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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 D XVII
Title:: Clement of Alexandria
Scope & Content:: Clement of Alexandria, Paedagogus, Hymnus Christi servatoris, and an anonymous iambic hymn.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 111 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 F IX
Title:: Histoire de Troie, a French translation of Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the Histoire de Troie (History of Troy), an anonymous French prose translation of the Historia destructionis Troiae (History of the destruction of Troy), written by the Italian judge and poet Guido delle Colonne (fl 13th century). This is the first of five Fren...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: Middle of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 G V
Title:: Des cleres et nobles femmes, an anonymous French translation of Boccacio's De mulieribus claris
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Des cleres et nobles femmes, an anonymous French translation of the poem De mulieribus claris (Concerning Famous Women), begun in 1361 by Giovanni Boccaccio (b. 1313, d. 1375) and revised several times before his death in 1375. The work is a moralizing compilation of bio...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c. 1440
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A I
Title:: Poem on the craft of masonry ('The Regius Manuscript')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-32: A Middle English poem on the craft of masonry, beginning 'Whoso wol boþe wel rede and loke'; ending 'Say we so alle . pur charyte'; with rubrics in Latin. The latter half of the poem is devoted to conduct when at church and in company, including: a) an account of the Four...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLII
Title:: Sworne Book of Honorius or Liber iuratus Honorii
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-15r: Sworne Book of Honorius (Liber iuratus Honorii), or Liber Sacer,chapters 1-5 (chapter 4 in Latin, the remainder in English); ff. 15r-23r: A treatise on Suffumigations (mostly in English, final paragraphs in Latin); ff. 23r-27r: Lists of classes of angels and spirits (op...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 17 A XLII-IV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLIII
Title:: Criticism of Old Testament translations
Scope & Content:: ?William Hopkinson, perhaps of St. John's College, Cambridge, (see Charles Henry and Thompson Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses, 3 vols (Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, 1858-1913) II 1586-1609, p. 5), A criticism of translations from the Hebrew Old Testament into Latin by Immanuel Tremellius (see his T...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 17 A XLII-IV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLIV
Title:: A Poem on Curiosity
Scope & Content:: Contents: A poem without rhyme, perhaps a very literal translation ? from Italian or Spanish of a poem on 'Curiosity' or 'The Curious Man', incipit: 'Perchaunce hit might bee best to shun at all that home'. This manuscript is bound together with Royal MS 17 A xlii (82 folios) and Royal MS 17...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 17 A XLII-XLIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXXVIII
Title:: Travels of Sir John Mandeville in Middle English
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. The text is based on a Middle English translation known as the 'defective version' because it is thought to have been translated from a manuscript in Anglo-Norman French that was lacking the second gathering, omi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 D XV
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect, including The Cook’s Tale of Gamelyn; Anonymous, Somnium Vigilantis; John Fortescue, The Declaration Made by John Fortescue; The Balet of the King; attributed to John Russell, The Book of Nurture. Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Genera...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 E IV
Title:: Ovide moralisé, a French translation of Ovid''s Metamorphoses
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-271r: Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, or Ovide moralisé, the second anonymous French translation of this Latin work, with a prologue and a list of contents (ff. 5r-12v); this version of the text is believed to have been used by Caxton for his translation; it is also found...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

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