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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 B XXV
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Scope & Content:: MEDICAL TRACTS and recipes, with some collections on experimental science, chiefly in Latin: a 14th cent. collection, perhaps made by a resident in Ireland (see notes on ff. 283b, 284 b). The MS. has evidently been used, not very intelligently, by the scribe of Sloane MS. 282, in which nearly ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C I
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Scope & Content:: THEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS in Latin: a volume closely allied to 7 A. III (a Bardney book), which is possibly copied from it. Allowing for loss of a leaf after f. 197, artt. 1-3, 5-9 of the present MS. will be found identical with artt. 1-8 of the Bardney MS. Contents: 1. 'De peccatore qui desperat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C II
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Scope & Content:: 'DECLARATIO BREVIS' of Robert Flud, M.D. (the Rosicrucian, cf. 12 B. VIII), addressed to James I, concerning his printed works, Tractatus Apologelicus, Leyden, 1617, &c. (see Dict. Nat. Biogr.). It consists chiefly of copies of testimonials from foreign scholars, viz.: Justus Heit, of Frank...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1618
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C III
Title:: Filippo Alberici, Hieroglyphica and emblematic inscriptions
Scope & Content:: A SYSTEM of ideographic writing, in Latin, composed probably by an Italian at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century, and illustrated by coloured drawings of the emblems and examples of sentences constructed from them. Preceded by an index rerum 'quae ab Egytiis (sic) quondam hiero...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1507
Extent:: Parchment manuscript

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C IV
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Scope & Content:: TREATISES on astronomical and historical subjects (artt. 1-3 being written continuously and without rubrics), in Latin, viz.: 1. 'Yginus de spera mundi' (so old table of contents): the treatise called Poetica Astronomica of Hyginus the [1st-2nd cent. ?] mythologist. The MS. was not collated for ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C V
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Scope & Content:: ASTROLOGICAL 'IVDICIA', 3,200 in number, in Latin, compiled by an unnamed author for Richard II. On f. 3 b is written 'Liber regis Ricardi secundi, quem fecit fieri motu proprio anno regni sui Anglie et Francie quartodecimo' [1390-1391]. In the preface the book is called 'presentem geomancie lib...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C VI
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Scope & Content:: TRACTS on shorthand, music, &c., with spurious works of Aristotle, in Latin. The table of contents includes several articles now lost, viz.:-(a) 'Ars memorandi', before art. 1;-(b) 'Modus componendi rotam uersatilem', after art. 1;-(c) 'Excerpta de tragediis Senece', at the end. Present cont...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 13th century-14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C VII
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Scope & Content:: 'DE FACTIONIBVS extinguendis et ciuibus in gratiam pristinam reuocandis continendisque': political tract on the dissensions of Guelfs and Ghibellines by 'Petrus Barrocius episc. Patavinus' (Pietro Barozzi, Bishop of Belluno 1471 and of Padua 1487-1507), addressed to Bernardo Bembo, podestà of Be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1500
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C VIII
Title:: Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues and Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes the Apologues by Pandolfo Collenuccio of Pesaro (ff. 3v-71r), and Lucian's Dialogues (ff. 71v-87v), prefaced with a dedicatory letter to Henry VIII by Geoffrey Chambers, who presented the book to the King on his retum from a journey to Italy (ff. 1v-3r). In the binding ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1509-c 1517
Extent:: 87 + 19 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C VIII/1
Title:: Detached binding from Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues and Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues (Royal MS 12 C VIII)
Scope & Content:: Post-1600 detached chemise binding embroidered with gold and silver thread and seed-pearls with the badge and motto of Prince Henry Frederick (1594-1612), formerly attached to Royal MS 12 C VIII and now stored separately.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1610
Extent:: Detached chemise binding

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