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A Testimonie of Antiquitie, Shewing the Auncient Fayth in the Church of England Touching the Sacrament of the Body and Bloude of the Lord Here Publikely Preached, and also Receaued in the Saxons Tyme, aboue 600. Yeares Agoe.
with manuscript annotations
An English-Saxon homily on the birth-day of St. Gregory: anciently used in the English-Saxon church. Giving an account of the conversion of the English from paganism to Christianity. Translated into modern English, with notes, &c. By Eliz. Elstob.
London: printed by W. Bowyer
Transcription by Elizabeth Elstob of the Canticle "Audite caeli quae loquor," from the tenth-century Salisbury Psalter
Pen-facsimile. Oxford, 1709.
Bound with Transcription by Elizabeth Elstob of a letter from Charles II to Paul Testard, Minister at Blois, dated Beauvais, 15 March 1650. Oxford, 1709.
Bound with Transcription by Elizabeth Elstob of a letter from Charles II to Paul Testard, Minister at Blois, dated Beauvais, 15 March 1650. Oxford, 1709.
Registrum brevium [Register of Writs], with additional minor legal texts in Latin, Middle English and French. England, circa 1375, with additional items after
1426
England, circa 1375, with additional items after 1426.
Among the shorter legal texts included in the manuscript is a text concerning a "cession yn eyr" [session in eyre] in Middle English.
Among the shorter legal texts included in the manuscript is a text concerning a "cession yn eyr" [session in eyre] in Middle English.
Leaf from The Canterbury Tales
Leaf 277 from the Tale of Melibee (Melibeus’s tale) from the first printed edition of the Canterbury tales. Consists of 29 lines printed in batarde type on both sides, with one 2-line initial in red at the 18th line down, on recto.
Medicinal recipe in Middle English
England, 1400s.
Directions for distilling a mixture of spices, herbs, and wine to make a water good for a variety of diseases and for wounds.
Top 3 lines partly torn away.
Phillipps 40717
Directions for distilling a mixture of spices, herbs, and wine to make a water good for a variety of diseases and for wounds.
Top 3 lines partly torn away.
Phillipps 40717
The Workes of Our Antient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed.
Extended title: The Workes of Our Antient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed. In this impression you shall find these additions: 1 His portraiture and progenie shewed. 2 His life collected. 3 Arguments to euery booke gathered. 4…
Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books
"The fourth edition, adorn’d with sculptures."
"Booke of Recaits” [manuscript book of culinary recipes and medicinal remedies]
England, circa 1668. Contains approximately 300 culinary recipes and 425 household remedies for disease, wounds, etc.
The Nevv VVorld of VVords. Or a General English Dictionary
Full title: The nevv vvorld of vvords. Or a general English dictionary. Containing the proper significations, and etymologies of all words derived from other languages, viz. Hebrew, Arabick, Syriack, Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, Brittish,…