Manuscripts

General category: English manuscripts

Results (101–125/139)
The present classification is only rudimentary. It will ultimately be replaced by a new system with greater care for data concerning each manuscript’s date, origin and provenance.
Not yet published.
  • c.1453 x 1459
Not yet published.
  • s. xiii

An 18th-century two-volume collection of drawings and sketches of antiquities from England and Cornwall (vol. 1, ff. 9-78), Wales (vol. 1, ff. 79-181, and vol. 2, ff. 1-78), Scotland (vol. 2. ff. 79-124) and Ireland (vol. 2, ff. 125-196). They represent unique copies, less likely originals, of sketches that were made by Edward Lhuyd, or one of his assistants and correspondents, during his journeys through Britain and Ireland c.1700. The collection was made for the antiquarian John Anstis. Also included is a letter from Richard Richardson to Edward Lhuyd, dated 3 July 1709 (i.e. shortly after the recipient's death).

  • s. xviii
London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 806
Not yet published.
  • s. xvii/xviiiin
  • William Griffith, Thomas Tenison

A Latin bible, produced in England or perhaps in Ireland. Irish verses are found on f. 375/376v.

  • s. xiii

13th-century English manuscript containing Latin Lives of St Martin (by Sulpicius Severus), St Nicholas of Myra (by John the Deacon), St Edmund of Canterbury and St Margaret, De inventione sanctae Crucis, and Lives St Agatha, St Brendan (Navigatio) and St Brigit (by Lawrence of Durham).

  • s. xiii2
Not yet published.

Commentaries on the biblical prophets Isaiah, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Zachariah and Malachi, followed by Galfridus' life of St Bernard of Clairvaux and a version of the Navigatio sancti Brendani related to the Old French poem on the same subject.

  • s. xiiex/xiiiin

Composite volume, probably bound together at Glastonbury, consisting of four originally distinct parts.

  • s. ix + s. xi
Not yet published.
  • s. xi/xii
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 163
Not yet published.
  • s. xii
Not yet published.
  • 1611
  • William Jordan [of Helston]
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  • s. xvii
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  • s. xviii
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  • s. xvii–xviii
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Miscellanous collection, including a copy of the Gildasian recension of Historia Brittonum as well as historical records relating to affairs in Ireland.

  • s. xvii/xviii
Not yet published.
  • s. xviii
  • Thomas Carte
Not yet published.

Manuscript written by Francis Cherry towards the end of the 17th century. It includes a version of a Welsh poem (beg. Ef a wnaeth panthon), together with a Latin translation attributed to David Jones and dated 1580.

  • 1695 x 1697
  • Francis Cherry [English non-juror]
Not yet published.
  • s. xv–xviii

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, manuscript E.

  • s. xii

Summary catalogue, no 1052.

  • s. xiiex
Not yet published.
  • s. xivex/xvin