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2111. Royal MS 18 A LXXVII

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Royal MS 18 A LXXVII
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TRANSCRIPTS made probably as precedents for James I, of five charters of Kings of England conferring honours, &c., on their eldest sons, viz.:-(a) Creation by Edward III of his son Edward as Duke of Cornwall; 17 Mar. ao II [1337]. f. 2;-(b) Creation by the same of the same as Prince of Wales...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
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1 item

2112. Royal MS 18 A LXXVIII

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Royal MS 18 A LXXVIII
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MEMORIAL by [Gen. Sir Edward Cecil,] Viscount Wimbledon (cr. 1625, d. 1638), to Charles I, on 'How the coasts of your Majesties Kingedome may bee defended against any enemie, if in case your royall navie should bee otherwise imployed or impeached . . . 1628'. An extract was printed in H. Walpole...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1628
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1 item

2113. Royal MS 18 A V

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Royal MS 18 A V
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THE PRICK OF CONSCIENCE, commonly, but doubtfully, attributed to Richard Rolle of Hampole (d. 1349); in about 8,000 lines, with rubrics mostly in Latin. The text differs very considerably from that edited by Richard Morris for the Philological Society in 1863, and though among the ten MSS. in th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

2114. Royal MS 18 A VI

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Royal MS 18 A VI
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Medical treatises, chiefly in Middle English
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This manuscript contains medical, herbal, obstetrical and gynaecological treatises and recipes in a variety of hands, dating from the beginning of the 15th century to the 16th century, predominantly in Middle English. It is also notable for the inclusion of 3 large urine diagrams and six full-pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
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A paper and parchment codex.

2115. Royal MS 18 A VII

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Royal MS 18 A VII
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TWO TRANSLATIONS into English, viz.:- 1. 'The book of the governaunce of kyngis and ot pryncis callid the Secrete of Secretes, whiche that Aristotill made to kyng Alexandre': prose version, from a shortened French translation, of the Pseudo- Aristotelian Secreta Secretorum (cf. 9 B. II, art. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2116. Royal MS 18 A VIII

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Royal MS 18 A VIII
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SIX PSALMS (xix, lxxii, lxxx, civ, cxxxvii, cxlviii), translated into English metrical verse, by an anonymous author, from the Latin metrical versions of George Buchanan (d. 1582), which are also given. Preceded by the translator's prologue, beg. 'I haue writt what ensues out of my obedience to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2117. Royal MS 18 A X

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Royal MS 18 A X
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THEOLOGICAL TREATISES and poems in English, viz.:- 1. Fragment of a treatise in two or more books, imperf at beg. and end. What survives is ch. iii-xi of one book, mainly translated from passages in Hugo de Sancto Victore De arca Noe morali (Migne, Patr. Lat. clxxvii. 620-665 passim), with col...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2118. Royal MS 18 A XI

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Royal MS 18 A XI
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'A TRUE RELATION of ye State of Virginia' : a letter from John Rolf (d. 1622) to the King [James I]. Without date, but doubtless written in England in 1616-1617, Rolf, with his wife Pocahontas, having accompanied Sir Thomas Dale, acting Governor of the Colony, on his return to this country in Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1617
Extent:
1 item

2119. Royal MS 18 A XII

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Royal MS 18 A XII
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FLAVIUS VEGECIUS RENATUS, De re militari: an English version made for Thomas, 4th Lord Berkeley, in 1408. Other copies are in Lansdowne MS. 285, f. 82, and Sloane MS. 2027 (imperf.). Attributed by Tanner and others (see Higden's Polychronicon, Rolls Series, i, p. lv, note) to John de Trevisa (an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1483-1485
Extent:
1 item

2120. Royal MS 18 A XIII

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Royal MS 18 A XIII
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'LIBER BOECII de consolacione philosophie de Latino in Anglicum translatus anno domini millesimo CCCCmo Xo per capellanum Iohannem', i. e. according to the rare printed edition (Tavistock Abbey, 1525, a copy in the Bodleian Library) 'by John Waltionem or Walton, canon of Oseney'. Walton was made...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

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