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 B XLVI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A RIGHT GODLY EXHORTACION and treatice tending to obedience': a treatise on the duties of subjects to a king, written shortly after the Gunpowder Plot (see ff. 2, 49 b). Paper; ff. 50. Quarto. 8 in. x 61/2 in. Circ. 1606. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1606
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: COLLECTIONS on Dictamen or the art of letter-writing, with legal and other commonplaces, for use in London. One of the compilers seems to have been connected with the northern part of Hampshire, and probably with the family of Leigh of Herriard. Contents:- 1. Poems, viz.:-(a) Dietary, or verse...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1452-1456
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XLVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: MEDICAL RECIPES, charms, &c., viz. 1. The virtues of divers herbs, which be hot and which be cold, &c.; cf. 17 A. XXXII, art. 2. The contents, however, are not identical. Imperfect. Beg. in the chapter on the poppy and ends with that on the lily, 'for to do awey frekenesse on a mannes v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'TRITONS TRUMPET to the twelve monethes husbanded and moralized by John Lane, 1621': a series of poems, two for each month, the first devoted to the husbandry fitting for the season, the second entitled the month's 'moral'. With an address to Prince Charles (afterwards Charles I), followed by a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1621
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XVI
Title:
Scope & Content:: THE BOOKE of holy philosophy, translated out ot French into English by T[homas] G[lover].' With a dedication to John, Lord Lumley. The translator alludes to kindness shown to his late father [? Robert Glover, the herald, d. 1588]. The authorship of the French original is not stated. Paper; ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: THEOLOGICAL WORKS in prose and verse, chiefly in Northern English, viz.: 1. Poem on the manner of hearing Mass, with rubrics and devotions for the people, in verse (629 lines). f. 3. Begins: 'Þo worthyest þing most of godnesse In al þis world is þo messe'. Ends: 'For of alle in þis world þen ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'AN HOMILIE or sermon of Basile the great, Archebishopp of Caesaria, vpon the sayeng of Moyses in . . . Deuteronomie [xv. 9], Take hede to thy selfe, etc.' (cf. Migne, Patr. Gr. XXXI. 198). 'Made English out of ye Greke' by 'Mildred Cicill', daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke and 2nd wife (1545) of W...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1550
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XX
Title:
Scope & Content:: SERMON on Lamentations iv. 20, in commemoration of the King's deliverance from the Gunpowder plot. Beg. 'Of the Author of this book'. The preacher's name does not appear. The sermon is actually by John Donne, and is corrected in his own hand. Paper; ff. 36. Quarto. 8 in, x 6 in. Circ. 1620-1625...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1620-1625
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XXI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A DESCRIPTION of the Sone of God', &c.: a sermon on Hebrews i. 3, by J. Hopper (evidently a Scotchman, cf. 16 E. XIX and 18 A. LII), with an address to James I. Autograph. Paper; ff. 19. Quarto. 8 in. x 6 in. Temp. Jas. I. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XXII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A CATALOGUE of the Bishops of England . . . by F[rancis] G[odwyn] Subdeane of Exceter' (Bishop of Llandaff 1601 and of Hereford 1617). The printed edition of 1601; with marginal notes, a brief table of contents, and an alphabetical table, in MS. At f. 314 is 'A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1608
Extent:: 1 item

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