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Collection Area Western Manuscripts Archive Reference (shelfmark) Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X Language French

1. Royal Appendix MS 55

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Royal Appendix MS 55
Title:
Collection of 16th century compositions, in French and Italian, by anonymous authors.
Scope & Content:
ff. 11. Songs, chiefly French, by anonymous composers. Nos. 1-9 appear to be for a treble voice; nos. 10 and 11, for a bass; and no. 12, for a tenor. Except where the contrary is stated, they are unaccompanied. 1. 'Fault jl qu'au mal que j'endure '; with accompaniment for lute, in tablature. f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item (11 folios)

2. Royal Appendix MS 64

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Royal Appendix MS 64
Title:
15th century Canons, by Sydrach Rahel. CANONS for 4 voices to the first lines of the Psalms (Vulgate version), by Sydrach Rahel, with a dedication, in French, to James I, from which it appears that they are intended to be accompanied by the lute (? in unison). At the end are canons on the 'Oratio Dominica' (à 5), and on the words 'Viuat Jacobus primus, rex Angliae, in eternum' (two settings, à 2). See Cat. of Music, i, p. 115. Temp. James I. The MS. was formerly numbered Add. 5341, but was...
Scope & Content:
The first lines of the Psalms in the Latin Vulgate version, set as Canons (in 4 parts, unless the contrary is stated) by Sydrach Rahel. From the dedication to James I, in French, it appears that they are intended to be accompanied by the lute, i.e. in unison with the voices. Included also are the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
[1603-1625]
Extent:
1 volume (28 folios)

3. Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X

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Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
Title:
Royal Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by English sovereigns from Edward IV onwards. c 1100-c 1800. c 1950 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1100-c 1800
Extent:
2034 items

4. Royal MS 1 C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 1 C III
Title:
Bible from Genesis to Tobit, in Anglo-Norman French
Scope & Content:
I C. III BIBLE, in French, from Genesis to Tobit; preceded by the epistle of Jerome to Paulinus (f. 1, 'Frere Ambros a moi portaunt tes petitz douns'). The pro, logue to the Pentateuch (f. 5) is entitled 'Ci comence la preface de seint Jerome le chapellain en launcien testament', and begins 'Jeo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Royal MS 2 B I

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Royal MS 2 B I
Title:
Selection of Psalms, with Prayers and Litanies
Scope & Content:
A Selection of Psalms, Litanies and Prayers in Latin, commissioned by Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester, the fourth son of Henry IV (1391-1447). The contents are: ff. 1r-6v, Calendar, of Sarum use, with red-letter feasts of SS. Wulstan, David, Chad, Edward king and martyr., Cuthbert (and transl.), Ri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1430-c1440
Extent:
1 item

6. Royal MS 8 E XI

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Royal MS 8 E XI
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Scope & Content:
'SERMONES Dominicales Parisiensis' (so colophon): the same set of homilies on the gospels [by Guillaume Pérault] as in 8 D. X, but differently divided and not containing the moralia for the twenty-fifth Sund. after Trinity. The original scribe made about i66 sermons out of the series, but the ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Royal MS 10 B IX

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Royal MS 10 B IX
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Scope & Content:
TRACTS on Dictamen or official letter-writing, with models and commonplaces in Latin, French, and English, several translations from the Classics, a romance and other miscellaneous matter. Some of the model letters may be copies of actual state papers, &c. As the composition of the different...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Royal MS 12 A VI

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Royal MS 12 A VI
Title:
Complimentary verses to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, on his matriculation at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1605
Scope & Content:
Complimentary verses to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, on his matriculation at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1605 by (ff 2r-6r) Douglas Castillion and (ff 7r-11r) his pupil Richard Worseley (1st Bart. 1611). Both sets of verses in Greek, Latin, Italian, French and Spanish. Greek verses inc. (f ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1605
Extent:

11 folios

9. Royal MS 12 B XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 B XIV
Title:
Bernard André, L'exposition du Pseaulme Huitesme; Vita beatae Katerinae; Aristotelis ad Magnum Alexandrum de Vite Institutione Oratio
Scope & Content:
This volume is a presentation manuscript, containing selected compositions of the French Augustinian friar and poet Bernard André (b. 1450, d. 1522), also known as Andreas. André was a noted chronicler of the reign of Henry VII of England (r. 1485-1509) and a poet laureate, who served as tutor i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1509-1517
Extent:

1 volume

10. Royal MS 12 C XII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C XII
Title:
A collection in prose and verse, including culinary recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript consists of eight originally independent units or booklets, each containing from one to four quires. See Hathaway, Fouke le Fitz Waryn (1975), p. xliv-xlvii on how this manuscript was compiled. The contents include: ff. 1r-v, Office in honour of Thomas, Earl of Lancas...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1320-1340
Extent:

1 volume