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31. Royal MS 6 C I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 6 C I
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Ownership marks and inscriptions relating to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury and the Old Royal Library. ff. 2r-3v: A set of letters between Isidore of Seville and Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), written in Latin, beginning, 'Domino meo et dei servo.....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

1 volume

32. Royal MS 10 E IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 10 E IV
Title:
Decretals of Gregory IX with gloss of Bernard of Parma (the 'Smithfield Decretals')
Scope & Content:
The Decretals of Gregory IX, edited by Raymund of Penyafort (or Peñafort); with the glossa ordinaria of Bernard of Parma in the margin. The text is dedicated to the University of Paris (f. 4r), but both the text and gloss were written in Southern France, probably in Toulouse, and include a chara...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300-c 1340
Extent:

314 folios.

33. Royal MS 11 E XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 11 E XI
Title:
Magister Sampson, Benedictus de Opitiis and others, Motets
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a collection of motets by a 'Magister Sampson', formerly believed to be bishop of Chichester 1536 and of Coventry and Lichfield 1543-1554, but now thought to be a composer from the Netherlands, and by Benedictus de Opitiis, preceded by a hymn in honour of Henry VIII, with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1516
Extent:

17 folios.

34. Royal MS 12 C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C III
Title:
Filippo Alberici, Hieroglyphica and emblematic inscriptions
Scope & Content:
A SYSTEM of ideographic writing, in Latin, composed probably by an Italian at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century, and illustrated by coloured drawings of the emblems and examples of sentences constructed from them. Preceded by an index rerum 'quae ab Egytiis (sic) quondam hiero...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1507
Extent:

Parchment manuscript

35. Royal MS 12 C VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C VIII
Title:
Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues and Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes the Apologues by Pandolfo Collenuccio of Pesaro (ff. 3v-71r), and Lucian's Dialogues (ff. 71v-87v), prefaced with a dedicatory letter to Henry VIII by Geoffrey Chambers, who presented the book to the King on his retum from a journey to Italy (ff. 1v-3r). In the binding ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1509-c 1517
Extent:

87 + 19 folios.

36. Royal MS 12 C VIII/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C VIII/1
Title:
Detached binding from Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues and Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues (Royal MS 12 C VIII)
Scope & Content:
Post-1600 detached chemise binding embroidered with gold and silver thread and seed-pearls with the badge and motto of Prince Henry Frederick (1594-1612), formerly attached to Royal MS 12 C VIII and now stored separately.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1610
Extent:
Detached chemise binding

37. Royal MS 12 C VIII, ff 1v-3r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C VIII, ff 1v-3r
Title:
Geoffrey Chambers, Dedication to Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
Geoffrey Chambers, Dedication to Henry VIII, title: 'Henrico octavo Britannicae Galliaeque regi invictissimo Gaufredus Chamber S. P'; incipit: 'Reversus in Patriam, id est Regnum tuum'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1509-c 1517
Extent:
3 folios.

38. Royal MS 12 C VIII, ff 3v-71r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C VIII, ff 3v-71r
Title:
Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues
Scope & Content:
Pandolfo Collenuccio of Pesaro (d. 1504), Apologues, including four apologues or fables written in 1481, Agenoria (ff. 4r-29v), Misopenes (ff. 30v-58r), Alithia (ff. 58v-65r), and Bombarda (ff. 65r-71r). First printed together in Strassburg in 1511.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1509-c 1517
Extent:
69 folios.

39. Royal MS 12 C VIII, ff 71v-87v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C VIII, ff 71v-87v
Title:
Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues
Scope & Content:
Lucian of Samosata (c. 125– after 180), Dialogues in the Latin translation by Titus Livius Guidoloctus of Urbino (15th century); title: 'Hic sequuntur Luciani dialogi tres interprete Livio Guidolocto Urbinate'. Includes three dialogues, De raptu Europae (ff. 71v-74v), Galene et Panope (ff. 74v-7...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1509-c 1517
Extent:
17 folios.

40. Royal MS 12 C XIX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C XIX
Title:
Bestiary with theological texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see Two East Anglian Picture Books: A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburgh Club, 1988), p. 5, who characterises...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1200-c 1210
Extent:

1 volume