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2211. 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.

2212. 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

2213. Royal MS 12 E XXIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 E XXIII
Title:
Medical miscellany in prose and verse
Scope & Content:
Contents: A collection of medical texts in prose and verse made up of two independent parts (ff. 4-67 and ff. 68-112), compiled with added leaves at the beginning and end (ff. 1-3, 113-120). The contents are: f. 4r-22r: A medical poem attributed to Quintus Serenus Sammonicus (d. 212), with the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

2214. Royal MS 12 F XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 F XIII
Title:
Bestiary and Lapidary ('the Rochester Bestiary')
Scope & Content:
The Rochester Bestiary is a richly illuminated bestiary, or book of beasts. It is known as the Rochester Bestiary because it was once owned by the Benedictine monks of the cathedral priory of St Andrew, Rochester. Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Added leaves from a service book containing lessons and pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1230
Extent:

1 volume

2215. Royal MS 12 G VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 G VIII
Title:
Liber nouem iudicum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Liber nouem iudicum, a twelfth-century compendium on judicial astrology. The text provides the statements of nine different authorities, mostly Arabic, on the topics of the twelve astrological houses. The colophon (f. 78r) states ‘Explicit liber nouem iudicum quem mi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2216. Royal MS 13 A I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A I
Title:
Historia Alexandri Magni and other texts relating to Alexander the Great
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes four works forming a compendium of Alexander's legends in Latin. Contents: ff. 2r-51v: Pseudo-Callisthenes, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated from Greek into Latin by Julius Valerius, beginning, 'De nectanabi prudentia atque...' ff. 51v-78r: Epistola Alexandri ad Ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

2217. 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

2218. Royal MS 13 A IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A IV
Title:
Miscellany of theological, grammatical and historical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Summa de coloribus rhetoricis, beginning 'Ars semper eadem quod autem ex arte' (imperfect); ff. 9r-22r: The Metrical Life of Saint Hugh of Lincoln; ff. 22v-23v: Poem on Troy, beginning 'Pergama flere volo fato Danaum data solo'; ff. 24r-24v: Extract ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
13th century to 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

2219. Royal MS 13 A XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A XIV
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, and other texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of texts, principally in Latin, written in Ireland between the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century, and which formerly belonged to the Dominican convent at Limerick. They include a copy of the Topographia Hiberniae (Topography of Ireland), an a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2220. Royal MS 13 B VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 B VIII
Title:
Anthology of texts on topography, history and marvels of the world
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes an anthology of texts on topography, history and marvels of the world, relating to Ireland and Wales. Contents: 1. Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae (Topographia Hibernica) (ff. 1r-34v); 2. Gerald of Wales, Expugnatio Hibernica (ff. 34v-74r); 3. Gerald of Wales...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1196-1223
Extent:

147 folios.

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