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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 E VI, ff 104-133
Title:: Fragments from the Bible including the Gospels of St Mark (imperfect), St Luke and St John followed by the Epistles of St Paul, the Epistles to the Hebrews and the Prologue of the Acts of Aposles (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 104r-133v: The Gospels of St Mark (imperfect, beginning in 15:40), St Luke and St John followed by the Epistles of St Paul, the Epistles to the Hebrews and ending with the prologue to the Acts; beginning: '[Mag]dalene et Maria Iacobi minoris, Joseph mater et Salome', ending: 'anim...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 7 E VI

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 8 E IV
Title:: Magnus Felix Ennodius, Dictiones, Epistule and extracts from Opuscula; Epistles
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript contains the Epistles of Ennodius (d. 521) from book 1 to 9 and some extracts from the Opuscula and the Dictiones. The texts are largely corrupted and abridged. The manuscript also includes a series of anonymous epistles (ff. 50r-55r), perhaps in order to provide examp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 B XIV
Title:: Bernard André, L'exposition du Pseaulme Huitesme; Vita beatae Katerinae; Aristotelis ad Magnum Alexandrum de Vite Institutione Oratio
Scope & Content:: This volume is a presentation manuscript, containing selected compositions of the French Augustinian friar and poet Bernard André (b. 1450, d. 1522), also known as Andreas. André was a noted chronicler of the reign of Henry VII of England (r. 1485-1509) and a poet laureate, who served as tutor i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1509-1517
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 A I
Title:: Historia Alexandri Magni and other texts relating to Alexander the Great
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes four works forming a compendium of Alexander's legends in Latin. Contents: ff. 2r-51v: Pseudo-Callisthenes, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated from Greek into Latin by Julius Valerius, beginning, 'De nectanabi prudentia atque...' ff. 51v-78r: Epistola Alexandri ad Ar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 A XI
Title:: Miscellany of works on computus and astronomy
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus preceded by a prologue (f. 1r) and capitula (f. 1v). ff. 12v-13r: Dies Egyptiaci (Egyptian days). ff. 13r-14r: Computus material including Ciclus annalis, De horis mensium and De singulis horis in die quomodo mensurantur cum pedibus with a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 B XXXII
Title:: Declaration of expenses of the navy between Wales and Ireland by Sir Anthony Poyntz, Vice-Admiral, 8 April-23 September 1523
Scope & Content:: A roll containing a declaration of expenses of Henry VIII's 'navye on the see between Wales and Irelond', by Sir Antony Poyntz (b. 1480, d. 1533), Vice-Admiral, 8 April-23 September 1523. The recto records the expenses for ten ships in the king's navy: the Minion, the George of Fowey, the Chris...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1523
Extent:: A paper roll

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A I
Title:: Jane Lumley, translation of Isocrates, Archidamus
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of Archidamus, one of the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley. The manuscript is a presentation copy, probably intended as a New Year's gift fo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A II
Title:: Jane Lumley, translation of Isocrates, Evagoras
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of Evagoras, one of the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley and written in her own hand. The manuscript is a presentation copy, described in Lu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A IX
Title:: Jane Lumley, translations of Isocrates, Orationes, and Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis
Scope & Content:: This volume is a commonplace book containing the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley, and written in her hand. Two of the orations are prefaced by dedicatory epistles to her f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A VII
Title:: Collection of Latin poetry and fables, including Statius, Achilleis, and Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of Latin works, probably arranged as part of a school curriculum. They include the unfinished epic poem, the Achilleid, by the Greco-Roman author Publius Papinius Statius (b. c. 45, d. c. 96); a popular collection of proverbial wisdom, known as the Catonis D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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