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1331. Royal MS 16 E II

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Royal MS 16 E II
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DEVOTIONAL TRACTS in French, in prose, and verse, viz.: 1. 'Quatuor nouissima' (the title is later): the tract De poenis purgatorii, ascribed in the Latin form of it (Harley MS. 3673, f. 165, Add. MS. 33957, f. 44 b, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS. 155-all of the 15th cent.) rather impr...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
15th century
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1 item

1332. Royal MS 16 E III

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Royal MS 16 E III
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DIALOGUE, in French, anonymous, between Phedrus and Marcolphe on the subject of death: a lively satire on the mendicants and their attentions to the dying. With a preface. On the fly-leaf is the title 'Certayne pistles in Frenche'. Paper; ff. 50. 53/4 in. x 4 in. First half of XVI cent. Sec. fo...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
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1 item

1333. Royal MS 16 E IV

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Royal MS 16 E IV
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'LES ESTRENES du conforte despoir': verses in French, chiefly against the Papacy, by 'Jerosme Julien, natif d'Argenten en Normandie'. A new year's gift to Edward VI, dated London, 6 Jan. 1552 [1552/3 ?]. Paper; ff. 23. 6 in. x 4 in. A.D. 1552 553. Not in the old catalogues. -1
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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[1553]
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1 item

1334. Royal MS 16 E IX

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Royal MS 16 E IX
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LA LUMIERE AS LAIS, by Pierre d'Abernun de Peckham (cf. 15 D. II, art. 1); abridged. Without title or author's name. Beg. (livre ii, dist. iv, ch. 2, 'De la riche gent ke nunt talent de seruir deu') 'E ke dites vus de la riche gent Ke vnt cest siecle tut a talent'. There is no more of livre ii e...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
Early 14th century
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1 item

1335. Royal MS 16 E V

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Royal MS 16 E V
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THEOLOGICAL TRACTS in French, prose and verse, viz.: 1. 'Icy commence le prologue du miroir de lame, qui est fait et translate pour treshaulte et tresnoble dame madame comtesse de Saint Pol, Contesse de Pembroc': a translation made for Marie de Chatillon, married (1321) to Aymer de Valence, Ear...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
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1 item

1336. Royal MS 16 E VI

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Royal MS 16 E VI
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'EXTRAICT de certaine lettre missive escripte par un bon patriot expatrié des Pays Bas a un sien amy demourant en Hollande, servant d'advis touchant l'estat advenir des Provinces Confederées et Vnies': a political tract written before the capitulation of Ostend (Sept. 1604), but after the access...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
c 1603
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1 item

1337. Royal MS 16 E VII

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Royal MS 16 E VII
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'INSTITUTION pour lyre et parler en langue françoise', by F. D. L. R.: a French grammar (accidence) addressed in two sets of verses (one acrostic) to 'Ma Dame Elizabet', i.e. Princess Elizabeth, afterwards (1612) wife of the Elector Palatine. Paper; ff. 82. 71/4 I n. x 5 in. Beg. of XVII cent. ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
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1 item

1338. Royal MS 16 E VIII

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Royal MS 16 E VIII
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This MS. has been missing since 7 June, 1879. It contained as follows, see Francisque Michel, Charlemagne, London, 1836, p. xxii, and his Rapports au Ministre for 1835 (in Coll. de doc. inédits), p. 56, and Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, p. 176: 1. 'Cy commence le proloug de la liuere del nature de...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
13th century
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1 item

1339. Royal MS 16 E X

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Royal MS 16 E X
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'LA RIGUEUR damours et pitie de richesse, inuente par Rene Lepeletier': a poem in two books (about 760 lines), preceded by the arms of Henry VIII, a Tudor rose, with a quatrain of verse, and a prose preface, and followed by a verse epilogue. The author, dedicating the work as a new year's gift t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1530-1535
Extent:
1 item

1340. Royal MS 16 E XI

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Royal MS 16 E XI
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'LE TEMPS de lannee moralize sur laige et vie de lhome': a poem addressed to Henry VIII as a new year's gift, 1510, evidently by Bernard André (cf. 12 A. X, 16 E. XVII). In the prose preface he states that he is now revising his life of Henry VII (ed. Gairdner, Memorials of Hen.VII, Rolls Series...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1510]
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1 item

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