14 D. II-VI JEHAN FROISSART, Chroniques de France et d'Angleterre: the complete text in four books, in five volumes, made up as follows, according to the classification of Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove, Œuvres de Froissart, Brussels, 1873, introduction pt. iii, viz. livre i (vols. i, ii), seconde rédaction, seconde série; livre ii (vol. iii), première réd., troisième série; livre iv (vol. v), première série. Begins, after table of rubrics, 'Affin que honnourables et nobles aduentures'. Vellum...
15 A. X and 15 A. X* GAUTIER DE CHÂTILLON, Alexandreis, with Cicero's De amicitia and other tracts. Scribbling on f. 90 b includes the name 'Slypton in Peykyrk paryshe' [Peakirk, co. Northt.]. Vellum; ff. 143. 71/2 in. x 43/4 in. Also vellum-roll (15 A. X*) 1 ft. 7 in. x 71/2 in. XII and XIII centt. Gatherings, i6, ii-xi8, xii7, xiii, xiv8, xv7, xvi10, xvii, xviii8, xix4. Sec. fol. 'ossibus in uultu'. Initials in colours. Belonged (f. 2) to Thomey Abbey, co. Cambr., 'Liber precentorie Tho...
15 E. II, III 'DES PROPRIETEZ des Choses': French translation by Jean Corbechon of the Liber de proprietatibus rerum (cf. 12 E. III) of Bartholomaeus Anglicus. In nineteen books. Printed, Lyons, 1482, &c. Cf. also Paulin Paris, Les MSS. François, i, p. 260, ii, pp. 217-222. Two volumes. Vol. i contains books i-xi; the table of rubrics prefixed had been carried further, but the continuation is crased. Vol. ii, books xi-xix, has prefixed to its table a short preface beg. 'Or auons par lay...
16 F. VI, VII JEHAN MANSEL, La Fleur des Histores: the 'second volume' only, containing the history of Rome to Constantine the Great and a collection of examples of virtue. For the scheme of the complete work see Paulin Paris, Les MSS. François de la Bibl. du Roi' i, p. 60 and cf. also 18 E. VI. The preface to this volume is chiefly taken from the work called Orose en François (or Le Fait des Rommains, 16 G. VII, f. 219), and the other main sources are:-(a) Livy, first decade.-(b) Leonardo ...
17 A. LIII, LIV 'A NEW FORME of greate artillerie, invented by the master of th' ordenaunce' [George Carew, Baron Carew 1605, and Earl of Totnes 1626]: description designed to accompany a copper model of a new plan for casting ordnance in sections instead of in one mould. Two copies. At the beginning and end of the second copy are two notes by Carew relative to the proving of these new pieces, once at S. James's about the beginning of March, 1610[11] and on 7 May, 1612, at the house of Henr...
17 C. I, II 'ANTIPAPA[R]CHIA, or kinglie supremacie aboue pontificiall and papale authoritie', the second and third parts, by John Gordon, D.D., Dean of Salisbury (cf. 7 D. XII, &c.). In the (missing) first part the author had carried his survey from Melchisedek to the Ascension of Christ; the two parts here carry it on to the time of Gregory VII. Paper; ff. 55, 52. Quarto. 8 in. x 6 in. Temp. Jas. I. Bound together. Not in the old catalogues.
17 F. VI, VII 'LA FORTERESSE de la Foy': French version by Pierre Richart, dit l'Oiselet, curd of Margnes (dioc. Arras), of the Fortalitium Fidei, a Latin work (printed, Strassburg, 1473?, &c.) generally attributed (see Sbaralea, Suppl. Wadding Scriptt. Ord. Min., p. 10) to Alphonso de Spina, a Franciscan converted from judaism (Bishop of Thermopylae, 1491), writing (see vol. i, ff. 120, col. i, 1. 4 from foot, 163, col. ii, last 1. but one) at Valladolid in 1458-1460. Neither author no...
18. A. I-IV STATUTES of the Order of the Garter, as altered and finally ordained by Edward VI, 17 March, 1553. For a history of the several drafts which preceded this ordinance see E. M. Thompson in Archaeologia, liv, 1895, p. 1173. Though issued under the seal of the Order, they were never carried into effect and, the King dying 6 July of the same year, they were abrogated on 27 Sept. by Queen Mary and the laws, &c., promulgated by Henry VIII retained. Printed by J. Anstis, Register of...
18 C. VIII, IX THE CRONICLE of Polydore Virgil', in 25 books, ending with the death of Richard III in 1485. An anonymous English translation of Polydore Vergil's Latin work 'Cronica Polydori' or 'Anglica Historia', the first printed edition of which (Basel, 1534) went down to 1509 (26 books), and the third edition (Basel, 1555) to 1538 (27 books). Two vols. bound together, vol. i, bks. 1-22, vol. ii, bks. 23-25. of the translation, books 23-25, comprising the history of Henry VI, Edward IV,...