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 C XIII
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Scope & Content:: 'A LADDER to heaven of twelve staves': a religious treatise on Christian virtues, in twelve divisions, probably adapted from a pre-Reformation treatise, or perhaps by a Roman Catholic. Beg. 'First seeke the Kingdome of God, &c. [Matth. vi. 33]. The first of the twelve ladder-steppes'. Paper...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: THOMAS HOCCLEVE, The Regement of Princes: the poem addressed to Prince Henry, afterwards Henry V, printed from 17 D. VI by Thomas Wright (Roxburghe Club, 1860) and from Harley MS. 4866 by F. J. Furnivall (Early Engl. Text Soc., Extra Series, 1897). No title. Colophon, in a different hand from th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XIX
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'FAMA Fraternitatis R: C: or Discovery of the Fraternity of the laudable order of the Rosie Cross. As also the confession and acknowlegment of the sayd Fraternity wrighten to all the learned and cheefe in Europa. Printed at Dahorig (sc. Dantzic) by Andrew Himefelet Ann: D. 1615.' A treatise on t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XV
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Scope & Content:: MEDICAL TREATISES, &c., in English, viz.:- 1. Calendar, with English saints, number of lessons (3 or 9), &c. Among the saints in red are SS. Wulstan, David, Chad. Edward the King (transl.), Etheldreda (transl.), Frideswide, and Edmund the King. At the foot of each page is one word, alt...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XVI
Title:
Scope & Content:: TRANSLATIONS by Henry Parker, 10th Lord Morley, addressed 'to the moste nobil and vertuous Lady Mary' [afterwards Queen Mary] during the lifetime of Henry VIII (cf. 17 A. XXX, &c.). In the preface the translator alludes to the princess's proficiency in Latin, when she was 'skante cum to xii ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1528-1547
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: GRAMMATICAL and poetical collections, &c., in Northern (?) English and Latin, viz.:- 1. Verbale or vocabulary of Latin verbs arranged under each initial letter by their conjugations, with Engl. equivalents. Imperf. at beg. by loss of a leaf. Beg. 'aggredi. to asayle'; ends 'velle. to wyll. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: THEOLOGICAL TREATISES in English, viz.:- 1. 'Here begynnith a litill short tretis þat telleth how there were six maistris assembled', &c. (cf. 17 A. XXV, art. 3). It is attributed by Bale, Index, ed. Poole, p. 3, to Adam Carthusianus. Beg. 'The firste maister seide þat if enythynge'. f. 1....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XX
Title:
Scope & Content:: DIALOGUE between Dives and Pauper, in eleven parts, part i treating of Holy Poverty, the other parts of the Ten Commandments. The authorship is uncertain, the attribution by Bale and others (repeated by John Theyer in this and the other Royal MS.) to Henry Parker, a Carmelite of Doncaster, who p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXI
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Scope & Content:: THE SAME WORK, wanting two leaves (after ff. 22, 34) and without table of capitula. The text resembles that of the preceding MS. Many side-notes in a 16th cent. hand. Colophon, 'A nece nos tristi saluet pia passio Christi'. At the end (f. 245 b) is a table of epistles and gospels and references ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A FAITHFULL FRENDE and Remembrancer to a Generall of an Armie in Diuers Respects': a treatise on the Art of War by John Shoote, 'an auncient Captaine, one of the Marshals of her Maiesties Hall', 1598. At f. 50 is an account of the battle of Ivry, 1590. Given by the author, who was perhaps ident...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1598
Extent:: 1 item

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