Towneley cycle : [manuscript]

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  Chester mystery cycle : [manuscript]

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  ff. 6-150v. [Chester Mystery Cycle]. Incipit: Ego sum alpha et omega i, primus et novissimus. I god moste of maiestye/ in whom begininge none may bee. Explicit: therfore excuse you withowten were/ I may not well I wysse. Deo gratias. This ys the laste of all the xxiiiitie pageantes and playes, played by the xxiiites craftesmen of the Cyttie of Chester wrytten in the yeare of our lord god 1591 and in the xxxiiiith yeare of the reigne of our sovereigne Ladye queene Elizabeth, whom god preserve for ever Amen. Finis. [added in a different script:] By me Edward Gregorie scholler at Bunburye the yeare of our lord god 1591. Rubric: Drapers Playe. Incipit pagina secunda qualiter deus docuit mundum, Deus. English. IMEV 716. R. M. Lumiansky and D. Mills, eds., The Chester Mystery Cycle. EETS ss 3 (London 1974) , using this manuscript as the base text, collated against the 5 other manuscripts; HM 2 described in the introduction, pp. xii-xiv and in the notes, pp. 533-47. See also The Chester Mystery Cycle: a reduced facsimile of Huntington Library MS 2 with an introduction by R. M. Lumiansky and D. Mills (San Marino and the University of Leeds 1980). Other complete editions of the Chester cycle, including the Banns, by T. Wright for the Shakespeare Society (1843-47) and by H. Deimling and Dr. Matthews for EETS es 62, 115 (1892, 1916) ; for a list of the partial editions, see Lumiansky and Mills, EETS ss 3, pp. xli-xlii . This manuscript lacking the first 5 leaves (as shown by contemporary foliation); the missing text (the Banns and Play 1) supplied in HM 2 on the introductory ff. I-XII from London, Brit. Lib., Harley 2013 in the nineteenth century.

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  Northern homily cycle : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-231v. [Northern homily cycle]. Incipit: //Narracio, A blak monk of an abby. Explicit: And vs and ham to blys lede. Amen./ Amen Amen I rede we syng/ For þare is Ioy without endyng/ Explicit/ þis boke wrot [end of line erased; in the 1930s tentatively read with the aid of a reagent:"William Thame"; now completely illegible]/ God kepe hym fro syn and schame/ And gyff hym þe grace so to spede/ þat he may haue heuyn to his mede/ I pray ȝow þat hyt may so be/ For hym say a pater noster and a Aue/ Celi regina sit scriptory medicina/ [2 lines erased]. English. Unexpanded version of the Northern Homily Cycle; see J. Small, English Metrical Homilies (Edinburgh 1862), M. Corbett,"An East-Midland Revision of the Northern Homily Cycle," Manuscripta 26 (1982) 100-07, and, for the expanded text, S. Nevanlinna, The Northern Homily Cycle: The Expanded Version in MSS Harley 4196 and Cotton Tiberius E. vii; I: from Advent to Septuagesima. Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki 38 (1972). Text here beginning defectively: ff. 1-202, Temporale from the third Sunday of Advent through the 25th Sunday after Trinity; ff. 202v-231, Sanctorale.

  mssHM 129

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  Towneley Green remembrance album

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  An album containing photographs of Towneley Green and clippings about his death in 1899. Pasted inside the front cover is a card: "Charlecote. 3 Hampstead Hill Gardens." There are several interior views of Towneley Green's house, where he lived until his death in 1899. One clipping has a photograph of Green and the credit "Photograph from a portrait by the Misses Dalziel." Grace and Dora Dalziel took photographs and often used a joint credit.

  Volume 15

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  Photograph album from Towneley Green

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  An album of about 30 photographs mounted on paper, inscribed "To G. & D. Dalziel / From their friend Towneley Green, Christmas 1898." Most likely, "G. & D." are Grace and Dora Dalziel, who took many photographs of family members. The album contains several portraits of an unidentified man (Green?), Dalziel family members, images of interior rooms of an elegant house, and a group photograph of men and women on a tennis court.

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  Legenda aurea : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-163v: [Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea]: Rubric: De sancto andrea apostolo. Incipit: Andreas et quidam alii discipuli ... Explicit: et alienum hunc vultum a te conffugabo et proprium coram omnibus reddam [catchword:] hoc tamen nullo//.; [the last folio, f. 164r-v, was misbound in its present position, and should be the first: According to the roman-numbered Lives in the Graesse edition, this manuscript is arranged: 1-18; text missing between ff. 21-22: end of De Sancto Felice, De Sancto Marcello and beginning of De Sancto Antonio; 22-30; text missing between ff. 29-30: De Septuagesima and beginning of De Quinquagesima; 34; text missing between ff. 30-31: end of De Ieiuniis, De Sancto Ignatio and the beginning of De Purificatione BVM; 38; text missing between ff. 33-34: end of De Sancto Agatha, De Sancto Vedasto, De Sancto Amando and the beginning of De Sancto Valentino; 43-45; text missing between ff. 38-39: end of De Sancto Gregorio, De Sancto Longino, De Sancto Sophia and beginning of De Sancto Benedicto; 50-51; De Sancto Timotheo, 52, not copied in this manuscript; 53-54; text missing between ff. 46-47: end of De Sancto Secundo and beginning of De Sancta Maria Aegyptiaca; 57-58; text missing between ff. 50-51: end of De Sancto Marco Evangelista, De Sancto Marcellino, De Sancto Vitali and beginning of De Sancto Petro Martire; De Sancto Fabiano, 64, not copied in this manuscript; 65; De Sancta Apollonia, 66, not copied in this manuscript; 67-70; De Sancto Bonifacio, 71, not copied in this manuscript; 72-82; text missing between ff. 66-67: end of De Sancto Quirico, De Sancta Maria and beginning of De Sanctis Gervasio et Prothasio; 86-89; text missing between ff. 75-76: end of De Sancto Paulo, De Septem Fratribus, and beginning of De Sancta Theodora; 93-101; text missing between ff. 86-87: end of De Sanctis Nazario et Celso, De Sancto Felice Papa, De Sanctis Simplicio et Faustino, De Sancta Martha, De Sanctis Abdon et Sennen and beginning of De Sancto Germano; 108-131; 134; text missing between ff. 122-123: end of De Sanctis Gorgonio et Dorotheo and beginning of De Sanctis Protho et Jacincto; 137-138; 62 (De Virgine Anthiochena); 132 (De Sanctis Cornelio et Cypriano); 139; 133 (De Sancto Lamberto), 140-170].

  mssHM 3027

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  Cycle cigarettes

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  Image of an advertisement for Cycle cigarettes featuring a woman in flowing robes with ivy woven into the braids in her hair reaching towards the sun.

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