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The practise of prelates : compyled by the faythfull and godly learnid man Wylliam Tyndall... : manuscript

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Description: This manuscript copy of Tyndale's 1530 work, was written in England and is in an unknown hand; it was copied from a mnuscript "written out in anno 1565 by my brother Wm W" from the 1548 printing at London by Antony Scoloker and William Seres. The names "Cranmer Kerrick" and "H.K. Bowney 1807" are written on the first flyleaf and tipped into the front is a 3-page extract of a letter from Archdeacon Bowney (of Northamptonshire) to W.N. Cartwright (1843, Oct. 16) and a compliments slip from Bowney to Cartwright (1843, Oct. 17) is laid in as well. The volume is bound in brown sprinkled calf with gilt border (18th century); it is rebacked and repaired at corners but the spine has significant damage and covers are loose.
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Production date: 1598, April 10 - May 11.
Call number: mssHM 26342
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John Tyndall letters

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The letters are written to various people (two of which are not identified) and deal with trivial matters as well as science, and Tyndall's writing of a autobiography or a scientific article for the Youth's Companion. The note is written on stationary from "Elton Hall."

mssHM 75992-75998

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Charmian London letters and manuscripts

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This material includes letters and manuscripts by Charmian London. Nine of the letters (1910-1926) are written to Margaret Smith Cobb, a California author, poet, and artist, and friend of both Charmian and Jack London. The letters concern family matters, lace making, their mutual writing projects, and health issues; the letters also mention Jack London, George Sterling, and Harry Houdini. There is one letter (Oct. 7, 1911) from Charmian to Elizabeth Maddern London ("Bessie"), Jack London's first wife. Also included are two typewritten carbon copies of a newspaper article ([approx. 1916]) Charmian wrote about British women during World War I; galley proofs ([approx. 1916]) of an article by Jack London, corrected by Charmian; and one empty envelope (June 26, 1917). All the material is in good condition, with some slight damage from normal use.

mssHM 83700-83712

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Manuscripts, Documents and Ephemera

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The collection contains 69 letters (primarily between members of the Brinley family and Edward Brinley, Jr.), 18 documents (largely relating the career of Edward Brinley, Jr.), a journal kept by Brinley on board the USS North Carolina, Oct. 1840-May. 1841, and the U.S.S. Delaware from Dec. 1843-Mar. 1844, and a portable wooden writing desk owned by Brinley. The early correspondence deals with Edward's childhood and education, his first naval appointment aboard the U.S.S. North Carolina including details about the various ports-of-call. His letters of the 1844-1845 period deal with his service on the U.S.S. Falmouth in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean during the prelude to the U.S.-Mexican War. Edward's letters of the 1846-1850 period deal with his service aboard the U.S.S. Preble during its cruise of the Pacific. Brinley's comments on the economic, ecological, and political phenomenon of the Pacific throughout these letters. The California gold rush, U.S. economic colonialism in present-day Hawaii, U.S. whaling in the Pacific, and the Chinese Opium trade are among the issues extensively discussed. His letters of 1856 were written during his service on the USS Potomac in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. They include discussions of the "filibusterer" William Walker's short-lived takeover of Nicaragua. The letters of Francis W. Brinley, Edward, Jr.'s most frequent correspondent, are dominated by family news and fatherly advice regarding the merits of hard work and respect for authority. Francis's letters do contain some interesting portraits of quotidian life as a businessman in Perth Amboy, NJ, however. The two letters of Thomas Brinley paint a dismal picture of his failed attempt at making a fortune in 1850s California. The remainder of the correspondence relates primarily to the everyday affairs of the Brinley family.

mssHM 74000-74090

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Britanniae Romanorum: manuscript

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An unfinished dictionary of persons, places, etc. associated with Roman Britain (entries A through C only), followed by working notes and extracts from other sources; with additional notes, in another hand, on medieval England. The manuscript is undated. Volume 1 is 351 pages. Volume 2 is 273 pages.

mssHM 154

Derrotero : [manuscript]

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Derrotero with sailing instructions for the route from San Lucar, Spain, to the West Indies and Florida, with a description of duties and payment of ship's personnel (ff. 150v-177v) and table of latitudes (ff. 178-184). Dedicatory poem indicates that Luis de la Cruz is the author. Written probably about 1600, since Luis de la Cruz is first listed as master of a ship in 1585 and his name last appears in the records of the Archivo de Indias in Seville in a law suit of 1615. Internal evidence shows the volume was written after 1565 since the town of St. Augustine, Florida, founded in that year, is mentioned. Span folios: ff. 1-199v. Support: Paper. Watermark(s): Croix Latine not dissimilar from Briquet 5688 and 5704, both Perpignan (1596, 1595). Layout: Collation beginning with f. iv: 1-7²⁰ 8-10¹⁶(through f. 184) 11¹⁶(-16, now the pastedown and torn loose from the quire). 20-26 long lines with vertical bounding lines defined by folds in the paper. ff. v-199v: [Luis de la Cruz, Derrotero]: Incipit: Capitulo primero de la derrota de la barra De sant lucar a las yslas De canaria, Partiendo de la barra de san lucar ... Explicit: nombre de Jesus.

