Manuscript, on paper, in cursive bookhand, produced in England and dated May 27, 1582
Description:
In English., A note on f. 18v reads: "A verry tratoroos Worke pretended to bee the answers of Peyres Plowman to the prynted interrogatores of alleageaunce. Butt in treuthe a Waye to instruct papists how to answer tratorooslye & defende the trators for Martyrs that dyed at Tyburne in August 1582.", and Binding: vellum wrapper, with front cover cut away.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Langland, William, 1330?-1400?
Subject (Topic):
Catholic Church and Tyburn gallows (London, England).
Collection on paper and parchment of manuscript leaves, documents and printed leaves. Including paper leaves from a Latin Psalter, a parchment leaf from the Beauvais Missal (formerly owned by Otto Ege), and a parchment leaf from a Latin Bible concordance
Description:
In Latin, French and English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Missals, and Psalters
Manuscript on paper in a secretary hand of the complete text of Stephen Hopkins' translation of de Granada's Libro de oracion y meditatcion
Description:
In English., Text follows the 1584 Rouen edition., No title page, but Hopkins is identified as the author in the Prologue to the Dedicatory Epistle, which includes his attack on the English Puritans and which opens the work., Annotation on p. 1: "Ex Bib. S. Wilfredi.", Annotation on blank p. 684: "Elizabeth Cottan.", and Binding: blind-ruled parchment; fragments of parchment ms. (ca. 1600) used as liners.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Hopkins, Stephen, d. 1594?, Luis, de Granada, 1504-1588, and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Translations, Prayers and devotions, Catholics, Meditations (Religious)., Meditations, Catholic Church, Puritans, and Controversial literature
Manuscript on paper in a neat bookhand of 57 devotional poems written in celebration of the feasts of the Roman Catholic Church from Trinity Sunday to the close of the Time after Pentecost. The volume opens with a 13 stanza poem, "For Trinitie Sunday," followed by a 12 stanza poem, "Of the Blessed Sacrament." Thereafter the poems cover feasts and saints' days from St. Barnaby's Day (June 11) to St. Catherine's Day (November 25); there are several feasts represented by two poems and The verses are in a variety of stanza forms. Stanzas are numbered, and each poem is headed by a title within rules and closes with "Amen."
Description:
In English. and Volume may be the surviving second volume of a set covering the complete church year.
