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Collection of tracts and notebooks, fourteenth to seventeenth centuries

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.30

Scope and Contents

(1) Theological notes in Greek and Latin, written from both ends; on a flyleaf is the date 19 October 1651, and on one of the inner leaves the note ‘Ad umbilicum perveni, May 30, 1652’;
(2) a discourse, apparently on the text of 2 Peter ii. 1, fourteenth century, in the style of John Wycliffe, of whose date both the writing and the style of English are; imperfect; begins ‘... hevene: and lede hem þine, and herefor seiþ god bi his prophete malachie’;
(3) notebook of the steward of a nobleman in the reign of King Henry VIII, living at Lydingetone; among which are a diary of the French expedition of King Henry VIII and Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, 4 July - 19 Aug. 1544;
(4) ‘Certayne things agreed upon by a general meetinge togither of his majesties judges anno dni 1636’;
(5) an index to an ancient chronicle or history of England, seventeenth century;
(6) c 1575: a copy of a letter from William Garbrand to the president of Magdalen College, Oxford, ‘Ad ... patrem meum ... Magdalenæ societatis ... presidentem ... doctorem Humfredum ... Guil Garbrandus’, beginning ‘Equidem hominem et vitæ chastitate religiosum ...’;
(7) c 1675: ‘Remembrances for order and decency to bee kept in the upper house of parliament by the lords when his ma’tie is not there, leaveing the solemnities & belonging to his ma’ties comeing to be marshalled by those lordes to whome it more properly appertaines’;
(8) c 1652: ‘The affliction and deliverance of the saints; or, the whole booke of Job composed into English heroicall verse metaphrastically. By Thomas Manley jun. Esq.’, seventeenth century, beginning ‘There was a man in Uz, for zeale whose fame ...’; a meditation, in five stanzas, on God’s dealing with men, is appended.
Bound in eight volumes.

Dates

  • Creation: fourteenth to seventeenth centuries

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

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Extent

8 volume(s)

Language of Materials

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Custodial History

At the end of (6): 'William Cradock of Langome in the countie' (late 16th century); 'Lewes Jones is the owner of this booke' (late 16th century); 'John Cradocke is true honor of this booke' (late 16th century). On the flyleaf of (8) is written ‘Elizabeth Edwards, her book. 1664' and on the verso 'Ann gray'. In the Library by the mid 1750s.

Physical Description

Item 2 on vellum; otherwise paper.

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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