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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XXIII
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Scope & Content:: 'LVCANI liber primus' (-decimus): the Pharsalia of M. Annaeus Lucanus. The text is probably of the same family as the Vossianus secundus (U of Hosius), having e.g. lib. viii, 11. 25, 26 transposed. Colophon, 'Explicit liber Lucani'. On f. 103 is an historical note in a 12th cent. hand, beg. 'In...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XXIV
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Scope & Content:: Lost before the time of Casley, who notes it as Lucan's Pharsalia, 'Aliud exemplar: sed nunc desideratur. [saec.] XIII'. CMA. 8631 or 8610.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XXIX
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Scope & Content:: STATIVS, Thebais, with the title 'Papinii Sursuli Statii Thebaidos liber primus (&c.) incipit'. Incomplete, breaking off at lib. xi, 1. 140, 'nocte pererrat'. The text resembles the second recension (Kohlmann's S, G2, &c.), but interlinear variants are given from a MS. of another class. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XXV
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Scope & Content:: 'COMPENDIOSA quaedam ratio inueniendi argumenta ex locis Rodolphi Agricolae ad cuiuscunque generis causae quaestionem explicandam accommodata': a brief anonymous account of the logical methods set forth by Rodolphus Agricola, of Groningen (d. 1485), in his books De inventione dialectica. Written...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XXVI
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Scope & Content:: 'RETORICA TVLLII': the two books De inventione rhetorica (cf. 15 A. XX, art. 5). The text has apparently signs of conflation. Colophon, 'M. T. C. liber rethorices [explicit ?]'. On f. 46 b are scribbled in a 15th cent. hand two mnemonic verses for the dominical letter, beg. 'Adam degebat'. A pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XXVII
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Scope & Content:: EUCLID'S ELEMENTS: the Latin translation (from the Arabic) which is at present usually ascribed to Adelard of Bath (see Weissenborn in Abhandl. zur Geschichte der Mathematic, Leipzig, 1880, iii, p. 143). So far as the proofs of the propositions are concerned, however, there is some doubt whether...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XXVIII
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Scope & Content:: AESOPIC FABLES in Latin elegiac verse: the collection known generally as Anonymus Noveleti, but ascribed with some slight authority to Walter, an Englishman (see Ward, Cat. of Romances, ii, p. 322). Prologue, sixty fables and two tales. Prologue beg. 'Vt iuuet et prosit conaturpagina presens'; t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XXX
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Scope & Content:: BOETHIVS, Consolatio philosophiae, with commentary [of Nicholas Treveth, al. Trivet, the historian]. For copies with the commentator's name see Add. MSS. 19585, 27875. The text of the last prosa of lib. v is here omitted. Preface beg. 'Explanacionem librorum Boicii de consolacione philosophica';...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XXXI
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Scope & Content:: MORAL POEMS in Latin, bound up, apparently in the 17th century, with legal and other tracts, viz.: 1. Theoduli ecloga (cf. 15 A. VII, art. 2); without title. The MS. is noted, but not collated, in Osternacher's edition. Beg. 'Ethiopum terras'; ends 'ne desperacio ledat '. f. 3. Art. 1 is a sepa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XXXII
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Scope & Content:: SOLINVS de mirabilibus mundi and other tracts, viz.: 1. Incipit argumentum primi libri Bernardi Siluestris philosophi egregii et eximii poete et eloquentissimi uiri ad magistrum Theodericum': the two books (Megacosmus and Microcosmus) of Bernardus Silvestris of Tours (afterwards a teacher at Pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

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