MS 22820 | Hrabanus Maurus, Commentary on Jeremiah | 2nd half of the 10th century | Latin |
Add MS 23211 | Fragment of Latin verses on the date of Easter, regnal lists, and fragment of the Old English Martyrology | 4th quarter of 9th century | English, Old; Latin |
Add MS 23623 | Collection of 17th-century compositions by Dr. John Bull, and possibly others | 1628 | Dutch; English; Italian; Latin |
Add MS 23779 | Collection of compositions for strings and organ, by Giovanni Coperario [John Cooper, Music Master to the children of James I.]. | 17th century - 18th century | English |
Add MS 23938 | Receipts and expenses of the expedition to bring Queen Margaret of Anjou to England | 17 July 1444-16 October 1445 | Latin |
Add MS 23944 | St Augustine, De Nuptiis et Concupiscentia ad Valerium; Contra Julianum | 3rd quarter of the 9th century | Latin |
Add MS 24066 | Ranulf of Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regum Angliae; Leges Edwardi Confessoris, Statutes of England; various legal texts | c 1190-14th century | Anglo-Norman; Latin |
Add MS 24142 | Bible ('Bible of St Hubert', 'Codex Hubertianus') | 1st quarter of the 9th century | Latin |
Add MS 24143 | Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 2-5) | 4th quarter of the 8th century | Latin |
Add MS 24144 | Paulus Orosius, Historiarum libri adversus paganos (fragments) | 1st quarter of the 8th century | Latin |
Add MS 24145 | Sigebert of Gembloux, Chronica sive Chronographia Universalis | 2nd quarter of the 12th century-4th quarter of the 12th century | English; Latin |
Add MS 24153 | German prayer-book | 1509 | German, Middle High |
Add MS 24193 | Venantius Fortunatus, Carmina | 1st quarter of the 9th century | Latin |
Add MS 24199 | Azo, Commentary on Justinian's Codex; Prudentius, Psychomachia; Various poems, including poems by Hildebert of Lavardin and Marbode of Rennes | 10th century-16th century | Latin |
Add MS 24914 | Bede, Super Parabolas Salomonis Allegorica Expositio; De Dei Judicie; St Jerome, In Ecclesiasten; Commentarius in Cantica Canticorum (12 homilies); Hildebert of Lavardin, Vita Beate Marie Egyptiace; Marbodius of Rennes, Vita Sancti Laurentii; De… | 1st half of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 25014 | Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert of Wearmouth, Epistola de obitu Bedae; Continuatio Bedae; Memoriae Sancte Andrae in Scotia; an excerpt from the prologue of the Propheciae Merlini | 2nd half of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 25312 | Haimo of Halberstad, Commentary on the Apocalypse; Odo of Cambrai, De canonibus evangelorium; Table of consanguinity. | 3rd quarter of 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 25434 | Richard of Ireland (pseudonym), Les Prophecies de Merlin. | 14th century | French; Latin |
Add MS 26667 | Chronique Universelle | 1480-1490 | French |
Add MS 26760 | Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 23 to 35) | 2nd half of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 26761 | Origen, Commentary on Matthew (Chapter 36-end) | 3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 26762 | Theological tracts | 3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 26866 | Psalter with gloss in Latin, imperfect | 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century | Latin |
Add MS 27278 | MEMORANDUM-BOOK of Sir Francis Bacon, afterwards Urd Verulam. The general title is, Comentarius solutus sive Pandecta, sive Ancilla Memoriæ. Habet libros duos: 1. Comentarium transportatorum ex comentario vetere. 2. Commentarium novum et… | 17th century | English |
Add MS 27920 | A noted Breviary (imperfect) | 1st half of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 27926 | Gospels of St Luke and St John | 4th quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 28188 | Pontifical with litanies and benedictional (imperfect) | 3rd quarter of 11th century | Latin |
Add MS 28260 | Moral and didactic texts in French | 2nd half of the 13th century | French; Latin |
Add MS 28504 | John Skelton, The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng; rule-book for the Esquire Youths, a society of bell-ringers | 2nd half of the 17th century | English; Latin |
Add MS 29246 | Lute accompaniments to, or arrangements of, madrigals, masses, motets, and pieces originally written for string ensembles | after 1611 | Not applicable |
Add MS 29247 | Lute accompaniments to, or arrangements of, anthems, madrigals, and motets | after 1611 | Not applicable |
Add MS 29276 | Lectionary | 1st quarter of the 12th century -3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 29485 | Almands, galliards, pavans, sarabands, etc., arranged for the virginals, on six-lined staves, with headings in Dutch. | 16th century | Dutch; English |
Add MS 29972 | St Augustine, Homilies | 1st quarter of the 8th century | Latin |
