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1. Royal Appendix MS 56

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Royal Appendix MS 56
Title:
16th century compositions for organ, by anonymous authors
Scope & Content:
Organ pieces, written on double staves of 6 or 7 lines each, apparently in England. Anonymous. 1. 'Felix namque.' f. 1b. 2. 'Non expecto.' f. 6b. 3. 'Beata viscera.' f. 7. 4-6. Three pieces without titles. ff. 12b, 13b, 14b. 7. 'Kirie,' 'Christe,' and 'Miserere'; probably from a Mass. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (32 folios)

2. Royal Appendix MS 58

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Royal Appendix MS 58
Title:
Collection of English vocal compositions, predominantly by anonymous authors.
Scope & Content:
Vocal compositions: one part only (except in no. 27), chiefly tenor. Unless the contrary is stated, they are anonymous. 1. 'A[h], the syghes that come fro my hert.' By W. Cornish. f. 1. 2. 'Though that she cannot Redresse.' f. 3b. 3. 'Colle to me the Rysshes greene.' f. 4. 4. 'Down bery down': a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (60 folios)

3. Royal MS 7 D X

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Royal MS 7 D X
Title:
Prayers and meditations (the 'Prayerbook of Princess Elizabeth')
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a collection of prayers translated into Latin, French and Italian by Princess, afterwards Queen, Elizabeth when she was twelve years old; preceded by a Latin dedication to Henry VIII (ff. 1r-5r). This preface preface dated 30 December 1545 and addressed from Hertford is t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1545
Extent:

Parchment codex

4. Royal MS 12 C XII

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Royal MS 12 C XII
Title:
A collection in prose and verse, including culinary recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript consists of eight originally independent units or booklets, each containing from one to four quires. See Hathaway, Fouke le Fitz Waryn (1975), p. xliv-xlvii on how this manuscript was compiled. The contents include: ff. 1r-v, Office in honour of Thomas, Earl of Lancas...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1320-1340
Extent:

1 volume

5. Royal MS 13 C V

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Royal MS 13 C V
Title:
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. It is missing the final leaf of the text. Folios 1-2 are mid-11th century supply leaves. Folio 225 is a later medieval flyleaf, formed of a fragment which includes part of 2 Kings, starting at 2 Kings 23:3. Decora...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

6. Royal MS 14 B III

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Royal MS 14 B III
Title:
Roll of maxims made for Jane Lumley, Baroness Lumley
Scope & Content:
A roll of maxims about pride, created for Jane Lumley (1537-78), Baroness Lumley, daughter of Henry FitzAlan (1512-80), 19th earl of Arundel. Monograms JOANNA LVMLEIA. Dated to between Jane’s marriage to John Lumley (d. 1609), 1st Baron Lumley, by 1553 and her death in 1578. A similar roll, po...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1553-1578
Extent:

1 roll

7. Royal MS 14 B XIX

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Royal MS 14 B XIX
Title:
Expenses of Princess Mary’s household
Scope & Content:
This roll contains the household expenses of Princess Mary (the future Mary I, r. 1552-1558), daughter of King Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547) and Catherine of Aragon (b. 1485, d. 1536). The account covers a one-and-a-half-year period from 1 July 1525 to 31 December 1526 (17 and 18 Henry VIII), when M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1525-1526
Extent:
1 roll

8. Royal MS 14 B XXVI

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Royal MS 14 B XXVI
Title:
Expenses of the household departments of Princess Mary
Scope & Content:
The roll contains the household expenses of Princess Mary (the future Mary I, r. 1552-1558), daughter of King Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547) and Catherine of Aragon (b. 1485, d. 1536). The account lists the expenses of several household departments, comparing the expenditure made in October and other...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1525-1526
Extent:
1 roll

9. Royal MS 15 A IX

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Royal MS 15 A IX
Title:
Jane Lumley, translations of Isocrates, Orationes, and Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis
Scope & Content:
This volume is a commonplace book containing the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley, and written in her hand. Two of the orations are prefaced by dedicatory epistles to her f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Royal MS 17 A XVI

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Royal MS 17 A XVI
Title:
Almanac, including a calendar and astronomical information
Scope & Content:
An almanac, including an astronomical calendar in pictorial form, for 1420, with miscellaneous additions. A similar almanac, dated 1412, is now Harley MS 2332. Contents: f. 1v: Added 15th-century meteorological notes from Christmas to Twelfth Night, in a year in which Christmas fell on Sunda...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1420
Extent:

1 volume