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A prologue ; Epilogue spoke by Mrs. Price : manuscript

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Description: The Prologue and Epilogue are two separate manuscripts, in different hands, still attached after removal from volume. A Prologue begins: "Tis not five yeares since this was a Sweete Place..." (2 p.); the Epilogue begins: "Our theatre alas is quite undone..." (2 p.). The manuscripts were removed from Bridgewater pamphlet volume 2/G 16 (HEH 133562-90) which was broken up for the removal of duplicates.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: Approximately 1700.
Call number: mssHM 83590
Provenance: Transferred from the Printed Books Dept., June 26, 1941.
Dimensions: 31 & 30 cm :
Associated organization: Bridgewater House Library,

The Recovery, Prologue and Epilogue to. Prologue by James Kenney; epilogue by Thomas John Dibdin

Manuscripts

No application. Prod. D.L., Dec. 10, 1805. MS: dated, by J.P.C.(?), D.L., Dec. 5. Comp. prologue and epilogue to The School for Friends, 1805 (K-D 408): virtually the same.

LA 1466

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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Mercurius panegyricus : manuscript

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A manuscript copied out in an unknown hand; it appears to be a copy of a printed broadside found in: An Account of the Secret Services of Monsieur de Vernay... (RB 110713). This manuscript removed from Bridgewater volume 4/G 2 (HEH E-PV. 88854-92).

mssHM 83591

Liber Uricrisiarum : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-134v. [Henry Daniel] Liber Uricrisiarum. Incipit: Uryne is as mekyll for to sayne in Anglish as on in þe reynes Reyns freynsh Renes latyn lendis in Anglish. Explicit: and fordone prowe exces of the malis of þe matere and of the maladye. Explicit liber uricrisiarum et cetera. [S]ic ergo cunctorum tradidi doctrinas eorum/ Quos reperivi vel quos reperire petivi . . . Laus tibi unigenite qui labor [sic] explicit iste/ Tu qui eterne manes hunc conservare digneris. Explicit liber uricrisiarum ex ex [sic] latino in vulgare editus a Fratre I [rubric left incomplete?]. English. Kaeppeli, SOPMA 1747. Thorndike and Kibre, col. 1608. Henry Daniel, Liber Uricrisiarum or Dome of Urines, an English compilation based on the Latin of Constantinus Africanus, itself a translation of Isaac Judaeus; see R. H. Robbins, "Medical Manuscripts in Middle English," Speculum 45 (1970) 399 footnote 14. The text in HM 505 has the Latin prologue, Bk. 1 (4 chapters), Bk. 2 (said in the prologue to comprise 17 chapters, but with 18 in the manuscript, numbered 1-12, 10, 7, 77-79, 81), Bk. 3 (said in the prologue to comprise 20 chapters, but with 30 in the manuscript, numbered 1-21, 23-24, 26-30, 32-33); the Latin verse epilogue gives the date of composition as 1379. Within the text are 2 English poems: in Bk. 2, chapter 6, f. 60v, "Tred eke the kennyth/ Sonday whate letter on rennyth . . . While þou lyuist in erthe. Nascitur proprie [?] Nos et Garlandus," for which see Schuler, n. 553 and Hanna, "Addenda," n. 62; the second English poem, in Bk. 2, chapter 7, f. 75v, "As holy wrytt wytnesse and telle/ There [sic] thingis shull neuer ben full felle . . . Sely is he that this evill fleen/ For the peyne of hell shall he not sene," for which see Hanna, "Addenda," n. 2. Author and title information in the rubric of the prologue: "Hic incipit prologus in librum uricrisiarum Ricardi Dodd, Dilecto socio in christo Magistro Waltero de Ketene Frater Henricus Daniell Ordinis Fratrum predicatorum servulus Ihesu christi et virginis matris eius. Amantissime socie pluries et instanter rogasti me ut de iudiciis urinarum saltem manipulum unum florum tibi carpam atque vel breviter tibi scribam et hoc ydiomate in vulgari . . . ".

mssHM 505

Aurora : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-282: [Peter Riga, Aurora]: Rubric: Incipit Aurora de operibus vi dierum. Incipit Genesis. Incipit: Primo facta die duo celum terra leguntur. Explicit: Signat eos quibus est danda beata quies//. [The third edition of the Aurora of Peter Riga, with occasional interpolations of Aegidius of Paris, in the following order: f. 3, Genesis; f. 31, Exodus; f. 54v, Leviticus with prologue and with the verses de avibus (Beichner, p. 171) placed at end; f. 69v, Numbers; f. 80, Deuteronomy with prologue; f. 85, Joshua; f. 89v, Judges; f. 95, Ruth; f. 96v, 1-4 Kings with prologue; f. 124v, Tobit ending with an additional 14 lines: Helizabeth genitrix . . . fertilis absque uno; f. 132v, Daniel; f. 146v, Esther ending with 4 lines by Aegidius: Inde quod evasit . . . nomen imposuere phurim; f. 151, Judith; f. 154v, 1-2 Maccabees with prologue; f. 163, Gospels with prologue; f. 217v, Acts with Aegidius' prologue: Dixi me finisse . . . faveto michi; f. 236v, Job with prologue; f. 250v, Song of Songs with prologue, ending defectively on f. 276v; f. 277, Recapitulationes beginning defectively in the section Sine D and ending defectively in the section Sine R. The text is preceded by the 20-line prologue by a Premonstratensian canon (De utilitate legendi hunc librum, Nil homini melius quam si divina legendo . . . Intima declinat noxia vana fugat), by the Teacher's preface (Omnis scriptura divinitus inspirata . . . interfectionem dyaboli a christo), and by Peter Riga's prose preface (Incipit prefacio, Frequens sodalium meorum peticio cum quibus conversando florem infancie exegi . . . et veritatis fulgor patenter illuxit)].

mssHM 31189

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HM 81548: The first volume, written in ink, consists of miscellaneous reports prepared by Frank West. The volume begins with a report about a transportation march from Camp Supply, Indian Territory to Fort Clark, Texas in 1873. West meticulously details the journey of the cavalry including length of travel, rivers crossed, and personal remarks. "Our wagon was [?] in the quick sand at the crossing of the Red River men were disseminated and applied to ropes attached to the wagon and it was drawn out" (p. 2). The total distance of their march was 1,371 miles, which took 74 days. The next two reports are about the murder of Jacob Dilsey in 1873. Other reports include number of utility poles erected in Arizona and confidential statements and endorsements about various Army personnel. Also included are briefs from Fort Niobrara, Nebraska and Fort Myer, Virginia. The last portion of the volume appears to be excerpts from a history book concerning Europe, Asia, and the Middle East during the 19th century. The endpapers have miscellaneous notes and account information written on them.

mssHM 81548-81554

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