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 15 C VII
Title:: Dossier of Texts Pertaining to the Cult of St Swithun, including Lantfred's Translatio et Miraculi Sancti Swithuni and Wulfstan Cantor's Narratio Metrica de Sancto Swithuno
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a dossier of liturgical material pertaining to St Swithun, with Latin and Old English glosses. This includes the earliest copies of Lantfred of Fleury's Translatio et Miraculi Sancti Swithuni, an acrostic hymn in honour of St Swithun, Wulfstan Cantor's letters to Bishop ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 990-1200
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 C X
Title:: Vita Statii and Statius' Thebais
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a brief biographical notice of Statius and Statius' Thebais. Decoration: gold initials (oxidized to green) of varying sizes and rubrics throughout. Syntactic marks or glosses using a system of dots and dashes have been used.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of 10th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 B IV
Title:: Alphabetum Syamense
Scope & Content:: Thai syllabary and numerals in a sloping hand, with romanized equivalents. Thought to have been presented to King Charles II on 26 September 1684 by a Thai embassy on behalf of King Narai (Ramathibodi III) who reigned Ayutthaya from 1656 to 1688
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Thai
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 3 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 C IV Part 1
Title:: John Tzetzes, Antehomerica
Scope & Content:: John Tzetzes, Antehomerica, Homerica and Posthomerica, with scholia, ff 3r-42v, inc. Ἀργαλέου πολέμοιο μέγαν πόνον Ἰλιακοῖο. Scholia inc. Ὁ παρὼν ποιητὴς φιλοσύντομος ὤν. Preceded by a title-leaf, ff 2r-v, with epitaphs of Laomedon and Hector and Δημητρίου ἐπῶν ποιητοῦ πρὸς τοὺς φθονερούς, taken ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1560-1603
Extent:: 46 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 C IV Part 2
Title:: John Tzetzes, Antehomerica, in a Latin verse translation
Scope & Content:: Latin verse translation of Tzetzes' Antehomerica, Homerica and Posthomerica and scholia, with verse arguments preceding each work, ff 1r-88r. Followed by: f 88v, An extract from the letter of Jean Perrelle prefixed to his 1535 edition of Theodorus Gaza, De mensibus. ff 90r-93v, Agathemerus, Ge...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1565-1579
Extent:: 98 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 C IX, ff 2-3v
Title:: Latin dedication to Henry VIII by John Cheke, dated Hertford, 31 Dec.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1544-1546
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 C IX, ff 39-72
Title:: Latin translation by John Cheke inc. Frater quidam rogabat senem quendam.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1544-1546
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 C V
Title:: St Gregory Thaumaturgus, Πρὸς Τατιανὸν περὶ ψυχῆς
Scope & Content:: ff. 1v-2r: Dedication in Greek and Latin to James I by William Tooker (d. 1621), Royal chaplain and Dean of Lichfield. Autograph. f. 2v: Latin note, in the hand of Patrick Young, concerning both the attribution in Royal 16 D i of the following text to St Gregory of Nyssa and his addition of var...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 25 folios.

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