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1701. 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.

1702. 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.

1703. 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.

1704. 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.

1705. Royal MS 18 D III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D III
Title:
The Burghley Atlas
Scope & Content:
An atlas of England and Wales, made by Christopher Saxton (1542x4–1610/11), map maker, under the patronage of Thomas Seckford (1515/16–1587), lawyer and administrator. Owned by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520/21-1598), royal minister, whose notes and annotations are found throughout. It ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1574-1592
Extent:

1 volume

1706. Royal MS 18 D IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D IV
Title:
Scope & Content:
JOHN LYDGATE, Fall of Princes (cf. 18 B. XXXI). In nine books. Imperfect, wanting one leaf after f. 32 (bk. i, ch. xiv, ll. 337-504), six after f. 41 (bk. i, ch. xxiii in ed. printed by J. Wayland [1558 ?] or xxii in ed. 1554, beg. 'After this Pirrhus' to bk. ii, ch. ii, l. 126), two quires (pre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1446-1470
Extent:
1 item

1707. Royal MS 18 D V

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D V
Title:
Scope & Content:
JOHN LYDGATE, Fall of Princes (cf. 18 D. IV). A quire of eight leaves after f. 184 (bk. viii, ch. xiii, l. 176- ch. xxv, 1. 14) and two leaves after f. 210 (bk. ix, ch. xxxiii, 1. i-ch. xxxiv, 1. 217) have been lost and supplied in a 16th cent. hand. The text, as in 18 B. XXXI has a lacuna of se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1708. Royal MS 18 D VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D VI
Title:
Scope & Content:
JOHN LYDGATE, Troy Book (cf. 18 D. II, art. 2). The present copy (see Bergen, Description of the MSS., 1906, p. xxiii, and cf. Ward, Cat of Romances, i, p. 79) contains an inferior text, wanting the Envoy and Verba translatoris and with numerous omissions including bk. ii, 3405-3466 and 4713-477...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1709. Royal MS 18 D VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D VII
Title:
Scope & Content:
'JEHAN BOCCACE des cas des nobles homes et femmes': the second translation of Laurent de Premierfait (cf. 14 E. V); preceded by the translator's preface and second prologue and Boccaccio's preface. Dedication beg. 'A puissant noble et excellent'. The other prologues and text nearly as in 14 E. V...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1710. Royal MS 18 D VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D VIII
Title:
Scope & Content:
BIBLE in French, i.e. probably a bible historiale moyenne or a grande bible historiale (see above, 17 E. VII): last volume only, containing Maccabees and the New Testament. For the minute differences by which alone this text is distinguished from the latter part of a complete Bible of the 13th c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 item

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