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MS. Top. Oxon e. 5

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Copies of Elizabethan pieces, etc., by the following authors (see p. 378):

Archbp. Toby Matthew:

Latin speech in Convocation, Jan. 25, 1580, p. 1;
Latin petition about archbp. Grindal, Feb. 1580/1;
five English sermons, 1576-81, pp. 48, 66, 149, 179, 354: Latin sermon, Oct. 9, 1581, p. 76;
Latin daily prayers for Christ Church men at Wallingford, Aug. 15, 1577, p. 105.

Sir Thomas Smith:

two Latin speeches as regius prof. of Civil Law at Cambridge, abt. 1540, p. 8;
Latin reply to Antonius Corranus, Dec. 27, 1575, p. 69;
English letter to the queen about Calais, May 3, 1567, p. 107;
instructions for him from the queen about regaining Calais, March 22, 1566/7, p. 259.

Thomas Thornton: Latin letter about dr. W. James, July 1575, p. 75;

Matthew Gwynne: Latin oration about Music, Oct. 15, 1582, p. 129;

Bp. John White: English funeral sermon on qu. Mary, Dec. 13, 1558, p. 240;

Sir Thomas More: Latin letter to the University of Oxford about the study of Greek, March 29, 1518, p. 292;

Gregory Martin of Rheims: English letter to dr. White, warden of New college, Oxford, on theological subjects, Oct. 15, 1575, p. 316;

Ubertus Folieta: 'De causis magnitudinis Turcarum imperii', p. 333;

Bp. James Pilkington: English letter about vestments, Oct. 25, 1564, p. 349;

Richard Eedes: 'Epilogus Cæsaris interfecti, quomodo in scenam prodiit ea res acta in ecclesia Christi Oxon... 1582', p. 359;

Latin letter from pope Alexander iii to bp. Foliot about archbp. Becket, Aug. 22, 1166, with Foliot's reply, p. 369.

Also the following pieces:

two petitions from Christ Church, Oxford, about dr. William James, July, 1575, pp. 71, 73;
'The maner of the Erle of Essex death ... the xiiijth daie of September ... 1576 ...' (beg. 'Walter the noble earl '), p. 138;
'A collection of certein reazons ...' about Calais, Apr. 3, 1567, p. 266;
the will of William of Wykeham, July 24, 1403, in Latin, p. 302;
notes of a conference held on May 1, 1561, by the queen's command about admitting the pope's nuncio into England, p. 360.

Dates

Creation: written in the second half of the 16th century

Extent

392 pages

Language of Materials

Latin
English

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Top. Oxon e. 5, pp. 1-2]

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Shelfmark:

MS. Top. Oxon e. 5

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 18667

Additional Description

Abstract

Copies of Elizabethan pieces, written in the second half of the 16th century.

Biographical / Historical

Tobie Matthew (1544?–1628) was archbishop of York.

Sir Thomas Smith (1513–1577) was a scholar, diplomat, and political theorist.

Thomas Thornton (c.1541–1629) was an Church of England clergyman and academic administrator.

John White (1509/10–1560) was bishop of Winchester.

Sir Thomas More (1478–1535) was lord chancellor, a humanist, and martyr.

Gregory Martin (1542?–1582) was a Roman Catholic priest and biblical translator.

Uberto Foglietta (1518-1581) was a historian and writer.

James Pilkington (1520–1576) was bishop of Durham.

Richard Eedes (1555–1604) was Dean of Worcester, and a translator.

Pope Alexander III (c.1100–1181).

Gilbert Foliot (c.1110–1187) was Bishop of Hereford and then Bishop of London.

Other Finding Aids

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. V, no. 28841.

Custodial History

'Sum liber Roberti Dowi ex Collegio omnium Animarum' (B. A. 1574); 'Peter Thompson of Bermondsey, Surrey', 18th century; one early mark of ownership has been erased.

In one of T. Rodd's Catalogues no. cx.

There is also the 19th century armorial bookplate of John Trotter Brockett, F.S.A.