Entertainment at Ashby: manuscript, 1607

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  Game at chesse : manuscript, 1624

  Manuscripts

  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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  Poems and problems : manuscript, approximately 1622-1632

  Manuscripts

  A collection of 123 poems by John Donne, plus his Paradoxes, Problems and characters; together with individual poems by others such as Ben Jonson, Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, John Hoskyns, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Henry Wotton and Henry Constable. Paper, 194 leaves (leaves 141r-61v and 185v-194v blank). Two blank leaves inserted following leaf 1. Two blank endleaves bound in at end. In a single, neat, predominantly roman hand (entries on ff. 105v-15r in a less neat cursive hand), and with various corrections or emendations throughout possibly in another hand, written circa 1622-32. Binding: contemporary vellum, with initials "F. B.[i.e. Frances Bridgewater]" in gilt on front cover surrounding a smudged watercolour central oval on front cover. Fragments of leaves from an unidentified manuscript used along hinges. In case.

  mssEL 6893

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  Processional : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 3-86; f. 86v, blank. Processional. Latin; English. Printed by J. W. Legg, ed., The Processional of the Nuns of Chester. Henry Bradshaw Society 18 (London 1899) from this manuscript. ff. 3-4, Material added in a later hand; f. 3v, Antiphon and response for the Consecration of Virgins; ff. 4v-6v, blank; ff. 7-70, Processions for the temporale and the sanctorale combined, ending with the procession for the dedication of a church; ff. 70v-71, Christmas carol; ff. 71v-72, On shere thursday this antym, Domine iesus postquam cenavit; ff. 72-76v, Prayers to follow compline, prayers to the Trinity, the Cross, the Holy Spirit, the Virgin, All Saints, for peace, for the king, 8 prayers for the dead, a prayer to the Cross, and 2 prayers to the Virgin; ff. 76v-78, Benedictions for the nocturns and benedictions of the Virgin for the nocturns; f. 78r-v, Of our lady antyms (Beata dei genitrix; Descendi in ortum meum; Virgo hodie fidelis); f. 79r-v, Rex seculorum quem laudat universa substancia rerum followed by 2 antiphons; f. 80, Antiphons to the Virgin; ff. 80-85v, Prayers in English; f. 86, Added prayer in Latin.

  mssEL 34 B 7

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  Commonplace book. Religious: manuscript

  Manuscripts

  Contains copy of Abp. Tillotson's letter to a friend, Abp. Ussher's "Last Prediction," a sermon on the death of Lady Elizabeth Hastings, etc. Owned by Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon.

  mssHM 30302

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  Summa summarum : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-404v. [William Poul of Pagula] Summa summarum. Incipit: Quot modis dicitur fides et quid sit fides. Dic quod fides dicitur multis modis. Explicit: sicut facit Willelmus durandus in repertorio suo, proponit questionem et remittit sine responsione ad locum de quo [catchword:] questio illa//. Rubric: Hic incipit liber primus. De summa trinitate et fide catholica,. Latin. Text opens with prologue (Ad honorem et laudem nominis ihesu christi quod quando recolo debeo caput inclinare seu flectere genua saltim cordis) and chapter list. Text missing between ff. 301-302 with portions of 5.18-5.19, and between ff. 403-404 with a portion of 5.68; the final gathering, now missing, was probably no more than one bifolium, containing the remainder of 5.69. This manuscript has the impersonal form of "De exposicione misse," for which see L. E. Boyle, "The Oculus Sacerdotis and some other Works of William of Pagula," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, ser. 5, v. 5 (1955) 81-110. For a survey of the known manuscripts (including EL 9 H 3) and the list of rubrics with those of Pagula's own invention signaled by a letter of the alphabet as in this manuscript, see, by the same author, "The Summa Summarum and some other English Works of Canon Law," Proceedings of the Second International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, ed. S. Kuttner and J. J. Ryan (Vatican 1965) 415-456. Status of text: Lacks leaves and text internally and at the end.

  mssEL 9 H 3

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  Register of writs : [manuscript]

  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