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Collection Area Western Manuscripts Project / Collection Royal Collection Archive Reference (shelfmark) Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X Language English, Middle

1. Royal MS 1 C IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 1 C IX
Title:
Glossed Wycliffite Bible, in the later version (from Genesis to Job)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the books of the Bible from Genesis to Job, in the later version of the Middle English translation produced by the followers of John Wycliffe (b. c. 1320s, d. 1384). Accompanying marginal glosses appear throughout the book, written in the same hand as the main text. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Royal MS 7 C IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 7 C IV
Title:
Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum, with Old English glosses; Pauca de vitiis and peccatis (imperfect) with Old English glosses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Liber scintillarum (Book of Sparks): a florilegium of extracts from the Bible and the Church Fathers written around 700 by a Benedictine monk of the abbey of Ligugé, Defensor of Ligugé. It also includes Old English interlinear glosses. The quires containing the Liber...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Royal MS 13 A XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A XIV
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, and other texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of texts, principally in Latin, written in Ireland between the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century, and which formerly belonged to the Dominican convent at Limerick. They include a copy of the Topographia Hiberniae (Topography of Ireland), an a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Royal MS 15 D II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 D II
Title:
La lumere as lais; Apocalypse ('The Welles Apocalypse')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-103v: Peter d’Abernon of Fetcham (Peter of Peckham), La lumere as lais, written in Anglo-Norman French, beginning, 'Ore comence le romaunz, Ke nest pas a fous ne as enfaunz', and ending, 'Amen, amen, par seinte charite Nous ayde dieus ke meint en trinite. Explicit Lucidare.' ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1310
Extent:

1 volume

5. Royal MS 17 A I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 A I
Title:
Poem on the craft of masonry ('The Regius Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-32: A Middle English poem on the craft of masonry, beginning 'Whoso wol boþe wel rede and loke'; ending 'Say we so alle . pur charyte'; with rubrics in Latin. The latter half of the poem is devoted to conduct when at church and in company, including: a) an account of the Four...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

6. Royal MS 17 A XXVII, ff1-70

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 A XXVII, ff1-70
Title:
Sawles Warde; Lives of Saints Katherine, Margaret and Juliana; Oreison of Seinte Marie
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10v: Sawles Warde, a homily on Matthew 24.43; ff. 11r-70r: Lives of St Katherine (ff. 11r-37r), St Margaret (ff. 37r-56r) and St Juliana (ff. 56r-70r) ff. 70r-v: The Oreison of Seinte Marie. The above texts are part of a group of works known as 'the Katherine group', also f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1200-1249
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex

7. Royal MS 17 A XXVII, ff71-97

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 A XXVII, ff71-97
Title:
Prayers, hymns and miscellaneous religious texts, including verses on the Arma Christi or Symbols of the Passion
Scope & Content:
Contents: Prayers, hymns and miscellaneous religious texts, including verses on the Arma Christi or Symbols of the Passion. Decoration: 24 framed miniatures in colours of the symbols of the Passion with leaf decoration (ff. 72v-79r). Rubrics and text in red (e.g., ff. 80r-81r). Initials in bl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex

8. Royal MS 17 C XXXVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 C XXXVIII
Title:
Travels of Sir John Mandeville in Middle English
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. The text is based on a Middle English translation known as the 'defective version' because it is thought to have been translated from a manuscript in Anglo-Norman French that was lacking the second gathering, omi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Royal MS 17 D VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 D VI
Title:
Thomas Hoccleve, The Regement of Princes, with other poems
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes five works by Thomas Hoccleve (b. c. 1367, d. 1426): 1. The Regement of Princes, incipit: 'Musyng up on the restles besynesse The which this troubly world hath ay on honde'. Includes marginal notes in Latin providing the sources of the text. Printed from this manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

150 + 8 folios.

10. Royal MS 18 A VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 A VI
Title:
Medical treatises, chiefly in Middle English
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains medical, herbal, obstetrical and gynaecological treatises and recipes in a variety of hands, dating from the beginning of the 15th century to the 16th century, predominantly in Middle English. It is also notable for the inclusion of 3 large urine diagrams and six full-pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:

A paper and parchment codex.

