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1201. Royal MS 12 B XXI

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Royal MS 12 B XXI
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TWO TREATISES, in Latin, on politics and strategy, viz. : 1. 'Liber de regimine principum, editus a fratre Egidio Romano ord. fratrum Heremitarum s. Augustini episcopi' (so colophon): an abridgement of the work (cf. 10 C. IX, art.,4) of Egidio Colonna, Archbishop of Bourges (1298-1316). Imperf. ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
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1 item

1202. Royal MS 12 B XXII

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Royal MS 12 B XXII
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PLATO'S TIMAEVS in the Latin version of Chalcidius, with Chalcidius' commentary, dedicated to Osius [perhaps the Bishop of Cordova, 296-357]. The commentary is imperfect, ending in cap. clxxiv (Wrobel's ed., 1876). Interlined and marginal glosses in a minute hand identical or contemporary with t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12th century
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1 item

1203. Royal MS 12 B XXIII

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Royal MS 12 B XXIII
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IACOBVS DIE CESSOLIS de ludo scaccorum: the wellknown moralization on the game of chess, in Latin, by a Dominican of Reims. Printed [Utrecht, 1473], Brandenburg, ed. E. Köpke, 1879, &c. For bibliography see Van der Linde, Gesch. und Litt. des Schachspiels, 1874, i, Beilage ii, and Caxton's t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
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1 item

1204. Royal MS 12 B XXIV

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Royal MS 12 B XXIV
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TWO MEDICAL POEMS, in Latin, together with a legal formulary for scriveners, and several printed tracts, viz.: 1. Schola Salernitana: the common collection of medical didactic verse in hexameters, elegiacs, or pentameters, This MS. belongs to a class of recensions (cf. Sloane MSS. 337, 374, 382...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
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1 item

1205. Royal MS 12 B XXV

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Royal MS 12 B XXV
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MEDICAL TRACTS and recipes, with some collections on experimental science, chiefly in Latin: a 14th cent. collection, perhaps made by a resident in Ireland (see notes on ff. 283b, 284 b). The MS. has evidently been used, not very intelligently, by the scribe of Sloane MS. 282, in which nearly ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1206. Royal MS 12 C I

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Royal MS 12 C I
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THEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS in Latin: a volume closely allied to 7 A. III (a Bardney book), which is possibly copied from it. Allowing for loss of a leaf after f. 197, artt. 1-3, 5-9 of the present MS. will be found identical with artt. 1-8 of the Bardney MS. Contents: 1. 'De peccatore qui desperat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12th century
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1 item

1207. Royal MS 12 C II

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Royal MS 12 C II
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'DECLARATIO BREVIS' of Robert Flud, M.D. (the Rosicrucian, cf. 12 B. VIII), addressed to James I, concerning his printed works, Tractatus Apologelicus, Leyden, 1617, &c. (see Dict. Nat. Biogr.). It consists chiefly of copies of testimonials from foreign scholars, viz.: Justus Heit, of Frank...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1618
Extent:
1 item

1208. Royal MS 12 C III

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Royal MS 12 C III
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Filippo Alberici, Hieroglyphica and emblematic inscriptions
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A SYSTEM of ideographic writing, in Latin, composed probably by an Italian at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century, and illustrated by coloured drawings of the emblems and examples of sentences constructed from them. Preceded by an index rerum 'quae ab Egytiis (sic) quondam hiero...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1507
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Parchment manuscript

1209. Royal MS 12 C IV

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Royal MS 12 C IV
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TREATISES on astronomical and historical subjects (artt. 1-3 being written continuously and without rubrics), in Latin, viz.: 1. 'Yginus de spera mundi' (so old table of contents): the treatise called Poetica Astronomica of Hyginus the [1st-2nd cent. ?] mythologist. The MS. was not collated for ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 item

1210. Royal MS 12 C V

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Royal MS 12 C V
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ASTROLOGICAL 'IVDICIA', 3,200 in number, in Latin, compiled by an unnamed author for Richard II. On f. 3 b is written 'Liber regis Ricardi secundi, quem fecit fieri motu proprio anno regni sui Anglie et Francie quartodecimo' [1390-1391]. In the preface the book is called 'presentem geomancie lib...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item

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