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Game at chesse : manuscript, 1624

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1624
Call number: mssEL 34 B 17
Creator: Middleton, Thomas (-1627)(Opens in new tab)

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

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

Entertainment at Ashby: manuscript, 1607

Manuscripts

A partly autograph presentation manuscript by John Marston of the masque presented for the family of Henry Hastings, fifth Earl of Huntingdon. Staged at the family seat at Ashby, Leicestershire, in 1607, the show is devised as pastime for a visit by the Earl's mother-in-law, Alice Spencer, dowager Countess of Derby. Binding: gold-tooled vellum. Paper, 15 quarto leaves; main text written probably in a single professional hand, in alternating italic and secretary scripts. The dedication (f. 1r) and all of ff. 14r-15r in Marston's hand, as are probably occasional deletions, corrections and additions throughout the text. Written in 1607. Also includes a tipped-in a separate manuscript of verses relating to Lady Derby and Lady Huntingdon (beginning "As this ys endelesse, endelesse be yor ioyes"), in a secretary hand, subscribed 'W: SK:' [i.e. William Skipton], on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

mssEL 34 B 9

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"A Game at Chesse" by Thomas Middleton

Manuscripts

Official, semi-official, and personal papers of six generations of the Egerton family, particularly those accumulated by Sir Thomas Egerton, 1540?-1617, Baron Ellesmere and Viscount of Brackley, Solicitor-General (1581-1592), Attorney-General (1592-1594), Lord Keeper (1596-1603), and Lord Chancellor (1603-1617); Sir John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, 1579-1649, President of the Council of Wales (1631-1649); John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, 1622-1686, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (1660-1686); John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater, 1646-1701, President of the Board of Trade (1696-1699), First Lord of Admiralty (1699-1701), Speaker of the House of Lords (1697 and 1700); John Scrope Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater, 1681-1745, a Whig courtier under Anne and George I, and Francis, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, 1736-1803. Approximately 13,000 pieces.

Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-180; [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Calendar in red and black; ff. 13-21v: [f. 13, blank], Short hours of the Cross; ff. 22-29: [f. 22, blank], Short hours of the Holy Spirit; f. 29v, ruled, but blank; ff. 30-37v: [f. 30, blank], Mass of the Virgin; ff. 38-44: Pericopes of the Gospels; f. 44v, ruled, but blank; ff. 45-106v: [f. 45, blank], Incipiunt hore beate marie virginis secundum usum romanum; ff. 107-126v: [f. 107, blank], Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 127-162: [f. 127, blank], Office of the Dead, with 3 lessons; ff. 162-180: Obsecro te and O intemerata, and suffrages of Michael, Peter and Paul, John the Baptist, Sebastian, Nicholas, Anthony abbot, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara, Agnes, Genevieve. [f. 180v, blank].

mssHM 1136

Book of Hours, use of Châlons-sur-Marne : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-77v. [Book of Hours]: f. i r-v [added 16th c.]: Prayer to the Virgin; ff. 1-6v: Calendar in French; ff. 7-8v, 10-11: Pericopes of the Gospels (and on f. 11r-v, continuation of the responsorial prayer from f. i verso); ff. 13-14v: Obsecro te; ff. 40, 39, 41-43, 23, 12, 20-22, 27, 15, one leaf missing, 30, 25-26, 34, one leaf missing, 9, 16, two leaves missing, 19, one leaf missing, 35-36, one leaf missing, 37-38, one leaf missing; 24, two leaves missing, 29: Hours of the Virgin, apparently use of Châlons-sur-Marne; ff. 44-54v: Penitential psalms and litany; f. 54r-v: prayer added, 16th c., in the same hand as on f. i r-v: [M]ediatrix ..., [A]uxiliatrix ..., [R]eparatrix ...; ff. 31-32, 17-18, 33, 28, 55-71v: Office of the Dead, use of Châlons-sur-Marne; ff. 72-77v: Prayers in Latin and French to the Virgin with a woman as suppliant; f. 77r-v: completion of prayer from f. 54v: [I]lluminatrix ..., [A]lleluiatrix ...

mssHM 1265

Game at chesse : manuscript, 1624

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