Add MS 29986 | Le Miroir des Dames (an anonymous French translation of Durand de Champagne's Speculum dominarum) | 1407-1410 | French |
Add MS 29987 | Madrigals, ballads, and motets by Italian composers (mainly anonymous), including: Jacobus de Bolonia. Johannes de Florentia. Franciscus de Florentia. Frater Bartolinus de Padova. Giovanni de Chascina. Ser Lorenzo, prete di Firenze Ser Gheradello.… | 14th century-16th century | Italian; Latin |
Add MS 29996 | Motets, madrigals, fancies, by Thomas Tomkins and others, interspersed with political verses and satires, recipes etc. | 16th century-17th century | English |
Add MS 30024 | Brunetto Latini, Li livres dou tresor | 1260-1299 | French |
Add MS 30387 | Dance and other music in lute notation, composed by Silvio Leopold Weis and Sigismund Weis, of Prague, in 1717-1724 | 1717-1724 | English |
Add MS 30403 | George Smith Cuneiform Notebook, Volume VII | 1873-1876 | English |
Add MS 30407 | George Smith Cuneiform Notebook, Volume XI | 1873-1876 | English |
Add MS 30408 | George Smith Cuneiform Notebook, Volume XII | 1873-1876 | English |
Add MS 30410 | George Smith Cuneiform Notebook, Volume XIV | 1873-1876 | English |
Add MS 30413 | George Smith Notebook, Volume XVII. Notes on travels in Syria and Mesopotamia: 1873, 1874, 1876. | 1873-1876 | English |
Add MS 30485 | Pavans, galliards and songs for the virginals by William Bird, Thomas Tallis, James Harding, Thomas Weelkes, Dr. John Bull and others; taken principally from Lady Nevill's virginal book. | 16th century-17th century | English |
Add MS 30513 | The Mulliner Book: a collection of music for the virginals | [between 1545-1570] | Not applicable |
Add MS 31031 | Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob (part 1, books 1-5) | 2nd half of the 8th century | Latin |
Add MS 31390 | 'A booke of In nomines and other solfainge songs of v: vj vij: and viij: parts for voyces or Instrumentes', written in direct, transverse, and reversed staves, so that all can sing, or play, at once. | Late 16th century | Not applicable |
Add MS 31840 | Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose | 2nd quarter of the 14th century | French, Old |
Add MS 31922 | A collection of songs, ballads, and instrumental pieces, composed early in the reign of Henry VIII | 1st half of the 16th century | English; Latin |
Add MS 31992 | A collection of miserere, anthems, motets and madrigals, in Italian lute notation | Late 16th century-Early 17th century | Not applicable |
Add MS 32058 | Cuttings and leaves from illuminated manuscripts, including the Teutonic Knights Bible | 13th century-1st half of the 14th century | Latin |
Add MS 32246 | Fragment of Excerptiones de Prisciano with the 'Elegy of Herbert and Wulfgar', glossaries, and Ælfric's Colloquy | 1st half of 11th century | English, Old; Latin |
Add MS 33241 | Encomium Emmae reginae | 11th century | Latin |
Add MS 33933 | The Wode Psalter or St Andrews Psalter: contra-tenor part-book containing musical settings of metrical psalms from the 1564 Scottish Psalm Book and other music | c 1564-c 1625 | English; French; Italian |
Add MS 34034 | Manuscript of Middlemarch: a study of provincial life, by George Eliot. Volume 1. | 1872 | English |
Add MS 34035 | Manuscript of Middlemarch: a study of provincial life, by George Eliot. Volume 2. | 1872 | English |
Add MS 34037 | Manuscript of Middlemarch: a study of provincial life, by George Eliot. Volume 4. | 1872 | English |
Add MS 34114 | A collection of Romances in French (The 'Spalding Manuscript') | c 1400 | English; French |
Add MS 34124 | Vita Prima Sanctae Brigidae | Mid 9th century | Latin |
Add MS 34209 | Antiphonal and Gradual of Ambrosian use | 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 34652 | Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (fragment); a collection of manuscript fragments and facsimiles | 11th century-15th century | English; French; Greek, Ancient; Latin |
Add MS 34874 | Edward Gibbon Papers, Volume 1. Six autobiographical sketches. | 1737-1807 | English |
Add MS 35021 | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Das Wohltemperierte Clavier, book 2. | [1739-1742] | German |
Add MS 35069 | Single leaves and cuttings from illuminated manuscripts | 12th century-14th century | Anglo-Norman; Latin |
Add MS 35110 | Vita Sancti Augustini; Possidius, Vita Sancti Augustini; Vita Sancti Eadfridi; Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti; Adomnán, Vita Sancti Columbe | 4th quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 35167 | Glossed Gospel of St Luke | 2nd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 35180 | Peter the Chanter, Verbum Abbreviatum; Metrical life of Thomas of Canterbury; Marbod of Rennes, De Lapidibus (excerpt); French notes on the compass | 1st quarter of the 13th century | Anglo-Norman; Latin |
