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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X Level [40] File

1731. Royal MS 17 D XIII

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Royal MS 17 D XIII
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EXPOSITION of the Book of Ecclesiastes by Henry Parker, Knight, with a dedication to Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector, and a preface. The author does not seem to be the same as the Sir Henry Parker, 10th Lord Morley, who translated 17 A. XXX, &c.; for Morley, who is described...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1547-1550
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1 item

1732. Royal MS 17 D XIV

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Royal MS 17 D XIV
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TRANSCRIPTS of works and letters, &c., of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor (exec. 1535), mostly written by him when a prisoner in the Tower (April, 1534-July, 1535). In English, with a few exceptions. Printed, with a few exceptions mentioned below, in The Workes of Sir T. More (ed. by Willia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1550-1557
Extent:
1 item

1733. Royal MS 17 D XIX

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Royal MS 17 D XIX
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THE SAME WORK: a text more resembling 17 D. VI, but not a derivative of it. Rubric title erased except the last four words 'Gilis (sc. Aegidius de Columna) de regimine principum'. Side-notes as usual. Some, but not all, of the division headings are given. No portraits. The verses to Prince John ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1734. Royal MS 17 D XV

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Royal MS 17 D XV
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Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect, including The Cook’s Tale of Gamelyn; Anonymous, Somnium Vigilantis; John Fortescue, The Declaration Made by John Fortescue; The Balet of the King; attributed to John Russell, The Book of Nurture. Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Genera...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
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1 volume

1735. 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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1624
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1 item

1736. 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

1737. 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

1738. 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
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1 item

1739. 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

1740. 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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

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