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1541. Royal MS 17 D X

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Royal MS 17 D X
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PARAPHRASE in verse of Psalms xxi and xlv, by Edmond Skory, with a fulsome dedication in prose to James I. The writer was a son of John Scory, Bishop of Hereford (d. 1585), and another work of his was printed as An extract out of the Historie of the Last .King Henry the fourth, &c., 1610. He...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1603-1625]
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1 item

1542. Royal MS 17 D XI

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Royal MS 17 D XI
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'THE LIVES of Scipio and Haniball writen by Plutarke . . . and translated out of the Greke into Laten by Donatus Acciolus [Acciaiuoli], and out of Laten into Englishe by Henry Parker, Knight, Lorde Morleye' (cf. 17 A. XXX, &c.), with a prologue addressed to Henry VIII, whose style is that in...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1523-1534
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1 item

1543. Royal MS 17 D XII

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Royal MS 17 D XII
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'MAISTER OF GAME': the treatise on hunting by Edward, 2nd Duke of York. The order and titles of the chapters agree with the text printed from Cotton MS. Vespasian B. XII by Baillie-Grohman (cf. 17 A. LV, &c.). The title-page, 'A booke of hunting made by the Master of the game to Kinge Henry ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
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1 item

1544. Royal MS 17 D XIII

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Royal MS 17 D XIII
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EXPOSITION of the Book of Ecclesiastes by Henry Parker, Knight, with a dedication to Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector, and a preface. The author does not seem to be the same as the Sir Henry Parker, 10th Lord Morley, who translated 17 A. XXX, &c.; for Morley, who is described...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1547-1550
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1 item

1545. Royal MS 17 D XIV

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Royal MS 17 D XIV
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TRANSCRIPTS of works and letters, &c., of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor (exec. 1535), mostly written by him when a prisoner in the Tower (April, 1534-July, 1535). In English, with a few exceptions. Printed, with a few exceptions mentioned below, in The Workes of Sir T. More (ed. by Willia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1550-1557
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1 item

1546. Royal MS 17 D XIX

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Royal MS 17 D XIX
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THE SAME WORK: a text more resembling 17 D. VI, but not a derivative of it. Rubric title erased except the last four words 'Gilis (sc. Aegidius de Columna) de regimine principum'. Side-notes as usual. Some, but not all, of the division headings are given. No portraits. The verses to Prince John ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1547. Royal MS 17 D XV

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Royal MS 17 D XV
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Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect, including The Cook’s Tale of Gamelyn; Anonymous, Somnium Vigilantis; John Fortescue, The Declaration Made by John Fortescue; The Balet of the King; attributed to John Russell, The Book of Nurture. Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Genera...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
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1 volume

1548. Royal MS 17 D XVI

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Royal MS 17 D XVI
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LIVRE contenant cinquante emblemes chrestiens premierement inuentez par la noble damoiselle Georgette de Montenay . . . escrits, tirez et tracez par la main et plume de moy Esther Inglis, l'an de mon aage cinquante et trois, a Lislebourg [Edinburgh] en Escosse, l'an 1624': drawings and verses co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1624
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1 item

1549. Royal MS 17 D XVII

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Royal MS 17 D XVII
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'AN EVANGELICALL TRAGOEDIE, or A Harmonie of the passion of our Lord Iesus Christe, paraphrastically expounded according to the Fower Evangelistes', in five acts, by 'Thomas Beard, Minister of the Word'. In the dedicatory letter to James I the author states that he has translated from a work by ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

1550. Royal MS 17 D XVIII

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Royal MS 17 D XVIII
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THOMAS HOCCLEVE, The Regement of Princes (cf. 17 C. XIV, 17 D. VI, art. 1). Without title or portraits. Side-notes in Latin as usual. The treatise proper is divided by headings (De iusticia, De pietate, &c.), which do not appear in 17 D. VI and not always in Harley MS. 4866. There are also s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

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