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1731. Royal MS 17 D XVI

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Royal MS 17 D XVI
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LIVRE contenant cinquante emblemes chrestiens premierement inuentez par la noble damoiselle Georgette de Montenay . . . escrits, tirez et tracez par la main et plume de moy Esther Inglis, l'an de mon aage cinquante et trois, a Lislebourg [Edinburgh] en Escosse, l'an 1624': drawings and verses co...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1624
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1 item

1732. Royal MS 17 D XVII

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Royal MS 17 D XVII
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'AN EVANGELICALL TRAGOEDIE, or A Harmonie of the passion of our Lord Iesus Christe, paraphrastically expounded according to the Fower Evangelistes', in five acts, by 'Thomas Beard, Minister of the Word'. In the dedicatory letter to James I the author states that he has translated from a work by ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

1733. Royal MS 17 D XVIII

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Royal MS 17 D XVIII
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THOMAS HOCCLEVE, The Regement of Princes (cf. 17 C. XIV, 17 D. VI, art. 1). Without title or portraits. Side-notes in Latin as usual. The treatise proper is divided by headings (De iusticia, De pietate, &c.), which do not appear in 17 D. VI and not always in Harley MS. 4866. There are also s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1734. Royal MS 17 D XX

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Royal MS 17 D XX
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ANDREW OF WYNTOUN, Original Chronicle of Scotland, in verse, with other tracts, viz.:- 1. The orygynale cronykyl of Scotland, by Androwe of Wyntowne (so his name in the prologue), canon of St. Andrews and prior of St. Serf's Inch on Loch Leven.; compiled for Sir John Wemyss (d. 1428). The secon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1735. Royal MS 17 D XXI

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Royal MS 17 D XXI
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CHRONICLE OF THE BRUTE in English prose to A. D. 1419, comprising the original text to 1333 and two continuations (B and C of Brie) to 1377 and 1419 (siege of Rouen) respectively; see F. W. D. Brie, Geschiche der mittelenglischen Prosachronik The Brute of England, Marburg, 1905, and his edition,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1736. Royal MS 17 D XXII

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Royal MS 17 D XXII
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'NATURALL THEOLOGIE, or the book of creatures': anonymous English translation of the 'Theologia Naturalis' of Raymund de Sabunde or Sabonde, in 330 chapters, with prologue. The original author, a native of Barcelona and teacher of philosophy and medicine at Toulouse, died in 1432. The Latin work...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

1737. Royal MS 17 E I

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Royal MS 17 E I
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'LE TRESOR': the encyclopaedic compilation of Brunetto Latino (Dante's tutor, d. 1294). The text is of the earlier recension, not containing the historical chapters relating to Berengarius, &c. (see Chabaille's ed.,Coll. de Documents inédits, 1863, and P. Paris, Les MSS. François, iv, p. 352...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1738. Royal MS 17 E II

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Royal MS 17 E II
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Raoul Lefèvre, Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes
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This manuscript contains a copy of Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes (Collection of the stories of Troy), composed in 1464 by Raoul Lefèvre (fl. 15th century), chaplain to Philip the Good (b. 1396, d. 1467), Duke of Burgundy. At the beginning of the list of contents and in the colophon it is re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1475-c 1483
Extent:

1 volume

1739. Royal MS 17 E III

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Royal MS 17 E III
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Bartholomaeus Anglicus, translated by Jean Corbechon, Livre des proprietez des choses
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Contents: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, translated in 1372 as the Livre des proprietez des choses by Jean Corbechon for Charles V of France. Decoration: 1 large miniature in four compartments, in colours and gold, with a foliate initial in colours and gold, and a partial ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Early 15th century
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Parchment codex

1740. Royal MS 17 E IV

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Royal MS 17 E IV
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Ovide moralisé, a French translation of Ovid''s Metamorphoses
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Contents: ff. 1r-271r: Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, or Ovide moralisé, the second anonymous French translation of this Latin work, with a prologue and a list of contents (ff. 5r-12v); this version of the text is believed to have been used by Caxton for his translation; it is also found...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
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Parchment codex

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