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1501. Royal MS 17 C V

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Royal MS 17 C V
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'OF THE SACRAMENT of thankesgeuing: a short treaties of Peter Martir's making.' A tract on the Eucharist (probably compiled from various works of Peter Martyr Vermigli) addressed to [Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset,] the Lord Protector, and dated Westminster, 1 Dec. [1548]. The contents are sum...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1548
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1 item

1502. Royal MS 17 C VI

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Royal MS 17 C VI
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DISSERTATION on a true pastor: a Roman Catholic tract addressed to, and written at the command of, the King [? James I] by W. E. Dedicatory letter beg. 'The lack of practize I haue in wrytinge'; text, 'Since both the lawe of nature'. Paper; ff. 20. Quarto. 81/4 in. x 6 in. Early XVII cent. Boun...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
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1 item

1503. Royal MS 17 C VII

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Royal MS 17 C VII
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'THE OPENING of the unreasonable writing of our Inglish toung', by John Hart, Chester Herald, 1551. Preceded by a list of contents, a dedication to Edward VI, and 'the authors prologue to his countrey men'. On f. 1 b is a poetical address of four lines from 'the booke to the author', and the rep...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1551
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1 item

1504. Royal MS 17 C VIII

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Royal MS 17 C VIII
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'MYROURE of Lyf': a long religious poem in Northern English, mainly, but not exclusively, founded on the Somme des vertus et des vices (or Somme le Roi) of Frère Laurent. It consists of a commentary on the Lord's Prayer, followed by an exposition of the seven gifts with their corresponding vices...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
15th century
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1 item

1505. Royal MS 17 C X

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Royal MS 17 C X
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'THE THINGES that were scene and hearde by me, Josaphat Barbaro, citezein of Venice, on twoo voiages that I made, thone vnto Tana (Azov, in Russia) and thother into Persia': translation by William Thomas, Clerk of the Council to Edward VI, of Giosafat Barbaro's Viaggio ... alla Tana. Viaggio ......
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1550-1552
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1 item

1506. Royal MS 17 C XI

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Royal MS 17 C XI
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'ONE of the highe Articles of the most holy Popishe Faythe, called Donatio Constantini. Translated into Deutche throughe Doctour Martyn Luther . . . 1537': anonymous translation of Luther's tract of that date. A hand in the margin, with a note in Cranmer's writing on f. 14 b, proves that this is...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1538
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1 item

1507. Royal MS 17 C XII

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Royal MS 17 C XII
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'THE PREFACE of the greate Athanas[i]us in the Salmes of Davyd, Angelius Policianus interpreter owte of the Greke tong in to the Latyn': a translation of Magni Athanasii in Psalmos Opusculum Ange[to] Pol[itiano] interprete, 1519, by Henry Parker, 10th Lord Morley, with a prologue addressed to th...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1509-1547]
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1 item

1508. Royal MS 17 C XIII

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Royal MS 17 C XIII
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'A LADDER to heaven of twelve staves': a religious treatise on Christian virtues, in twelve divisions, probably adapted from a pre-Reformation treatise, or perhaps by a Roman Catholic. Beg. 'First seeke the Kingdome of God, &c. [Matth. vi. 33]. The first of the twelve ladder-steppes'. Paper...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
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1 item

1509. Royal MS 17 C XIV

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Royal MS 17 C XIV
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THOMAS HOCCLEVE, The Regement of Princes: the poem addressed to Prince Henry, afterwards Henry V, printed from 17 D. VI by Thomas Wright (Roxburghe Club, 1860) and from Harley MS. 4866 by F. J. Furnivall (Early Engl. Text Soc., Extra Series, 1897). No title. Colophon, in a different hand from th...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
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1 item

1510. Royal MS 17 C XIX

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Royal MS 17 C XIX
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'FAMA Fraternitatis R: C: or Discovery of the Fraternity of the laudable order of the Rosie Cross. As also the confession and acknowlegment of the sayd Fraternity wrighten to all the learned and cheefe in Europa. Printed at Dahorig (sc. Dantzic) by Andrew Himefelet Ann: D. 1615.' A treatise on t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

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