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Manuscripts
A survey of England's champions: manuscript
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
This collection primarily contains memoirs written by Lionel Allen Sheldon about men he knew, specifically generals and politicians during the Civil War period. Some of these memoirs are part of his larger work, Reminiscence of Men and Events, which appear to be unpublished. There are a few pieces of correspondence and ephemera following the manuscripts. The collection is arranged in the following order: Box 1: Manuscripts (arranged alphabetically) and 2: Manuscripts, Correspondence, and Ephemera (arranged alphabetically).
mssHM 80196-80226
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Manuscripts
This collection primarily contains memoirs written by Lionel Allen Sheldon about men he knew, specifically generals and politicians during the Civil War period. Some of these memoirs are part of his larger work, Reminiscence of Men and Events, which appear to be unpublished. There are a few pieces of correspondence and ephemera following the manuscripts. The collection is arranged in the following order: Box 1: Manuscripts (arranged alphabetically) and 2: Manuscripts, Correspondence, and Ephemera (arranged alphabetically).
mssHM 80196-80226
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Manuscripts
ff. 1-188v; ff. 189-194v blank. [Psalter]. Latin. Biblical psalter, each psalm proceded by a titulus and followed by collects (here "oratio"); the collects generally agree with the Roman series, except for 12 of the Hispanic series and 27 not precisely identified; collect R74 is copied twice, after Pss. 73 and 74; the collect after Ps. 118, 96 is R11811; after Ps. 118, 153 there are 4 collects. See L. Brou, The Psalter Collects. HBS 83 (London 1949). On ff. 167-177v, canticles; on ff. 177v-181v, Gloria, Credo, Pater noster, Te deum, Quicumque vult; on ff. 181v-187, litany including Germanus, Nicholas and Louis among the confessors; Benedict, Maurus, Placidus, Onuphrius and Leonard among the monks and hermits; Scholastica among the virgins; on ff. 187-188v, added, s. XVII, an index in Italian of the psalms for the office of the Virgin arranged according to the hours of the office, and index of the penitential and gradual psalms with reference to page numbers added to the text leaves by the same person.
mssHM 1041
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Manuscripts
Records of the British garrison of Gibraltar: "Brass and Iron Ordnance Mounted in the Garrison of Gibraltar 1782," a list of the mortars, "Heights and distances as taken by the Engineers at Gibraltar," and "Bearings and distances of the Stations across the Bay of Gibraltar.' Also included are: "A Cursory Relation of an attack made by the Enemy on the 13th of Sept. 1782 with some Incidental Occurences Preceding it," followed by the "Return of Officers killed wounded & died of their wounds at Gibraltar from the 12th of April 1781 to the 31st of October 1782," and "Shot & killed wounded &c in 1783," and a dispatch of M. D'Arcon "relative to the Proceedings of the 13th of September 1782."
mssHM 52688
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Manuscripts
ff. 1-245v: [Devotions]: f. 1r-v, [misbound]: Suffrages of Augustine and Catherine of Siena; ff. 2-15v: Penitential psalms beginning defectively and litany beginning defectively; ff. 16-19: Prayers; f. 19v, blank; ff. 20-49: Office of the Dead, Dominican use; f. 49v, blank; ff. 50-58: Prayers; ff. 58v-59, blank; ff. 60-67: Prayers; ff. 67v-68v, blank; ff. 69-71, [added by a contemporary hand]: Devotional poem, Ave mitis Imperatrix/ Ave vite Restauratrix; ff. 71v-76, [added in a later hand]: Prayers; ff. 76v-78v, blank; ff. 79-87v: Seven prayers attributed to Thomas Aquinas; f. 88r-v, blank; ff. 89-97v: Long hours of Mary Magdalene; ff. 97v-106v: Prayers in hierarchical order (Angels, Apostles, Martyrs, Confessors, Virgins, All Saints); ff. 107-117: Long hours of Eternal Wisdom; ff. 117-122: Prayers; ff. 122v-123v, blank; ff. 124-125: Suffrages, including one of Odilia; f. 125v, blank; ff. 126-136v: Long hours"de beato Dominico confessore patre nostro," followed by prayers to Dominic and Catherine of Siena; ff. 136v-144: Prayers and gospel readings for various canonical hours; ff. 145-150: Short hours of Catherine of Alexandria, followed by prayers to Catherine of Alexandria and to Vincent Ferrer; ff. 150-153: Prayers; f. 153v, blank; ff. 154-166v: Long hours against sin, followed by prayers to Louis confessor (of Toulouse?), Apollonia, the Holy Spirit; ff. 166v-172v: Prayers for the dead, preceded by indulgences of Pius II and John IV; litany for the dead; f. 173r-v, blank; ff. 174-185: Fifteen Oes of St. Bridget; ff. 185v-191v: Metrical hours of the Passion; ff. 192-194v: Suffrages of Peter martyr, Ursula and Jerome; f. 195r-v, blank; ff. 196-207: Prayers to say before communion; f. 207v, blank; ff. 208-216: Prayers to say after communion; ff. 216v-217v, blank; ff. 218-226v: Devotional poem, Ave salve gaude vale o maria non vernale, sed hiis rosis spiritale; f. 227r-v, blank; ff. 228-238v: Devotions on the life of Mary and of Jesus for the rosary, followed by prayers to the Virgin; ff. 239-241: Devotions for the canonical hours on the sorrows of the Virgin; f. 241v, blank; ff. 242-243v: Prayers to Thomas Aquinas and to Barbara; ff. 243v-244v, [added in a contemporary hand]: prayer to Jesus; f. 245r-v, blank.
