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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 E VI
Title:: Poems and Romances (the ''Talbot Shrewsbury book'')
Scope & Content:: A collection of fifteen romances, chivalric treatises, instructional texts, chronicles and statutes compiled as a gift to Margaret of Anjou, on her betrothal to Henry VI, from the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, who escorted her to England for the marriage in 1444. The contents are as follows: f. 1v: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1444-1445
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 B I, ff 1v-174r
Title:: Ardā vīrāf nāmah, by Zartusht Bahrām اردا ویراف نامه
Scope & Content:: A poetical version by Zartusht Bahrām Pazhdū of the book of Ardā Vīrāf, based on a Pahlavi original of the 9th/10th century, which describes his journey through heaven and hell and his return home afterwards. This copy has been transcribed in both Persian and Avestan scripts, reflecting a tradi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 B V
Title:: Yasna sādah
Scope & Content:: Yasna sādah (Avestan). Copied in Surat or Navsari, Gujarat and dated 7 Ardbihisht 1030 AY (1661) and copied by Herbad Darab b. Hira b. Chanda descended from Mobad Hormazyar Herbad Ramyar. The text is preceded by a table of the Avestan, Persian and Latin alphabets (ff. 1v-4r).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan
Date Range:: 1661
Extent:: Codex; 159 + iv ff.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 B VI
Title:: Khordah Avesta
Scope & Content:: A copy of the Khordah Avesta (‘little Avesta’), described as Kitāb zand avastā, a collection of prayers in Avestan, lacking the first folio. A Persian colophon (f. 67r) gives the date as Aneran (30th day), Ardibihisht (2nd month,) 1042 AY (1673), and the scribe’s name as Herbad Hormazyar Faramu...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan and Persian
Date Range:: 1673
Extent:: Codex. :ff. iii+67+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 C III
Title:: Dionysius Periegetes, Orbis descriptio (TLG 0084.001), imperfect
Scope & Content:: Dionysius Periegetes, Orbis descriptio (TLG 0084.001), imperfect, lacking lines 28, 294, 748, 816, 832, 833, 855-858. Marginal titles (ff 1r-19v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 33 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 C IV Part 1
Title:: John Tzetzes, Antehomerica
Scope & Content:: John Tzetzes, Antehomerica, Homerica and Posthomerica, with scholia, ff 3r-42v, inc. Ἀργαλέου πολέμοιο μέγαν πόνον Ἰλιακοῖο. Scholia inc. Ὁ παρὼν ποιητὴς φιλοσύντομος ὤν. Preceded by a title-leaf, ff 2r-v, with epitaphs of Laomedon and Hector and Δημητρίου ἐπῶν ποιητοῦ πρὸς τοὺς φθονερούς, taken ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1560-1603
Extent:: 46 folios

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