Complimentary verses inviting a visit from Henry, Prince of Wales, by members of Winchester College
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Complimentary verses inviting a visit from Henry, Prince of Wales, by members of Winchester College. In Latin and Greek. Greek verses on ff 4v, 5v, 8r, 8v, 12r, 14r, 14v, 15v.
Complimentary verses to Elizabeth I on her coming to Windsor by members of Eton College
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Complimentary verses to Elizabeth I on her coming to Windsor by members of Eton College. In Latin, with (f 1v) Greek verse dedication by William Malim, Head Master. Printed in Nichols 1788, I.
Filippo Alberici, Hieroglyphica and emblematic inscriptions
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A SYSTEM of ideographic writing, in Latin, composed probably by an Italian at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century, and illustrated by coloured drawings of the emblems and examples of sentences constructed from them. Preceded by an index rerum 'quae ab Egytiis (sic) quondam hiero...
Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues and Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues
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The manuscript includes the Apologues by Pandolfo Collenuccio of Pesaro (ff. 3v-71r), and Lucian's Dialogues (ff. 71v-87v), prefaced with a dedicatory letter to Henry VIII by Geoffrey Chambers, who presented the book to the King on his retum from a journey to Italy (ff. 1v-3r). In the binding ...
Detached binding from Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues and Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues (Royal MS 12 C VIII)
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Post-1600 detached chemise binding embroidered with gold and silver thread and seed-pearls with the badge and motto of Prince Henry Frederick (1594-1612), formerly attached to Royal MS 12 C VIII and now stored separately.
Geoffrey Chambers, Dedication to Henry VIII, title: 'Henrico octavo Britannicae Galliaeque regi invictissimo Gaufredus Chamber S. P'; incipit: 'Reversus in Patriam, id est Regnum tuum'.
Pandolfo Collenuccio of Pesaro (d. 1504), Apologues, including four apologues or fables written in 1481, Agenoria (ff. 4r-29v), Misopenes (ff. 30v-58r), Alithia (ff. 58v-65r), and Bombarda (ff. 65r-71r). First printed together in Strassburg in 1511.
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...
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...
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...