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541. Royal MS 12 B XIV

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Royal MS 12 B XIV
Title:
Bernard André, L'exposition du Pseaulme Huitesme; Vita beatae Katerinae; Aristotelis ad Magnum Alexandrum de Vite Institutione Oratio
Scope & Content:
This volume is a presentation manuscript, containing selected compositions of the French Augustinian friar and poet Bernard André (b. 1450, d. 1522), also known as Andreas. André was a noted chronicler of the reign of Henry VII of England (r. 1485-1509) and a poet laureate, who served as tutor i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1509-1517
Extent:

1 volume

542. 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

543. 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

544. 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

545. 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

546. 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

547. Royal MS 13 E VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 E VI
Title:
Ralph of Diceto, Series causae inter Henricum regem et Thomam archiepiscopum, Abbreviationes chronicorum, and Imagines historiarum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of the major works of Ralph of Diceto (b. c. 1120, d. c. 1202), a medieval chronicler, archdeacon of Middlesex and dean of St Paul's Cathedral. The Abbreviationes chronicorum (Abbreviations of chronicles) and Imagines historiarum (Images of History) are two chroni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1199-1209
Extent:
1 volume

548. Royal MS 15 A I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A I
Title:
Jane Lumley, translation of Isocrates, Archidamus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Archidamus, one of the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley. The manuscript is a presentation copy, probably intended as a New Year's gift fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

549. Royal MS 15 A X/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A X/1
Title:
Fragment of the mortuary roll of Ralph 'the Simple', Abbot of Thorney
Scope & Content:
Three joined leaves containing a part of the mortuary roll of Ralph 'the Simple' (d. c. 1216), Abbot of the Benedictine abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Botolph, Thorney, Cambridgeshire. Originally prior of Freiston Priory, Ralph took up his abbacy in 1199 after the deposition of Robert I...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1216
Extent:
1 roll

550. Royal MS 16 C VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 C VII
Title:
Constantine Manasses, Breviarium Chronicum (TLG 3074.005), imperfect
Scope & Content:
Constantinus Manasses, Breviarium Chronicum (TLG 3074.005), ff 3-163, with marginal corrections (ff 3-22) in a western 16th-17th century hand which also supplied f 163. Imperfect from around line 5654, ff 137-162 having suffered progressively greater losses to the lower right. Prologue inc. ῾Η μὲ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

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