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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LVI
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Scope & Content:: 'CARMEN PANEGYRICVM', on James I, in 284 Latin hexameters, by George Carleton (cf. 12 A. XLIII), n.d.; mainly an invective against the Church of Rome. Paper; ff. 9. Quarto. 81/4 in. x 61/2 in. A.D. 1603-1618. Casley's Catalogue transposes the numbers of this MS. and 12 A. LXI. Not in the older c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603-1618
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LVIII
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Scope & Content:: COMPLIMENTARY VERSES, in Latin and English, to Charles I, upon his return from Scotland in 1633, by twenty-seven boys of Westminster School; cf. 12 A. XIII, mostly by the same boys. Among the English poems are two (ff. 2 b, 12) of Abraham Cowley, printed with slight changes in the 1636 edition o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1633
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LXI
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Scope & Content:: COMPLIMENTARY VERSES, in Latin, to James I, describing his progress through London [15 Mar. 1603/4], in 716 hexameters. Anonymous. Beg. 'Ecquis hic insuetus mundi concursus in urbem'. Paper ; ff. 11. Quarto. 83/4 in. x 61/4 in. A.D. 1604. In Casley's Catalogue this MS.and 12 A.LVI are transpose...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1604
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LXII
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Scope & Content:: 'IANVS': complimentary verses, in Latin, addressed at the new year (1529) to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, &c. The poem, which is a prophecy of Wolsey's career, in 179 hexameters, put in the mouth of Janus, ends with his accession to the see of Winchester, to which his appointm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1528
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LXIII
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Scope & Content:: 'IVLII CLAVDII IGVINI Oratio Hortatoria', addressed to Henry VIII, recommending an offensive alliance against the Turks with the Emperor Charles V, n.d. Prefixed, in another hand, is a sonnet in Italian superscribed SOT, beg. 'Com' hor stanco nochier afflitt' et lasso'. Paper; ff. 48. Folio. 10...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1519-1546
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LXIX
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Scope & Content:: SPEECHES, in Latin, at Queen Elizabeth's visit to Cambridge, August, 1564, viz.:-(1) The Queen's speech to the University in S. Mary's church, 10 Aug. 1564 (see also Sloane MS. 401, f. 38). Printed, with variations, by Fuller, Hist. of Camb., p. 138, and John Nichols, Progresses of Qu. Eliz. (17...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1564
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LXV
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Scope & Content:: COMPLIMENTARY VERSES, in Latin, as a new year's gift to Queen Elizabeth, by members of Eton College, evidently in 1559/60. Noticed in Sir H. Maxwell Lyte's History of Eton (1899), p. 169. For notes on many of the forty-five authors see Registrum Regale (Eton, 1847), and for Ambrose Ford, al. For...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1560]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LXVI
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Scope & Content:: in Basilica Emblemata totum uersum, singula suis iconibus et tetrastichis Latinis donata. Authore Henrico Peachamo': three books of emblems illustrating the Basilicon Doron of James I, containing respectively nineteen, forty-three, and sixteen water-colour drawings, each with an elegiac quatrain...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603-1612
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LXVIII
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Scope & Content:: 'PATHOS, sive de iure haereditario iniuria praerepto ad Iacobum. . . sextum querela, et Apollinis instinctus': a poetical address (Latin hexameters) in two parts to the King of Scots, by Andreas Lœaechius, who had been twenty-one years in exile. Preceded by a preface in elegiac verse, and an ana...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1600
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LXX
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Scope & Content:: 'A BOOK for a Buck with a Parke, or for a good Bishopricke, or for a fatt Benefice at least; to the vse of the leanest Vicar in Great Britain, as seemeth'; addressed to James I by Christopher Windle, 'Lincolniensis Collegii olim artium magister' and 'minister Beesleiensis in dioc. Glouc.' [B.A. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1618
Extent:: 1 item

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