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102. Royal Appendix MS 64
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal Appendix MS 64
- Title:
- 15th century Canons, by Sydrach Rahel. CANONS for 4 voices to the first lines of the Psalms (Vulgate version), by Sydrach Rahel, with a dedication, in French, to James I, from which it appears that they are intended to be accompanied by the lute (? in unison). At the end are canons on the 'Oratio Dominica' (à 5), and on the words 'Viuat Jacobus primus, rex Angliae, in eternum' (two settings, à 2). See Cat. of Music, i, p. 115. Temp. James I. The MS. was formerly numbered Add. 5341, but was...
- Scope & Content:
- The first lines of the Psalms in the Latin Vulgate version, set as Canons (in 4 parts, unless the contrary is stated) by Sydrach Rahel. From the dedication to James I, in French, it appears that they are intended to be accompanied by the lute, i.e. in unison with the voices. Included also are the...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- [1603-1625]
- Extent:
- 1 volume (28 folios)
103. Royal MS 6 A VII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 6 A VII
- Title:
- John the Deacon, Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni (Life of St Gregory the Great) by John the Deacon of Rome (b. c. 825; d. 880). Contents: ff. 2r-3r: A preface for the Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni, beginning: 'Incipit Vita Gregorii papae urbis Romae. Beatissimo ac felicissimo domino Iohann...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 11th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
104. Royal MS 6 C I
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 6 C I
- Title:
- Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1r: Ownership marks and inscriptions relating to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury and the Old Royal Library. ff. 2r-3v: A set of letters between Isidore of Seville and Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), written in Latin, beginning, 'Domino meo et dei servo.....
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 11th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
105. Royal MS 15 B XIX
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 15 B XIX
- Title:
- Sedulius, Carmen Paschale and other poems; Two acrostics poems in praise of Sedulius; Bede, De Temporum Ratione; A collection of Latin verses and short prose texts; Persius, Saturae; Sibylline verses; Life of Persius; Pseudo-Cornutus, Commentary on Persius; Lupus of Ferrières, Quid sit Ceroma?; Symposius, Enigmata; Boniface IV, Enigmata de Virtutibus et Vitiis. Musical settings among the collection of extracts from Persius, Bede, etc.
- Scope & Content:
- A composite manuscript of three separate sections not bound together before the 17th century: Contents: ff. 1r-35v: Poems of Sedulius and in praise of Sedulius. ff. 36r-199v: A miscellany of 60 short tracts, in a wide variety of disciplines. Musical settings of the following passages, express...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient and Latin
- Date Range:
- 10th century-11th century
- Extent:
-
Parchment codex
106. Royal MS 12 F XIII
- 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
107. Royal MS 8 E IV
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 8 E IV
- Title:
- Magnus Felix Ennodius, Dictiones, Epistule and extracts from Opuscula; Epistles
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: This manuscript contains the Epistles of Ennodius (d. 521) from book 1 to 9 and some extracts from the Opuscula and the Dictiones. The texts are largely corrupted and abridged. The manuscript also includes a series of anonymous epistles (ff. 50r-55r), perhaps in order to provide examp...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
108. Royal MS 12 A XLI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 12 A XLI
- Title:
- Complimentary verses to Elizabeth I by boys of Westminster School
- Scope & Content:
- Complimentary verses to Elizabeth I by boys of Westminster School. In Latin and Greek. Greek verses on ff 4r, 6r, 6v, 7v, 8v, 10v, 13r, 13v, 14v, 27r, 27v, 29r, 29v, 33r, 34r, 39r, 39v, 40r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1597
- Extent:
-
45 folios
109. 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:
-
163 folios
110. Royal MS 16 C V
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 16 C V
- Title:
- St Gregory Thaumaturgus, Πρὸς Τατιανὸν περὶ ψυχῆς
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 1v-2r: Dedication in Greek and Latin to James I by William Tooker (d. 1621), Royal chaplain and Dean of Lichfield. Autograph. f. 2v: Latin note, in the hand of Patrick Young, concerning both the attribution in Royal 16 D i of the following text to St Gregory of Nyssa and his addition of var...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
- Extent:
-
25 folios.