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  De vita Caesarum : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-117v: [Suetonius, De vita Caesarum]: Incipit: Annum agens cesar sextumdecimum patrem amisit ... Explicit: abstinentia et moderatione insequentium principum. [Greek words entered by scribes; corrected throughout by the second scribe; the section 10, 1 - 12, 2 was omitted from its place on f. 96 and then inserted on ff. 97v-98 between parts of 20, 1]. [f. 118r-v, blank].

  mssHM 45717

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  Proceedings of a Court of Enquiry held at West Point, the second day of November 1780 in Pursuance of an Order from His Excellency General Washington, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America to Major General Heath

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  Two copies, both in Richard Varick's hand, of the proceedings of the court of inquiry that cleared him and David Franks of aiding Benedict Arnold. Copy A includes the text of The Interrogatories of Major Franks (1780, Nov. 19). Copy B ends with the text of Varick's speech to the court.

  mssHM 893

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  Chronicle : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-135; ff. 135v-136v blank. [Robert of Gloucester]. [Chronicle]. Incipit: Engelond is swithe good I wene hit is lond beste/ In oon ende hit is yset: of þe world al in þe west. Explicit: þat of þe walische londe clanlich al out/ He wan þe seignorye nere hi no so prout. English. IMEV 727 . W. A. Wright, ed., The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. RS 86 (London 1887); HM 126 of the later recension; ff. 127v-135 correspond to Wright's Appendix XX, pp. 838-77.

  mssHM 126

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  Game at chesse : manuscript, 1624

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  Thomas Middleton's game at chess, including the Prologue, partially in his own hand along with two other scribes. Paper, i, 54, ii leaves. Principally in a professional secretary hand, with the title-page (f. 1r), folios 21v-2r, 46r-54v (including the Epilogue), and two or three corrections elsewhere in Middleton's hand, as well as possibly the boxing of speakers' names in pencil or lead point; the Latin oration on f. 45r in another scribal hand. Written in 1624. Pencil foliation begins on initial blank leaf and continues through final blank leaves.

  mssEL 34 B 17

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  Commentary on the Pauline epistles : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-129v: [Ambrosiaster, Commentary on the Pauline Epistles]: Rubric: Incipit Tractatus Sancti Ambrosii In Epistola Ad Romanos, Paulus servus ihesu christi. Incipit: Apud veteres [nostros ratione] nomina componebantur ut ysaac propter risum ... Explicit: ut securos illos faciat et erigat ne timeant que irrogari possunt a perfidis sed in persecutione alacres//. [This manuscript missing 4 quires after f. 112 (end of commentary on 2 Corinthians, all of Galatians, all of Ephesians, beginning of Philippians); missing one leaf after f. 126 (part of Colossians); missing undetermined amount after f. 127 (end of Colossians, all of 1 Timothy, beginning of 2 Timothy); missing undetermined amount after f. 129 (end of 2 Timothy, all of Titus, all of Philemon); 1 and 2 Thessalonians are copied before Colossians. Each epistle commentary remaining with incipit (Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, Colossians) is prefaced by a chapter list; the chapter lists in this copy of Ambrosiaster retain forms of the Vetus Latina recension].

  mssHM 52435

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  Book of Hours : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-126v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Calendar in French; f. 13r-v: 2 coats of arms; ff. 14-19: Pericopes of the Gospels; f. 19v, with decorative border, but no text; ff. 20-23v: Mass of the Virgin; ff. 24-27: Short hours of the Cross; f. 27v, blank; ff. 28-64: Hours of the Virgin of undetermined use; f. 64v, blank; ff. 65-78v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 79-83v: Obsecro te and O intemerata; ff. 84-114v: Office of the Dead, use of Rome; ff. 114v-116v: Deus propicius esto michi peccatori; ff. 117-124: Prayers added in 16th c., including one in French; ff. 124v-125: blank; ff. 125v-126: An indulgence granted to those who say certain prayers before the images contained in this book, issued by an unidentified bishop"Richard Pauli Stravius par la grace de Dieu et du Saint Siege Apostolique Evesque de Denis...Donne a Rullant le 29me de Jullet 1652, Par ordonance de Monsieur le R., Charle Briffor secretaire.".

  mssHM 1173