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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C VI
Title:
Scope & Content:: TRACTS on shorthand, music, &c., with spurious works of Aristotle, in Latin. The table of contents includes several articles now lost, viz.:-(a) 'Ars memorandi', before art. 1;-(b) 'Modus componendi rotam uersatilem', after art. 1;-(c) 'Excerpta de tragediis Senece', at the end. Present cont...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 13th century-14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C VII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'DE FACTIONIBVS extinguendis et ciuibus in gratiam pristinam reuocandis continendisque': political tract on the dissensions of Guelfs and Ghibellines by 'Petrus Barrocius episc. Patavinus' (Pietro Barozzi, Bishop of Belluno 1471 and of Padua 1487-1507), addressed to Bernardo Bembo, podestà of Be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1500
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C VIII
Title:: Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues and Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes the Apologues by Pandolfo Collenuccio of Pesaro (ff. 3v-71r), and Lucian's Dialogues (ff. 71v-87v), prefaced with a dedicatory letter to Henry VIII by Geoffrey Chambers, who presented the book to the King on his retum from a journey to Italy (ff. 1v-3r). In the binding ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1509-c 1517
Extent:: 87 + 19 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C VIII/1
Title:: Detached binding from Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues and Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues (Royal MS 12 C VIII)
Scope & Content:: Post-1600 detached chemise binding embroidered with gold and silver thread and seed-pearls with the badge and motto of Prince Henry Frederick (1594-1612), formerly attached to Royal MS 12 C VIII and now stored separately.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1610
Extent:: Detached chemise binding

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 12 C X
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'HENRICI ET PHILIPPI CARYE Aphorismi Ethici, Politici et Epistemonici. Chart. [Saec.] xvi'. Thus described by Casley, but the MS. has been missing since the fire of 1731.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C XI
Title:
Scope & Content:: ASTRONOMICAL TABLES calculated for Louvain in Flanders, with a treatise on Astrology, in Latin, viz.: 1. Mean motions, equations, &c., of the sun, moon and planets, and other tables; probably derived from the Alphonsine tables, but in an altered form. The mean motions, &c., are referred...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C XII
Title:: A collection in prose and verse, including culinary recipes
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists of eight originally independent units or booklets, each containing from one to four quires. See Hathaway, Fouke le Fitz Waryn (1975), p. xliv-xlvii on how this manuscript was compiled. The contents include: ff. 1r-v, Office in honour of Thomas, Earl of Lancas...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1320-1340
Extent:: 1 volume

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