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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C VIII, ff 1v-3r
Title:: Geoffrey Chambers, Dedication to Henry VIII
Scope & Content:: Geoffrey Chambers, Dedication to Henry VIII, title: 'Henrico octavo Britannicae Galliaeque regi invictissimo Gaufredus Chamber S. P'; incipit: 'Reversus in Patriam, id est Regnum tuum'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1509-c 1517
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C VIII, ff 3v-71r
Title:: Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues
Scope & Content:: Pandolfo Collenuccio of Pesaro (d. 1504), Apologues, including four apologues or fables written in 1481, Agenoria (ff. 4r-29v), Misopenes (ff. 30v-58r), Alithia (ff. 58v-65r), and Bombarda (ff. 65r-71r). First printed together in Strassburg in 1511.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1509-c 1517
Extent:: 69 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C VIII, ff 71v-87v
Title:: Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues
Scope & Content:: Lucian of Samosata (c. 125– after 180), Dialogues in the Latin translation by Titus Livius Guidoloctus of Urbino (15th century); title: 'Hic sequuntur Luciani dialogi tres interprete Livio Guidolocto Urbinate'. Includes three dialogues, De raptu Europae (ff. 71v-74v), Galene et Panope (ff. 74v-7...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1509-c 1517
Extent:: 17 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 1r-34v
Title:: Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae (Topographia Hibernica)
Scope & Content:: Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae (Topographia Hibernica); rubric: 'Introitus in recitationem', incipit: 'Consideranti mihi quam brevis' (f. 1r); the dedication to Henry II, incipit: 'Placuit excellentie uestre' (f. 3v); the main work (here entitled 'Hybernica historia'), incipit: 'Hybernia...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1196-1223
Extent:: 34 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 34v-74r
Title:: Gerald of Wales, Expugnatio Hibernica
Scope & Content:: Gerald of Wales, Expugnatio Hibernica; rubric: 'Introitus in recitationem', incipit (f. 34v): 'Quoniam de insule Hybernice situ' ; the dedication to Richard, Count of Poitou, incipit (f. 37r): 'A multis requisitus et multotiens'; the main work (entitled 'Liber vaticinalis hystorie . . . super Hy...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1196-1223
Extent:: 41 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 74v-100v
Title:: Gerald of Wales Itinerarium Kambriae
Scope & Content:: Gerald of Wales Itinerarium Kambriae; rubric: 'Incipit itinerarium Girardi Kambrensis, et tam Kambrie quam Britannie descriptio'; incipit: 'Quoniam ca que laudabili devotione', without the preface which appears in some other manuscripts. Edited by Dimock 1867 (pp. 9-152) from this manuscript, w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1196-1223
Extent:: 27 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 100v-112v
Title:: Henry of Sawtry (Saltrey), De purgatorio sancti Patrici
Scope & Content:: Henry of Sawtry (Saltrey), De purgatorio sancti Patrici with the prologue addressed to H[enry] Abbot 'de Sartis' [of Wardon, co. Bucks]. Prologue incipit:. 'Patri suo in Christo, preoptato domino'; text, incipit (f. 101v) : 'Dicitur magnus sanctus Patricius'. Decoration: Two large foliate in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1196-1223
Extent:: 13 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 112v-116v
Title:: Eusebius of Caesarea Chronicle (excerpts)
Scope & Content:: Eusebius of Caesarea Chronicle (excerpts); rubric (f. 112v): 'Exceptiones de cronicis Eusebii'; incipit (f. 113r): 'In castello Iudee Emaus natus estpuer'. Includes miscellaneous anecdotes with several relating to French and English history. Decoration: Initials in red and green.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1196-1223
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 B VIII, ff 117r-146v
Title:: Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), Summarium and Anticlaudianus
Scope & Content:: Two works by Alain de Lille, Summarium and Anticlaudianus (a poem in Latin hexameter)in 9 'distinctiones'. Prologue (in prose), incipit: 'Cum fulminis impetus vires suas'; followed by the Summarium, incipit (f. 117v): 'Quia in hoc opere agitur'. Verse prologue to the Anticlaudianus, incipit: 'Au...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 30 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 1v-8r
Title:: Maps and other prefatory material
Scope & Content:: Prefatory material including: 1. Diagram of Winds (f. 1v); similar to one in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS. 16. f. 1v; 2. Itinerary from London to the Holy Land with images of towns, their names, and descriptions of places (ff. 2r-5r); 3. Map of Britain, with indications of a great hi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: c 1250-1259
Extent:: 8 folios.

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