Archive Reference (shelfmark): Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 E XXVI
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Scope & Content:: 'TRAICTÉ des proprietez des Meuriers et instruction par le gouuernement des Vers a Soye', by Françoys de Verton: a tract on the cultivation of silk and the profits to be gained from its introduction into England. Preface addressed to the King [James I]. For the author, François de Verton, sieur ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1605-1610
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 E XXVII
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Scope & Content:: 'INSTITUTIONS GALLIQUES fort vtiles et necessaires à proprement parler, naturellement prononcer, bien lire et correctement escripre la langue Francoyse . . . par moy Hierome Colas, Parisien, au prouffit et future vtilite de la republique Angloyse, 1551': a dialogue on French accidence. For the a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1551
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 E XXVIII
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Scope & Content:: 'LA COMPLAINTE de lame pecheresse': anonymous translation into French verse of Queen Catharine Parr's Lamentation of a Sinner, 1548, including the preface by William Cecil, afterwards Lord Burghley. In a hand not unlike that of Jean Bellemain (see 16 E. I). Beg. 'Guillaume Cicile au lecteur chre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mid 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 E XXX
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Scope & Content:: 'EPITOME du xxii. pseaume jouxte les Hebreux et xxi. jouxte les Grecz et les Latins': an anonymous exposition of Ps. xxii (xxi, Vulgate) Deus, deus meus, respice. Introduction beg. 'Dauid en ce pseaulme treseuidemment se mostre figure de Messias'; text, 'Mon dieu, mon dieu, auquel seul jay tousi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 E XXXI
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Scope & Content:: 'PREMIER LIURE des Pseaulmes' (so colophon): anonymous translation of Ps. i-xli (i-xl, Vulg.), or rather of the paraphrase by Joannes Campensis (printed, 1532), with short introductions. Beg. 'Premier pseaulme de Dauid auquel premierement il chante'; text, 'Lhome qui na point suyui le conseil de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1532-1542
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 E XXXII
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Scope & Content:: TRANSLATIONS from the Greek into French made by 'M. Loys Regius' and addressed 'au treshault et trespuissant roy d'Angleterre Edouard vi. de ce nom. MDL'. With dedicatory letter referring to the recent peace with Henry II. Printed, with additions and different dedications, Paris, 1551, 1568. The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1550
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 E XXXIII
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Scope & Content:: 'LE MODELLE de la Stuartide': prospectus and book i of an epic poem on the Stuarts, deriving them from Fleanche (Fleance), son of Banchon (Banquo), by the goddess Astrea. Dedicated to James I 'par Daniel d'Ancheres, sieur de Schelandre'. This is an anagram of the writer's real name, Jean de Sche...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1603-1610
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 E XXXIV
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Scope & Content:: 'MEDITATION sur la peregrination mondaine': poem (150 lines) dedicated to James I by 'Pierre Menjot, G[entilhomme] François'. Dated, London, 1613. Preceded by a French sonnet (f. 2), a quatrain in French on the anagram Jacques Stuart = a acquis vertus (f. 3 b), quatrains in Lat., Ital., Engl., a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1613
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 E XXXIX
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Scope & Content:: 'LOUANGE de la Danse, avec les observations necessaires pour en acquerir la perfection', dedicated to George Villiers, Marquis of Buckingham, Lord High Admiral, &c., by B- de Montagut. Paper; ff. i + 34. 8 in. x 61/2 in. A.D. 1619-1623. Not in the old catalogues. Bound with 16 E. XXXVII, 16...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1619-1623
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 E XXXV
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Scope & Content:: 'REVELATIONS descouuertes dans le digne nom du Roy': complimentary verses (128 lines) to James I, 'par le sieur de St. Jacques, gentilhomme François, en l'an de grace mil vi. xv'. Preceded by a preface in twenty lines and another address in six lines; and followed (f. 20) by '7 anagrammes du sac...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1615
Extent:: 1 item

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