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 17 A XLVIII
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Scope & Content:: NARRATIVE by James Hall, principal pilot, of the expedition from Denmark to Greenland which sailed 2 May, 1605; with drawings of landfalls and four coloured charts of the coast. Printed from another copy in Purchas His Pilgrimes, 1625, iii, p. 814, and from the present copy, which is in the form...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1605
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'ALPHONSUS MADRILIENSIS his methode or way to serve God arighte': a translation of the treatise b y Alfonso Tostado de Madrigal, Bishop of Avila. Probably taken from a Latin edition of which there was a copy in the Lumley library (Lumley cat, f. 13). According to a note by Sir F. Madden on f. 1 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XVI
Title:: Almanac, including a calendar and astronomical information
Scope & Content:: An almanac, including an astronomical calendar in pictorial form, for 1420, with miscellaneous additions. A similar almanac, dated 1412, is now Harley MS 2332. Contents: f. 1v: Added 15th-century meteorological notes from Christmas to Twelfth Night, in a year in which Christmas fell on Sunda...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1420
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'CERTAIGNE PSALMES or songues of David translated into Englishe meter by Sir Thomas Smith, Knight, then prisoner in the Tower of London, with other prayers and songues by him made to pas the tyme there, 1549': eleven Psalms (cii, cxli, cxlii, cxix, lxxxv, xxx, xl, lxx, liv, cxliv, cxlv, Vulgate ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1549
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: THREE TRACTS, probably not bound together till Charles II's time or later, viz.: A. 'A Keye to the Controversies, or a theologicall triangle to finde the truthe in all controversies in Divinitie. Don into Englishe for the vse of the Irishe, spetiallie the Gent. of the province of Mounster. By R...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century-Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XX
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'SECOND BOOKE of the Third Punique Warre': part of a continuation of Silius Italicus [by Thomas Ross, Royal Librarian 1661-1675]. Cf. 7 A. XII, art. 21. Autograph rough draft. Not printed. The author in his dedicatory Epistle (f. 26) to the D[uke] of M[onmouth ?] claims his protection for it, be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1663-1675
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'CERTAIGNE PSALMES of Dauyd [49 in number] in meeatre, added to maister Sterneholdis and others, by William Forreste (see Dict. Nat. Biogr., and cf. 17 D. III, 18 C. XIII), 1551'; with a poetical version of the Te Deum, Benedictus, Magnificat, and Nunc Dimittis. At the beginning is a dedication,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1551
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXII
Title:
Scope & Content:: METRICAL VERSION of the seven Penitential Psalms in English terza rima, each with a prologue in stanzas of eight lines [by Sir Thomas Wyatt]. Printed as Certayne psalmes, &c., 1549 (cf. Aldine Poets ed., 1866, p. 203). The text differs in details, but some of these appear to be the scribe's ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'SENTENCES painted in the Lorde Keepars gallery at Gorhambury [co. Herts] and selected by him [sc. Sir Nicholas Bacon] owt of divers authors and sent to the good Ladye Lumley [Jane, daughter of Henry Fitz- Alan, Earl of Arundel, and 1st wife of John, Lord Lumley] at her desire.' In Latin, writte...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1558-1577
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A FEWE witty sainges collected out of divers autors worthy to be parvsed by so worthy a prince': religious and moral extracts, the title being in the autograph of John, Lord Lumley (1547-1609). On f. 1 is a note [by Henry, Prince of Wales ?], 'This booke My Lord Lumly gaue me'. Paper; ff. i + ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1603-1609
Extent:: 1 item

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