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1611. Royal Appendix MS 31-35

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Royal Appendix MS 31-35
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Collection of sacred and secular Motets, including two for Christmas Day, Chansons, Madrigals, and mealtime Graces, suspected by Derick Gerarde.
Scope & Content:
passim. Motets for 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 voices, in parts, apparently all by Derick Gerarde, though his initials are only appended to a few of them. The MS. certainly belonged to him (see vol. i, f. 1, etc.); and, though the words of most of the pieces have been set to music by many of the French an...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
5 volumes (67, 66, 67, 63, 72 folios)

1612. Royal MS 2 C XI

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Royal MS 2 C XI
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Scope & Content:
COMMENTARY ON THE PSALTER, in Latin, beg. 'Magister Alexander Nequam' [i.e. Alexander Neckani, Abbot of Cirencester 1213, d. 1217, cf Tanner, Bibliotheca Brit.. Hib., P. 538, Dict. Nat. Biogr.]. Prologue beg. 'De orto deliciarum paradysi quatuor emanant flumina'; commentary, 'Beatus vir, &c....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 item

1613. Royal MS 10 E VII

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Royal MS 10 E VII
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Scope & Content:
THE SAME WORK as 10 E V and VI, libb. i, ii only. Vellum; ff. i + 378. 181/2 in. x 12 in. Early XIV cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves (last 11), with catchwords. Double columns. Written in a good English hand. See. fol. 'emendari'. Illuminated miniature-initial and border to each book of fairly good...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

1614. Royal MS 17 D XV

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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

1615. Royal Appendix MS 49-54

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Royal Appendix MS 49-54
Title:
Motets, and Madrigals, in parts, many composed by Derick Gerarde, as well as other authors, including: Jacobus Clemens Thomas Créquillon, N Gombert, Noe Truie, Havericq, N. de Wismes, Latfeur, Morel, Paon, and Phinot.
Scope & Content:
passim Motets for 6, 7, 8, and 10 voices, in parts, apparently in the hand of Derick Gerarde. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for 6 voices, the six volumes containing respectively 1st and 2nd superius, contra-tenor, tenor, and 1st and 2nd bassus. Where they are for more than 6 voices, th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
6 volumes (24, 24, 24, 23, 23, 23 folios)

1616. Royal MS 11 A VII

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Royal MS 11 A VII
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Scope & Content:
'LIBER ELVCIDARII': the common anonymous dialogue on popular theology, in three books (cf. 5 E. VI, art. 1, 7 D. I, art. 1, &c.). The text includes lib. i, cap. xxxii (Migne, Patr. Lat. clxxii. 1133), but omits lib. ii, capp. xi-xiii, and other doubtful passages. Preface beg. 'Seplus rogatus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
1 item

1617. Royal MS 14 B IV A-B

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Royal MS 14 B IV A-B
Title:
14 B. IV A and B ACCOMPTS of payments to builders, gardeners, &c., for works at various palaces of Henry VIII [circ. 1532- 1533]. Paper. 12 ft. 1 in. x 81/4 in. and 1 ft. 81/2 in. x 1 ft. 33/4 in. Not in the old catalogues.
Scope & Content:
Accounts: Building accounts of Henry VIII: circa 1532-1533.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1532-1533
Extent:
2 items

1618. Royal MS 2 D VIII

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Royal MS 2 D VIII
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Scope & Content:
1. ISAGOGE IN ARTES, by Alexander Neckam [1157- 12171 Abbot of Cirencester. Without title, except that the table of chapters prefixed to it (see below) is entitled 'Capitula super Ysagogas magistri Alexandri Nequam'. The title as here given is that assigned by Bale and Pits; in Royal MS. 5 C. v ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 item

1619. Royal MS 12 F XIV

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Royal MS 12 F XIV
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Scope & Content:
'DE NATVRIS RERVM, opus magistri Alexandri de Sancto Albano': the five books De naturis rerum et super Ecclesiasten of Alexander Neckam (Abbot of Cirencester 1213, d. 1217). Libb. i, ii were edited (from two Oxford MSS., with the present MS. and 12 G. xi) by T. Wright (Rolls Series, 1863); iii-v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 item

1620. Royal MS 12 G XI

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Royal MS 12 G XI
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Scope & Content:
'OPVS magistri Alexandri de sancto Albano [Alex ander Neckam de naturis rerum' (cf. 12 F. XIV). In five books. Without Neckam's notes. Imperfect by loss of three leaves after f. 57, six after f. 167, and one at the end. Beg. as in 12 F. XIV A table of capitula, partly restored in a later hand, i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

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