MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN WOMEN

Part 2: Household Books, Correspondence and Manuscripts owned by women from the British Library, London

Contents of Reels

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Household Books and Related Materials

Add Ms 27466 Recipe Book of Mary Doggett, 1682
Add Ms 27622 Accounts of Anne Archer, 1608-1617
Add Ms 30494 Accounts of Anne Archer, 1600-1629
Add Ms 34213 Household Book of Duchess of Buckingham, 1465

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Household Books and Related Materials (continued)

Add Ms 34320 Household Book of Elizabeth I
Add Ms 45122 Hosier’s Accounts, 1690-1703
Add Ms 45196 Recipe Book of Anne Glydd, c1650
Add Ms 45197 Recipe Book of
Anne Brockman, 1638
Add Ms 45931 Medical & Cookery recipes, c1700

Add Ms 56248 Recipe Book of Mary, Lady Dacres, 1666-1696

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Household Books and Related Materials (continued)

Egerton Ms 2214 Medical Recipes by Lady Harley and others, c1700
Egerton Ms 2415 Recipe Book of Mary Birkhead, 1681
Egerton Ms 2561 Medical, culinary and other recipes, c1700

Association Copies

Royal 7 D ix Katharine Parr, Prayers & Meditations, c1548

King’s 10 Katharine Parr, Prayers & Meditations - translated into Latin, French and Italian by Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth I)

Royal 2 A xviii Hours of Margaret Beaufort, c1399

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Association Copies (continued)

Arundel Ms 11 Syon Abbey, Confessor Generalis, 15th century
Arundel Ms 146 Syon Abbey, Orders and Constitutions of Nuns, 15th century

Add Ms 5208 Syon Abbey, Rules of the Abbey, late 15th - early 16th century

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Association Copies (continued)

Add Ms 22285 Syon Abbey, Martyrologium and notes, 15th - 17th century

Add Ms 30514 Syon Abbey, Hours of the Virgin, 15th century

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Association Copies (continued)

Add Ms 40006 Syon Abbey, Vulgate Bible, c1300

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Association Copies (continued)

Add Ms 18638 The Romance of Diana, owned by Elizabeth Bourchier, 1643

Add Ms 33772 Memorials of Saints, owned by?
Add Ms 33772 cont Margaret Beaufort, c1497

Add Ms 38691 The Compendion Historiall, owned by Jane Wriothsley, 1528

Add Ms 50001 Book of Hours, c1415, owned by Elizabeth, Queen of Henry VII (partial facsimile only)

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Correspondence and records (continued)

Add Ms 4244 Memoranda concerning learned women by Thomas Birch, 18th century

Add Ms 15948 Correspondence of Mary Evelyn and family, 1634-1824

Add Ms 15949 Correspondence of Mary Evelyn and family, 1634-1824

Add Ms 22563 Correspondence of Lady Jane Grey, Arabella Stuart and others, 1553-1610

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Correspondence and records (continued)

Add Ms 23213 Correspondence of Dorothy Conway and others, 1613-1679

Add Ms 23214 Correspondence of Anne Conway, 1653-1678

Add Ms 28023 Medical Case Book, 1565-1573

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Correspondence and records (continued)

Add Mss 34657-9 Religious conversations at Little Gidding between John Ferrar, Susanna Collet and her daughters, c1630

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Correspondence and records (continued)

Egerton Ms 1634 Letter from Helena Southwell, 1690, and writings

Lansdowne Ms 1237 Correspondence of Arabella Stuart, Sophia, Queen Mother of Denmark, the Queen of Denmark, Queen Anne and others, 16th - 18th centuries

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Correspondence and records (continued)

Harleian Ms 7001 Correspondence of Anne, Countess of Pembroke, Mary Culpepper, Anne Rich, Anne Bourchier, and others,1633-1724

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