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1741. Royal MS 18 C XXI

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Royal MS 18 C XXI
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OFFICIAL RETURNS of the forces of the Navy and Army of England, in view of the threatened invasion by Spain in 1588. Copies. The contents are as follows:- 1. Navy, viz.:-(a) Copy of 'The Lo. Admiralls [Charles Howard Lord Howard of Effingham] commission for returning to the Seas, August, 1588' ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 item

1742. Royal MS 18 C XXII

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Royal MS 18 C XXII
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CONFESSIO AMANTIS, by John Gower. The copy has (a) the prologue in which the author calls the poem 'A book for Kyng Richardis sake' (l. 24) and where the date '1390' (f. 3, col. I ) is mentioned in red;-(b) the explicit of six lines containing (ll. 5, 6) the reference to [Henry,] Earl of Derby;-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1743. Royal MS 18 C XXIII

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Royal MS 18 C XXIII
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'A DEMONSTRATION of divers parts of Warre, especially of the Discipline of Cavalleria': treatise, addressed to Charles I, by Gen. Sir Edward Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon (d. 1638). Written towards the end of the author's life. The running title is 'The Demonstrance of Cavallerye'. A short extract i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1627-1638
Extent:
1 item

1744. Royal MS 18 C XXIV

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Royal MS 18 C XXIV
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DOCQUET-BOOK of signed bills as warrants for the Great Seal, entitled 'The note of all the billes signed by the Kinges maiestie and the counsaile', 19 Oct. 4 Edw. VI [1550]-3 July, 7 Edw. VI [1553] i.e. to the end of the reign. The margins are arranged in four columns giving date, nature of do...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1550-1553
Extent:
1 item

1745. Royal MS 18 C XXV

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Royal MS 18 C XXV
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AGLAURA, a tragedy, in five acts, by Sir John Suckling (d. 1642). With three prologues, the first to the general public, beg. 'I've thought vpon't, and cannot tell which way', the second 'for ye Court', beg. 'Those common passions, hopes and feares that still', and the third 'To ye king', beg. '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1638-1639
Extent:
1 item

1746. Royal MS 18 C XXVI

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Royal MS 18 C XXVI
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TRANSLATION of, and commentary on, the Psalter in English, attributed (assuming this to be the same work of which the first part is in 18 D. I, see below) to Richard Rolle of Hampole. The text is given verse by verse in Latin and English. The present volume contains Ps. lxxxix-cxvii (Vulgate num...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1747. Royal MS 18 D I

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Royal MS 18 D I
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TRANSLATION of, and commentary on, Ps. i-lxxix- (lxxx). 13, with prologue entitled 'Here bigynneþ þe prologe vppon þe sauter. þat Richard heremyte of Hampole translatid in to Englyshe. aftir þe sentence of doctours and resun'. For the question of the authorship of the commentary see the precedin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1748. Royal MS 18 D IV

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Royal MS 18 D IV
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JOHN LYDGATE, Fall of Princes (cf. 18 B. XXXI). In nine books. Imperfect, wanting one leaf after f. 32 (bk. i, ch. xiv, ll. 337-504), six after f. 41 (bk. i, ch. xxiii in ed. printed by J. Wayland [1558 ?] or xxii in ed. 1554, beg. 'After this Pirrhus' to bk. ii, ch. ii, l. 126), two quires (pre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1446-1470
Extent:
1 item

1749. Royal MS 18 D IX-X

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Royal MS 18 D IX-X
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Bible Historiale, Volumes 1 and 2
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These two volumes (Royal 18 D. IX and Royal 18 D. X) contain part of the second edition of the Bible Historiale, a French adaptation by Guyart des Moulins (c. 1291-95) of Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica. The fourth volume is Royal MS 15 D I, but it was written previously and altered to inc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1479
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Two parchment volumes

1750. Royal MS 18 D V

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Royal MS 18 D V
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JOHN LYDGATE, Fall of Princes (cf. 18 D. IV). A quire of eight leaves after f. 184 (bk. viii, ch. xiii, l. 176- ch. xxv, 1. 14) and two leaves after f. 210 (bk. ix, ch. xxxiii, 1. i-ch. xxxiv, 1. 217) have been lost and supplied in a 16th cent. hand. The text, as in 18 B. XXXI has a lacuna of se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

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