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1851. Royal MS 18 B XXII

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Royal MS 18 B XXII
Title:
William Worcester, The Boke of Noblesse
Scope & Content:
The Boke of Noblesse, a tract encouraging Edward IV to go to war with France, citing historical precedents and quoting from several authors, particularly Christine de Pizan's Faits d'armes et de chevalerie, wrongly referred to here as the Tree of Battles (ff. 13r-v, 14v-16v, 28r-v). Written by W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1852. Royal MS 18 B XXIII

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Royal MS 18 B XXIII
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Scope & Content:
HOMILIES and Sermons, in Latin and English, viz.:- 1. Seventeen Latin homilies, chiefly exegetical, on the Sunday gospels, Advent-First Sund. after the Octave of Epiphany. Beg. '[I]n illo tempore cum appropinquasset Ihesus (&c.) : Dominus ac redemptor noster, fratres karissimi, qui semper ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1853. Royal MS 18 B XXIV

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Royal MS 18 B XXIV
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Scope & Content:
FOUR TREATISES in English bound together casually, but artt. 2, 3 are on similar paper and in the same hand. Contents:- 1. 'Of ye right preparation of ye soule by ye ghosple to receaue our eternall saluation and blessednes in Christe, ye second booke', by 'Leonellus Sharpe', i.e. Lionel Sharp o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1563-[1625]
Extent:
1 item

1854. Royal MS 18 B XXIX

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Royal MS 18 B XXIX
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Scope & Content:
TREATISE entitled 'A true Description of the life o Claudius of Guyse, Abbot of Cluny in Fraunce, conteineinge his diuelish deedes even almost from his birth to the death of the Cardinall of Lorraine, &c. Translated out of frenshe into English by W. Shute, 1599'. The original French work wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1599
Extent:
1 item

1855. Royal MS 18 B XXV

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Royal MS 18 B XXV
Title:
Scope & Content:
HOMILIES for Festivals, in English. The collection, which differs but slightly from another in Harley MS. 2247, consists of eighty-nine (originally ninety?) sermons in two series, de tempore and (f. 82) de sanctis. About 55 are more or less closely parallel in contents to the corresponding sermo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1856. Royal MS 18 B XXVI

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Royal MS 18 B XXVI
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Scope & Content:
HISTORY of the Crusades, in English, in five books. Books i-iv deal respectively with the expeditions of Robert, Duke of Normandy, Godfrey of Bouillon, Richard Coeur- de-Lion, and Edward I; and book v is a translation from the French of the Flos Historiarum of Frere Haiton [Hethoum, Prince of Go...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1518-1520
Extent:
1 item

1857. Royal MS 18 B XXVII

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Royal MS 18 B XXVII
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Scope & Content:
'A BOKE of the authorite and an absolute perfection of the holy scripture, compiled in Latine by the righte famous clerke Maister Henry Bullinger and now translated into Englyshe by William Gybson': translation of lib. i of Heinrich Bullinger's 'De scripturae sanctae auttoritate . . . deque epis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1548-1550
Extent:
1 item

1858. Royal MS 18 B XXVIII

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Royal MS 18 B XXVIII
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Scope & Content:
'A BRIEF SOMME of Geographia, which dothe treat o all partes and provinces of the worlde and specially of countreis lately dyscovered by your maiestie and by themperour Charles of that name the vth and of the kynges of Portugall and Spayne' (so described in the introductory letter to Henry VIII)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1535-1543
Extent:
1 item

1859. Royal MS 18 B XXX

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Royal MS 18 B XXX
Title:
Scope & Content:
TABLE of contents of an anonymous treatise, or scheme for a treatise, called 'The Revelation of the Divine Majestie', in 24 books and a preface. Each of the books has for title a word or passage of Genesis i. 1-5. It is of a cosmographical, and in parts alchemical (cf. Bk. 4, 5), character rat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1860. Royal MS 18 B XXXI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 B XXXI
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Scope & Content:
THE FALL OF PRINCES: poem by John Lydgate in nine books (5140 x 7 + 19 x 8 lines), being his translation of Laurent de Premierfaits French version of Giovanni Boccaccio's Latin prose work De casibus Virorum Illustrium. The divisions between the books are generally only distinguished by a somewha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

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