mssHM 49124
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Manuscripts
ff. 19v-103v. Psalter, Wycliffe translation. Incipit: Blessid is þe man þat ȝede not in þe coun[sel] of wickide men. Explicit: herie ȝe him in cymbals of iubilacioun: ech spirit herie þe lord. English. The psalter is introduced by four prologues of which the first and the fourth attribute authorship to Richard Rolle; the prologues and psalter are preceded by a section of Deuteronomy (beginning defectively), followed directly by Baruch ending defectively, and a section from Tobias (beginning defectively). ff. 103v-113. Canticles, Wycliffe translation. Incipit: Lord I schal knowleche o þee for þou were wrooþ to me. English. Old and New Testament Canticles, followed by the Quicumque vult salvus esse, and the litany. ff. 113-117. Psalms, excerpts, Wycliffe translation. Incipit: God seiþ þi his profete, my people parseyue ȝe my lawe, bowe ȝoure eere into þe wordis of my mouþ. Explicit: Schal not he heere þat plauntide þe eere, eiþer biholdiþ not he þat made þe iȝe, ps, lxxxxiii. English. Twenty-three excerpts from the psalms in the later Wycliffite version, apparently unique. ff. 117-121v. Rubric: Here bigynneþ ieroms sautir, Lord god vouchesaaf to take up þese psalmes þat ben halowid to þee, which I synful & vnworþi desire to seie in worschip of þi name. Incipit: Lord parseyue þou my wordis with þin eeris. Explicit: þat glorie & honour and worschip be to god þe fadir and to þe sone and to þe holy goost in alle worldis of worldis. Amen. Here eendiþ Ieroms sautir. English. See A. C. Paues, A Fourteenth-Century English Biblical Version (Cambridge 1902) lxiii-lxiv for the prayer and a discussion of the English text of the psalter of St. Jerome; complete Latin text in HE, 116-22. ff. 122-145. [Clement of Llanthony] Oon of foure. Incipit: In bigynnynge or first of alle þingis was goddis sone & goddis sone was at god. Explicit: I deeme þat þe world schal not take þe bookis þat schulen be writen. Rubric: Here bigynneþ þe gospel on cristemasdai at hiȝ masse. English. Oon of foure, the English translation of Clement of Llanthony's Concordia Evangelistarum (see Brit. Lib., Harley 1862, Roy. 17.A.XXVI and Roy. 17.C.XXXIII), normally in 12 parts, but here only Parts 1-2, 11-12; breaks in the text of 2 leaves after f. 132 and of 8 leaves after f. 134. ff. 145-146. Rubric: Here bigynnen þe xii articlis of oure bileeue. Incipit: The firste article of oure bileeue is þat god is oo substaunce & þre persones in himsilf. Explicit: for þe word of god to fulfille is liif & ioie wiþouten eende. Amen. English. Twelve articles of faith and seven sacraments. ff. 146v-147. Rubric: Here bigynneþ þe gospel of ascencioun day. Incipit: And þe enleuenþe disciplis wente into galilee in to an hil. Explicit: & aftir to regne wiþ oure lord ihesu crist & sauiour & hise holy seyntis into worldis of worldis. Amen. English. Gospel pericopes from Matthew and Mark. ff. 147v-150. [Poem]. Incipit: Blessid god souereyn goodnesse/ mercy to me thy synfull creature. Explicit: with angellis & senttis synggung in kynd/ Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus lord god with out ynd. English. IMEV 532; C. Brown, Religious Lyrics of the XVth Century (Oxford 1939) 86-89, from this manuscript. Followed on ff. 150v-151 by the table of contents, added towards the middle of the fifteenth century in a secretary script; ff. 151v-152v blank.
mssHM 501