Add MS 35283 | Psalter in Latin and Anglo-Norman | 1st quarter of the 13th century | Anglo-Norman; Latin |
Add MS 35294 | Wardrobe account of Eleanor of Castile | [29 Sep 1289-30 Dec 1290] | Latin |
Add MS 35321 | Boccaccio, Des cas de nobles hommes et femmes | 3rd quarter of the 15th century | French |
Add MS 36668 | St Jerome, Commentary on Daniel | 1st half of the 9th century | Greek, Ancient; Latin |
Add MS 37346 | Whitelocke Annals, Volume VI. History of Whitelocke's Ambassy from England to Sweden. | 1653-1654 | English |
Add MS 37347 | Whitelocke Annals, Volume VII. History of Whitelocke's Ambassy from England to Sweden. | 1653-1654 | English |
Add MS 37517 | Psalter ('The Bosworth Psalter') with gloss in Latin | Late 10th century-early 11th century | English, Old; Latin |
Add MS 37518 | Lexicon Tironianum | 1st quarter of the 9th century | Latin |
Add MS 37656 | Wardrobe account of Thomas of Brotherton and Edmund of Woodstock, sons of Edward I and Margaret of France | 1305 | Latin |
Add MS 37790 | A Carthusian anthology of theological works in English (the 'Amherst Manuscript') | Middle of the 15th century | English |
Add MS 38116 | Psalter ('The Huth Psalter') | 1280-1300 | Latin |
Add MS 38117 | Robert de Boron, Joseph d'Arimathie, Le Livre de Merlin, Suite de Merlin ('the Huth Manuscript') | 14th century | French |
Add MS 38118 | Apocalypse (the 'Huth Apocalypse') in prose with gloss, with a prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée | 4th quarter of the 13th century | French, Old |
Add MS 38120 | Guillaume de Diguleville, Les Trois Pèlerinages | c 1400 | French, Middle |
Add MS 38121 | 'Picture-Book' of the life of St John the Evangelist; St Jerome's Preface; Apocalypse | c 1400 | Latin |
Add MS 38130 | Vita Sancti Neoti; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum | 1st half of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 38604 | Breviary for Birgittine Use | 1470 | Latin |
Add MS 38645 | Benedictional and Pontifical | 12th century | French, Old; Latin |
Add MS 38687 | Hrabanus Maurus, Commentaries on Deuteronomy and Joshua | 1st quarter of the 13th century | Latin |
Add MS 38817 | Bede, De Tabernaculo (excerpt); Revelatio Sancti Ragneri Martyris; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert, De Obitu Venerabilis Bede | 2nd half of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 38818 | A collection of works by Palladius, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Justinian, St Augustine, Prosper of Aquitaine, Isidore of Seville, and Robert of Basevorn | 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 14th century | Latin |
Add MS 38819 | Psalter | 2nd half of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 39646 | Vita Caroli Magni; Pseudo-Turpin, Historia Caroli Magni et Rolandi; Einhard, Vita Karoli Magni; William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum; Visio Eucherii; Libellus de Gestis Anglorum; William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum Ducum; Suger of… | 4th quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 40000 | The Gospels ('The Thorney Gospels'); added Liber Vitae and list of relics of Thorney Abbey | 1st quarter of the 10th century-15th century | English, Old; Latin |
Add MS 40007 | Ralph de Diceto, Opuscula; Letter to William de Longchamp; Abbreviationes Chronicorum (extracts); Letter to John of Poitiers; Ymagines Historiarum (excerpts); Geoffrey of Monmouth, Prophetia Merlini; Anonymous prophecies | c 1195 | Latin |
Add MS 40074 | Sulpicius Severus, Vita sancti Martini Turonensis, Epistulae, Dialogi | Late 10th century-Early 11th century | Latin |
Add MS 40076 | Rule and Privileges of the Poor Clares | 1446-1448 | Italian; Latin |
Add MS 41997 | Burchard of Bellevaux, Apologia de Barbis | 3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 42856 | 'AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY', BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE, the novelist (d. 1882); written 1 Jan.-11 Apr. 1876 (see f. iib) with additions in 1879 (see f. 212). The autograph manuscript (except for some passages from letters quoted on ff. 79-79b, 83, 83b, 190-191),… | 1876-1879 | English |
Add MS 43725 | Codex Sinaiticus (Gregory-Aland 01 or א; von Soden δ 2; Scrivener א): Bible in two volumes | 2nd quarter of the 4th century-3rd quarter of the 4th century | Greek, Ancient |
Add MS 43827 A | Autobiographical account of the life of Rose Lok | 2nd quarter of the 17th century | English |
Add MS 43827 B | Autobiographical account of the life of Rose Lok, copied by Elizabeth Hickman | c 1667 | English |
Add MS 44839 | Chart of the Thames estuary drawn by Robert Adams, showing existing and proposed defences on the Thames, against the Spanish Armada | 1588 | English; Latin |
