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1. Royal MS 14 B III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 B III
Title:
Roll of maxims made for Jane Lumley, Baroness Lumley
Scope & Content:
A roll of maxims about pride, created for Jane Lumley (1537-78), Baroness Lumley, daughter of Henry FitzAlan (1512-80), 19th earl of Arundel. Monograms JOANNA LVMLEIA. Dated to between Jane’s marriage to John Lumley (d. 1609), 1st Baron Lumley, by 1553 and her death in 1578. A similar roll, po...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1553-1578
Extent:

1 roll

2. Royal MS 14 B XIX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 B XIX
Title:
Expenses of Princess Mary’s household
Scope & Content:
This roll contains the household expenses of Princess Mary (the future Mary I, r. 1552-1558), daughter of King Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547) and Catherine of Aragon (b. 1485, d. 1536). The account covers a one-and-a-half-year period from 1 July 1525 to 31 December 1526 (17 and 18 Henry VIII), when M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1525-1526
Extent:
1 roll

3. Royal MS 14 B XXVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 B XXVI
Title:
Expenses of the household departments of Princess Mary
Scope & Content:
The roll contains the household expenses of Princess Mary (the future Mary I, r. 1552-1558), daughter of King Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547) and Catherine of Aragon (b. 1485, d. 1536). The account lists the expenses of several household departments, comparing the expenditure made in October and other...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1525-1526
Extent:
1 roll

4. Royal MS 15 A II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A II
Title:
Jane Lumley, translation of Isocrates, Evagoras
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Evagoras, 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 and written in her own hand. The manuscript is a presentation copy, described in Lu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Royal MS 15 A IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A IX
Title:
Jane Lumley, translations of Isocrates, Orationes, and Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis
Scope & Content:
This volume is a commonplace book containing 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, and written in her hand. Two of the orations are prefaced by dedicatory epistles to her f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Royal MS 15 A VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A VII
Title:
Collection of Latin poetry and fables, including Statius, Achilleis, and Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of Latin works, probably arranged as part of a school curriculum. They include the unfinished epic poem, the Achilleid, by the Greco-Roman author Publius Papinius Statius (b. c. 45, d. c. 96); a popular collection of proverbial wisdom, known as the Catonis D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Royal MS 17 B XXVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 B XXVIII
Title:
Book of expenses of Princess Mary, with an inventory of her jewels; catalogue of printed books in the Royal Library
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a record of the household expenses of Princess Mary, later Mary I (r. 1553-1558), Queen of England, for the period 1536-1544. The accounts feature marginal notes and corrections written in Mary's hand, and her signature inscribed at the end of each month for the first ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1536-1581
Extent:
1 volume

8. Royal MS 19 B XVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B XVI
Title:
Le Miroir des Dames (an anonymous French translation of Durand de Champagne's Speculum Dominarum)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 15th-century copy of Le Miroir des Dames, an anonymous French translation of the Speculum dominarum, a treatise on queenship written for Jeanne de Navarre (b. 1273, d. 1305), Queen of France and wife of Philip IV (r. 1285-1314), by her confessor, Durand de Champ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1428
Extent:

1 volume

9. Royal MS 19 C VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 C VII
Title:
Geoffroy de la Tour-Landry, Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour-Landry; Renaut de Louhans, Mélibée et Prudence; Philippe de Mézières, Griseldis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry (The Book of the Knight of the Tower), written by Geoffroy IV de la Tour Landry (b. before 1330, d. between 1402 and 1406), a nobleman of Anjou, for the instruction of his daughters. The volume also contains a number of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume