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701. Royal MS 17 A XLIV

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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

702. Royal MS 17 D XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 D XV
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect, including The Cook’s Tale of Gamelyn; Anonymous, Somnium Vigilantis; John Fortescue, The Declaration Made by John Fortescue; The Balet of the King; attributed to John Russell, The Book of Nurture. Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Genera...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

703. Royal MS 18 B XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 B XV
Title:
Basilikon Doron, or Book of the Institution of a Prince
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the autograph copy of the Basilikon Doron (The Royal Gift), a treatise on kingship and government written in the form of a private letter by James VI, King of Scotland (r. 1567–1625) and England (r. 1603–1625) for the instruction of his son Prince Henry (b. 1594, d. 1612...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1598
Extent:
1 volume

704. Sloane MS 93

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 93
Title:
Gabriel Harvey's letters and poems
Scope & Content:
ff. 1*r–104r: Volume of holograph transcripts of letters and poems by Gabriel Harvey, of Saffron Walden, Fellow of Pembroke and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1573–1578. It includes his poems upon the death of the poet George Gascoigne (1534–1577), an account (either fictional or truthful) of the sedu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1573-1578
Extent:
1 volume

705. Sloane MS 226

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 226
Title:
Roger Marbeck, An account of the taking of Cadiz, 1596
Scope & Content:
Roger Marbeck, "A breefe and a true discourse of the late honorable voyage unto Spayne and the wynning, sacking and burning of the famous Towne of Cadiz there, and of the miraculous overthrowe of the Spanishe Navie at that tyme, with a reporte of all other Accidents thereunto appertayning, by Do...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1596-1597
Extent:
1 volume

706. Sloane MS 261

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 261
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', revised by Walter Stevins
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a revised version of Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', undertaken by an otherwise unknown editor called Walter Stevins, and dedicated by him to Edward Courtenay (b. c. 1527, d. 1556), 1st Earl of Devon. The volume can be dated between 1553, the year Courten...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1553-1556
Extent:
1 volume

707. Sloane MS 359

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 359
Title:
Chemical recipes
Scope & Content:
Collection of chemical recipes, in the hand of Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618), courtier, military and naval commander and author. Including accounts of experiments, and details of Raleigh’s ‘great Cordiall’. f. 1v: Table of contents. f. 2r-2v: Chemical notes, with a table of symbols. ff. 3a, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century-early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

708. Sloane MS 718

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 718
Title:
John Clapham, 'Observations concerning the life and reign of Elizabeth Queen of England'
Scope & Content:
Digest of Elizabethan history, compiled by John Clapham (1566-1619), poet and historian. Containing an account of the life and death of Sir William Cecil (1520/21-1598), first Baron Burghley, Clapham’s former master. With corrections and deletions. f. 1r Title page: ‘Certain Observations concer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1603
Extent:
1 volume

709. Sloane MS 809

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Sloane MS 809
Title:
Walter of Bibbesworth, Tretiz de langage
Scope & Content:
Contents: Walter of Bibbesworth ('Biblesworth'), Tretiz de langage, a poem in Anglo-Norman French verse with an English glossary, composed in the mid 13th century as a tool for teaching useful French vocabulary to English landowners. It exists in a long and a short version. This text resembles...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, and French
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:

1 roll

710. Sloane MS 814

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 814
Title:
Accounts of jewels presented to Queen Elizabeth I, 1572-1587
Scope & Content:
Account of jewels presented to Queen Elizabeth I between 1572-1587. f. 1r Title page: ‘In this booke are contained all siche Juells as are delyvered to Maistres Ktherine Howarde one of the gentlewomen of her Majesty’s privye chamber, from time to time to her highnes use as hereafter foloweth’....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1572-1587
Extent:
1 volume

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