Add MS 46203 | Missal | 4th quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 46204 | Worcester cartulary fragments ('Wulfstan Cartulary'/'Nero-Middleton Cartulary'/'Oswald Cartulary') | 2nd half of the 11th century | English, Old; Latin |
Add MS 46487 | The Sherborne Cartulary, a collection of charters and other documents; Passions, Gospels and liturgical texts | 2nd quarter of the 12th century | English; English, Old; Latin |
Add MS 46701 | Cartulary of Stixwould Priory | 2nd half of the 13th century-15th century | Anglo-Norman; Latin |
Add MS 47678 | Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, Pro Ligario, Pro rege Deiotaro, In Verrem | 1st quarter of the 9th century | Latin |
Add MS 47844 | Counter-tenor part-book containing Latin motets, etc., for five, six or seven voices | after 1581 | English |
Add MS 47967 | Orosius, Historia adversus paganos ('The Old English Orosius' or 'The Tollemache Orosius' ) | 900-1699 | English; English, Old; Latin |
Add MS 48984 | Gregory the Great, Homiliae in evangelia | 4th quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 4899 | Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones | Late 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 4920 | Hawkins Collection, Volume XII. 'Utile e breue (sic) regule di cato compostte per Maestro Zoanne di Spadari [Giovanni di Spataro] da Bologna' | 1510 | English |
Add MS 4922 | Hawkins Collection, Volume XIV. 'Regole per il contrappunto, Giovanni Maria Nanimo' | 17th century | English |
Add MS 51950 | Holland House dinner-book: Volume 1 | 1799-1871 | English |
Add MS 52913 | Record of a court case between Canonsleigh Priory and the parishioners of Morden | Last decade of the 14th century | Latin |
Add MS 5292 | 'Drawings of Chinese Flowers, Plants, and Fruits, in colours, by a native artist, at Emuy; with their names in Chinese' | c 1701 | Chinese; English; Latin |
Add MS 5293 | 'Drawings of Chinese Flowers, Plants, and Fruits, in colours, by a native artist, at Emuy; with their names in Chinese' | c 1701 | Chinese; English |
Add MS 5294 | 'Drawings of Chinese Flowers, Plants, and Fruits, in colours, by a native artist, at Emuy; with their names in Chinese' | c 1701 | English |
Add MS 5304 | Chinese drawings of plants, with their Chinese names | Late 17th century | Chinese; English |
Add MS 54229 | Glossed Psalter | 3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 57337 | The Anderson Pontifical | c 988-1st quarter of the 11th century | English; English, Old; Latin |
Add MS 58436 | GEORGE ELIOT: correspondence of, together with some letters relating to Mary Ann Evans al. George Eliot; 1856-1880. Printed as indicated in G. S. Haight, The George Eliot Letters (1975-1978). Purchased from Mrs A. S. Womersley of Wilmslow, co.… | 1856-1880 | English |
Add MS 58853 | ITALIAN CANTATAS: 'Parole di Gio. Patritio Carey messe in musica da Diuersi Autori', settings for soprano solo accompanied by a figured bass; mid-17th cent. The signature of 'Guglmo Reymes' (i.e. William Reymes) is on ff. 1 and 83v (for comparison… | Mid 17th century | English; Italian |
Add MS 62122 | St Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew; Commentary on the Book of Daniel | Mid 12th century | English, Middle; Greek, Ancient; Latin |
Add MS 62540 | Atlas of Sicily, England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland | c. 1564 | English; Latin |
Add MS 63077 | Glossed Book of Genesis | 2nd half of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 6523 | Gospel of St Luke, glossed | 2nd half of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 70513 | Collection of metrical saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French ('The Campsey Manuscript') | 4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century | Anglo-Norman; Latin |
Add MS 71544 | JOHN LENTON: 'Instrumentall Musick for New Yeares Day'; 1699. 1st treble part only. In the hand of the same scribe throughout: the fact that the end of the music (f. 8) is signed 'J: L:' suggests that the manuscript may well be autograph. The title… | 1699 | English |
Add MS 74236 | Missal ('The Sherborne Missal') | c 1399-1407 | English, Middle; Latin |
Add MS 78425 | EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLVIII. Miscellaneous collected papers of John Evelyn; 17th cent. | 17th century | English |
Add MS 7914 | Majmu'a / مجموعه | 914 | Chagatai |
Add MS 7966 B | Roll of expenses in wax and spices by the royal households | 20 Nov 1300-19 Nov 1301 | Latin |
Add MS 8091 | Gospel of St John with glosses | 1st quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 82956 | The Noyon Sacramentary | 4th quarter of the 10th century | Latin |
Add MS 8873 | Collectio Britannica | 1st quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Add MS 8877 | Household roll of Eleanor de Montfort, Countess of Leicester and Pembroke | 1265 | Latin |
