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1711. Royal MS 17 C XXXV

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Royal MS 17 C XXXV
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'A DESCRIPTION of the seuerall fireworkes inuented and wrought by his Maiesties Gonners and what is intended to be performed (to the view) in euerie of them': five set-pieces [by john Nodes and Thomas Butler, at the Princess Elizabeth's marriage, 11 Feb. 1613], with illustrative coloured drawing...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1613
Extent:
1 item

1712. Royal MS 17 C XXXVI

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Royal MS 17 C XXXVI
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'A TRUE BREUIAT of such sperate debtes [i.e. that may be expected to be paid] as are due to the Crowne of England since the 30th of Queen Elizabeth [1587-8] vntill Michaelmas in the xjth yeare' of the reign of James I [1613], certified by the several offices of the Remembrancers and Auditors to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1617
Extent:
1 item

1713. Royal MS 17 C XXXVII

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Royal MS 17 C XXXVII
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'ALARME to the Battle of that greate day of God Almightie': a religious anti-Roman discourse, by John Wade. This is only the first of six treatises set forth on the title-page. With a dedication to James I. Apparently autograph. Paper; ff. 19. Quarto. 9 in. x 63/4 in. Circ. 1620. Not in the old...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1620
Extent:
1 item

1714. Royal MS 17 C XXXVIII

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Royal MS 17 C XXXVIII
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Travels of Sir John Mandeville in Middle English
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This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. The text is based on a Middle English translation known as the 'defective version' because it is thought to have been translated from a manuscript in Anglo-Norman French that was lacking the second gathering, omi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1715. Royal MS 17 D I

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Royal MS 17 D I
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'OF THE DOMES of Urines', by Henry Daniel: a treatise compiled in 1378 (see lib. ii, cap. 6, f. 47 b) or 1379 (Sloane MS. 1100, f. 118, in some Latin lines appended at the end). Other copies, usually with the prologue in Latin and often entitled Liber Uricrisiarum, are in Sloane MSS. 1100, 1721,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:
1 item

1716. Royal MS 17 D II

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Royal MS 17 D II
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'THE LYFE of Theseus': a translation by Henry Parker, Lord Morley (cf. 17 A. XXX, &c.), from Plutarch through the Latin version of ' Lappus Florentinus', i. e. Lapo Birago (printed 1478, 1496, &c.). With a prologue addressed to Henry VIII, whose style is that used after 1543. Vellum; ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1543-1547
Extent:
1 item

1717. Royal MS 17 D III

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Royal MS 17 D III
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'THE PLEASAUNT POESYE of princelie practise, composed of late in meatre royall by the symple and vnlearned Sir William Forrest preciste, muche parte collecte owte of a booke entiteled The gouernaunce of noblemen, which booke the wise philosopher Aristotele wrote too his discyple Alexandre the gr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1548
Extent:
1 item

1718. Royal MS 17 D IV

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Royal MS 17 D IV
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'THE MAISTER OF GAME': the treatise on hunting by Edward, 2nd Duke of York (1402-1415). The order of the chapters and the headings correspond with 17 B. XLI, but at the end is the Latin colophon :- 'Ardula (sic) lucra labor pariens non est honorosus. Dulcia sepi (sic) graui sub pondere munera c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1719. Royal MS 17 D IX

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Royal MS 17 D IX
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REGINALD PECOCK, 'Þe folewer to þe Donet': a sequel to the Donet into Cristen Religioun of the same author, who was Bishop of St. Asaph 1444 and of Chichester from 1450 till his resignation, circ. 1459. Some account of both works is given by C. Babington in his introduction to Pecock's Repressor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1450-1460
Extent:
1 item

1720. Royal MS 17 D V

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Royal MS 17 D V
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TWO MYSTICAL TREATISES on Theology, in English, viz.:- 1. 'The diuine clowde of vnknowynge' (so colophon); see 17 C. XXVI, XXVII. Certain passages scored through in red in 17 C. XXVI (ff. 7, 22) correspond to omissions in the text of this MS., the language of which is much modernized, but the r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

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