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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

2221. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 183v-185v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 183v-185v
Title:
The blsyoure of the arms of kyngis
Scope & Content:
Description of the arms of various kings, entitled 'The blsyoure of the arms of kyngis', including the arms of the city of Jerusalem, the three kings of Cologne, Prester John, the Emperor of Constantinople, and other Christian and non-Christian monarchs. Title: 'The armes of certayne kyngis cris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
3 folios.

2222. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 186r-195

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 186r-195
Title:
William Peeris, Descent of the Lords Percy
Scope & Content:
William Peeris, Descent of the Lords Percy, a chronicle of the Percy family, composed in c. 1516-1523. Chronicle in verse (97 stanzas, usually of rhyme royal, but longer stanzas occur irregularly), entitled, 'Here begynnythe the prolouge of this litle treatyse folowinge, whiche is the discente o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
10 folios.

2223. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 195v-211v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 195v-211v
Title:
Proverbial and moral verses transcribed from the walls and ceilings of Percy's houses
Scope & Content:
Proverbial and moral verses transcribed from the walls and ceilings of Percy's houses, Leconfield and Wressel castles, two Yorkshire seats of the family (see Dickens 1955). The proverbis of the garett over the bayne at Kekingfelde' (sic); incipit: 'The sermountynge pleasure who can expresse' (f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
11 folios.

2224. Royal MS 18 D III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D III
Title:
The Burghley Atlas
Scope & Content:
An atlas of England and Wales, made by Christopher Saxton (1542x4–1610/11), map maker, under the patronage of Thomas Seckford (1515/16–1587), lawyer and administrator. Owned by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520/21-1598), royal minister, whose notes and annotations are found throughout. It ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1574-1592
Extent:

1 volume

2225. Royal MS 18 D IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D IV
Title:
Scope & Content:
JOHN LYDGATE, Fall of Princes (cf. 18 B. XXXI). In nine books. Imperfect, wanting one leaf after f. 32 (bk. i, ch. xiv, ll. 337-504), six after f. 41 (bk. i, ch. xxiii in ed. printed by J. Wayland [1558 ?] or xxii in ed. 1554, beg. 'After this Pirrhus' to bk. ii, ch. ii, l. 126), two quires (pre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1446-1470
Extent:
1 item

2226. Royal MS 18 D IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D IX
Title:
Bible Historiale, Volume 1
Scope & Content:
The first of two volumes, the second of which is Royal MS 18 D X. The fourth volume is Royal MS 15 D I, but it was written previously and altered to include the arms of Edward IV. It is not known whether the third volume ever existed. It contains part of the second edition of the Bible Historial...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1479
Extent:

A parchment codex, 319 folios

2227. Royal MS 18 D IX-X

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D IX-X
Title:
Bible Historiale, Volumes 1 and 2
Scope & Content:
These two volumes (Royal 18 D. IX and Royal 18 D. X) contain part of the second edition of the Bible Historiale, a French adaptation by Guyart des Moulins (c. 1291-95) of Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica. The fourth volume is Royal MS 15 D I, but it was written previously and altered to inc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1479
Extent:

Two parchment volumes

2228. Royal MS 18 D V

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D V
Title:
Scope & Content:
JOHN LYDGATE, Fall of Princes (cf. 18 D. IV). A quire of eight leaves after f. 184 (bk. viii, ch. xiii, l. 176- ch. xxv, 1. 14) and two leaves after f. 210 (bk. ix, ch. xxxiii, 1. i-ch. xxxiv, 1. 217) have been lost and supplied in a 16th cent. hand. The text, as in 18 B. XXXI has a lacuna of se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2229. Royal MS 18 D VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D VI
Title:
Scope & Content:
JOHN LYDGATE, Troy Book (cf. 18 D. II, art. 2). The present copy (see Bergen, Description of the MSS., 1906, p. xxiii, and cf. Ward, Cat of Romances, i, p. 79) contains an inferior text, wanting the Envoy and Verba translatoris and with numerous omissions including bk. ii, 3405-3466 and 4713-477...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2230. Royal MS 18 D VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D VII
Title:
Scope & Content:
'JEHAN BOCCACE des cas des nobles homes et femmes': the second translation of Laurent de Premierfait (cf. 14 E. V); preceded by the translator's preface and second prologue and Boccaccio's preface. Dedication beg. 'A puissant noble et excellent'. The other prologues and text nearly as in 14 E. V...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

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