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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXVIII
Title:: Complimentary verses inviting a visit from Henry, Prince of Wales, by members of Winchester College
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: c 1603-1612
Extent:: 17 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXX
Title:: Complimentary verses to Elizabeth I on her coming to Windsor by members of Eton College
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1563
Extent:: 72 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C III
Title:: Filippo Alberici, Hieroglyphica and emblematic inscriptions
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1507
Extent:: Parchment manuscript

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C VIII
Title:: Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues and Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues
Scope & Content:: 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 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1509-c 1517
Extent:: 87 + 19 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C VIII/1
Title:: Detached binding from Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues and Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues (Royal MS 12 C VIII)
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1610
Extent:: Detached chemise binding

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C VIII, ff 1v-3r
Title:: Geoffrey Chambers, Dedication to Henry VIII
Scope & Content:: 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'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1509-c 1517
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C VIII, ff 3v-71r
Title:: Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1509-c 1517
Extent:: 69 folios.

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.

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

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

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