"A Good Reder": the middle English Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy, instruction, publics, and manuscripts

The present work is a study of the Middle English prose text known as The Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy, a consideration of its transmission and reception history, and a survey of its manuscript witnesses; it also incorporates an edition of the text from two of its manuscripts. The text is a cosmological treatise of approximately five thousand words, written for the most part in English, with astronomical and astrological terms in Latin, though the English translation is frequently given. It is written anonymously, and survives in thirty-three manuscripts.

Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the civil war, the commonwealth, and restoration,

Mode of access: Internet.

A catalogue of fifty of the Norfolk manuscripts in the library of Mr. Walter Rye at Winchester House, Putney.

Includes indexes.

Calendar of historical manuscripts in the office of the secretary of state, Albany, N.Y. /

Paged continuously.

The Seconde parte of a register; being a calendar of manuscripts under that title intended for publication by the Puritans about 1593, and now in Dr William's library, London;

"Index of authors and printed books": v. 2, p. [265]-268.

The Clitherow manuscript of 'The Destruction of Hierusalem’

This essay discusses the never before seen early modern manuscript of an amateur play called 'The Destruction of Hierusalem' that the author discovered at the London Metropolitan Archives.

Illuminating faith : the Bute Book of Hours

"The Bute Book of Hours, an English manuscript dating to c. 1500 in The Berger Collection at the Denver Art Museum, has received cursory attention from scholars in the past. This paper is the first to conduct a comprehensive examination of the object, evaluating its style, iconography, content, religious significance, and patronage. Careful study has revealed that the Bute Book is greatly indebted to early engravings for its imagery, perhaps more than any other known manuscript. The suffrages to saints were selected based on their powers against the plague, Tudor religious preferences, and regional significance. Special attention has been given to more unusual insertions such as Sts. Armel and Ninian, and Henry VI. The Bute Book of Hours was created for a wealthy Englishman, most likely with Yorkshire connections, and it illustrates the tenor of a nation undergoing rapid political, social and religious changes"

The most holy trinosophia of the Comte de Saint-Germain,

Initials.

Collotype facsimile & type transcript of an Elizabethan manuscript preserved at Alnwick castle, Northumberland ...

[Introduction]--Of tribute, or giving what is due, by Francis Bacon.--Of magnaminitie, by Francis Bacon.--Advertisement touching private censure, by Francis Bacon.--Advertisement touching the controversies of the Church, by Francis Bacon.--Letter to a French gentleman touching the proceedings in England in ecclesiastical causes, by Francis Bacon.--Speech of the Earl of Sussex.--Letter from Sir Philip Sidney to Queen Elizabeth on her proposed marriage to the Duke of Anjou.--Leicesters commonwealth.

Fate of the children of Usnach [manuscript] /

Binding: Contemporary Niger morocco; gold-stamped title on front board; leather clasps; stamped on inside of back board "C. & C. McLeish".

The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales.

Mode of access: Internet.

Political, religious, and love poems.

Notes on "The stacycons of Rome", by W.M. Rossetti. -- Political poems, etc. -- Love poems, etc. -- Religious poems from ms. Harl. 7322. An A B C poem on the passion of Christ. The Fifty-first psalm. -- Additions: Verse prolog and epilog to a book on medicine, A.B. 1440. A prentise unto woe, by Henry Baradoun, A.B. 1483. Hymn to the Virgin, by William Huchen, A.B. 1460. 'Peare of Provence and the fair Maguelone', a fragment. The Knight Amoryus and the Lady Cleopes ... by John Metham.

Guide to sources of English history from 1603 to 1660 in Reports of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts,

"Aids to the use of the Reports": p. xxii-xxviii