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1521. 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...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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[1510]
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1 item

1522. Royal MS 16 E XIX

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Royal MS 16 E XIX
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THREE SERMONS, in French, by J- Hopper (cf. 17 B. XXI, 18 A. LII), viz.:-(a) On Gen. xlix. 21. Dedication, in French, to 'Guillaume Car, seruiteur intime et ordinaire en la chambre priuée de S. M.', i.e. Groom of the Chamber to James I, cf. Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1622, 1623, pp. 354, 565, 568 [...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
[1603-1625]
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1 item

1523. Royal MS 17 A LII

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Royal MS 17 A LII
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SERMON on Acts iii. 26 by John Millwarde (d. 1609, see Dict. Nat. Biogr.), preceded by an address in Latin to James I, to whom he was chaplain. Autograph. Paper; ff. 14. 71/2 in. x 53/4 in. Circ. 1603. The preface and a motto (from the Scala Claustralium) at the end are calligraphically written,...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
c 1603
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1 item

1524. Royal MS 17 D XIX

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Royal MS 17 D XIX
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THE SAME WORK: a text more resembling 17 D. VI, but not a derivative of it. Rubric title erased except the last four words 'Gilis (sc. Aegidius de Columna) de regimine principum'. Side-notes as usual. Some, but not all, of the division headings are given. No portraits. The verses to Prince John ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
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1 item

1525. Royal MS 17 D XXI

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Royal MS 17 D XXI
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CHRONICLE OF THE BRUTE in English prose to A. D. 1419, comprising the original text to 1333 and two continuations (B and C of Brie) to 1377 and 1419 (siege of Rouen) respectively; see F. W. D. Brie, Geschiche der mittelenglischen Prosachronik The Brute of England, Marburg, 1905, and his edition,...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
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1 item

1526. Royal MS 18 A L

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Royal MS 18 A L
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'PERSWASION to the Kyng that the laws of the realme shulde be in Latin' (so the inscription in ink on the cover): plan, addressed to Henry VIII, for a codification, in Latin, of the common law [by Richard, afterwards Sir Richard, Morison]. The original draft with autograph corrections is in Cott...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1540-1546
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1 item

1527. Royal MS 18 A XXI

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Royal MS 18 A XXI
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A LETTER from James Kinvyn to the King [James I] asking him and his son, whom he calls his 'ever honored master', to have a speedy trial of some 'rare Ingines of warre' which he has perfected after 40 years' study. On f. 1 is the fragment of another letter ending your ffaithfull servant and subi...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1603-1625]
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1 item

1528. Royal MS 18 A XXXIV

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Royal MS 18 A XXXIV
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AN ABSTRACT of Frauds of the Officers of the Navy by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton (d. 1614), addressed to James I (cf. list of the author's works in Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and of Sir Thomas Wyatt, ed. G. F. Nott, 1815, ii, p. 468). A clerk's copy corrected and subscribed by ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1609
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1 item

1529. Royal MS 18 B XXXI

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Royal MS 18 B XXXI
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THE FALL OF PRINCES: poem by John Lydgate in nine books (5140 x 7 + 19 x 8 lines), being his translation of Laurent de Premierfaits French version of Giovanni Boccaccio's Latin prose work De casibus Virorum Illustrium. The divisions between the books are generally only distinguished by a somewha...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
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1 item

1530. Royal MS 18 D IV

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Royal MS 18 D IV
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JOHN LYDGATE, Fall of Princes (cf. 18 B. XXXI). In nine books. Imperfect, wanting one leaf after f. 32 (bk. i, ch. xiv, ll. 337-504), six after f. 41 (bk. i, ch. xxiii in ed. printed by J. Wayland [1558 ?] or xxii in ed. 1554, beg. 'After this Pirrhus' to bk. ii, ch. ii, l. 126), two quires (pre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1446-1470
Extent:
1 item

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