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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 C VII
Title:: Matthew Paris, Historia Anglorum, Chronica majora, Part III
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes two autograph copies of historical works by Matthew Paris with prefatory material: 1. Maps and other prefatory material including a diagram of Winds, the Itinerary from London to the Holy Land, Easter tables and a calendar (ff. 1v-8r); 2. Matthew Paris, Historia Angloru...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1250-1259
Extent:: 232 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 1v-8r
Title:: Maps and other prefatory material
Scope & Content:: Prefatory material including: 1. Diagram of Winds (f. 1v); similar to one in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS. 16. f. 1v; 2. Itinerary from London to the Holy Land with images of towns, their names, and descriptions of places (ff. 2r-5r); 3. Map of Britain, with indications of a great hi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: c 1250-1259
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 8v-156v
Title:: Matthew Paris, Historia Anglorum
Scope & Content:: The only complete copy of the Historia Anglorum, a history of England covering the years 1070-1253, probably composed and written by Matthew Paris in the period between 1250-1255 (ff. 10r-156v). Prologue incipit: 'De chronographia, id est temporum descripcione'; text incipit: 'Anno dominice inca...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1250-1259
Extent:: 148 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 157r-231r
Title:: Matthew Paris, Chronica Maiora, with a continuation
Scope & Content:: The autograph copy of the Chronica Maiora, Part III, by Matthew Paris, covering the years 1254-1259 (the date of Paris's death) (ff. 157r-218v); incipit: 'Anno domini m cc liiii qui est annus domini regis H III xxxciii'. Includes numerous marginal notes and additions by the author. The first two...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1250-15th century
Extent:: 75 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 C IV Part 1
Title:: John Tzetzes, Antehomerica
Scope & Content:: John Tzetzes, Antehomerica, Homerica and Posthomerica, with scholia, ff 3r-42v, inc. Ἀργαλέου πολέμοιο μέγαν πόνον Ἰλιακοῖο. Scholia inc. Ὁ παρὼν ποιητὴς φιλοσύντομος ὤν. Preceded by a title-leaf, ff 2r-v, with epitaphs of Laomedon and Hector and Δημητρίου ἐπῶν ποιητοῦ πρὸς τοὺς φθονερούς, taken ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1560-1603
Extent:: 46 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 C IV Part 2
Title:: John Tzetzes, Antehomerica, in a Latin verse translation
Scope & Content:: Latin verse translation of Tzetzes' Antehomerica, Homerica and Posthomerica and scholia, with verse arguments preceding each work, ff 1r-88r. Followed by: f 88v, An extract from the letter of Jean Perrelle prefixed to his 1535 edition of Theodorus Gaza, De mensibus. ff 90r-93v, Agathemerus, Ge...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1565-1579
Extent:: 98 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 C IX, ff 2-3v
Title:: Latin dedication to Henry VIII by John Cheke, dated Hertford, 31 Dec.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1544-1546
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 C IX, ff 39-72
Title:: Latin translation by John Cheke inc. Frater quidam rogabat senem quendam.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1544-1546
Extent:: 1 item

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