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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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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