Archive Reference (shelfmark): Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X / Language: English - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 A XIX
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Scope & Content:: PETRUCCIO UBALDINO, 'Le Vite e i Fatti di sei Donne Illustri', dedicated as a new year's gift to Queen Elizabeth, 1577. Not the same as the printed Vive delle Donne Illustre, which is concerned with English ladies. The six here are mvthical or carly princesses, viz. Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, Cl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1576
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 A XV
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Scope & Content:: RELAZIONI of ambassadors of Italian states, &c., circ.. 1546-1595, in Italian, viz.: 1. Muscovy, anonyrnous and undated [circ. 1555 ?]; cf. 14 A. XIII, art 5. ff. 1-40, 88-90 b (misbound). 2. 'Del preparamento della carauanna per il viaggio della Mecca': full description of the annual pil...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1546-1595
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 A XVI
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Scope & Content:: COPY-BOOK specimens of forty-eight styles of callignaphy by Petruccio Ubaldino (cf. 14 A. I, &c.),apparently intended for Edward VI and dated London, 20 JUIY, 1550. The examples are in Italian, French, and Lat"n. Some of the style are named, e.g. 'lettera mercantile' (f. 15) and 'Napolitana'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1550
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 A XVII
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Scope & Content:: TREATISES on political and philosophical subjects by the Dominican Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639), imprisoned by the Spaniards for a conspiracy against their rule in Naples 1599-1626, Cardinal Pietro Sforza Pallavicino (1607-1667), and others, circ. 1605-1630, viz.: 1. 'Discorso dell' illustris...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1620-1630
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 A XVIII
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Scope & Content:: POLITICAL TRACTS and Relazioni, papers relating to Conclaves at Rome, &c., circ. 1610-1623, in Italian, viz: 1. 'Auuertimenti dati in uoce dalla santità di nostro signore papa Gregorio XV al signore cardinale Ludovisio suo nepote, dal quale sono stati scritti et notati in questa forma adi p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1610-1623
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 A XX
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Scope & Content:: POLITICAL TRACTS and Relazioni, &c., circ. 1597-1640, in Italian, viz.: 1. 'Compendio della monarchia di Spagna fatta da fra Thomaso Campanella'. For the author see 14 A. XVII. This work is printed by D'Ancona, Opere di T. C, ii, p. 85. A Latin version was printed both at Harderwijk and at ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1597-c 1640
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 A XXI
Title:
Scope & Content:: POLITICAL TRACTS and Relazioni of the i6th and beginning of the 17th centt., in Italian (except art. ii), viz.: 1. 'Informatione particolare dall' accommodamento': a short account [by Pietro Sarpi, Fra Paolo, Servita] of the removal of the interdict on Venice in 1607, taken, as appears by a not...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 A XXIII
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Scope & Content:: 'RELAÇION de algunas cosas hechas en la Persia por los padres Carmelitas descalços desde el año de mil y seyscientos y nueue, y de algunos otros casos dignos de memoria que desde este tiempo sucçedieron, hasta el año de mil y seyscientos y diez y seys': narrative in Spanish of the mission of Fra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 A XXIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: TWO WELSH WORKS bound together, viz.: 1. Tract on the virtues, &c. Beg. 'Pedwar Rywogaeth Rinwedd ynt ddosparthvsion'. f. 1. 2. Grammatical treatise in two parts. Part i beg. 'Y lhyfr hwn a ddysc ranu r ymadrodd'; ends 'Velly y tervyna yr wyth ran ymadrodd'. Pt. ii on metres beg. 'Weithio...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 B I
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Scope & Content:: ROLL of 'Cognomina conquisitorum Anglie cum domino Willelmo duce Normannie et conquestore Anglie': one of the rhyming compilations of surnames reputed to have some connexion with a lost bede-roll of Battle Abbey, but the true origin of which is somewhat obscure. The present form contains 379 nam...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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