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1. Royal MS 1 C IX

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Royal MS 1 C IX
Title:
Glossed Wycliffite Bible, in the later version (from Genesis to Job)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the books of the Bible from Genesis to Job, in the later version of the Middle English translation produced by the followers of John Wycliffe (b. c. 1320s, d. 1384). Accompanying marginal glosses appear throughout the book, written in the same hand as the main text. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Royal MS 4 D II

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Royal MS 4 D II
Title:
Gospel of St Mark with the Glossa Ordinaria
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second volume of a set of glossed Gospels; other manuscripts are Royal 4 D. i and Royal 4 D. iii (St Matthew and St John). The fourth volume that would have included the gloss for St Luke is missing. Contents: ff. 1r-62r: Gospel of St Mark, with the Glossa Ordinaria. De...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1175-c 1225
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Royal MS 6 B VIII

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Royal MS 6 B VIII
Title:
Isidore of Seville, De Fide Catholica Contra Iudaeos (Book 1); Alcuin of York, Epistula ad Leonem Papam; Alcuin of York, De Fide Sancte et Individue Trinitatis; Alcuin of York, De Anime Ratione (Epistula ad Eulaliam); Alcuin of York, De Virtutibus et Vitiis; Alcuin of York, De Trinitate ad Fredegisum Questiones XXVIII
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises texts written at different times, ff. 1v-26r was written in the 1st quarter of the 11th century and probably decorated in Canterbury. Alcuin's epistle to Pope Leo III (ff. 27v-28v) and the first part of his De fide sancte et individue Trinitatis (On the faith of the h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. 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

5. Royal MS 8 E IV

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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

6. Royal MS 12 B XIV

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Royal MS 12 B XIV
Title:
Bernard André, L'exposition du Pseaulme Huitesme; Vita beatae Katerinae; Aristotelis ad Magnum Alexandrum de Vite Institutione Oratio
Scope & Content:
This volume is a presentation manuscript, containing selected compositions of the French Augustinian friar and poet Bernard André (b. 1450, d. 1522), also known as Andreas. André was a noted chronicler of the reign of Henry VII of England (r. 1485-1509) and a poet laureate, who served as tutor i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1509-1517
Extent:

1 volume

7. Royal MS 13 A I

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Royal MS 13 A I
Title:
Historia Alexandri Magni and other texts relating to Alexander the Great
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes four works forming a compendium of Alexander's legends in Latin. Contents: ff. 2r-51v: Pseudo-Callisthenes, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated from Greek into Latin by Julius Valerius, beginning, 'De nectanabi prudentia atque...' ff. 51v-78r: Epistola Alexandri ad Ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Royal MS 13 A XI

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Royal MS 13 A XI
Title:
Miscellany of works on computus and astronomy
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus preceded by a prologue (f. 1r) and capitula (f. 1v). ff. 12v-13r: Dies Egyptiaci (Egyptian days). ff. 13r-14r: Computus material including Ciclus annalis, De horis mensium and De singulis horis in die quomodo mensurantur cum pedibus with a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

9. Royal MS 14 B XXXII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 B XXXII
Title:
Declaration of expenses of the navy between Wales and Ireland by Sir Anthony Poyntz, Vice-Admiral, 8 April-23 September 1523
Scope & Content:
A roll containing a declaration of expenses of Henry VIII's 'navye on the see between Wales and Irelond', by Sir Antony Poyntz (b. 1480, d. 1533), Vice-Admiral, 8 April-23 September 1523. The recto records the expenses for ten ships in the king's navy: the Minion, the George of Fowey, the Chris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1523
Extent:
A paper roll

10. Royal MS 15 A I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A I
Title:
Jane Lumley, translation of Isocrates, Archidamus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Archidamus, one of the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley. The manuscript is a presentation copy, probably intended as a New Year's gift fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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