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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 D V
Title:: St Gregory of Nazianzus, Contra Julianum imperatorem 1-2 (Orationes 4-5)
Scope & Content:: Two orations against Julian (TLG 2022.018, 019; PG 35.532, 664; CPG 3010.04-05), with the commentary of Elias of Crete. Imperfect text at the beginning, but apparently complete as copied from an imperfect exemplar. inc. (in commentary on Or. 1, ch. 4), Διαπορευομένοις ὡς ψάλλει Δαβίδ. A few marg...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 230 foliios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 D VIII
Title:: Acts of the First Council of Nicaea, compiled by Gelasius of Cyzicus, followed by two works by Athanasius
Scope & Content:: Gelasius of Cyzicus, Historia Ecclesiastica (TLG 2768.001; PG 85.1192; CPG 6034), with many marginal annotations, partly in Latin and in the hand of Patrick Young, ff 3r-88r. Inc. Τὰ κατὰ τὴν ἁγίαν καὶ μεγάλην καὶ οἰκουμενικὴν. Followed by (ff 88r-104r)Athanasius of Alexandria, De sententia Dion...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 121 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 D XI, ff 336r-346r
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vita sanctae Macrinae (TLG 2017.041; PG 46.960; CPG 3166; BHG 1012). Imperfect at the beginning, inc. 19.24 [T]ῷ ὄντι γὰρ καθάπέρ τις δρομεύς. 17th century Latin note (f 336r) on lacuna.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 11 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 D XI, ff 366r-371v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Ad Eustathium de sancta trinitate (TLG 2017.001; PG 32.684, there as Ep. 189 of St Basil; CPG 3137. Text supplementary to that printed in Migne inc. (f 371r) Εἰ δὲ τις ἀξία ἐνδεικτικὴν εἶναι τὴν προσηγορίαν ταύτην. A few 17th century marginal collations with printed editions, partly in Latin
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 6 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 D XVIII
Title:: Eustathius Macrembolites, Achilles Tatius, and Pseudo-Eustathius Antiochenus
Scope & Content:: Eustathius Macrembolites, Hysmene et Hysmenias; Achilles Tatius, Leucippe et Clitophon; and [Eustathius Antiochenus], Commentarius in hexaemeron. The works are from three separate manuscripts, bound together at some point after 1697. All three items contain annotations by Patrick Young, and the f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 149 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 D XVIII, ff 128r-149v
Title:
Scope & Content:: III. [Eustathius Antiochenus], Commentarius in hexaemeron (TLG 4117.022; PG 18.708; CPG 3393). Imperfect, inc. αἱ λοιπαὶ καταβοῶσι (736D). Marginal notes, partly in Latin and in the hand of Patrick Young, including an attribution to Eustathius.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 22 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A I
Title:: Poem on the craft of masonry ('The Regius Manuscript')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-32: A Middle English poem on the craft of masonry, beginning 'Whoso wol boþe wel rede and loke'; ending 'Say we so alle . pur charyte'; with rubrics in Latin. The latter half of the poem is devoted to conduct when at church and in company, including: a) an account of the Four...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLII
Title:: Sworne Book of Honorius or Liber iuratus Honorii
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-15r: Sworne Book of Honorius (Liber iuratus Honorii), or Liber Sacer,chapters 1-5 (chapter 4 in Latin, the remainder in English); ff. 15r-23r: A treatise on Suffumigations (mostly in English, final paragraphs in Latin); ff. 23r-27r: Lists of classes of angels and spirits (op...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 17 A XLII-IV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLIII
Title:: Criticism of Old Testament translations
Scope & Content:: ?William Hopkinson, perhaps of St. John's College, Cambridge, (see Charles Henry and Thompson Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses, 3 vols (Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, 1858-1913) II 1586-1609, p. 5), A criticism of translations from the Hebrew Old Testament into Latin by Immanuel Tremellius (see his T...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 17 A XLII-IV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXXVIII
Title:: Travels of Sir John Mandeville in Middle English
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. The text is based on a Middle English translation known as the 'defective version' because it is thought to have been translated from a manuscript in Anglo-Norman French that was lacking the second gathering, omi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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