Search

Project / Collection Royal Collection Level [40] File

1051. Royal MS 12 B XIX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 B XIX
Title:
Scope & Content:
PHILOSOPHICAL TREATISES, in Latin, by various authors, viz.: 1. 'Paruus tractatus de anima magistri Lauenham' [Richard Lavenham al. Lavingham, see 7 C. IX, 12 E. XVI, art. 3, and Dict. Nat. Biogr.]. Another copy of this tiny tract is in Sloane MS. 3899, f. 64. Beg. 'Anima est actus corporis org...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1052. Royal MS 12 B XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 B XV
Title:
Scope & Content:
'DE COMETIS commentaria': an astrological tract addressed to Henry VIII by John Robyns, fellow of All Souls College, afterwards of Cardinal College, Oxford. He died, a canon of Windsor, in 1558. The preface is printed in Halliwell's Rara Mathematica, 1841, p. 48. A copy is at Cambridge, Trinity ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1520-1530
Extent:
1 item

1053. Royal MS 12 B XVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 B XVI
Title:
Scope & Content:
PRACTICA ALEXANDRI: the ancient Latin version, in three books, of the works of the Byzantine physician Alexander of Tralles. Printed, Lyons, 1504, and elsewhere. It differs largely in arrangement from the Greek text (ed. Puschmann, Vienna, 1879) and is considerably abridged. Roughly, lib. i comp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 item

1054. Royal MS 12 B XVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 B XVII
Title:
Scope & Content:
TREATISES on Rhetoric, Grammar, and Dictamen, in Latin, viz.: 1. 'De coloribus verborum et sententiarum': tract in three sections, De modo prolongandi, De materia breuiacionis, De ornatu verborum. Quotations are given from Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Everard de Béthune, Alan of Lille, and Matthaeus 'W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1055. Royal MS 12 B XVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 B XVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:
DE INFORMATIONE PRINCIPVM: an anonymous treatise, in Latin. Without title (except in a 17th cent. hand 'Dignitas status regalis') and imperf. at beg. by loss of one leaf with part of the preface. In Quetif-Echard, Scriptores Ord. Praed. i. 478, a MS. is noticed which contains a preface referring...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1056. Royal MS 12 B XX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 B XX
Title:
Scope & Content:
THREE TRACTS on mnemonics (one printed), in Latin, accompanied by some medical commonplaces, and by a curious set of exercises in Lat. and Engl. composed for Oxford undergraduates, viz.: 1. Medical commonplaces in a 16th cent. hand, including-(a) Miscellaneous notes. ff. 2-4;-(b) 'Tractatus vti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 item

1057. Royal MS 12 B XXI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 B XXI
Title:
Scope & Content:
TWO TREATISES, in Latin, on politics and strategy, viz. : 1. 'Liber de regimine principum, editus a fratre Egidio Romano ord. fratrum Heremitarum s. Augustini episcopi' (so colophon): an abridgement of the work (cf. 10 C. IX, art.,4) of Egidio Colonna, Archbishop of Bourges (1298-1316). Imperf. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1058. Royal MS 12 B XXII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 B XXII
Title:
Scope & Content:
PLATO'S TIMAEVS in the Latin version of Chalcidius, with Chalcidius' commentary, dedicated to Osius [perhaps the Bishop of Cordova, 296-357]. The commentary is imperfect, ending in cap. clxxiv (Wrobel's ed., 1876). Interlined and marginal glosses in a minute hand identical or contemporary with t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 item

1059. Royal MS 12 B XXIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 B XXIII
Title:
Scope & Content:
IACOBVS DIE CESSOLIS de ludo scaccorum: the wellknown moralization on the game of chess, in Latin, by a Dominican of Reims. Printed [Utrecht, 1473], Brandenburg, ed. E. Köpke, 1879, &c. For bibliography see Van der Linde, Gesch. und Litt. des Schachspiels, 1874, i, Beilage ii, and Caxton's t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1060. Royal MS 12 B XXIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 B XXIV
Title:
Scope & Content:
TWO MEDICAL POEMS, in Latin, together with a legal formulary for scriveners, and several printed tracts, viz.: 1. Schola Salernitana: the common collection of medical didactic verse in hexameters, elegiacs, or pentameters, This MS. belongs to a class of recensions (cf. Sloane MSS. 337, 374, 382...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

Limit your search

more »
more »
more »
more »