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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X Language English Level [41] Item

1. Royal Appendix MS 85, ff 54-54v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal Appendix MS 85, ff 54-54v
Title:
Endorsement reading "a note of diuerse reuenues belonging to the archbishop of Yorke with other thinges apperteynyng to the same churche and bishop" (f 54v). F 54 is blank. Belongs to Royal MS 7 C XVI, art. 26.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Royal MS 7 E VI, ff 2-103

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 7 E VI, ff 2-103
Title:
Usuard, Martyrologium; Regula Sancti Benedicti; Homilies de tempore and de sanctis on the Gospels
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-73v: Usuard, Martyrologium (Martyrology), with additions for Christ Church Canterbury. ff. 74r-93v: St Benedict of Nursia, Regula Sancti Benedicti (Rule of St Benedict), beginning: 'Incipit admonitio Beati Benedicti ad monachos. Ausculta o fili precepta magistri et inclina aur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 7 E VI

3. Royal MS 17 A XLII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 A XLII
Title:
Sworne Book of Honorius or Liber iuratus Honorii
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-15r: Sworne Book of Honorius (Liber iuratus Honorii), or Liber Sacer,chapters 1-5 (chapter 4 in Latin, the remainder in English); ff. 15r-23r: A treatise on Suffumigations (mostly in English, final paragraphs in Latin); ff. 23r-27r: Lists of classes of angels and spirits (op...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 17 A XLII-IV

4. Royal MS 17 A XLIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 A XLIII
Title:
Criticism of Old Testament translations
Scope & Content:
?William Hopkinson, perhaps of St. John's College, Cambridge, (see Charles Henry and Thompson Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses, 3 vols (Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, 1858-1913) II 1586-1609, p. 5), A criticism of translations from the Hebrew Old Testament into Latin by Immanuel Tremellius (see his T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 17 A XLII-IV

5. Royal MS 17 A XLIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 A XLIV
Title:
A Poem on Curiosity
Scope & Content:
Contents: A poem without rhyme, perhaps a very literal translation ? from Italian or Spanish of a poem on 'Curiosity' or 'The Curious Man', incipit: 'Perchaunce hit might bee best to shun at all that home'. This manuscript is bound together with Royal MS 17 A xlii (82 folios) and Royal MS 17...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 17 A XLII-XLIV

6. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 163r-164r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 163r-164r
Title:
William Cornish, A Treatise between Information and Truth
Scope & Content:
William Cornish (or Cornysh, d. 1523), A Treatise between Information and Truth; title: 'In the Fleete maade be me William Cornysshe otherwyse called Nysshewhete, chapelman with the moost famost and noble kyng Henry the viith, his raigne the xixth yere, the moneth of July, a Treatise bitwene Tro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
2 folios.

7. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 165r-166v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 165r-166v
Title:
John Skelton, On the Death of the Earl of Northumberland
Scope & Content:
John Skelton, On the Death of the Earl of Northumberland, an elegy on the death of Henry Percy, 4th earl of Northumberland, killed at Blackmoor Edge in 1489; title: 'Skelton laureat upon the dolorus dethe and muche lamentable chaunce of the mooste honorable Erle of Northumberlande'; preface inci...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
2 folios.

8. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 167r-180v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 167r-180v
Title:
Le assemble de dyeus
Scope & Content:
Le assemble de dyeus, an anonymous poem, attributed to John Lydgate in the 17th-century table of contents (f. 1r) and listed as 'The Discord betwixt Reason and Sensualytie written by Jhon Lydgate', but it is not Lydgate's poem 'Resoun and Sensuallyts'. Also attributed to Lydgate by Wynkyn de Wor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
14 folios + 1 blank unfoliated folio.

9. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 186r-195

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 186r-195
Title:
William Peeris, Descent of the Lords Percy
Scope & Content:
William Peeris, Descent of the Lords Percy, a chronicle of the Percy family, composed in c. 1516-1523. Chronicle in verse (97 stanzas, usually of rhyme royal, but longer stanzas occur irregularly), entitled, 'Here begynnythe the prolouge of this litle treatyse folowinge, whiche is the discente o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
10 folios.

10. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 195v-211v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 195v-211v
Title:
Proverbial and moral verses transcribed from the walls and ceilings of Percy's houses
Scope & Content:
Proverbial and moral verses transcribed from the walls and ceilings of Percy's houses, Leconfield and Wressel castles, two Yorkshire seats of the family (see Dickens 1955). The proverbis of the garett over the bayne at Kekingfelde' (sic); incipit: 'The sermountynge pleasure who can expresse' (f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
11 folios.