mssHM 30957

Manuel des péchés : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-667. [William of Waddington, attributed to] Manuel des Péchés. Incipit: Ieo crai dirom comunalment/ En dieu le pier omnipotent. Explicit: Et en le noun saint marie/ Amen Amen chesconne homme die. French. F. J. Furnivall, ed., Roberd of Brunnè's Handlyng Synne (written A.D. 1303) with the French treatise on which it is founded, Le Manuel des Pechiez by William of Wadington. Roxburghe Club 81 (London 1862), and, by the same editor, omitting the sections of the Manuel des Péchés not utilized by Robert of Brunne, in EETS os 119 and 123 (London 1901-03); the following references are to the Roxburghe edition. HM 903 contains the prologue,"Book" 2 with the articles of faith, but lacking the seventh (ff. 1-6; Roxburghe, 1-6, 415-25), the rest of"Book" 1 through"Book" 5 (ff. 6-44; Roxburghe, 6-348), and"Book" 6, being the"Petit Sermun" (ff. 44-48; Roxburghe, 426-34)."Book" 7 begins with the prologue"Lumer indeficient" (f. 48r-v; Roxburghe, 348-49), and gives first the"graces" (ff. 48v-53; Roxburghe, 370-95), then the"points" (ff. 5357v; Roxburghe, 350-69), and the Latin verses with their exposition (ff. 57v-58; Roxburghe, 395-96, n. 3);"Book" 8 follows with the material on prayer (ff. 58-62; Roxburghe, 396-404); the prayers to Christ and the Virgin constitute"Book" 9, followed by the epilogue (ff. 62-67; Roxburghe, 404-14). This manuscript has 61 tales, omitting nn. 7, 28 and 56 as listed in J. A. Herbert's discussion of London, Brit. Lib., Harley 273 in Ward, Cat. of Romances 3:272-84. See E. J. Arnould, Le Manuel des Péchés; étude de littérature religieuse anglo-normande, XIIIe siècle (Paris 1940) with a list of 24 manuscripts, including HM 903. ff. 140-205v, 68-123. [Robert de Gretham] Le miroir ou les évangiles des domnées. Incipit: //Car lui riche est aysetz/ Et lui pover est mesaisetz. Explicit: Issi finissent les omelies/ Des Evangels brefment exponies/ Ore prie touz que les oent et dient/ Qe il pur l'alme del l'exponur [written over an erasure?] prient/ Qe deu maintigne s'alme finie/ Et pur lui sait en sa ballie/ Cy termine le mirour/ Des omeliez la doucour. French. M. Y. H. Aitken, étude sur le Miroir ou les évangiles des Domnées de Robert de Gretham (Paris 1922), based on 5 manuscripts, HM 903 not included. This manuscript is bound incorrectly, and it begins defectively in the first Sunday of Advent (perhaps missing the second half of quire 8, which would have been the"i" signature of the second roman numeral series, amounting to approximately 576-688 verses); also missing material from the end of Pentecost to the beginning of Trinity Sunday. On f. 170v, lower margin, s. XV:"Nota quod deficit hic exposicio v diei dominici post octavam epiphanie scilicet Regressus est ihesus in virtute spiritus sancti in galileam et fama erat per universam regionem de eo.". ff. 123-139v. Ewangelium de apostolis, Item Evvangelium de martiribus and Plurimorum martirum. Incipit: Est cele contemple ihesu crist/ a cez desciples issi dist/ Ceo est le meen comandement/ Ke amez entrechaungeablement. Explicit: Quant en le ciel serra ove ihesu/ En deu nous maint par sa vertu. Amen. French. Three metrical sermons written in the same style as those by Robert de Gretham. See C. G. Laird,"Five New Gretham Sermons and the Middle English Mirrur," PMLA 57 (1942) 628-37 for this material and two sermons of the preceding text. The running headlines, s. XV, in the upper margin are: Ewangelium de apostolis, Item Evvangelium de martiribus and Plurimorum martirum. On f. 139v, in the main scribal hand,"God almyghtfull save al Rightfull/ Wys alle Willeffull, help all Nedfull/ Gladde alle sorufull, haf mercy/ Of alle Synnefull"; see IMEV 981?; printed in C. Laird,"A Fourteenth Century Scribe," MLN 55 (1940) 601-03.

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