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1431. Royal MS 17 A XXV

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Royal MS 17 A XXV
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THEOLOGICAL TRACTS in Southern English, viz.:- 1. ' Here bigynneþ a litil tretice of þe seuene sacramentis of textis of hooli writte treuli declared to oure bileuc of diuerse seinctis and doctours.' Beg. 'The mist of þe fadere, þe grace and þe comownynge of oure lord Ihesu Criste'; ends 'encre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1432. Royal MS 17 A XXVI

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Royal MS 17 A XXVI
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THEOLOGICAL TREATISES and the Apocalypse and Gospel of S. John, in English. An 18th cent. hand on the paper fly-leaf (f. 1) ascribes artt. 1-9 to John Wycliffe. Contents:- 1. On the ten commandments, attributed to Wycliffe (see W. W. Shirley, Catalogue of the original works of J. Wyclif, 1865, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1433. Royal MS 17 A XXVII

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Royal MS 17 A XXVII
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Sawles Warde, Lives of Saints, Prayers and Hymns in Middle English
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Contents: ff. 1-70: Five early Middle English religious works in alliterative prose, believed to be of West Midlands origin, dating from the 1st half of the 13th century (ff. 1-70); ff. 71-97: Prayers and hymns from the 1st quarter of the 15th century (ff. 71-97).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-Early 15th century
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A parchment codex

1434. Royal MS 17 A XXVIII

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Royal MS 17 A XXVIII
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ALBUM of ornamental writing, in gilt and colours, with illuminated initials of a rough, chiefly grotesque, nature, dedicated [to Queen Elizabeth ?] by 'your grace's most humble and obedient servant during life, Jeremy Delahay, dwelling by the Artillirie yard neere Bishopsgate streete'. The extra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 item

1435. Royal MS 17 A XXX

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Royal MS 17 A XXX
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TRANSLATION into English of Seneca's Epistles 92 and 18 joined in one, by Henry Parker, 10th Lord Morley (d. 1556). Dedicated to the Lady [afterwards Queen] Mary. Probably the presentation copy and one of a series of new-year's gifts from Lord Morley to the Princess (cf. 17 A. XLVI, 17 C. XII, 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1509-1547]
Extent:
1 item

1436. Royal MS 17 A XXXI

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Royal MS 17 A XXXI
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BRIEF SURVEY of the ordnance, powder, shot, and other munition in the Tower of London, 3 May, 1603, with signed dedication to James I by John Linewraye (knighted 1604), Surveyor General of the Ordnance. Included also are:-(a) Names of ships, pinnaces, galleys, &c., with their ordnance. f. 5 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 May 1603
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1 item

1437. Royal MS 17 A XXXII

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Royal MS 17 A XXXII
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TRACTS on astrological and medical subjects, in English, viz.:- 1. 'Here begynnyth the Boke of Astronomy and of Philosophie constructe and compilat of the wiseste philosophers and astronomyers that euer were sethe the worlde was bygonne, that is for to sey that in the londe of Grece was an Engl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1438. Royal MS 17 A XXXIII

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Royal MS 17 A XXXIII
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CONSTRUCTION and use of the Ring-dial : a tract addressed, probably as a new-year's gift, to Edward VI, circ. 1552/3. At the foot of the last folio appears the name, probably as author, of Ottuel Hollynshed [fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, a cousin of Raphael Holinshed, the chronicler, see...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1552
Extent:
1 item

1439. Royal MS 17 A XXXIV

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Royal MS 17 A XXXIV
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'A KICKSY WINSYE or a lerry cum twang, wherin John Taylor hath satirically suited eight hundred of his bad debtors, that will not pay him for his returne of his jorney from Scotland ' : a satirical poem on debtors, by John Taylor, the Water-poet. Beg. 'You worthy worthyes, of yt liberall tribe'....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1618-1619
Extent:
1 item

1440. Royal MS 17 A XXXIX

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Royal MS 17 A XXXIX
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'ARCHEION, or of the High Courts of justice in Inglande', by William Lambarde. Ends imperfectly at p. 104 of the edition of 1635, with which this copy agrees except at ff. 19 b-20 (cf. pp. 59-67). For other copies see Hargrave MSS. 227, f. 157, 249, f. 163, Add. MS. 32103, f. 96. Paper; ff. 30....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

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