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1161. 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

1162. Royal MS 13 A II

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Royal MS 13 A II
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Scope & Content:
GENERAL CHRONICLE, in Latin, made up of copious extracts from the second recension, completed in 1110, of the Historia Ecclesiastica of Hugo Floriacensis, or Hugh of S. Mary, a monk of Fleury (cf. Waitz in Mon, Germ. Hist. ix, p. 337). The first three quires are lost, f. 1 beginning, in the reig...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
1 item

1163. Royal MS 13 A III

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Royal MS 13 A III
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-133r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae, including the prologue addressed to Robert, Earl of Gloucester (ff. 1r-v); the prologue to the Prophecies of Merlin and epistle to the Bishop of Lincoln (ff. 68r-v). Book 9, chapter 20 and Book 10, chapter 1 are lacking (a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

1164. Royal MS 13 A IV

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Royal MS 13 A IV
Title:
Miscellany of theological, grammatical and historical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Summa de coloribus rhetoricis, beginning 'Ars semper eadem quod autem ex arte' (imperfect); ff. 9r-22r: The Metrical Life of Saint Hugh of Lincoln; ff. 22v-23v: Poem on Troy, beginning 'Pergama flere volo fato Danaum data solo'; ff. 24r-24v: Extract ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
13th century to 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

1165. Royal MS 13 A IX

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Royal MS 13 A IX
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Scope & Content:
'FRANCISCI ROSETI Veronensis Mauris': a Latin hexameter poem, by Francesco Roseti of Verona, on the subject of S. Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins, in three books. Preceded by a dedicatory letter, in Latin prose, to Henry VIII, from which it appears that the poem was conveyed to England by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1532
Extent:
1 item

1166. Royal MS 13 A V

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Royal MS 13 A V
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Scope & Content:
COLLECTION of romantic, historical, and other works, in Latin, viz.: 1. 'Incipit libellus de ortu Alexandri et interfeccione Nectanaby': romance of Alexanderthe Great, the abridgement of Julius Valerius (cf 13 A. i), in 22 chapters marked byinitials (see Ward, Cat of Romances, i, p. 118). Beg. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

1167. Royal MS 13 A VI

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Royal MS 13 A VI
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Scope & Content:
HISTORIA POST BEDAM: a compilation of English history from 734 to 1148, mainly derived from Simeon of Durham and Henry of Huntingdon, and itself afterwards adopted by Roger of Hoveden as the first portion of his Chronicle. See Stubbs, Chronica Mag. Rog. de Houedene (Rolls Series), i, 1868, pp. 3...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
1 item

1168. Royal MS 13 A VII

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Royal MS 13 A VII
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Scope & Content:
THEOLOGICAL TREATISES the chronicle of Martinus Polonus, documents relating to Bardney Abbey, &c., in Latin, viz.: 1. Portion of a theological treatise, wanting both the beginning and the end, the opening words being 'coactus tamen uoluit'. The first complete ch. (f. 3 b) is 'De mendacio' a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 item

1169. Royal MS 13 A VIII

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Royal MS 13 A VIII
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Scope & Content:
'TOTIVS REGNI SCOTIAE noua et diligentissima Descriptio; et Petruccii Vbaldini Florentini studio et diligentia nouiter cognita.' A copy by Petruccio Ubaldino of Florence (see Dict. Nat. Biogr. lviii, p. 1, and cf. 2 B. IX, above) of the 'Scotorum regni descriptio' of Hector Boece, printed in his...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1576
Extent:
1 item

1170. Royal MS 13 A X

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Royal MS 13 A X
Title:
Vita Sancti Johannis Eleemosynarii; Passio Sancti Albani; Vita Sancti Runwoldi; Bili of Aleth, Vita Sancti Machuti; Homelia in natale Sancti Machutis; Eutropius, Breviarium Historiae Romanae (fragment).
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript consists of two parts (ff. 1-62; 63-103) probably bound together in the early modern period (see Provenance). Part one is from the 4th quarter of 12th century. ff. 1r-53r: Vita Sancti Johannis Eleemosynarii (Life of St Johannes Eleemosynarius). ff. 53r-55v: Passio ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
10th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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