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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.

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

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 7857
Title:
Scope & Content:: Various copy illuminations Creation dates: Circa 1230 - circa 1630
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 27 Jul 2001
Extent:: 6 colour prints and 1 photocopy

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 7864
Title:
Scope & Content:: ILLUMINATIONS. Book of Hours, use of Sarum, in Latin with additional devotions in Middle English. Illuminated Manuscript on vellum, London Creation dates: Circa 1410 - 1415
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 8 Aug 2001
Extent:: 16 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 8114
Title:
Scope & Content:: BOOK OF HOURS. Use of Sarum. Illuminated Manuscript on vellum, with miniatures by the Master of the Munich Golden legend Creation dates: Circa 1430s
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 25 Sep 2002
Extent:: Microfilm (1 reel) and 1 photocopy

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 8361
Title:
Scope & Content:: ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, Southern Netherlands [Bruges], on vellum. Creation dates: Circa 1400 - 1420
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 5 Jan 2004
Extent:: Microfilm (1 reel)

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 8448
Title:
Scope & Content:: ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. MIDDLE ENGLISH. 44 items being a miscellany of devotional texts with large initials, most of them confidently ascribed to St Augustine, Hugh of St Victor (died 1142), Peter of Blois (died 1212), Richard of St Victor (died 1327), and others, in Latin with additions with Mi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 6 Apr 2004
Extent:: Microfilm (1 reel)

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 8760
Title:
Scope & Content:: MIDDLE ENGLISH. Manuscript text from a collection of devotional prose texts including the 'xxii Gradus Humilitatis ' or 'Twelve steps of Humility'; the incipit of the 'Epistola Sancti Macharii Monochi ad Filios', the explicit of the 'Epistola Aurea', and incipit of the 'Secreta Jeronimi', Englan...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 17 May 2005
Extent:: 6 photocopies

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