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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 B X
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Scope & Content:: 'VALERII MAXIMI factorum et dictorum memorabilium incipit liber primus (-decimus)': the nine books of Valerius Maximus, a text of the deteriores class of Kempf (Teubner Ser., 1888). The so-called lib. x (f. 141 b) is the epitome [by Julius Paris] of the Incerti auctoris liber de praenominibus, p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 B XI
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Scope & Content:: HISTORICAL ROMANCES, &c., in Latin (ct. 15 A. XXII, with which the MS. is closely akin). Part of the original books, arranged alphabetically A-D, with sizes, including volume has passed into the Cotton collection (Vitell. A. XIII), see below. Contents: 1. 'Incipit liber pergesis', &c., a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 B XII
Title:: Juvenal, Saturae, with interlinear and marginal glosses
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of Juvenal's Saturae (Satires) with interlinear and marginal glosses (ff. 3r-59v), written in the 1st half of the 10th century in Central France. This volume also includes two flyleaves (ff. 1-2) from another manuscript probably written in Fleury in the last quarter of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 B XIII
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Scope & Content:: PLUTARCH, De virtute mulierum, translated into Latin by Hermann Cruser, a Dutch doctor and jurist, Geheimrath to Duke William of Cleves and Juliers; with dedication to Queen Mary of England. Dated 1555. The translation of this work is not printed with Cruser's translation of the Lives in the Fra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1555
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 B XIV
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Scope & Content:: PRISCIAN, De octo partibus orationis (cf. 15 B. I). The first leaf, containing the preface and part of the table of books, is lost. Text beg. 'Philosophi diffiniunt uocem esse aerem'. Colophon, 'Explicit feli[ci]ter Priciani grammatici preclarissimi parcium orationis libri xvi'. The fly-leaves ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 B XIX
Title:: Sedulius, Carmen Paschale and other poems; Two acrostics poems in praise of Sedulius; Bede, De Temporum Ratione; A collection of Latin verses and short prose texts; Persius, Saturae; Sibylline verses; Life of Persius; Pseudo-Cornutus, Commentary on Persius; Lupus of Ferrières, Quid sit Ceroma?; Symposius, Enigmata; Boniface IV, Enigmata de Virtutibus et Vitiis. Musical settings among the collection of extracts from Persius, Bede, etc.
Scope & Content:: A composite manuscript of three separate sections not bound together before the 17th century: Contents: ff. 1r-35v: Poems of Sedulius and in praise of Sedulius. ff. 36r-199v: A miscellany of 60 short tracts, in a wide variety of disciplines. Musical settings of the following passages, express...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-11th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 B XIX, ff 1-36
Title:: Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Sedulius, hymn Cantemus, socii, Domino; two acrostics poems in praise of Sedulius
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-32v: Sedulius, Carmen Paschale with interlinear Latin glosses and a few interlinear Old English glosses (ff. 5r, 25r, 28r). ff. 32v-34v Sedulius, the hymn Cantemus, socii, Domino. ff. 34v-35r: An acrostic poem in praise of Sedulius (attributed to Liberatus), beginning: 'Sedul...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 15 B XIX

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 B XIX, ff 37-199
Title:: Bede, De temporum ratione; A collection of Latin verse and short prose texts; Persius, Saturae; Sibylline verses; Life of Persius; Pseudo-Cornutus, Commentary on Persius; Lupus of Ferrières, Quid sit ceroma?
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 37r-v: An anonymous preface on Bede's De temporum ratione. ff. 38r-39r: Preface of De temporum ratione. ff. 39r-40v: Table of chapters for the De temporum ratione. ff. 40v-78v: Bede, De temporum ratione (imperfect, ends at chapter 29). ff. 79r-102v: A collection of Latin vers...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 15 B XIX

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 B XIX, ff 200-205
Title:: Symphosius, Enigmata; Boniface IV, Enigmata de virtutibus et vitiis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 199r-v: A former pastedown with several obits of monks or friars, partly erased or trimmed off, written by an early 14th-century hand citing for example the Franciscan friars (f. 199r). Other obits related to monks written by several English 14th-century hands (f. 199v). ff. 200r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century-12th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 15 B XIX

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 B XV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'MARCI TVLLII CICERONIS de Tusculanis Questionibus liber primus (-quintus)'. The text has been altered in many places by a hand of the early 15th cent. A few notes in several 15th-16th cent. hands. Vellum; ff. 76. 101/4 in. x 71/4 in. Late XIV cent. Probably written in France. Gatherings of 8 l...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

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