11. Royal MS 18 B XXII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 B XXII
Title:
William Worcester, The Boke of Noblesse
Scope & Content:
The Boke of Noblesse, a tract encouraging Edward IV to go to war with France, citing historical precedents and quoting from several authors, particularly Christine de Pizan's Faits d'armes et de chevalerie, wrongly referred to here as the Tree of Battles (ff. 13r-v, 14v-16v, 28r-v). Written by W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

12. Royal MS 18 C II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 C II
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. i recto: A fragment of two inquisitions post-mortem of Elizabeth, wife of John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby, written in Latin, the second dated 7 August, 1 Hen [IV, i.e. 1400]. f. 1r: 'Counsels of Prudence', an 8-line extract from John Lydgate's Troy Book (Bk. II, ll. 1849-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

13. Royal MS 18 D II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II
Title:
John Lydgate, Troy Book and Siege of Thebes, with verses by William Cornish, John Skelton, William Peeris and others
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: Added table of contents, 17th century (f. 1r). 1. John Lydgate, Testament (ff. 1v-5r); 2. John Lydgate, Troy Book (ff. 6r-146r); 3. John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes (ff. 147v-162r); 4. William Cornish, A Treatise between Information and Truth (ff. 163r-164r); 5. John ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1457-c 1530
Extent:

213 + 5 folios.

14. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 1v-5r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 1v-5r
Title:
John Lydgate, Testament
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate, Testament, incipit: 'The testamente of John Lydgate, monke of Berry [Bury St Edmunds Abbey] whiche he made hymselfe by his lyre dayes'; without the prologue; explicit: 'Thus endethe testamente of John Lydgate monke of Bery on whose sowle Ihesu haue mercy. Et sic est finis. sit laus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
5 folios.

15. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 6r-146r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 6r-146r
Title:
John Lydgate, Troy Book
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate, Troy Book, a verse paraphrase in five books of the prose Historia Troiana of Guido delle Colonne. Incipit: 'O mighty Mars, that with thy sterne lyght In armes hast the powere and the myght'; explicit: 'This litele boke lowly I betake Yt to supporte, and þus an ende I make.' Followe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1457-1460
Extent:
140 folios.

16. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 147v-162r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 147v-162r
Title:
John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes, rubric: 'In this preambile shortly is comprihendid a mery conseyte of John Lydgate monke of Bury declarynge how he aionyde þe sege of Thebes to the mery tallys of Caunterburye'; prologue, incipit: 'Whan bright Phebus passyd was þe ram Mid of Aprile and in the bulle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1457-1460
Extent:
18 folios.

17. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 181r-183r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 181r-183r
Title:
John Lydgate, The reignes of the kyngis of Englande
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate, The reignes of the kyngis of Englande, a history in verse covering the period from William the Conqueror to Henry VI and continued by anonymous editors to Henry VIII. Prefatory stanza incipit: 'In this litill tretis men may se and be indusyde To the reyngne of the kingis of Ingland...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
3 folios.

18. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 183v-185v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 183v-185v
Title:
The blsyoure of the arms of kyngis
Scope & Content:
Description of the arms of various kings, entitled 'The blsyoure of the arms of kyngis', including the arms of the city of Jerusalem, the three kings of Cologne, Prester John, the Emperor of Constantinople, and other Christian and non-Christian monarchs. Title: 'The armes of certayne kyngis cris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
3 folios.

19. Royal MS 19 B IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B IV
Title:
Les Dits Moraulx des Philosophes, a French translation of Guillaume de Tignonville's Dicta moralia antiquorum philosophorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Les Dits Moraulx des Philosophes (The Moral Sayings of the Philosophers), a French translation of the Latin Dicta moralia antiquorum philosophorum by Guillaume de Tignonville, or Thignonville (d. 1414), Councillor to King Charles VI of France and Prevost of Par...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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