Add MS 89442 | Lewis of Caerleon, collected astronomical and mathematical works | 1485-c 1495 | Latin |
Add MS 89480 | Letter of Mary, Queen of Scots, to Jacques Bochetel de la Forest, French ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I | 26 Jun 1568 | French |
Add MS 9046 | Psalter in Tironian notes | 4th quarter of the 9th century | Latin |
Add Roll 17253 | Will of Margaret Paston | 1482 | English, Middle |
Add Roll 34271 | Account of John Key, receiver general of St Radegund's Priory, Cambridge | 1481 | Latin |
Add Roll 47398 | Cartulary of Nuneaton Priory | Early 14th century | Latin |
Add Roll 61157 | Papal licence for Maria and Caterina Foscari to wear dresses with trains | 1450 | Latin |
Add Roll 61174 | Notarised copy of the will of Cecilia Foscari | 1567 | Italian; Latin |
Add Roll 63207 | Household roll of Katherine de Norwich | 29 September 1336-29 September 1337 | Latin |
Add Roll 75855 | Household expenses of Philippa of Hainault, queen of England | Mid 14th century | English, Middle; French, Middle |
Add Roll 77740/1 | Household accounts for the upkeep of Mary, Queen of Scots, at Wingfield Manor and Tutbury Castle | [18 Dec 1584-27 Feb 1585] | English; Latin |
Add Roll 77740/2 | Household accounts for the upkeep of Mary, Queen of Scots, at Wingfield Manor and Tutbury Castle (duplicate) | [18 Dec 1584-27 Feb 1585] | English; Latin |
Arundel MS 10 | Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae | 4th quarter of the 12th century | French, Middle; Latin |
Arundel MS 125 | Books of Job and Ezra with St Jerome's prologues | 1st half of the 9th century | Latin |
Arundel MS 146 | The Syon Additions to the Rule of St Saviour | 2nd half of the 15th century | English, Middle; Latin |
Arundel MS 153 | Liber Domesday (imperfect) | 12th century | Latin |
Arundel MS 155 | Psalter ('The Eadui Psalter') with partial gloss in Old English | 1st half of the 11th century-mid 12th century | English, Old; Latin |
Arundel MS 157 | The Book of Psalms, Psalter of the Virgin Mary, and Little Office of the Virgin Mary | 1st quarter of the 13th century | Anglo-Norman; Latin |
Arundel MS 166 | Marcellus Empiricus, De medicamentis (extracts); Liber Teropetici; recipes and short medical texts | 1st half of the 9th century | Latin |
Arundel MS 173 | Bruno of Segni, De Sacramentis Ecclesiae; collections of patristic and canonical texts | 1st half of the 12th century | Latin |
Arundel MS 213 | 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. | 1st half of the 9th century | Latin |
Arundel MS 217 | St Cyprian, Epistulae and other works; Pseudo-Cyprian, De Duobus Montibus Sina et Sion and Adversus Judaeos;Hrabanus Maurus, De Cena Cypriani | 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Arundel MS 218 | Adalbert of Metz, Speculum Gregorii; Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (excerpt); Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo de Disciplina Christiana | 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Arundel MS 230 | Philippe de Thaon, Comput; De Singulis Mensibus; Psalter with gloss and prologue in Anglo-Norman; List of perilous days; Instructions for masses; List of plant names; Roman d'Alexandre (fragment) | 2nd half 12th century-3rd quarter 13th century | Anglo-Norman; Latin |
Arundel MS 235 | Hugh of Langres, Commentarius in Psalmos; Interpretatio Alphabeti Hebraici | 4th quarter of the 11th century | Latin |
Arundel MS 241 | Pseudo-Athanasius, De Trinitate | Late 10th century-Early 11th century | Latin |
Arundel MS 348 | Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium; Thierry of Chartres, Commentary on Cicero's De Inventione; Boethius, Commentary on Aristotle's De Interpretatione | 12th century | Latin |
Arundel MS 36 | Collection of Saints' Lives | 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Arundel MS 375 | Liber Historie Francorum; Excidium Troiae; Annales Mettenses Priores | 9th century | Latin |
Arundel MS 377 | Miscellaneous Astrological texts; Calendar of Saints; Hermann of Reichenau, De Mensura Astrolabii et Ejus Utilitate, cum Tabulis; Ahmad Ibn Muhammed al-Farghānī, Rudamenta Astronomica; Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra, De Tabulis Planetarum; Adelard of… | 4th quarter 12th century-1st quarter 13th century | Latin |
Arundel MS 490 | Decretum Gratiani; Collectio Eberbacensis | 4th quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Arundel MS 60 | Psalter with gloss in Old English; A Lunarium for bloodletting; The Six Ages of the World; A list of the bishops of Winchester | 4th quarter of the 11th century-12th century | English, Old; Latin |
Arundel MS 91 | Passionale, 21 September-9 November; Lections on St Nicholas extracted from the Vita Sancti Nicholai translated by John the Deacon of Naples | 12th century | Latin |
