Janus: Nicholas Roscarrock: 'A Breife Regester or Alphabeticall Catalogue of such Saincts and sainte like persons as have graced our Island of Great Brittaine Ireland and other British Iselands'

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MS Add.3041	Nicholas Roscarrock: 'A Breife Regester or Alphabeticall Catalogue of such Saincts and sainte like persons as have graced our Island of Great Brittaine Ireland and other British Iselands'
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Nicholas Roscarrock: 'A Breife Regester or Alphabeticall Catalogue of such Saincts and sainte like persons as have graced our Island of Great Brittaine Ireland and other British Iselands'

Title	Nicholas Roscarrock: 'A Breife Regester or Alphabeticall Catalogue of such Saincts and sainte like persons as have graced our Island of Great Brittaine Ireland and other British Iselands'
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.3041
Creator	Roscarrock, Nicholas, ? 1548-? 1633
Covering Dates	1622 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	1 volume; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Roscarrock, Nicholas (? 1548-? 1633), Catholic activist and hagiographer

(fos 1-5: only fos 3-5 remaining, contents of missing leaves displayed in index at fo. 12) introductory matter; (fos 6-11) calendar of saints; index to fos 1-11 at fo. 12; (fos 13-14) notes on feasts and holy days; (fos 15-23) alphabetical table of saints in the 'Catalogue'; (fo. 24r) title page and sonnet to the reader; (fo. 24v) verse 'friendly warining to the reader'; (fo. 25) preface; (fos 1-402) lives of saints, alphabetically to Simon Sudbury.

MS damaged and incomplete. Sources for each life supplied by author.

ompiled by Roscarrock while in Lord William Howard's household at Naworth Castle. Bequeathed c. 1700 to the parish of Brent Eleigh by Edward Colman, sometime member of Trinity College, Cambridge. Purchased by the Library from the trustees of the Brent Eleigh parish library, June 1891.

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Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Nicholas Roscarrock: 'A Breife Regester or Alphabeticall Catalogue of such Saincts and sainte like persons as have graced our Island of Great Brittaine Ireland and other British Iselands', MS Add.3041

Further information

On Roscarrock and his manuscript see Nicholas Orme, Nicholas Roscarrock's lives of the saints: Cornwall and Devon, Exeter, 1992.

On fos 45-49v there is a copy of a list of relics at Waltham Abbey from 'the book of Waltham Abbey', now BL Harley MS 3776

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