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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A X/1
Title:: Fragment of the mortuary roll of Ralph 'the Simple', Abbot of Thorney
Scope & Content:: Three joined leaves containing a part of the mortuary roll of Ralph 'the Simple' (d. c. 1216), Abbot of the Benedictine abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Botolph, Thorney, Cambridgeshire. Originally prior of Freiston Priory, Ralph took up his abbacy in 1199 after the deposition of Robert I...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1216
Extent:: 1 roll

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XI
Title:
Scope & Content:: TERENTII COMOEDIAE: the recension of the grammarian Calliopius, with the usual arguments (except to Eunuchus), but no didascaliae. The plays begin as follows:-(a) Andria. f. 5;-(b) Eunuchus (colophon, 'Exitibus faustis potitur modo Eunuchus'). f. 48;-(c) Heautontimorumenos. f. 94;-(d) Adelphoe. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XII
Title:
Scope & Content:: TERENTII COMOEDIAE: the recension of the grammarian Calliopius. The plays are preceded (f. 1) by the epitaph of Terence, beg. 'Natus in excelsis Kartaginis edibus altis' (Bährens, Poetae Minores, v, p. 385), and follow in the usual order, viz.:-(a) Andria. f. 1 b;-(b) Eunuchus, wanting the argum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'POMPEII Trogi epitoma historiarum' (so colophon): the historical compilation by Justinus from Trogus Pompeius, preceded by the prologi or epitomae of the original work. The MS. belongs to Rühl's T (Transalpine) class. Prologues beg. 'Primo volumine continentur hec' (E 2); Justin beg. 'Cum multi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: M. TVLLI CICERONIS Philippicarum libri. The text has the lacunae of the D family (cf. 15 A. VIII, art. 6). Imperf. at end, from or. xiii, 46, 'expugnare cupiant ? Quid'. The first page is illegible from damp. Vellum; ff. 87. 81/4 in. x 51/4 in. Early XI cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves (iv9, vi6), ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XIX
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'LIBER magistri Petri canonici beati Dionisii Remensis de ueteri et nouo testamento': the metrical bible-historics of Petrus Riga (d. 1209), being the original text without the additions of Aegidius Parisiensis (see Harley MS. 747, where they are distinguished by critical marks). Short extracts ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XV
Title:
Scope & Content:: COMMENTARY on Juvenal's Satires, in Latin: an apparatus found (with minor differences) in several late MSS., Sloane 1104, Harley 3301, Add. 16380 and 33795. It contains numerous quotations from 'Cornutus' (see 15 A. IV). No title. Preface (printed by Hohler, Scholia Juvenaliana, pt. ii, p. 6) be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1453
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XVI
Title:: Juvencus, Evangelia; Aldhelm, Enigmata (imperfect); Bede, De arte metrica (extract, chapter 25); Martin the Irishman, Scholica graecarum glossarum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-57r: Juvencus (fl. c. 330), Evangelia (Gospels). ff. 59v-73v: Aldhelm (d. 709), bishop of Sherborne, Enigmata (Riddles), imperfect. f. 73v: An extract from Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), De arte metrica (On the Metrical Art), chapter 25. ff. 74v-83v: Martin the Iri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 9th century-10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: ISOCRATES, Nicocles, translated into Latin by William Barker, with dedicatory letter to Sir Henry Knyvet [of Charlton, co. Wilts., knighted 1574]. The translator had been secretary to Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (executed 1572); see Dict. Nat. Biogr. Paper; ff. 16. Quarto. 81/2 in. x 51/2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: PLAUTUS, the eight comedies contained in 15 C. XI, art. 4. G. Götz, Analecta Plautina, Leipzig, 1877, p. 92, regards these later copies of the same family as of no independent value. The order of plays differs slightly from 15 C. XI, viz. (a) Amphitruo. f. 1;-(b) Asinaria. f. 26;-(c) Captiui. f....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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