Arundel MS 94 | Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae; De bello judaico | 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Arundel MS 98 | Excerpt on Pliny the Elder from Suetonius Tranquillus, De viris illustribus; Prefatory epistle to the Historia Naturalis, Pliny the Elder, Epistula ad Vespasianum; Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis (books 1-18) | 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Ashley MS 1376 | Eleven Valentines written by Christina Rossetti to her mother | 1876-1886 | English |
Ashley MS 4022 | Two letters from Mary Shelley to Jane Hogg, formerly Williams | 1828-1843 | English |
Ashley MS 5023 | Six letters from Mary Shelley to Claire Clairmont | 1844-1848 | English |
Burney MS 17 | Glossed Proverbs, and Glossed Ecclesiastes with prologues | 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Burney MS 216 | Paulus Orosius, Historia Adversus Paganos (imperfect); Pseudo-Dares Phrygius, De Excidio Troiae Historia; Constantinus Africanus, De Melancholia; Peter Abelard, Carmen ad Astralabium | 3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Burney MS 275 | Scholastic miscellany | 1309-1316 | Latin |
Burney MS 28 | Glossed Gospel of Mark | 3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Burney MS 29 | Gospel of Luke with Glossa Ordinaria;St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum | 3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Burney MS 317 | Pope Gregory I, Homiliae in Ezecheliem; Excerpt from the Creed of the 11th Council of Toledo (675) | 11th century | Latin |
Burney MS 326 | Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae | 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Burney MS 340 | Origen of Alexandria, Homilies on Numbers 15-19 | 4th quarter of the 7th century | Latin |
Burney MS 42 | Ambrosiaster, Commentaria in Epistolas Beati Pauli | 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Cotton Ch IV 26 | Grant of Elizabeth I to George Gower of a monopoly on painting her portraits | 1583-1584 | English |
Cotton Ch IV 5 | Notes tracing a claim to the Scottish throne | middle of 15th century | Latin |
Cotton Ch V 11 | Grant by Mary, daughter of Laurence of Rouen, to Priory of St Mary, Southwark, of half a mark of silver each year | 3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Cotton Ch V 5 | Inspection and confirmation by Petronilla of Nereford of a charter for Campsey Priory | 1321 | Latin |
Cotton Ch V 66 | Grant by Margaret de Redvers, widow, to Halesowen Abbey, of the advowson of Harbourne Church | Middle of the 13th century | Latin |
Cotton Ch V 73 | Grant by Aufrica de Connacht to Simon de Montagu of her right to the Isle of Man | 1306 | Latin |
Cotton Ch XI 25 | Grant by Matilda de Senliz to Daventry Priory of 40s in rent for repairing the monks' frocks and cowls | between 1112 and 1123 | Latin |
Cotton Ch XI 36 | Chirograph between Christina of Markyate, prioress of Markyate Priory, and William of Arden of Hamton, relating to land in Deddington and Kinwalsey | 1145-1166 | Latin |
Cotton Ch XI 45 | Letter of Constance, daughter of Conan, duke of Brittany, to Richard Fitzneal, bishop of London, regarding Cheshunt Church | 1190-1195 | Latin |
Cotton Ch XI 71 | Grant by Anne of Bohemia, Queen of England, to Robert Westende, purveyor of the queen's coaches, of an annuity of 40s. | 1394 | French, Middle |
Cotton Ch XII 17 | Grant by Muriel, once the wife of Hugh Pumfol, to Bullington Priory, of lands and rents in Newton | 2nd half of the 12th century | Latin |
Cotton Ch XII 28 | Confirmation and quitclaim by Margery, sister of Ralph of Grafton, to Richard Pecche, of land in Hunileigh | 1st quarter of the 13th century | Latin |
Cotton Ch XII 35 | Grant by Beatrice Malherbe, widow, to Alice, her sister, of land in Stambridge | 13th century | Latin |
Cotton Ch XII 41 | Chirograph marriage contract of John of Middleton and Isabella daughter of Roger of Thornton | 1421 | Anglo-Norman |
Cotton Ch XII 49 | Quitclaim by Matilda, once the wife of Robert Martel of Killingholme, to Newhouse Abbey | 13th century | Latin |
Cotton Ch XII 62 | Grant by Elizabeth I to Gilbert Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, appointing him her representative in the Order of the Garter's ceremonies | 1598 | English |
Cotton Ch XII 63 | Grant by Elizabeth I to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, appointing him her representative in the Order of the Garter's ceremonies | 1592 | English |
Cotton Ch XII 64 | Grant by Elizabeth I to Nicholas Narbon, appointing him Ulster King of Arms; grant by Nicholas Narbon appointing Francis Candell as his deputy | 1581-1586 | English |
Cotton Ch XII 69 | Bond of Elizabeth I pledging to repay a debt to Horatio Palavicino | 1583 | Latin |
Cotton Ch XII 73 | Licence and protection by Elizabeth I to Peter Turner, doctor, to practise medicine | between 1571 and 1581 | English |
