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4361. Royal MS 12 E XXIII

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Royal MS 12 E XXIII
Title:
Medical miscellany in prose and verse
Scope & Content:
Contents: A collection of medical texts in prose and verse made up of two independent parts (ff. 4-67 and ff. 68-112), compiled with added leaves at the beginning and end (ff. 1-3, 113-120). The contents are: f. 4r-22r: A medical poem attributed to Quintus Serenus Sammonicus (d. 212), with the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

4362. Royal MS 12 G VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 G VIII
Title:
Liber nouem iudicum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Liber nouem iudicum, a twelfth-century compendium on judicial astrology. The text provides the statements of nine different authorities, mostly Arabic, on the topics of the twelve astrological houses. The colophon (f. 78r) states ‘Explicit liber nouem iudicum quem mi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4363. Royal MS 13 A I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A I
Title:
Historia Alexandri Magni and other texts relating to Alexander the Great
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes four works forming a compendium of Alexander's legends in Latin. Contents: ff. 2r-51v: Pseudo-Callisthenes, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated from Greek into Latin by Julius Valerius, beginning, 'De nectanabi prudentia atque...' ff. 51v-78r: Epistola Alexandri ad Ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

4364. Royal MS 13 A III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A III
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-133r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae, including the prologue addressed to Robert, Earl of Gloucester (ff. 1r-v); the prologue to the Prophecies of Merlin and epistle to the Bishop of Lincoln (ff. 68r-v). Book 9, chapter 20 and Book 10, chapter 1 are lacking (a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

4365. Royal MS 13 A XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A XIV
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, and other texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of texts, principally in Latin, written in Ireland between the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century, and which formerly belonged to the Dominican convent at Limerick. They include a copy of the Topographia Hiberniae (Topography of Ireland), an a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4366. Royal MS 13 E VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 E VI
Title:
Ralph of Diceto, Series causae inter Henricum regem et Thomam archiepiscopum, Abbreviationes chronicorum, and Imagines historiarum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of the major works of Ralph of Diceto (b. c. 1120, d. c. 1202), a medieval chronicler, archdeacon of Middlesex and dean of St Paul's Cathedral. The Abbreviationes chronicorum (Abbreviations of chronicles) and Imagines historiarum (Images of History) are two chroni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1199-1209
Extent:
1 volume

4367. Royal MS 14 B V

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 B V
Title:
Genealogical Chronicle of the English Kings
Scope & Content:
Contents: A roll chronicle containing the genealogy of the kings of England from the Heptarchy to Edward I as a king (1272-1307), but without portraits of his children, in the form of a diagram of interconnected roundels with portraits of kings in colours and gold, and an accompanying commentary...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 roll

4368. Royal MS 14 B XXXII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 B XXXII
Title:
Declaration of expenses of the navy between Wales and Ireland by Sir Anthony Poyntz, Vice-Admiral, 8 April-23 September 1523
Scope & Content:
A roll containing a declaration of expenses of Henry VIII's 'navye on the see between Wales and Irelond', by Sir Antony Poyntz (b. 1480, d. 1533), Vice-Admiral, 8 April-23 September 1523. The recto records the expenses for ten ships in the king's navy: the Minion, the George of Fowey, the Chris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1523
Extent:
A paper roll

4369. Royal MS 15 A I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A I
Title:
Jane Lumley, translation of Isocrates, Archidamus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Archidamus, one of the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley. The manuscript is a presentation copy, probably intended as a New Year's gift fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4370. Royal MS 15 A X/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A X/1
Title:
Fragment of the mortuary roll of Ralph 'the Simple', Abbot of Thorney
Scope & Content:
Three joined leaves containing a part of the mortuary roll of Ralph 'the Simple' (d. c. 1216), Abbot of the Benedictine abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Botolph, Thorney, Cambridgeshire. Originally prior of Freiston Priory, Ralph took up his abbacy in 1199 after the deposition of Robert I...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1216
Extent:
1 roll

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