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281. 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

282. 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

283. 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

284. Royal MS 17 B XXVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 B XXVIII
Title:
Book of expenses of Princess Mary, with an inventory of her jewels; catalogue of printed books in the Royal Library
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a record of the household expenses of Princess Mary, later Mary I (r. 1553-1558), Queen of England, for the period 1536-1544. The accounts feature marginal notes and corrections written in Mary's hand, and her signature inscribed at the end of each month for the first ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1536-1581
Extent:
1 volume

285. Royal MS 18 B XXII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 B XXII
Title:
William Worcester, The Boke of Noblesse
Scope & Content:
The Boke of Noblesse, a tract encouraging Edward IV to go to war with France, citing historical precedents and quoting from several authors, particularly Christine de Pizan's Faits d'armes et de chevalerie, wrongly referred to here as the Tree of Battles (ff. 13r-v, 14v-16v, 28r-v). Written by W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

286. Royal MS 19 B XVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B XVI
Title:
Le Miroir des Dames (an anonymous French translation of Durand de Champagne's Speculum Dominarum)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 15th-century copy of Le Miroir des Dames, an anonymous French translation of the Speculum dominarum, a treatise on queenship written for Jeanne de Navarre (b. 1273, d. 1305), Queen of France and wife of Philip IV (r. 1285-1314), by her confessor, Durand de Champ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1428
Extent:

1 volume

287. Royal MS 19 C VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 C VII
Title:
Geoffroy de la Tour-Landry, Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour-Landry; Renaut de Louhans, Mélibée et Prudence; Philippe de Mézières, Griseldis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry (The Book of the Knight of the Tower), written by Geoffroy IV de la Tour Landry (b. before 1330, d. between 1402 and 1406), a nobleman of Anjou, for the instruction of his daughters. The volume also contains a number of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

288. Seal XXXV 248

Reference (shelfmark):
Seal XXXV 248
Title:
Seal of Carrow Priory
Scope & Content:
An imperfect seal of Carrow Priory, a lozenge, red, with a seated Virgin and Child on the right and a praying prioress on the left, holding a scroll saying ‘mater d mem’; above the scroll a crescent and a star; at the top a hand extending from the heavens in blessing, with the legend, ‘sigillum ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

1 seal

289. Sloane Ch XXXII 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane Ch XXXII 1
Title:
Marriage licence from Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, for Edward Griffith and Elizabeth Palmer
Scope & Content:
Licence from Thomas Cranmer (r. 1532-53), archbishop of Canterbury, for Edward Griffith of Braybrooke and Elizabeth Palmer to marry; given at Lambeth, 27 September 1535. Endorsed: in a 17th-century hand, ‘Licence for marriage to / Thomas Griffyn / Elizabeth Palmer’. Affixed with a fragmentary ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1535
Extent:
1 leaf

290. Sloane Ch XXXII 9

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane Ch XXXII 9
Title:
Power of attorney by Alice, once the wife of Richard Penvey of Haverfordwest, to Richard Newton, Robert Turbot and John Couyntre
Scope & Content:
Power of attorney by Alice, once the wife of Richard Penvey of Haverfordwest and executor of Richard’s will, to Richard Newton, apprentice of the law, Robert Turbot and John Couyntre, merchants of Haverfordwest. Since Alice’s seal is unknown, that of Humphrey (1390-1447), duke of Gloucester, is ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1424
Extent:
1 leaf

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