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Project / Collection Royal Manuscripts Digitisation Project Name Henry VIII, King of England and Ireland, 1491-1547, http://isni.org/isni/000000... Level [40] File

1. Harley MS 1498

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1498
Title:
Quadripartite Indenture for Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster Abbey
Scope & Content:
Content: ff. 1-129v: The manuscript preserves a series of four agreements (indentures) made on 16 July 1504 between Henry VII and the abbot and monks of Westminster Abbey concerning the King’s new burial chapel that was designed to replace an earlier structure at the east end of the church. T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1504
Extent:

1 volume.

2. Royal MS 10 E IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 10 E IV
Title:
Decretals of Gregory IX with gloss of Bernard of Parma (the 'Smithfield Decretals')
Scope & Content:
The Decretals of Gregory IX, edited by Raymund of Penyafort (or Peñafort); with the glossa ordinaria of Bernard of Parma in the margin. The text is dedicated to the University of Paris (f. 4r), but both the text and gloss were written in Southern France, probably in Toulouse, and include a chara...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300-c 1340
Extent:

314 folios.

3. Royal MS 11 E XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 11 E XI
Title:
Magister Sampson, Benedictus de Opitiis and others, Motets
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a collection of motets by a 'Magister Sampson', formerly believed to be bishop of Chichester 1536 and of Coventry and Lichfield 1543-1554, but now thought to be a composer from the Netherlands, and by Benedictus de Opitiis, preceded by a hymn in honour of Henry VIII, with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1516
Extent:

17 folios.

4. Royal MS 12 C VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C VIII
Title:
Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues and Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes the Apologues by Pandolfo Collenuccio of Pesaro (ff. 3v-71r), and Lucian's Dialogues (ff. 71v-87v), prefaced with a dedicatory letter to Henry VIII by Geoffrey Chambers, who presented the book to the King on his retum from a journey to Italy (ff. 1v-3r). In the binding ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1509-c 1517
Extent:

87 + 19 folios.

5. Royal MS 12 C VIII/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C VIII/1
Title:
Detached binding from Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues and Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues (Royal MS 12 C VIII)
Scope & Content:
Post-1600 detached chemise binding embroidered with gold and silver thread and seed-pearls with the badge and motto of Prince Henry Frederick (1594-1612), formerly attached to Royal MS 12 C VIII and now stored separately.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1610
Extent:
Detached chemise binding

6. Royal MS 20 B XX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 B XX
Title:
Le livre et la vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre
Scope & Content:
The Vraye histoire du bon roy Alexandre, incipit (rubric):'Comment nostre seigneur donna congnoissance a Alixandre de trier le bien du mal'; (text): 'Puis que le premier pere duman lignage'; with a table of contents (ff. 1r-2v). The French text of the Vraye histoire is based on the Latin Histori...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1420-c 1425
Extent:

Parchment codex

7. Royal MS 20 D I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 D I
Title:
Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César, second redaction
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the earliest surviving copy of the second redaction of the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César, probably produced in the 14th century. This version focuses on Troy, eliminating the biblical histories and the history of Alexander and integrates portions of the prose translati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1330-c 1340
Extent:

363 folios.