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1351. Royal MS 15 A I

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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

1352. Royal MS 15 A II

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Royal MS 15 A II
Title:
Jane Lumley, translation of Isocrates, Evagoras
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Evagoras, 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 and written in her own hand. The manuscript is a presentation copy, described in Lu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1353. Royal MS 15 A III

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Royal MS 15 A III
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PLUTARCH, De capienda ex inimicis utilitate, translated into Latin, with dedicatory letter and Greek and Latin epigrams addressed to Queen Elizabeth, by Johannes Rainoldus, probably the John Raynolds who was B.C.L. at Oxford (college not stated) in 1560 (see Foster's Alumni). He states in his pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1574
Extent:
1 item

1354. Royal MS 15 A IV

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Royal MS 15 A IV
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Scope & Content:
COMMENTARY on Juvenal's Satires, in Latin: probably a shortened form of the series of scholia generally known by the name of Cornutus, although neither the homogeneity of that collection nor the identity of its author has been sufficiently established (see F. Osann, preface to L. Annaeus Cornutu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 item

1355. Royal MS 15 A IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A IX
Title:
Jane Lumley, translations of Isocrates, Orationes, and Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis
Scope & Content:
This volume is a commonplace book containing 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, and written in her hand. Two of the orations are prefaced by dedicatory epistles to her f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1356. Royal MS 15 A V

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Royal MS 15 A V
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Scope & Content:
HISTORIA APOSTOLICA of Arator the subdeacon, with the biblical Acts of the Apostles prefixed, &c., viz.: 1. Acts of the Apostles, Vulgate version, with the usual preface (Berger, Préfaces, 1902, no. 244) beg. 'Lucas natione Syrus, cuius laus in euangelio', and table of chapters. The verse v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 11th century
Extent:
1 item

1357. Royal MS 15 A VI

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Royal MS 15 A VI
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Scope & Content:
'M. T[VLLI] C[ICERONIS] de officiis ad Marcum filium liber primus' (-tertius): a text agreeing usually with the Z family (or meliores) of E. Popp's classification. Cf. 15 A. VIII, art. 4, 15 A. XX, art. 1, and Harley MS. 2682. The three Royal MSS., however, have not the omission 'gratiam-habcre'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 13th century
Extent:
1 item

1358. Royal MS 15 A VII

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Royal MS 15 A VII
Title:
Collection of Latin poetry and fables, including Statius, Achilleis, and Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of Latin works, probably arranged as part of a school curriculum. They include the unfinished epic poem, the Achilleid, by the Greco-Roman author Publius Papinius Statius (b. c. 45, d. c. 96); a popular collection of proverbial wisdom, known as the Catonis D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1359. Royal MS 15 A VIII

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Royal MS 15 A VIII
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Scope & Content:
CICERO, several works, and Terence &c. It does not appear at what time the different sections (artt. 1-3, artt. 4, 5, art. 6, art. 7) were bound together. Contents: 1. 'M. T[ulli] C[iceronis] de uera amicitia': Cicero's Laelius, a text which seems to agree with Halm's DE rather than with B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:
1 item

1360. Royal MS 15 A X

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Royal MS 15 A X
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1. Alexandreis, in ten books (5,388 hexameters); see Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, p. 94, and cf. 8 B. IV, art. 4. Beg. 'Gesta ducis Macedum totum digesta per orhem'; ends 'Gloria Willelmi nullum moritura per euum'. Table of capitula on a separate quire at the beginning. f. 2. 2. 'Marci Tullii Ci...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12th century-13th century
Extent:
1 item

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