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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXI
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Scope & Content:: COMPLIMENTARY VERSES, in Latin, to Queen Elizabeth by Thomas Pembridge, [Student] of Christ Church [1563]. He graduated at Cambridge in 1570, and was incorporated at Oxford againing 1572. About 250 elegiac couplets, ending with a request for donations. Paper; ff. 11. Quarto. 8 in. x 6 in. Temp. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1558-1603]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXII
Title:
Scope & Content:: THEOLOGICAL TRACTS, in Latin, by Galterus Delenus [Wouter Deelen or Deleen, cf. 7 D. XX]. dedicated to Henry VIII as a new-year's gift for 1539, viz.:-(1) 'De timore Domini'. f. 2 ;-(2) 'De preeminentia publica et ciuili'. f. 9;-(3) 'De certitudine religionis Christiane'. f. 15. Dated at the end...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1538
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXIII
Title:: Complimentary verses to Edward VI on his progress through Hampshire by the boys of Winchester College
Scope & Content:: 'CARMEN GRATVLATORIVM': verses by forty-one boys of Winchester College to Edward VI on his progress through Hampshire, 5 Sept. 1552. Among the writers (see also Kirby's Winchester Scholars) are: John Chaundler [afterwards D.D., sub-warden of New College, prebendary of Worcester and canon of Linc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1552
Extent:: 15 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXIV
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Scope & Content:: 'VRBIVM et regionum quarundam clogia. Item Geographie et Rhetorice Compendia': commonplace-book of geography and rhetoric, containing brief quotations in Latin verse concerning cities, countries, &c., and definitions of rhetorical tropes, &c. The 'figurae ultimae' (f. 15) seem to be late...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXIX
Title:
Scope & Content:: TWO EXERCISES, in Latin, probably for the degree of D.D. in the schools at Cambridge, by Theophilus Feild, royal chaplain [fellow of Pembroke College 1598, Bishop of Llandaff 1619, St. Davids 1627, and Hereford 1635- 1636, see Dict. Nat. Biogr.]. Dedicated to James I. The first (f. 3) is dated 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1610
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXV
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Scope & Content:: 'EPITHALAMIVM in nuptias honoratissimi Comitis Somersetensis [Robert Carr, al. Ker, Earl of Somerset] et nobilissimae virginis Franciscae Howarde' [divorced wife of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex], 26 Dec. 1613, by William Alabaster [fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Roman Catholic convert a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1613
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXVI
Title:
Scope & Content:: Dedication in elegiacs (Grosart's introduction, p. xli), and appeal to the King for aid against extortions by the patron of his vicarage [Bere-Regis, co. Dorset]. The poem, entitled 'Carmen gratulatorium' and addressed to the King on his accession, consists here of 725 hexameters, beg. 'Musa qui...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXVI-XXXVII
Title:: 12 A. XXXVI, XXXVII TWO COMPLIMENTARY POEMS, in Latin, to James I by Thomas Bastard [fellow of New College, Oxford, 1588, see Dict. Nat. Biogr.]. Afterwards combined and printed (with alterations) under the title Serenissimo polentissimoque Monarchae Iacobo, &c. (London, 1605, reprinted by Utterson, 1842, and in Bastard's Poems, ed. A. B. Grosart, 1880). Paper; ff. 21, 5. Quarto. 81/4 in. x 6 in. A.D. 1603. Bound together. Perhaps cat. of 1661 (Roy. App. 86), f. 35, 'In laudes pot. Iac...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603-[1604]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: Prose preface and the passage in 145 hexameters beg. 'Sic munere missum', afterwards incorporated in book iii. Addressed to the King as a new-year's gift [1604].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1604]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: COMPLIMENTARY POEMS, in Latin, to Queen Elizabeth and (f. 31 b) Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper; written shortly after the Queen's accession by 'Huiccus'. i. e. Robert Huicke, physician to Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Elizabeth (see Dict. Nat. Biogr.). The verses (in hexameters) include poems in m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1558-1559
Extent:: 1 item

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