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2271. Royal MS 18 C II

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Royal MS 18 C II
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. i recto: A fragment of two inquisitions post-mortem of Elizabeth, wife of John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby, written in Latin, the second dated 7 August, 1 Hen [IV, i.e. 1400]. f. 1r: 'Counsels of Prudence', an 8-line extract from John Lydgate's Troy Book (Bk. II, ll. 1849-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2272. Royal MS 18 D III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D III
Title:
The Burghley Atlas
Scope & Content:
An atlas of England and Wales, made by Christopher Saxton (1542x4–1610/11), map maker, under the patronage of Thomas Seckford (1515/16–1587), lawyer and administrator. Owned by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520/21-1598), royal minister, whose notes and annotations are found throughout. It ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1574-1592
Extent:

1 volume

2273. Royal MS 19 B IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B IV
Title:
Les Dits Moraulx des Philosophes, a French translation of Guillaume de Tignonville's Dicta moralia antiquorum philosophorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Les Dits Moraulx des Philosophes (The Moral Sayings of the Philosophers), a French translation of the Latin Dicta moralia antiquorum philosophorum by Guillaume de Tignonville, or Thignonville (d. 1414), Councillor to King Charles VI of France and Prevost of Par...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2274. Royal MS 19 C IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 C IV
Title:
Le songe du vergier, attributed to Évrart de Trémaugon
Scope & Content:
Le Songe du vergier is a French translation of the Latin tract Somnium viridari compiled in 1376 and attributed to Évrart de Trémaugon, councillor to Charles V and maître des requêtes at the hotel de roi (see Schnerb-Lièvre, 1982, pp. lxxvii-lxxxviii). The manuscript is the presentation copy off...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1378
Extent:

247 folios.

2275. Royal MS 20 A II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A II
Title:
Peter of Langtoft's Chronicle, the Lament of Edward II, fragments of Arthurian romances, and a letter attributed to Joanna, Queen of Sicily
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains: ff. 1r-9v, Drawings (see descriptions below) with various inscriptions, distichs and poems; ff. 10 r-v, Verse lament of Edward II; ff. 11r-146v, Peter of Langtoft (Pierre de Langtoft), Chronicle of England; (missing folios from between ff. 146 and 147 have been boun...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1307-c 1327
Extent:

A parchment codex, 169 folios.

2276. Sloane Ch XXXII 1

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Sloane Ch XXXII 1
Title:
Marriage licence from Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, for Edward Griffith and Elizabeth Palmer
Scope & Content:
Licence from Thomas Cranmer (r. 1532-53), archbishop of Canterbury, for Edward Griffith of Braybrooke and Elizabeth Palmer to marry; given at Lambeth, 27 September 1535. Endorsed: in a 17th-century hand, ‘Licence for marriage to / Thomas Griffyn / Elizabeth Palmer’. Affixed with a fragmentary ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1535
Extent:
1 leaf

2277. Sloane MS 93

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 93
Title:
Gabriel Harvey's letters and poems
Scope & Content:
ff. 1*r–104r: Volume of holograph transcripts of letters and poems by Gabriel Harvey, of Saffron Walden, Fellow of Pembroke and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1573–1578. It includes his poems upon the death of the poet George Gascoigne (1534–1577), an account (either fictional or truthful) of the sedu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1573-1578
Extent:
1 volume

2278. Sloane MS 116

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 116
Title:
A small-size luxury prayerbook
Scope & Content:
This small-sized luxury prayerbook was produced in France around 1520, but apparently owned by an anonymous English woman in or before 1530. It features holograph inscriptions of King Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey addressed to her. The manuscript’s full-page illustrations are in the style of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1520
Extent:
1 volume

2279. Sloane MS 226

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 226
Title:
Roger Marbeck, An account of the taking of Cadiz, 1596
Scope & Content:
Roger Marbeck, "A breefe and a true discourse of the late honorable voyage unto Spayne and the wynning, sacking and burning of the famous Towne of Cadiz there, and of the miraculous overthrowe of the Spanishe Navie at that tyme, with a reporte of all other Accidents thereunto appertayning, by Do...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1596-1597
Extent:
1 volume

2280. Sloane MS 278

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 278
Title:
Hugh of Fouilloy, Aviarium; a Bestiary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-43v: Hugh of Fouilloy or Hugo de Folieto (b. c. 1100, d. c. 1172), prior of St.-Nicholas-de-Regny, Aviarium, or De avibus, consisting of 60 chapters in two sections: 37 chapters of mostly scriptural exegesis, drawing on the Bible and the Greek Physiologus. The first 11 chapt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

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