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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLII
Title:: Sworne Book of Honorius or Liber iuratus Honorii
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-15r: Sworne Book of Honorius (Liber iuratus Honorii), or Liber Sacer,chapters 1-5 (chapter 4 in Latin, the remainder in English); ff. 15r-23r: A treatise on Suffumigations (mostly in English, final paragraphs in Latin); ff. 23r-27r: Lists of classes of angels and spirits (op...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 17 A XLII-IV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLIII
Title:: Criticism of Old Testament translations
Scope & Content:: ?William Hopkinson, perhaps of St. John's College, Cambridge, (see Charles Henry and Thompson Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses, 3 vols (Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, 1858-1913) II 1586-1609, p. 5), A criticism of translations from the Hebrew Old Testament into Latin by Immanuel Tremellius (see his T...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 17 A XLII-IV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLIV
Title:: A Poem on Curiosity
Scope & Content:: Contents: A poem without rhyme, perhaps a very literal translation ? from Italian or Spanish of a poem on 'Curiosity' or 'The Curious Man', incipit: 'Perchaunce hit might bee best to shun at all that home'. This manuscript is bound together with Royal MS 17 A xlii (82 folios) and Royal MS 17...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 17 A XLII-XLIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXVII, ff1-70
Title:: Sawles Warde; Lives of Saints Katherine, Margaret and Juliana; Oreison of Seinte Marie
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10v: Sawles Warde, a homily on Matthew 24.43; ff. 11r-70r: Lives of St Katherine (ff. 11r-37r), St Margaret (ff. 37r-56r) and St Juliana (ff. 56r-70r) ff. 70r-v: The Oreison of Seinte Marie. The above texts are part of a group of works known as 'the Katherine group', also f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1200-1249
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXVII, ff71-97
Title:: Prayers, hymns and miscellaneous religious texts, including verses on the Arma Christi or Symbols of the Passion
Scope & Content:: Contents: Prayers, hymns and miscellaneous religious texts, including verses on the Arma Christi or Symbols of the Passion. Decoration: 24 framed miniatures in colours of the symbols of the Passion with leaf decoration (ff. 72v-79r). Rubrics and text in red (e.g., ff. 80r-81r). Initials in bl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D II, ff 1v-5r
Title:: John Lydgate, Testament
Scope & Content:: John Lydgate, Testament, incipit: 'The testamente of John Lydgate, monke of Berry [Bury St Edmunds Abbey] whiche he made hymselfe by his lyre dayes'; without the prologue; explicit: 'Thus endethe testamente of John Lydgate monke of Bery on whose sowle Ihesu haue mercy. Et sic est finis. sit laus...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1516-1527
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D II, ff 6r-146r
Title:: John Lydgate, Troy Book
Scope & Content:: John Lydgate, Troy Book, a verse paraphrase in five books of the prose Historia Troiana of Guido delle Colonne. Incipit: 'O mighty Mars, that with thy sterne lyght In armes hast the powere and the myght'; explicit: 'This litele boke lowly I betake Yt to supporte, and þus an ende I make.' Followe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1457-1460
Extent:: 140 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D II, ff 147v-162r
Title:: John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes
Scope & Content:: John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes, rubric: 'In this preambile shortly is comprihendid a mery conseyte of John Lydgate monke of Bury declarynge how he aionyde þe sege of Thebes to the mery tallys of Caunterburye'; prologue, incipit: 'Whan bright Phebus passyd was þe ram Mid of Aprile and in the bulle...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1457-1460
Extent:: 18 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D II, ff 163r-164r
Title:: William Cornish, A Treatise between Information and Truth
Scope & Content:: William Cornish (or Cornysh, d. 1523), A Treatise between Information and Truth; title: 'In the Fleete maade be me William Cornysshe otherwyse called Nysshewhete, chapelman with the moost famost and noble kyng Henry the viith, his raigne the xixth yere, the moneth of July, a Treatise bitwene Tro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1516-1527
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D II, ff 165r-166v
Title:: John Skelton, On the Death of the Earl of Northumberland
Scope & Content:: John Skelton, On the Death of the Earl of Northumberland, an elegy on the death of Henry Percy, 4th earl of Northumberland, killed at Blackmoor Edge in 1489; title: 'Skelton laureat upon the dolorus dethe and muche lamentable chaunce of the mooste honorable Erle of Northumberlande'; preface inci...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1516-1527
Extent:: 2 folios.

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