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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXXVI
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Scope & Content:: 'ANE GLASSE for Christiane Subiectis, whairin they may clearlie sie be whome and whairfor Kingis ar set over thame': a dissertation on 1 Peter ii. 13, by David Lindesay, minister of St. Andrews, afterwards suecessively Bishop of Brechin (1619) and of Edinburgh (1634). With an address to James I,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1617
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLVI
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Scope & Content:: 'A RIGHT GODLY EXHORTACION and treatice tending to obedience': a treatise on the duties of subjects to a king, written shortly after the Gunpowder Plot (see ff. 2, 49 b). Paper; ff. 50. Quarto. 8 in. x 61/2 in. Circ. 1606. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1606
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: COLLECTIONS on Dictamen or the art of letter-writing, with legal and other commonplaces, for use in London. One of the compilers seems to have been connected with the northern part of Hampshire, and probably with the family of Leigh of Herriard. Contents:- 1. Poems, viz.:-(a) Dietary, or verse...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1452-1456
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XV
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Scope & Content:: 'TRITONS TRUMPET to the twelve monethes husbanded and moralized by John Lane, 1621': a series of poems, two for each month, the first devoted to the husbandry fitting for the season, the second entitled the month's 'moral'. With an address to Prince Charles (afterwards Charles I), followed by a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1621
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXIV
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Scope & Content:: MEDICAL COLLECTION, viz.:- 1. Brief notes on urines, in Latin, including three series, viz.:-(a) Beg. 'Rufus, subrufus, significant perfectam digestionem'. f. 1;-(b) Beg. 'Vrina rufa significat salutem et bonam disposicionem'. f. 1 b;-(c) Beg. 'In vrina consideranda sunt diuersa'. f. 3 b. 2....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXXV
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Scope & Content:: 'A DESCRIPTION of the seuerall fireworkes inuented and wrought by his Maiesties Gonners and what is intended to be performed (to the view) in euerie of them': five set-pieces [by john Nodes and Thomas Butler, at the Princess Elizabeth's marriage, 11 Feb. 1613], with illustrative coloured drawing...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1613
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 D XX
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Scope & Content:: ANDREW OF WYNTOUN, Original Chronicle of Scotland, in verse, with other tracts, viz.:- 1. The orygynale cronykyl of Scotland, by Androwe of Wyntowne (so his name in the prologue), canon of St. Andrews and prior of St. Serf's Inch on Loch Leven.; compiled for Sir John Wemyss (d. 1428). The secon...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XII
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Scope & Content:: FLAVIUS VEGECIUS RENATUS, De re militari: an English version made for Thomas, 4th Lord Berkeley, in 1408. Other copies are in Lansdowne MS. 285, f. 82, and Sloane MS. 2027 (imperf.). Attributed by Tanner and others (see Higden's Polychronicon, Rolls Series, i, p. lv, note) to John de Trevisa (an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1483-1485
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XL
Title:
Scope & Content:: THEOLOGICAL TREATISE in twenty chapters on the sevenfold form or image of the universe, addressed to Henry VIII by Robert Syngleton. For the author (Dict. Nat. Biogr., s.n. Singleton), a priest who recanted certain heresies in May, 1543, but was executed at Tyburn for high treason 7 March, 1543/...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1521-1544
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A XXXII
Title:
Scope & Content:: VERSES (about 400 couplets) against the Spanish match and on other political topics, addressed anonymously to James I. Beg. 'O blessed king, that heares the poore'; ends 'Shall reape in ioye from all their feares'. Paper; ff. 12. Quarto. 73/4 in. x 6 in. Circ. 1618. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1618
Extent:: 1 item

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