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15th-century English manuscript containing three Middle English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the chivalric poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.11
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘Liber maundevyle` (folio 1). The manuscript belongs to sub-group E of the Defective Version on which the earliest editions were based (`English manuscripts of Mandeville`s Travels`, pages 169-171). Several leaves are missing, containing the end of the prologue and beginning of chapter 1 (after folio 1), chapters 6-9 (after folio 10), and the end of chapter 32 onwards.(ii) `Sir Cleges` (folio 71). ‘The Index of Middle...
Dates:
15th century.
`Foundation of the Universitie of Cambridge with a Catologue of the principall founders and speciall Benefactors of the Colledges publike Schooles and Librarie now extant in ye same. And the names of all the present Mrs and Fellowes ... together with the number of Magistrats Gouernours and Officers ... Collected Julie the 10th 1622`, compiled by John Scott, a notary public, who dedicated it to Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes the painted arms of each college and its founder, and of some of the university officials.
Dates:
1622.
Microfilm of genealogical and heraldic material.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.31
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Armourial [sic] Bearings of the Bruces’ by Major William Bruce Armstrong, 1903 (Adv.MS.15.1.25);'Results of the investigation of the settlement of English families in Scotland', [?1801] (Adv.MS.16.2.9);‘Proper names with their significations’ by David Ure, minister of Uphall, late 18th century (Adv.MS.16.2.10);Collection of material on French heraldry, in several hands of the first half of the 18th century...
Dates:
1560-1903.
Microfilm of manuscripts of three Middle-English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.238
Dates:
15th century.