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Waldensian documents, 1655
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.38
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In this volume are contained the following authentic MSS. for the Justification of the abovesaid History concerning the differences in Switzerland about the poor Exiles of Switz, etc., all signed by Mr Andrew Schmidt, Under Secretary of Zuric.1. Their Citation in September, 1655. 2. The Nicodemites Letter to those of Switz, written from Zuric the 15 of September, 1655. 3. A Letter from the Canton of Zuric to those of Switz, in favour of the said Nicodemites, the 15 of...
Dates:
1655
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Waldensian documents, Late fourteenth to early sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.15.29-Dd.15.34
Scope and Contents
These are the Waldensian MSS. given to the University by Samuel Morland with Dd.03.25-38, marked by him A-F, and long supposed to be lost. They were for a time erroneously described as Spanish, and were considered of no interest till their identification by H. Bradshaw, M.A., Fellow of King's, in 1862. See his full description of them in the Communications to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 2, pp. 203-218, reprinted in Dr Todd's Books of the Vaudois (1865), pp. 210-223.
Dates:
Late fourteenth to early sixteenth century
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Waldensian documents, Fifteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.15.29
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1. ff. 1-48a. A summary of the early part of Genesis, followed by an account of the natures, etc. of 42 animals. In Vaudois, as also nos. 2, 4, 6.2. ff. 486-93. 'Lo tracta de li pecca.' On Vices.3. ff. 97-132. 'De imposicione Penitentie'4. ff. 133-168. A treatise On Sins.5. ff. 169-176. A treatise with the title 'Herman'.6. ff. 178-188. 'De officio viri et uxoris.'7. ff. 189-220. De Apostolis, de penitentia, etc.8. ff. 220-227. Tabula parabolarum, and...
Dates:
Fifteenth century
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Waldensian documents, First half fifteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.15.30
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1. ff. 1-4. Six Psalms, with the beginning of St John's Gospel.2. ff. 5-23. 'Glosa Pater Noster.'3. ff. 23-38. 'Treçenas i. ii. iii. iv.'4. ff. 38-47. 'Doctor.' A Treatise on Confession.5. ff. 48-55. 'Penas.' On Penance.6. ff. 55-63. 'Li goy de Paradis.'7. ff. 63-78. 'La Pistola deli amie.'8. ff. 78-117. Poems, entitled 'Nouvel Confort,' 'Nouvel Symon,' 'Nobla leçon,' 'Payre eternel,' 'Barca.'9. ff. 122-225. On the Commandments, followed by paragraphs...
Dates:
First half fifteenth century
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Waldensian documents, Mid fifteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.15.31
Scope and Contents
1. ff. 1-13. 'De la Confession.'
2. ff. 14-16. 'De la tremor del Segnor.'
3. ff. 17-53. 'Tribulations,' in 7 chapters.
4. ff. 53-63. Job. caps 1, 2, 3, 42.
5. ff. 63-101. Tobias.
The MS. concludes with a fragment of 'la noble leyçon,' filling a page and a half.
Dates:
Mid fifteenth century
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Waldensian documents, Fifteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.15.32
Scope and Contents
1. ff. 1-3. A fragment on Diseases.
2. ff. 4-56. On Tribulation, from S. Isidore.
3. ff. 57-61. On Man's State.
4. ff. 62-70. On Sadness or Sorrow.
5. ff. 70-86. On the means of Salvation.
6. ff. 87-91. 'De Penitentia,' a fragment.
Dates:
Fifteenth century
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Waldensian documents, First half fifteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.15.33
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1. ff. 1-40. A treatise on Latin Grammar. Some leaves are occupied with other matter; e.g. 'Flores Legum': and three are blank.2. ff. 41-60.Extracts from Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Ecclesiasticus, with some at the end from S. Gregory.3. ff. 61-68. A religious Poem. In Vaudois. This is followed by a fragment occupying one leaf, 'Liber Arithmeticus.'4. ff. 70-92. Miscellanea; in Latin. On the states of human life, virtues, vices, followed by 'Versus morales,' 'Exhortation de...
Dates:
First half fifteenth century
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Waldensian documents, Late fourteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.15.34
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Versions of various Books of Scripture, with a Gloss on the Gospels of St Matthew, St Luke, and St John, in the following order: St James (a fragment, containing the last chapter); St Peter, Ep. I. and Ep. II. as far as the beginning of chapter ii., then a Gloss on the above Gospels, beginning in the middle of the 7th chapter of St Matthew; 1st Epistle to the Corinthians, Epistles to the Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Timothy, Titus; Hebrews, ch. xi.; Proverbs, ch. v.; Wisdom, ch. v.;...
Dates:
Late fourteenth century
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Writings on divinity, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.68
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(1) ‘Three bookes translated out of their originall: first the Letter and the life, or the Flesh and the spirit: secondly Germane divinitie: thirdly the Vision of God. Written 1638’; the title page of the second treatise, which is translated from the Latin version of J. Theophilus published in Antwerp, 1558 (the original is attributed to Tauler) gives the date 1628, and the name of the translator, ‘John Everard S. T. D.’; appended to the second treatise are ‘certaine grave and notable...
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
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Writings on John Fisher, Sir Thomas More, and other Roman Catholic martyrs in England, Mid or late sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.04.23
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(1) ‘De martirio Johannis Fisher episcopi Roffensis’; (2) ‘De D. Thomæ Mori captivitate, bonorum confiscatione et ultimo supplicio propter confessionem veritatis’ (‘Thomas Morus non ita pridem ...’); (3) ‘De Reginaldi theologi martyrio responsis et sententia mortis propter fidem ecclesiæ’ (‘Anno dni 1535, die ...’); (4) ‘De crudeli mactacione diversorum pro veritatis testimonio’ (‘Prior Londoniensis Carthusiæ accessit ...’); (5) ‘Passio 18 Carthusianorum in regno Angliæ, qui pro eo quod...
Dates:
Mid or late sixteenth century
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Writings on matters of religion, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.16
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(1) Answers to four queries concerning the lawfulness of lay-impropriations; (2) a letter concerning 'the using or forbearing of the established liturgy', written after the battle of Naseby, incomplete; (3) answers to motives for entering the Roman Catholic religion. Nos 1 and 2 are in the same hand, and no. 3 in a second.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Writings on the Church in Durham, 1660s
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.02.15
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(1) ‘A description or breife declaration of all the antient monuments, rytes and customes belonging or being within the monasticall church of Durham before the suppression’, ‘transcribed Jan. 31, 1660, per J. B.’, and dedicated to Sir Gilbert Jerrard; this was published by J. D[avies] of Kidwelly, London, 1672, who claimed to have collected it ‘out of ancient manuscripts, about the time of the suppression’; (2) ‘The history of some particuler windowes in the cathedrall church of Durham’; (3)...
Dates:
1660s
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Writings on the reformation of the Church of England, Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.04.03
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A copy of a printed pamphlet, with the title 'A petition directed to the queenes most excellent majestie'. 1. 'A meane how to compound the civill dissention in the Church of England'; 2. 'A proofe that they who write for reformacion do not offend against the statute 23 Eliz. cap. 2, and therefore till matters be compounded deserve more favour'. Annexed, 'Some opinions of such as sue for reformacion wherbie may appere howe unjustlie they are slaundered'. Also 'Certaine articles wherein is...
Dates:
Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century
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