Search

Project / Collection Royal Collection Digitised Content No

1431. Royal MS 16 G II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 G II
Title:
Scope & Content:
ROMANCE of Les Quatre Fils Aimon; more fully described by Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, p. 619. Without title, but 'Les iiii filz Aymont' in a 15th cent. hand is on the fly-leaf. The prose romance (cf. 15 E. VI, art. 6) has here a verse opening in 617 alexandrines, apparently abridged from the long...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1432. Royal MS 16 G III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 G III
Title:
Scope & Content:
'VITA CHRISTI' and 'La Vengance de la mort Jhesu Crist'. The same two works occur in Paris MS. fonds fr. 181 (formerly 6844), executed for Louis de Gruthuyse (see Van Praet, Recherches sur Louis de Bruges, p. 119). The style of the preface to art. 2 rather suggests the compiler of 16 G. I, and i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1479
Extent:
1 item

1433. Royal MS 16 G IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 G IV
Title:
Scope & Content:
'LE LIVRE des Sains Angeles, compile par frere Francois Eximinez de lordre des freres myneurs a la requeste de messire Pierre dartes chambellan du roy darragon': anonymous translation from the Libro de los Sanctos Angeles of Francisco Ximenez, a Franciscan, afterwards Bishop of Elne and Patriarc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1434. Royal MS 16 G IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 G IX
Title:
Scope & Content:
XENOPHON, Cyropaedeia, translated into French by Vasco Fernandes de Lucena (cf. 15 D. IV) from the Latin version of Poggio Bracciolini, Preceded by a table of contents. Title (f. 10 b) 'Cy commence le premier livre de listoire Cyrus roy de Perse composee par Xenophon le philozophe et intitulee d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1470-1480
Extent:
1 item

1435. Royal MS 16 G VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 G VII
Title:
Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César; Li Fet des Romains
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 'Les anciennes hystoires romainnes' (The Ancient History of the Romans). The work consists of two separate texts: the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César (Ancient History until Caesar) and Li Fet des Romains (The Acts of the Romans). The text of the Histoire ancienne compris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

1436. Royal MS 17 A II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 A II
Title:
Scope & Content:
TABLES and maps, in colours, of the tides 'abowte the costes of Frawnce, Flawnders, Bryttaine, Wales, Irelonde, and Spayne', by John Marshall, 'a poore travayler' in the service of Henry VIII and Edward VI; with a dedication to [Henry FitzAlan,] Earl of Arundel (1542-1579), and on f. 2 are his a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1553-1579
Extent:
1 item

1437. Royal MS 17 A III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 A III
Title:
Scope & Content:
TREATISES and collections on medical and astrological subjects, together with a charter of the London Weavers' Company, viz.: 1. Tract on urines, in twelve chapters. Imperf by loss of one leaf at beg. It seems to be the Latin original of an English tract contained in Sloane MSS. 706, ff. 4 b-20...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item

1438. Royal MS 17 A IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 A IV
Title:
Scope & Content:
'A VEW of the lawes statuts and courses held by the late Quene Elizabeth against Popish Recusants': an address to James I by Thomas Felton on his services since 24 Aug. 1597 in discovering the lands and goods of Recusants, with copies of correspondence of Thomas [Sackville], Baron Buckhurst, Lor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1603
Extent:
1 item

1439. Royal MS 17 A IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 A IX
Title:
Scope & Content:
THE LIFE of Henry FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel (d. 1580), written probably by a member of his household shortly after his death. Printed from this MS. by J. Gough Nichols, Gentleman's Magazine, ciii, 1833, pt. ii, pp. 11, 118, 210; see also Dict. Nat. Biogr. xix, p. 88. Paper; ff. 37. 8vo. 6 in. x...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

1440. Royal MS 17 A L

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 A L
Title:
Scope & Content:
SUGGESTIONS and plans for the better ordering of the trained bands of the county of Sussex and for the keeping of them in continual readiness, by James Colbrond [father of Sir John Colbrand, 1st Bart. ?]; addressed to the Lord High Treasurer [Thomas Sackville, Baron Buckhurst, Earl of Dorset 160...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1600
Extent:
1 item

Limit your search

more »
more »
more »
more »