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1721. Royal MS 17 D VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 D VI
Title:
Thomas Hoccleve, The Regement of Princes, with other poems
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes five works by Thomas Hoccleve (b. c. 1367, d. 1426): 1. The Regement of Princes, incipit: 'Musyng up on the restles besynesse The which this troubly world hath ay on honde'. Includes marginal notes in Latin providing the sources of the text. Printed from this manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

150 + 8 folios.

1722. Royal MS 17 D VII

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Royal MS 17 D VII
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Scope & Content:
A GODLY MEDITATION of Hieronymus Savanorola vpon the 80 [79] psalme of David, Qui Regis Israell, intede.' Beg. 'Forasmoche as we knowe the Lorde by workes'. Girolamo Savonarola's exposition was printed in Latin at Venice, 1505, and Italian and German translations in 1496 and 1542. Paper; ff. 35...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 16th century
Extent:
1 item

1723. Royal MS 17 D VIII

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Royal MS 17 D VIII
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Scope & Content:
'OON OF FOURE, þat is o book of alle foure gospeleris gaderyd schortly in to oo story by Clement of Lantony' (so colophon); cf. 17 C. XXXIII, art. i. Prologue beg. 'Clement a preest of þe chirche of Lantony gaderid alle þe sentensis'; text, 'In þe bigynnyng eipir first of alle pinges was goddis ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item

1724. Royal MS 17 D X

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Royal MS 17 D X
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Scope & Content:
PARAPHRASE in verse of Psalms xxi and xlv, by Edmond Skory, with a fulsome dedication in prose to James I. The writer was a son of John Scory, Bishop of Hereford (d. 1585), and another work of his was printed as An extract out of the Historie of the Last .King Henry the fourth, &c., 1610. He...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1603-1625]
Extent:
1 item

1725. Royal MS 17 D XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 D XI
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Scope & Content:
'THE LIVES of Scipio and Haniball writen by Plutarke . . . and translated out of the Greke into Laten by Donatus Acciolus [Acciaiuoli], and out of Laten into Englishe by Henry Parker, Knight, Lorde Morleye' (cf. 17 A. XXX, &c.), with a prologue addressed to Henry VIII, whose style is that in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1523-1534
Extent:
1 item

1726. Royal MS 17 D XII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 D XII
Title:
Scope & Content:
'MAISTER OF GAME': the treatise on hunting by Edward, 2nd Duke of York. The order and titles of the chapters agree with the text printed from Cotton MS. Vespasian B. XII by Baillie-Grohman (cf. 17 A. LV, &c.). The title-page, 'A booke of hunting made by the Master of the game to Kinge Henry ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1727. Royal MS 17 D XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 D XIII
Title:
Scope & Content:
EXPOSITION of the Book of Ecclesiastes by Henry Parker, Knight, with a dedication to Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector, and a preface. The author does not seem to be the same as the Sir Henry Parker, 10th Lord Morley, who translated 17 A. XXX, &c.; for Morley, who is described...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1547-1550
Extent:
1 item

1728. Royal MS 17 D XIV

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Royal MS 17 D XIV
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Scope & Content:
TRANSCRIPTS of works and letters, &c., of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor (exec. 1535), mostly written by him when a prisoner in the Tower (April, 1534-July, 1535). In English, with a few exceptions. Printed, with a few exceptions mentioned below, in The Workes of Sir T. More (ed. by Willia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1550-1557
Extent:
1 item

1729. Royal MS 17 D XIX

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Royal MS 17 D XIX
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Scope & Content:
THE SAME WORK: a text more resembling 17 D. VI, but not a derivative of it. Rubric title erased except the last four words 'Gilis (sc. Aegidius de Columna) de regimine principum'. Side-notes as usual. Some, but not all, of the division headings are given. No portraits. The verses to Prince John ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1730. Royal MS 17 D XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 D XV
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect, including The Cook’s Tale of Gamelyn; Anonymous, Somnium Vigilantis; John Fortescue, The Declaration Made by John Fortescue; The Balet of the King; attributed to John Russell, The Book of Nurture. Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Genera...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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