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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XX
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Scope & Content:: CICERO, several works, and some theological tracts, together with a collection of ghost-stories inserted, in Latin, viz.: 1. 'Tullius de officiis'; the text is closely allied to 15 A. VIII, art. 4. A few notes in a contemporary hand and at the end a fragment of commentary, beg. 'De liberalitate...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XXI
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Scope & Content:: 'STACII primus (-duodecimus) liber Tebaidos incipit': the Thebais of P. Papinius Statius, a text probably of mixed origin, akin to Kohlmann's G and H (Teubner Ser., 1884). At the beginning (f.2) is an imperfect metrical epitome (twelve lines to a book) as in 15 C. X, but all before lib. v is los...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XXII
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Scope & Content:: HISTORICAL ROMANCES, &c., in Latin. The MS. is intimately connected with 15 B. XI, also a Rochester book, and Cotton MS. Vesp. B. XXV, which was perhaps written at Rochester, but at a later date belonged to Christ Church, Canterbury. So far as art. 1 is concerned, it is also akin to 15 A. XX...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XXIII
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Scope & Content:: 'LVCANI liber primus' (-decimus): the Pharsalia of M. Annaeus Lucanus. The text is probably of the same family as the Vossianus secundus (U of Hosius), having e.g. lib. viii, 11. 25, 26 transposed. Colophon, 'Explicit liber Lucani'. On f. 103 is an historical note in a 12th cent. hand, beg. 'In...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XXIV
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Scope & Content:: Lost before the time of Casley, who notes it as Lucan's Pharsalia, 'Aliud exemplar: sed nunc desideratur. [saec.] XIII'. CMA. 8631 or 8610.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XXIX
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Scope & Content:: STATIVS, Thebais, with the title 'Papinii Sursuli Statii Thebaidos liber primus (&c.) incipit'. Incomplete, breaking off at lib. xi, 1. 140, 'nocte pererrat'. The text resembles the second recension (Kohlmann's S, G2, &c.), but interlinear variants are given from a MS. of another class. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XXV
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Scope & Content:: 'COMPENDIOSA quaedam ratio inueniendi argumenta ex locis Rodolphi Agricolae ad cuiuscunque generis causae quaestionem explicandam accommodata': a brief anonymous account of the logical methods set forth by Rodolphus Agricola, of Groningen (d. 1485), in his books De inventione dialectica. Written...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XXVI
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Scope & Content:: 'RETORICA TVLLII': the two books De inventione rhetorica (cf. 15 A. XX, art. 5). The text has apparently signs of conflation. Colophon, 'M. T. C. liber rethorices [explicit ?]'. On f. 46 b are scribbled in a 15th cent. hand two mnemonic verses for the dominical letter, beg. 'Adam degebat'. A pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XXVII
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Scope & Content:: EUCLID'S ELEMENTS: the Latin translation (from the Arabic) which is at present usually ascribed to Adelard of Bath (see Weissenborn in Abhandl. zur Geschichte der Mathematic, Leipzig, 1880, iii, p. 143). So far as the proofs of the propositions are concerned, however, there is some doubt whether...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XXVIII
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Scope & Content:: AESOPIC FABLES in Latin elegiac verse: the collection known generally as Anonymus Noveleti, but ascribed with some slight authority to Walter, an Englishman (see Ward, Cat. of Romances, ii, p. 322). Prologue, sixty fables and two tales. Prologue beg. 'Vt iuuet et prosit conaturpagina presens'; t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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