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31. Royal MS 10 B IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 10 B IX
Title:
Scope & Content:
TRACTS on Dictamen or official letter-writing, with models and commonplaces in Latin, French, and English, several translations from the Classics, a romance and other miscellaneous matter. Some of the model letters may be copies of actual state papers, &c. As the composition of the different...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

32. Royal MS 12 A VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 A VI
Title:
Complimentary verses to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, on his matriculation at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1605
Scope & Content:
Complimentary verses to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, on his matriculation at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1605 by (ff 2r-6r) Douglas Castillion and (ff 7r-11r) his pupil Richard Worseley (1st Bart. 1611). Both sets of verses in Greek, Latin, Italian, French and Spanish. Greek verses inc. (f ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1605
Extent:

11 folios

33. Royal MS 12 B XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 B XIV
Title:
Bernard André, L'exposition du Pseaulme Huitesme; Vita beatae Katerinae; Aristotelis ad Magnum Alexandrum de Vite Institutione Oratio
Scope & Content:
This volume is a presentation manuscript, containing selected compositions of the French Augustinian friar and poet Bernard André (b. 1450, d. 1522), also known as Andreas. André was a noted chronicler of the reign of Henry VII of England (r. 1485-1509) and a poet laureate, who served as tutor i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1509-1517
Extent:

1 volume

34. Royal MS 12 C XII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C XII
Title:
A collection in prose and verse, including culinary recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript consists of eight originally independent units or booklets, each containing from one to four quires. See Hathaway, Fouke le Fitz Waryn (1975), p. xliv-xlvii on how this manuscript was compiled. The contents include: ff. 1r-v, Office in honour of Thomas, Earl of Lancas...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1320-1340
Extent:

1 volume

35. Royal MS 12 E I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 E I
Title:
Scope & Content:
Lives of Saints and theological collections of the early 14th cent., in Latin; bound up with a Latin metrical arithmetic and other matter in hands of the 15th cent. Contents: 1. Algorismus Metricus: the common versified arithmetic [by Alexander de Villa Dei], cf. 8 C. IV, art. 11. Without title...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume (197 folios)

36. Royal MS 12 G IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 G IV
Title:
The Compendium Medicinae with a collection of medical tracts and recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: A medical miscellany compiled by 'frater Johannes de Grenborough', for thirty years 'infirmarius' at [St Mary's] Coventry, containing the following texts: ff. 1r-4v: Recipes in Latin and Middle English, probably copied on flyleaves from the collection that follows; ff. 5r-127r: Gilbe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century to the 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

37. Royal MS 13 A III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A III
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-133r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae, including the prologue addressed to Robert, Earl of Gloucester (ff. 1r-v); the prologue to the Prophecies of Merlin and epistle to the Bishop of Lincoln (ff. 68r-v). Book 9, chapter 20 and Book 10, chapter 1 are lacking (a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

38. Royal MS 14 B V

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 B V
Title:
Genealogical Chronicle of the English Kings
Scope & Content:
Contents: A roll chronicle containing the genealogy of the kings of England from the Heptarchy to Edward I as a king (1272-1307), but without portraits of his children, in the form of a diagram of interconnected roundels with portraits of kings in colours and gold, and an accompanying commentary...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 roll

39. Royal MS 14 B VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 B VI
Title:
Genealogical roll of the kings of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: A roll chronicle containing the genealogy of the Kings of England from the Heptarchy to Edward I (b. 1239, d. 1307), king of England from 1272, in the form of a diagram of interconnected roundels with royal portraits in colours and gold, and an accompanying commentary. Incipit: 'Par ce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:
c 1300-c 1340
Extent:

1 roll

40. Royal MS 14 E I vol 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 E I vol 1
Title:
Vincent of Beauvais, translated by Jean de Vignay, Le miroir historial (a French translation of the Speculum historiale), books 1-5
Scope & Content:
The first volume (books 1-9) of Le miroir historiale, (32 books in total) is now bound in two parts, foliated separately, of which this manuscript is part 1 and contains books 1-5 with a table of contents of book 6. Part 2 is Royal MS 14 E I, vol 2 and contains books 6-9. The original Latin work...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1479-1480
Extent:

The first part of a parchment codex bound in two volumes