Cotton Ch XVI 72 | Petition of Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England, to her husband King Henry VI, concerning the Exchequer | 1455 | English, Middle |
Cotton Ch XVII 23a | Instructions by Elizabeth I to her household officials to pay a salary to Katherine Paston and Jane Brussels, her chamberers | 1575 | English |
Cotton Ch XVII 6 | Grant by Eleanor of Provence, Queen of England, to William, bishop of Ely, of lands, fisheries and rents in Upwell and Outwell | 1255-1256 | Latin |
Cotton Ch XVIII 28 | Chirograph between the prior of St Andrews and Haddington Priory, regarding the tithes of Helstanford and other places | 5 Aug 1245 | Latin |
Cotton Ch XVIII 39 | Decree of divorce between George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes, and Margaret Crichton | 1520 | Latin |
Cotton Ch XXI 18 | Quitclaim by Matilda, prioress of Henwood, to Walter le Hunneman of Bykehull | 1st half of the 13th century | Latin |
Cotton Ch XXI 5 | Quitclaim by Isabel, prioress of Markyate, to Hugh de Ard | 2nd half of the 13th century | Latin |
Cotton Ch XXIII 2 | Grant by Margaret Basset to Roger Burt, clerk, of lands and tenements that Ralph Burt held of her in Quorndon | 2nd half of 13th century | Latin |
Cotton MS Appendix LVI | St Augustine of Hippo, De Doctrina Christiana (imperfect); Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo, Hypomnesticon contra Pelagianos et Celestianos; Pseudo-Athanasius of Alexandria, De Processione Spiritus Sancti; Pope Paschal II, Epistolae; A record of the primacy… | 1st quarter of the 12th century-1st half of the 15th century | Anglo-Norman; Latin |
Cotton MS Caligula A VII | Heliand and a charm | 2nd half of the 10th century - the 3rd quarter of the 14th century | Anglo-Norman; English, Old; Latin; Saxon, Old |
Cotton MS Caligula A VII/1 | Painted miniatures probably from a Psalter | 3rd quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Cotton MS Caligula A VIII | Beauchief obituary calendar; Libellus de Primo Saxonum vel Normannorum Adventu; an epitome of Symeon of Durham's Historia Regum; De VII Mirabilibus Mundi; Historia Brittonum; hagiography and lections composed by Eadmer of Canterbury, Goscelin of… | 1st half of the 12th century - 1st half of the 16th century | Latin |
Cotton MS Caligula A XIV | Two Tropers (including the 'Caligula Troper'); a Proser; Homilies from Ælfric's Lives of the Saints; Life of St Mildred | 2nd quarter of the 11th century - 4th quarter of 12th century | English, Old; Latin |
Cotton MS Caligula A XV | Jerome, De viri illustribus, Jerome, Vita S Pauli, extracts from Isidore's Eymologiae, book III of Cyprian's Ad Quirinum Testimonia, De computo paschali, compustical texts, prognostic material, charms, annals of Christ Church, Canterbury, extracts… | late 8th century - late 11th century | English, Old; Latin |
Cotton MS Claudius A III | Miscellany, including Pontificals, a Benedictional, Law Codes, documents, and miniatures | 11th century-15th century | English, Old; Latin |
Cotton MS Claudius A V | Pseudo-John of Peterborough, Peterborough Chronicle, AD 654-868, 890-1368; William of Malmesbury Gesta Pontificum Anglorum; William of Malmesbury, Vita Sancti Aldhelmi Episcopi; genealogy of King Henry II of England; Vita Sancti Erkenwaldi Episcopi;… | 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 17th century | English; Latin |
Cotton MS Claudius A VI | Cartulary of Boxgrove Priory; Ivo of Chartres, Sermones; Epistolae; Marbod of Rennes, Epistola V; Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistola X; anonymous monk ('G') of Pontlevoy, three letters | 13th century-14th century | French, Middle; Latin |
Cotton MS Claudius A XII | Dudo of Saint-Quentin, Historia Normannorum; Marbod of Rennes, De Lapidibus; Bury St Edmunds hosteller's register; William de Montibus, Poeniteas Cito | 3rd quarter of the 12th century-1450 | English, Middle; Latin |
Cotton MS Claudius B I | The Life and Revelations of Birgitta of Sweden | 1st quarter of the 15th century | English, Middle; Latin |
Cotton MS Claudius B II | Alan of Tewkesbury, Collectio Epistolarum Sancti Thome Cantuariensis; John of Salisbury, Life of St Thomas Becket with Alan of Tewkesbury's prologue | 4th quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Cotton MS Claudius B V | Acts of the Council of Constantinople with an additional pasted miniature | 8th century-14th century | Latin |
Cotton MS Claudius C IX | Hugh of Saint-Victor, Chronicle; annalistic chronicle, AD 1–1171; William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum; Notarial copy of letters patent of Queen Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558–1603), issued at Hereford Cathedral; Charters of Kings Edward… | 2nd half of the 12th century-1st half of the 17th century | Anglo-Norman; English; English, Middle; English, Old; Latin |
