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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXVII
Title:: Sawles Warde, Lives of Saints, Prayers and Hymns in Middle English
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-70: Five early Middle English religious works in alliterative prose, believed to be of West Midlands origin, dating from the 1st half of the 13th century (ff. 1-70); ff. 71-97: Prayers and hymns from the 1st quarter of the 15th century (ff. 71-97).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century-Early 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXVII, ff1-70
Title:: Sawles Warde; Lives of Saints Katherine, Margaret and Juliana; Oreison of Seinte Marie
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10v: Sawles Warde, a homily on Matthew 24.43; ff. 11r-70r: Lives of St Katherine (ff. 11r-37r), St Margaret (ff. 37r-56r) and St Juliana (ff. 56r-70r) ff. 70r-v: The Oreison of Seinte Marie. The above texts are part of a group of works known as 'the Katherine group', also f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1200-1249
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXVII, ff71-97
Title:: Prayers, hymns and miscellaneous religious texts, including verses on the Arma Christi or Symbols of the Passion
Scope & Content:: Contents: Prayers, hymns and miscellaneous religious texts, including verses on the Arma Christi or Symbols of the Passion. Decoration: 24 framed miniatures in colours of the symbols of the Passion with leaf decoration (ff. 72v-79r). Rubrics and text in red (e.g., ff. 80r-81r). Initials in bl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: ALBUM of ornamental writing, in gilt and colours, with illuminated initials of a rough, chiefly grotesque, nature, dedicated [to Queen Elizabeth ?] by 'your grace's most humble and obedient servant during life, Jeremy Delahay, dwelling by the Artillirie yard neere Bishopsgate streete'. The extra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXX
Title:
Scope & Content:: TRANSLATION into English of Seneca's Epistles 92 and 18 joined in one, by Henry Parker, 10th Lord Morley (d. 1556). Dedicated to the Lady [afterwards Queen] Mary. Probably the presentation copy and one of a series of new-year's gifts from Lord Morley to the Princess (cf. 17 A. XLVI, 17 C. XII, 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1509-1547]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXXI
Title:
Scope & Content:: BRIEF SURVEY of the ordnance, powder, shot, and other munition in the Tower of London, 3 May, 1603, with signed dedication to James I by John Linewraye (knighted 1604), Surveyor General of the Ordnance. Included also are:-(a) Names of ships, pinnaces, galleys, &c., with their ordnance. f. 5 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 3 May 1603
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXXII
Title:
Scope & Content:: TRACTS on astrological and medical subjects, in English, viz.:- 1. 'Here begynnyth the Boke of Astronomy and of Philosophie constructe and compilat of the wiseste philosophers and astronomyers that euer were sethe the worlde was bygonne, that is for to sey that in the londe of Grece was an Engl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXXIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: CONSTRUCTION and use of the Ring-dial : a tract addressed, probably as a new-year's gift, to Edward VI, circ. 1552/3. At the foot of the last folio appears the name, probably as author, of Ottuel Hollynshed [fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, a cousin of Raphael Holinshed, the chronicler, see...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1552
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXXIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A KICKSY WINSYE or a lerry cum twang, wherin John Taylor hath satirically suited eight hundred of his bad debtors, that will not pay him for his returne of his jorney from Scotland ' : a satirical poem on debtors, by John Taylor, the Water-poet. Beg. 'You worthy worthyes, of yt liberall tribe'....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1618-1619
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XXXIX
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'ARCHEION, or of the High Courts of justice in Inglande', by William Lambarde. Ends imperfectly at p. 104 of the edition of 1635, with which this copy agrees except at ff. 19 b-20 (cf. pp. 59-67). For other copies see Hargrave MSS. 227, f. 157, 249, f. 163, Add. MS. 32103, f. 96. Paper; ff. 30....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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