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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLII-XLIV
Title:: The Sworne Book of Honorius and other texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: 3 parchment codices bound together in the following order: Royal MS 17 A xlii: The Sworne Book of Honorius and other magical texts, 15th century (ff. 1-82); Royal MS 17 A xiv: Curiosity, or The Curious Man, a poem translated from Latin or Spanish, 17th century (ff. 1-12); Royal MS...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th to 17th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLIII
Title:: Criticism of Old Testament translations
Scope & Content:: ?William Hopkinson, perhaps of St. John's College, Cambridge, (see Charles Henry and Thompson Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses, 3 vols (Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, 1858-1913) II 1586-1609, p. 5), A criticism of translations from the Hebrew Old Testament into Latin by Immanuel Tremellius (see his T...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 17 A XLII-IV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: ANIMADVERSIONS by [William] Hopkinson [of St. John's College, Cambridge, see Cooper, Ath. Cantabr. ii, p. 5] on some translations from the Hebrew Old Testament into Latin by Immanuel Tremellius (see his Testamenti Veteris Biblia Sacra, 1580). Paper; ff. 23. 71/2 in. x 51/4 in. Late XVI cent. No...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLIV
Title:: A Poem on Curiosity
Scope & Content:: Contents: A poem without rhyme, perhaps a very literal translation ? from Italian or Spanish of a poem on 'Curiosity' or 'The Curious Man', incipit: 'Perchaunce hit might bee best to shun at all that home'. This manuscript is bound together with Royal MS 17 A xlii (82 folios) and Royal MS 17...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 17 A XLII-XLIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: A WOULD-BE POEM, without rhyme, or sense, apparently a very literal translation (? from the Italian or Spanish) of a poem on 'Curiosity' or 'The Curious Man' (?). Beg. 'Perchaunce hit might bee best to shun at all that home'. Paper; ff. 12. 71/2 in. x 53/4 in. Early XVII cent. Not in the old ca...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLIX
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A CERTAINE TREATISE cauled the institution of a christen prince or ruler, collected by Erasmus of Rotherodame': an abstract of the Institutio principis Christiani of Erasmus (Opera, 1703-1706, iv, p. 562) by John, Lord Lumley (whose signature occurs at the end), 1550. Addressed to his father-in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1550
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLV
Title:
Scope & Content:: LEGAL ABRIDGEMENT or common-place book, alphabetically arranged, Abbe-Wrecke, with additions at the end. Law French. The authorities cited are nearly all from year-books, &c., tempp. Hen. VI-Hen. VII. On. f. 2 are a few aphorisms in Latin. Paper; ff. 384. 71/2 in. x 61/2 in. XVII cent. Much ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLVI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE LAUDE or prayse to be saide vnto the Virgyn Mary, mother of Chryste Jesu, made by the excellent clerke Erasmus in the Latten tonge and translatyd into Englyshe by Henry Parker, knyght, Lorde Morley': a translation of the 'Paean Virgini matri dicendus' of Erasmus (Opera, 1703-6, v, p. 1227)....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1509-1547]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'OF THE BEGINNINGS, practises, and suppression of pirats', by Captain Henry Maynnaringe [al. Manwayring], knighted 20 Mar. 1618, and afterwards Lieutenant of Dover Castle. With a dedication to James I, in which he refers to the King's pardon (?granted in June, 1617, see Cal. State Papers, Domest...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1617]?
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: NARRATIVE by James Hall, principal pilot, of the expedition from Denmark to Greenland which sailed 2 May, 1605; with drawings of landfalls and four coloured charts of the coast. Printed from another copy in Purchas His Pilgrimes, 1625, iii, p. 814, and from the present copy, which is in the form...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1605
Extent:: 1 item

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