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41. Royal MS 17 A LIII-LIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 A LIII-LIV
Title:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1610-1612
Extent:
2 items

42. Royal MS 17 C I-II

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Royal MS 17 C I-II
Title:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1603-1625]
Extent:
2 items

43. Royal MS 17 F VI-VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 F VI-VII
Title:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
2 items

44. Royal MS 18 A I-IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 A I-IV
Title:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1553
Extent:
4 items

45. Royal MS 18 C VIII-IX

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Royal MS 18 C VIII-IX
Title:
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,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
2 items

46. Royal MS 18 D IX-X

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D IX-X
Title:
Bible Historiale, Volumes 1 and 2
Scope & Content:
These two volumes (Royal 18 D. IX and Royal 18 D. X) contain part of the second edition of the Bible Historiale, a French adaptation by Guyart des Moulins (c. 1291-95) of Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica. The fourth volume is Royal MS 15 D I, but it was written previously and altered to inc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1479
Extent:

Two parchment volumes

47. Royal MS 18 E III-IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 E III-IV
Title:
'LE LIVRE de Valerius Maximus', &c.: the same work as in 17 F. IV. In two volumes. Colophon, 'Cy fine le ixe liure de. Valerius Maximus commencie a translater par reuerende personne maistre Simon de Hesdin jusques au viie liure et paracheue par noble homme Nycolas de Gonnesse'. Vellum; ff. 342, 329. 18 3/4 in. x 13 1/2 in. A. D. 1479. Gatherings of 8 leaves (in vol. i, xvii6, xxviii6, last 4 ; in vol. ii, iii2, end of table). Double columns of 39 lines. Sec. fol. of vol. i in table 'com...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1479
Extent:
2 items

48. Royal MS 19 D IV-V

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 D IV-V
Title:
19 D. IV, V THE SAME WORK, but in the less amplified form called by Berger 'petite bible historiale', though in certain respects (e.g. by inclusion of Baruch) it approximates to the type of bible moyenne (Berger, La Bible française au Moyen Âge, pp. 213, 393). In two volumes. The rubric at the end of Comestor's prefatory letter (f. 3) states that the author has 'escript le texte de la bible premierement de grosse lettre, et puis apres en ord[r]e les hystoires de plus delie lettre un poi, et...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
2 items

49. Royal MS 19 D VI-VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 D VI-VII
Title:
19 D. VI, VII THE SAME WORK, in the form called by Berger 'grande bible historiale'. In two volumes. The contents agree precisely with those of 15 D. III (see under 19 D. III), even to such blunders as the numeration of three epistles to the Corinthians and the rubric 'lepistre saint Symon apostre' prefixed to 2 Peter. For description see Berger, op.cit., pp. 219, 290, 394. Translator's preface beg. 'Pour ce que le dyable qui chascun jour enordist'. At f. 59 of vol. i is a marginal note 'Qu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
2 items

50. Royal MS 19 E II-III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 E II-III
Title:
19 E. II, III ANCIENNES CHRONIQUES de la Grande Bretagne, or romance of Perceforest, professedly a French translation made by a monk of S. Landelin at Crespin, for William, Count of Hainault, of a work which a clerk named Cressus of the household of Alexander the Great wrote in Greek and partly translated into Latin, and which Count William found in an abbey called 'Wortimer' on the Humber when he visited England in 1307: the third and second volumes (numbered in wrong order) of the work (c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
2 items