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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A IX
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Scope & Content:: 'FRATRIS IOHANNIS DE CISELLIS Beneuentani ordinis predicatorum ad laudem illustrissimi et inuictissimi Anglie regis Henrici oratio': an adulatory letter, in Latin, to Henry VII, asking aid for the writer's theological studies. Vellum; ff. 19. 8 in. x 5 in. Temp. Hen. VII. Illuminated border to t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1485-1509]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A L
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Scope & Content:: NEW-YEAR ADDRESS, in Latin, to Queen Elizabeth 1 Jan. 1566/7, by Thomas Wilson [LL.D., M.P. for St. Michael, Sec. of State 1577-1580], comprising a declamation on clemency. Paper; ff. 17. Quarto. 8 in. x 6 in. A.D. 1567. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1567
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LI
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Scope & Content:: RHETORICAL EXERCISES, in Latin, on the judgement of Solomon (1 Kings iii), dedicated as a new-year's gift to Queen Elizabeth, by Thomas Butler. It is possible that the author, who speaks of his gratitude for a 'predium quod in multos annos toti nostrae genti ac familiae victum vestitumque prebet...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603?
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LII
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Scope & Content:: 'SEXTVS dominabitur astris': warnings against treasonable designs of the 'Alastores', i.e. the Society of Jesus. An apparently incomplete and somewhat incoherent compilation, partly in Latin, partly in French, dedicated to James I by an anonymous author, who, however, prefixes his coat of arms, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1615
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LIII
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Scope & Content:: 'VINCVLA VNIONIS, siue Scita Britannica, id est De unione Insulae Britannicae tractatus secundus', the author's name 'per Dauid Humium Theagrium' being carefully erased here and again on f. 21: a sequel to a tract published in London, 1605, by David Hume, of Godscroft ('Theagrius') in Berwickshi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1605
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LIV
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Scope & Content:: 'RATIO LEGENDAE HISTORIAE': a tract, in Latin, addressed to Edward VI by Petrus Olivarius of Valentia [editor of Pomponius Mela, &c., see Antonio, Bibl. Hisp. Nova, ii, p. 206] ; cf. l5 C. 1. Paper (vellum cover); ff. 34. Quarto. 81/4 in. x 6 in. Temp. Edw. VI. On the vellum cover (f. 34 b) ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1547-1553]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LIX
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Scope & Content:: 'PYRAMIS quinto Nouembris 1605 sacra, ad serenissimum principem Iacobum (&c.). Guilielmus Gagerus posuit, 1608': a Latin poem, in about 1,300 hexameters, on the Gunpowder Plot, by William Gager, the Latin dramatist and chancellor of Ely (see Dict. Nat. Biogr., and cf. other poems by him in A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1608
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LV
Title:: Complimentary verses to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, by Israel Brimeld, of New College, Oxford
Scope & Content:: Complimentary verses to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, by Israel Brimeld, of New College, Oxford. In Latin and classical Greek, the Greek verses being on ff 2v, 3v, 4v, 6r, and 6v.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1603-1612
Extent:: 7 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LVI
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Scope & Content:: 'CARMEN PANEGYRICVM', on James I, in 284 Latin hexameters, by George Carleton (cf. 12 A. XLIII), n.d.; mainly an invective against the Church of Rome. Paper; ff. 9. Quarto. 81/4 in. x 61/2 in. A.D. 1603-1618. Casley's Catalogue transposes the numbers of this MS. and 12 A. LXI. Not in the older c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603-1618
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LVII
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Scope & Content:: COMPLIMENTARY VERSES, in Latin, to Charles I on his coronation [2 Feb. 1626], by members of Westminster School. The verses in this case are all anonymous. Paper; ff. 17. Quarto. 8 in. x 6 in. A.D. 1626. Not in the old catalogues. includes: ff. 5-5v, 7-7v, 8v-9v, 10v-11 Poetry GREEK: Richard Cl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Modern and Latin
Date Range:: 1626
Extent:: 1 item

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