Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Legal notebook, possibly a register or calendar of writs with other material on lawsuits
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Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
![Register of writs : [manuscript]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4KLNQ73%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
Manuscripts
ff. 1-96v. [Register of writs]. Latin. Beginning with a writ of right dated 12 February, 33 Edward [I], 1307, brought by John de Cawod against William de Wystowe for a messuage in Nottingham; no running headlines or chapter divisions; leaves apparently missing after ff. 88 and 96 with loss of text.
mssEL 35 B 54
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Manuscripts
ff. 1-8. Calendar in portable format (Latin). Calendar, missing the leaves for February, October, November and December, with some grading; each leaf is blank on the verso, except for the month name, which, when the calendar is folded, appears at the top on the outside of the leaf. Written probably in Ferrara, between 1450 (canonization of Bernardinus) and 1455 or 1458 (canonization of Vincent Ferrer and institution of the Feast of the Transfiguration, neither of which appear in the calendar). John of Tossignano was bishop of Ferrara, 1432-1446.
mssHM 47641
![Portolan chart ; Nautical almanac, French : [cartographic material] : [manuscript]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4KP5511%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
Manuscripts
Part 1. f. 1. [Guillaume Brouscon]. [Portolan chart]. Latin. World chart, which includes America and a large "Terra Java" (Australia?). Chart was originally folded and bound into front of the accompanying volume (here as Part 2 of this description) by an extension which bears a coat of arms. Part 2. ff. 1-20v. [Guillaume Brouscon]. [Nautical almanac]. Latin. ff. 1-4v, Tide tables in circular diagrams; f. 5, Diagram of the Rule of the North Star combined with the Rule to Raise or Lay 1° of Latitude; f. 5v, Chart of coast of northern Spain and western France showing ports linked to compass rose by weaving lines to indicate tides; f. 6, Chart of north coast of France, Flanders, Germany and Denmark with weaving lines as on preceding chart; f. 6v, Chart of England and Scotland with weaving lines as on preceding charts; f. 7, Chart of Ireland with weaving lines as on preceding charts; ff. 7v-8, Calendar of moveable feasts; ff. 8v-11, Vertical calendar of fixed feasts; f. 11v, Compass card; f. 12r-v, Star clock; ff. 13-20v, Solar declination tables for 4 year cycle.
mssHM 46
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Manuscripts
ff. 1-218v. [Ptolemy]. [Almagest]. Incipit: Bonum scire fuit quod sapientibus non deviantibus visum est. Explicit: Finit dictio undecima almagesti ptolomei pheludiensis. Anno domini millesimo ducentesimo septuagesimo nono A littera dominicali anno cicli solaris undecimo bissextili tercio lunari quarto decemnovenali septimo concurrente quarto epacta 6 scriptus est liber....et abbreviationem arrogantiam et collaudationem. Item iam sequitur et honestum est ut ponamus hic finem libri. Explicit almagesti. Latin. Other creator(s): Gerard of Cremona, translator. Text proceded by prologue ("Quidam princeps nomine albuguafe in libro suo quem scientiarum electionem et verborum nominavit pulchritudinem dixit...") and chapter list. Ptolemy, Syntaxis Mathematica or Almagest, in the translation of Gerard of Cremona, first printed in Venice by Petrus Liechtenstein, 1515. See Aristoteles Latinus 379; F. Carmody, Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Translation (Berkeley and Los Angeles 1956) 15; P. Kunitzsch, Der Almagest; Die Syntaxis Mathematica des Claudius Ptolomäus in arabisch-lateinischer überlieferung (Wiesbaden 1974), this manuscript cited pp. 91, 384. Frequent marginalia in a contemporary hand, possibly that of the scribe; occasional fifteenth century marginalia which may be in the hand of Pier Leoni (e.g. ff. 20, 24, 40, 52v). ff. 219-270v; f. 271r-v blank. [Astronomical tables]. Latin. Twenty astronomical tables connected to the appropriate places in the text by tie marks. A version of the 14th table, ff. 241-258, the"tabula stellarum fixarum," printed in C. H. F. Peters and E. B. Knobel, Ptolemy's Catalogue of Stars, A Revision of the Almagest (Washington 1915) 27-50; due to error in Gerard of Cremona's translation (Peters and Knobel, 14), the latitudes of 60 and odd degrees have been rendered as 300 and odd degrees (here, ff. 242, 243r-v); those on f. 242 have been corrected in a near contemporary hand.