Cotton MS Claudius C VI | Polemius Silvius, Nomina Provinciarum Omnium; Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Galliae; letters of Popes Leo I and Zosimus; a tree of consanguinity; Burchard of Worms, Decretum; a bull of Pope Leo IX; obituary of William I, king of England… | Mid 11th century - 1st quarter of the 16th century | Latin |
Cotton MS Claudius D III | Bede, Martyrology; bilingual Rule of St Benedict; obituary calendar of Wintney Priory | c 1220-1st half of the 15th century | Anglo-Norman; English, Old; Latin |
Cotton MS Claudius D IX | Decretals; Collectio Lanfranci | 1st quarter of the 12th century - 14th century | Latin |
Cotton MS Claudius D VI | Chronicles of England | c 1255-1259 | Anglo-Norman; Latin |
Cotton MS Claudius E I | Theological tracts, including Anselm of Canterbury's treatises, Arnold of Bonneval, De Operibus Sex Dierum; Arnold of Bonneval, De Sex Verbis Domini in Cruce; Peter the Chanter, Verbum Abbreviatum; Liber Esdrae | 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century | Latin |
Cotton MS Claudius E III | Ralph of Diceto, Abbreviationes Chronicorum, Ymagines Historiarum; Winchester Chronicle; Henry Knighton, Chronicon; William Rishanger, Opus Chronicorum; Tito Livio Frulovisi, Vita Henrici Quinti; Robert Grosseteste, Epistola | 1197-1450 | Anglo-Norman; English, Middle; Latin |
Cotton MS Claudius E V | Notitia Provinciarum; Pseudo-Isidore, Decretales; excerpts from Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Pseudo-Gregory the Great, Decreta; Cartulary of Christ Church, Canterbury; Ralph d'Escures, Letter | 1st quarter of the 12th century | Latin |
Cotton MS Cleopatra A III | Latin-Old English glossaries | Mid 10th century | English, Old; Latin |
Cotton MS Cleopatra A III/1 | Augustine of Hippo, De consensu euangelistarum (iii.18–23, iii.25, imperfect) | 2nd half of 8th century | Latin |
Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII | Treatise on the singing of the Psalms (fragment); Chronicle from the conception of Christ until 1062; Chronicle of Tewkesbury Abbey to 1263 (imperfect); Cartulary of Tewkesbury Abbey; Helperic of Auxerre, De Computo; Collatio Compoti Romani et… | 4th quarter of the 11th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century | English, Middle; Latin |
Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII | Old English homilies and other liturgy; the earliest Vita S Dunstani and a rhymed responsory for an office for Gregory the Great; history of the kings of Britain and England attributed to Peter of Ickham, with continuations | 11th century-14th century | English, Old; Latin |
Cotton MS Cleopatra C VIII | Prudentius, Psychomachia; Pseudo-Columbanus, Precepta Vivendi (imperfect); Collection of canon law, including Collectio Dacheriana; canons of the council of Trosly, 909; Pseudo-Isidore of Seville, Epistula ad Leudefredum Episcopum; Pseudo-Isidore of… | 4th quarter of the 10th century - 1st half of the 12th century | English, Old; Latin |
Cotton MS Cleopatra D I | Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura; Extracts from Proper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex Sententiis Sancti Augustini; Epitaph of Vitalis; Vegetius, De Re Militari; Solinus, Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium | 1st quarter of the 11th century-12th century | Latin |
Cotton MS Domitian A I | Bede the Venerable, De natura rerum (excerpt); Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum; a glossary to Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés's Bella Parisiace urbis, book 3 followed by glosses on a commentary on Priscian's Institutio de nomine, pronomine et… | mid-10th century- mid-16th century | English, Old; Latin |
Cotton MS Domitian A II | John Somer, Chronicle; computistical tables; Battle Chronicle; Liber de Situ Ecclesie Belli; an untitled Chronicle to AD 1292; Chronicles of the Brut; a summary of Anglo-Scottish affairs | 4th quarter of the 12th century-2nd quarter of the 15th century | Anglo-Norman; Latin |
Cotton MS Domitian A IX | Alphabets; Dionysius Exiguus, computistical letter addressed to Boniface and Bonus; fragment of an Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, AD 1113–1114 (imperfect); Runic alphabet; extracts from the Old English translation of Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis… | 2nd half of 8th century-16th century | English, Middle; English, Old; Latin |
Cotton MS Domitian A VIII | Libellus de primo Saxonum aduentu; Letter of Pope Paschal II; Concordat of Worms; Planctus of Oedipus; Hildebert of Le Mans, De sancta Trinitate; Chronicle from Noah to Louis the Pious; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, F-text; Robert de Torigni, Chronicle, AD… | 4th quarter 11th century-1st half 17th century | English; English, Middle; English, Old; English.; Welsh |
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