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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLIV
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Scope & Content:: A WOULD-BE POEM, without rhyme, or sense, apparently a very literal translation (? from the Italian or Spanish) of a poem on 'Curiosity' or 'The Curious Man' (?). Beg. 'Perchaunce hit might bee best to shun at all that home'. Paper; ff. 12. 71/2 in. x 53/4 in. Early XVII cent. Not in the old ca...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLIX
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Scope & Content:: 'A CERTAINE TREATISE cauled the institution of a christen prince or ruler, collected by Erasmus of Rotherodame': an abstract of the Institutio principis Christiani of Erasmus (Opera, 1703-1706, iv, p. 562) by John, Lord Lumley (whose signature occurs at the end), 1550. Addressed to his father-in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1550
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLV
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Scope & Content:: LEGAL ABRIDGEMENT or common-place book, alphabetically arranged, Abbe-Wrecke, with additions at the end. Law French. The authorities cited are nearly all from year-books, &c., tempp. Hen. VI-Hen. VII. On. f. 2 are a few aphorisms in Latin. Paper; ff. 384. 71/2 in. x 61/2 in. XVII cent. Much ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLVI
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Scope & Content:: 'THE LAUDE or prayse to be saide vnto the Virgyn Mary, mother of Chryste Jesu, made by the excellent clerke Erasmus in the Latten tonge and translatyd into Englyshe by Henry Parker, knyght, Lorde Morley': a translation of the 'Paean Virgini matri dicendus' of Erasmus (Opera, 1703-6, v, p. 1227)....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1509-1547]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLVII
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Scope & Content:: 'OF THE BEGINNINGS, practises, and suppression of pirats', by Captain Henry Maynnaringe [al. Manwayring], knighted 20 Mar. 1618, and afterwards Lieutenant of Dover Castle. With a dedication to James I, in which he refers to the King's pardon (?granted in June, 1617, see Cal. State Papers, Domest...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1617]?
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: NARRATIVE by James Hall, principal pilot, of the expedition from Denmark to Greenland which sailed 2 May, 1605; with drawings of landfalls and four coloured charts of the coast. Printed from another copy in Purchas His Pilgrimes, 1625, iii, p. 814, and from the present copy, which is in the form...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1605
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XV
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Scope & Content:: 'ALPHONSUS MADRILIENSIS his methode or way to serve God arighte': a translation of the treatise b y Alfonso Tostado de Madrigal, Bishop of Avila. Probably taken from a Latin edition of which there was a copy in the Lumley library (Lumley cat, f. 13). According to a note by Sir F. Madden on f. 1 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XVI
Title:: Almanac, including a calendar and astronomical information
Scope & Content:: An almanac, including an astronomical calendar in pictorial form, for 1420, with miscellaneous additions. A similar almanac, dated 1412, is now Harley MS 2332. Contents: f. 1v: Added 15th-century meteorological notes from Christmas to Twelfth Night, in a year in which Christmas fell on Sunda...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1420
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XVII
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Scope & Content:: 'CERTAIGNE PSALMES or songues of David translated into Englishe meter by Sir Thomas Smith, Knight, then prisoner in the Tower of London, with other prayers and songues by him made to pas the tyme there, 1549': eleven Psalms (cii, cxli, cxlii, cxix, lxxxv, xxx, xl, lxx, liv, cxliv, cxlv, Vulgate ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1549
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: THREE TRACTS, probably not bound together till Charles II's time or later, viz.: A. 'A Keye to the Controversies, or a theologicall triangle to finde the truthe in all controversies in Divinitie. Don into Englishe for the vse of the Irishe, spetiallie the Gent. of the province of Mounster. By R...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century-Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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