mssHM 65
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Manuscripts
Part 1. f. 1v. Charter of Guy Ferrer. French. Other creator(s): Guy Ferre, "cyvaler," chamberlain to Prince Edward. Copy of a charter of Guy Ferre, dated 23 April 1298; copy of inquisition at Brightwalton, June, 1300; note on land management. Part 1. f. 2. Writ on market liberties at Wye. Latin. Copy of chancery enrollment of writ of Edward I allowing market liberties at Wye, 6 August 1285; notes about market liberties, s. XIIIex; list of members of council in chancery; note that an enrollment exists "in rotul. de mercato," roll 6, of allowance of fiscal market liberties at Wye, 1294-95; note that allowance of fiscal market rights at Battle exists in the same roll; note that the above does not pertain "modernis temporibus" in the "leuga" since the abbot has established his rights more fully over the market there during the visit of the king to Battle, 25 August 1324 (also in London, Brit. Lib., Harley 3586, ff. 34-36). See E. Searle, Lordship and Community: Battle Abbey and its Banlieu, Toronto 1974, 242, n. 32. Part 1. f. 2v. Charter granting corrody. Latin. Copies of 2 charters granting a corrody to the chamberlain of the bishop of Chichester, January 1330, November 1330. Part 1. f. 3; ff. 3v-6 blank. Charters about lands. Latin. Copies of 3 thirteenth century charters, the first dated February 1246, concerning the lands of Sibylla of Icklesham; ff. 3v-6, blank except for later pen trials and ownership note. Part. 1. f. 6v. Allocations in Exchequer. Latin. Notes entered in 3 different hands, s. XIV-XV, of allocations in Exchequer, 2 of payments made by the Master of the Hospital of St. Bartholomew, Smithfield for heriots and reliefs due from lands of the manor of Hoo, Essex. Part. 1. ff. 7-11v; f. 12r-v blank. Rubric: Incipit tabula secundum alphabetum distincta super cartas regum. . . Annotaciones bullarum munimentorum pontificum que in hoc volumine continentur . . . Confirmaciones Archiepiscoporum Cant. et aliorum episcoporum de ecclesiis quas habemus in proprios usus et porcionibus et de presentacionibus ad easdem factis. Latin. Alphabetical subject indexes to the royal charters copied in part 1 (ff. 13-98v) of the cartulary written by the compiler of the second part (ff. 100-237); the subject index is according to manors and liberties, both secular and ecclesiastical. References are to folio (in roman numerals) and occasionally to folio and letter of the alphabet. While the compiler to the index has foliated the text of the cartulary through parts 1 and 2, he has subdivided the folios by the letter of the alphabet only to f. 22v. Part 1. ff. 13-98v; f. 99r-v blank. Charters. Latin. Transcripts of royal, papal and episcopal charters pertaining to Battle Abbey up to 1286. Brief notes regarding the contents of the charters and occasionally the location of the originals, entered in the margins by various hands, s. XIV-XVI; following f. 64 the rubrics have been erased and rewritten. Some specifics: ff. 41v-42: charter of Abbot Walter (1139-71) concerning Promhill, near Winchelsea; ff. 42v-43, charters of Robert of Hastings and John, abbot of Battle concerning Promhill; f. 43, memorandum in French concerning Battle Abbey's rights "appelle Craspeys, Wrek et invenciones sur les costeres de la mer"; f. 43v, list of the charters and confirmations of Edward II and list of the charters of Edward III; f. 44, letter patent of Edward III confirming his inspection of the writ of Edward I concerning Battle's market at Wye, dated Woolmer, 6 August 1285 (Calendar of Close Rolls, 1279-88, 335. Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1364-67, 221); ff. 44v-45, letter of John, bishop of Chichester to Battle; ff. 48-58, papal grants from Alexander III to Innocent III (these copies of papal documents have been crossed out, and various passages inked out throughout the remainder of part 1); ff. 62v-63, blank; f. 63v, added charter of the archbishop of Canterbury concerning Wye, 1314; added charters on ff. 65v, 74r-v, 77; ff. 77v, 83v, 87v, 90v, blank; f. 92v, crossed out; f. 94, added charter; f. 94v, blank; f. 98v, added charter. Part 2. f. 100r-v; f. 101r-v, blank. Rubric: Incipit tabula secundum alphabetum distincta super cartas maniorum monachorum. Latin. Subject index to part 2; references are to folio (in roman numerals) and deed number. Part 2. ff. 102-236v; f. 237r-v blank. Charters. Latin. Abstracts of charters arranged and numbered by place: "Villata de bello et leuga"; ff. 102-143v, Sussex; ff. 143v-199, Kent; ff. 200-213, Surrey; ff. 214-215v, 225v, Essex; ff. 216v-219, Berkshire; ff. 219v-220, Wiltshire; ff. 221v-222v, Hampshire; ff. 223v-224v, Suffolk; ff. 224v-225, West Greenwich, Lewsham, Depford, Camberwell, 'Brockele'; f. 225v, Byeastenover in Pevensey; ff. 226-228, letters concerning the priory of St. Nicholas, Exeter; f. 229, charter purchasing a corrody, 3 November 22 Edward I. Note on "temporalia abbatis de bello"; ff. 230-236v, Annotacio cartarum de terris et redditibus quas habemus in London in Suthwerk. Numerous additions on blank or partially blank leaves in various hands: ff. 108-113, 115v, 118, 135-136, 143v-144v, 146, 157, 160v, 162v, 178, 187-188, 199, 209v, 215v, 217v-218, 219, 222v, 224-225, 226v-229, 236. Blank pages: ff. 113v, 146v, 177v, 178v, 188v, 199v, 213v, 216, 220v, 221, 223, 226; f. 229v is blank, and rough as if it were once the rear pastedown. Part. 3. ff. 238-246v; f. 247r-v blank. Rubric: Rubricella regendi monachos monasterio vacante. Latin.
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Manuscripts
ff. 17-162. [Psalter]. Latin. Psalter in biblical order, with tituli psalmorum of the Old and New Testaments. On ff. 162-176v, canticles, Te deum, Quicumque vult, Credo, Gloria, Pater noster. On ff. 176-181, litany, including Bernardinus and Leonard among monks, and Clare and Margaret among virgins. ff. 181v-182v, ruled, but blank. On ff. 183-218, Passion according to the 4 Gospels. Preceding the psalter, on ff. 1-12v, calendar in red and black including the feasts of the Translation of Anthony of Padua (15 February),"Resurrectio domini" (27 March, in red), Severus (30 April, in red),"Inventio sancti michaelis" (8 May, in red), Restituta (17 May, in red), Peter de Morrone (19 May), Bernardinus (20 May, in red), Euphebius (23 May, in red), Translation of Francis (25 May, in red), Anthony of Padua (13 June, in red),"Dedicatio sancte marie de angelis" (2 August, in red),"Festum nivis" (5 August, in red), Clare (12 August, in red), Louis of Toulouse (19 August, in red), Antoninus (2 September), Stigmata of Francis (17 September, in red), Januarius (19 September, in red),"Dedicatio sancti michaelis" (29 September, in red), Francis (4 October, in red), Agnellus (14 December, in red); later entries by 2 hands: Francis de Paola (2 April), Thomas Aquinas (8 July),"Sancta maria del carmino" (16 July; now erased), Exuperius bishop and martyr (28 September). On ff. 13-16v, list of the psalms, alphabetical in the first letter only, thereafter in the order of appearance in the psalter, with reference to psalm number. ff. 218v-235. [Prayers]. Latin; Catalan. A number of the prayers are preceded by narratives of the circumstances of composition, of discovery or of recitation; many include phrases such as"da michi famulo tuo T." presumably in reference to the book's first owner; for a prayer on f. 222, the rubric is in Catalan: La sequent oratio feu lo glorios doctor ebisbe mosser sant agosti e demana gratia ad nostro senyor . . . , Deus propicius esto michi peccatori et custos mei esse digneris . . . [Römer, i, 374]; the prayer on f. 236r-v was added in a later hand: O domine iesu christe fili dei vivi crucifixe propter hominem rogo te propter sancta vulnera tua . . .
mssHM 1064
mssBA 29