Browse the Western Manuscript Collection: H

Handbook for Confessors; 116 leaves, 11 cm x 8 cm.
Ms. Codex 000397

Handbook, ca. 1450, from Milan following the Roman usage, for the use of confessors in dispensing penance. The manuscript is on paper and parts of the original binding are present.

Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610
One leaf, 28 cm x 17 cm.
Ms. Ticknor 585940

Letter, 1585. Letter to Saint Genys noting that new troops are being sent to him and that he should allow his captains to select those they want. Gift of the heirs of George Ticknor.

Henry VIII, King of England 1509-1547
One leaf, 35 cm x 75 cm.
Ms. Lansburgh 13

Henry VIII, King of England, 1509-1547 Deed indenture, 12 November 1537. Deed indenture recording the exchange of the former priory of Saint Mary and Saint Sexburgha in Sheppey, Kent, for Sir Thomas Cheyne's manors of Leigh and Baron's Grange, Iden, Sussex. Gift of Mark Lansburgh.

Henry VIII, King of England, 1509-1547
One leaf, 21 cm x 41 cm.
Ms. 002027

Grant, ca. 1510. Diploma granting the manor of Wyke Albani, Chester, formerly the property of Sir William Stanley, to Sir John Gage. Gift of Arthur Judson.

Homilary
256 leaves, 33 cm x 21 cm.
Ms. Codex 001961

Collection of two cycles of sermons to be read on Sundays and feast days. The text is in two columns in five hands, all very late fourteenth or early fifteenth century from northern Italy. The text has been marked for reading and is heavily emended. The binding is contemporary.

Hymnal
One leaf, 15 cm x 13 cm.
Ms. 001312

Fragment of a fifteenth-century Italian hymnal leaf with one large capital with floral decoration.

Hymnal
One leaf, 19 cm x 14 cm.
Ms. 002255

Single leaf of a sixteenth-century Italian hymnal. The text has been erased and replaced with hymn text in both manuscript and printed form using moveable type. The large initial has been partly removed and replaced with a vellum patch.;