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271132. Royal MS 14 B XIX
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 14 B XIX
- Title:
- Expenses of Princess Mary’s household
- Scope & Content:
- This roll contains the household expenses of Princess Mary (the future Mary I, r. 1552-1558), daughter of King Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547) and Catherine of Aragon (b. 1485, d. 1536). The account covers a one-and-a-half-year period from 1 July 1525 to 31 December 1526 (17 and 18 Henry VIII), when M...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1525-1526
- Extent:
- 1 roll
271133. Royal MS 14 B XXVI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 14 B XXVI
- Title:
- Expenses of the household departments of Princess Mary
- Scope & Content:
- The roll contains the household expenses of Princess Mary (the future Mary I, r. 1552-1558), daughter of King Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547) and Catherine of Aragon (b. 1485, d. 1536). The account lists the expenses of several household departments, comparing the expenditure made in October and other...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1525-1526
- Extent:
- 1 roll
271134. Royal MS 14 E II
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 14 E II
- Title:
- Jean de Courcy, Le chemin de Vaillance; Christine de Pisan, L'epistre Othea; Alain Chartier, Le breviaire des nobles and other texts in French
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-294v: Jean de Courcy, Le chemin de Vaillance, beginning: 'La glorieuse trinite Trois persones en vnite', ending: 'Pardonnez moy car ie songoye'. ff. 295r-331v: Christine de Pisan, L'Epistre Othea, beginning: 'Othea, deesse deprudence, Quy les bons adresse en vaillance'. ff. 3...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Middle
- Date Range:
- 1473-1483
- Extent:
-
1 volume
271135. Royal MS 15 A II
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 15 A II
- Title:
- Jane Lumley, translation of Isocrates, Evagoras
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a copy of Evagoras, one of the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley and written in her own hand. The manuscript is a presentation copy, described in Lu...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
271136. Royal MS 15 A IX
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 15 A IX
- Title:
- Jane Lumley, translations of Isocrates, Orationes, and Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis
- Scope & Content:
- This volume is a commonplace book containing the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley, and written in her hand. Two of the orations are prefaced by dedicatory epistles to her f...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
271137. Royal MS 15 A VII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 15 A VII
- Title:
- Collection of Latin poetry and fables, including Statius, Achilleis, and Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a collection of Latin works, probably arranged as part of a school curriculum. They include the unfinished epic poem, the Achilleid, by the Greco-Roman author Publius Papinius Statius (b. c. 45, d. c. 96); a popular collection of proverbial wisdom, known as the Catonis D...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
271138. Royal MS 15 A XVI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 15 A XVI
- Title:
- Juvencus, Evangelia; Aldhelm, Enigmata (imperfect); Bede, De arte metrica (extract, chapter 25); Martin the Irishman, Scholica graecarum glossarum (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-57r: Juvencus (fl. c. 330), Evangelia (Gospels). ff. 59v-73v: Aldhelm (d. 709), bishop of Sherborne, Enigmata (Riddles), imperfect. f. 73v: An extract from Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), De arte metrica (On the Metrical Art), chapter 25. ff. 74v-83v: Martin the Iri...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 9th century-10th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
271139. Royal MS 15 B XII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 15 B XII
- Title:
- Juvenal, Saturae, with interlinear and marginal glosses
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript consists of Juvenal's Saturae (Satires) with interlinear and marginal glosses (ff. 3r-59v), written in the 1st half of the 10th century in Central France. This volume also includes two flyleaves (ff. 1-2) from another manuscript probably written in Fleury in the last quarter of...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 10th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
271140. Royal MS 15 B XIX
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 15 B XIX
- Title:
- Sedulius, Carmen Paschale and other poems; Two acrostics poems in praise of Sedulius; Bede, De Temporum Ratione; A collection of Latin verses and short prose texts; Persius, Saturae; Sibylline verses; Life of Persius; Pseudo-Cornutus, Commentary on Persius; Lupus of Ferrières, Quid sit Ceroma?; Symposius, Enigmata; Boniface IV, Enigmata de Virtutibus et Vitiis. Musical settings among the collection of extracts from Persius, Bede, etc.
- Scope & Content:
- A composite manuscript of three separate sections not bound together before the 17th century: Contents: ff. 1r-35v: Poems of Sedulius and in praise of Sedulius. ff. 36r-199v: A miscellany of 60 short tracts, in a wide variety of disciplines. Musical settings of the following passages, express...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient and Latin
- Date Range:
- 10th century-11th century
- Extent:
-
Parchment codex