Archive Reference (shelfmark): Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X / Language: Latin - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C XVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: ASTROLOGICAL and magical treatises, in Latin, viz.: 1. 'Liber natiuitatum Albohali' (so colophon): translation by Johannes Toletanus (possibly the same person as Johannes Hispalensis) of an Arabic work, whose author, according to Wüstenfeld, in Göttinger Abhandl. xii, p. 41, is Abu 'Ali al Hayya...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C XX
Title:
Scope & Content:: WORKS by, or attributed to, Aristotle, in Latin; with other translations, &c., viz: 1. 'Yconomia Aristotelis sic incipit': an abridgement of the two books contained in Harley MS. 5004, f. 181b. Of these the former is a version of the existing Greek Oeconomica, lib. i, the second is a transl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C XXIII
Title:: Julian of Toledo's Prognosticon futuri saeculi, with Latin glosses and an Old English gloss; riddles by various authors, including Aldhelm, Symphosius, Eusebius, and Tatwine, with Latin and Old English glosses; Pseudo-Smaragdus, Opus monitorium and monitory poems; Versus cuiusdam Scotti de alphabeto
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of texts, especially riddles, all copied and decorated in Southern England (possibly at Christ Church, Canterbury) in the late 10th or early 11th century. It includes: f. 1r: blank apart from some library numbers and markings; ff. 1v-79v: Julian of Toledo'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Late 10th century-early 11th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

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