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Title: Leigh Hunt: Autograph Letters and Other Materials (Collection)

Title: Documents/receipts from the courts of Henry VIII/Elizabeth I?
Date: 16th century
Summary: Six manuscript documents on pieces of parchment of various sizes. Sawn together. They could be a series of receipts. The script looks like a 16th English century minuscule cursive, chancery hand or court hand. Written in pencil on the first folio is "Henry VIII," on the 4th, 5th and 6th "Eliz l" (Elizabeth I). (they are all around 32 x 12 cm, or smaller)

Title: Deed of John de Welye.
Date: 12th century
Summary: Manuscript document on parchment. Text in Latin, in a script similar to court scripts (or charter scripts) from England in the 12th century. 22 lines of text. It appears to be a deed (mentions the word "herede"). At the beginning mentions: "Ego Johes dWelye (?)." There is a list of names at the end (witnesses?): “Ricardo de Elteot (?), Johe filio suo, Rogero le frend, Willmo filio suo, Robto dWelye, Robto herede, Ioenrico de hortime, Ricardo de bulteford, Ryc de Wyk, Nicholao de cruk, Thom le butiller.” 22.5 x 20.8 cm (folded section on the lower margin). The document is written on the exact same script as NOI 3, and some names and parts of the text (like the beginning and the end) are identical.

Title: [Fragment of an English University text.]
Date: ca. 1210
Summary: Fragment of a manuscript leaf on vellum, with text on Latin. 23 x 9 cm. Fragment from Peter Riga's Aurora, a verse paraphrase of the Bible including commentary composed near the end of the 12th century. Initials in red and blue, text in compact Gothic texture. One column of 51 lines on the recto and 49 on the verso. (Description by PRB&M stored with the item.)

Title: [Collection of documents for Thomas Wadilow].
Date: 16th century
Summary: 17 parchment documents of various sizes, with text on one side. They are sewn together. Most of them say on the back: “for tho wadilow/ Tho wadilowe/ This copie belongs to tho wadilow” or some variation of those words. They could be a series of receipts. The script looks like a 16th English century minuscule cursive, chancery hand or court hand. (all of them around 28 x 13 cm)

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