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321. Royal MS 18 D II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II
Title:
John Lydgate, Troy Book and Siege of Thebes, with verses by William Cornish, John Skelton, William Peeris and others
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: Added table of contents, 17th century (f. 1r). 1. John Lydgate, Testament (ff. 1v-5r); 2. John Lydgate, Troy Book (ff. 6r-146r); 3. John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes (ff. 147v-162r); 4. William Cornish, A Treatise between Information and Truth (ff. 163r-164r); 5. John ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1457-c 1530
Extent:

213 + 5 folios.

322. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 1v-5r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 1v-5r
Title:
John Lydgate, Testament
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate, Testament, incipit: 'The testamente of John Lydgate, monke of Berry [Bury St Edmunds Abbey] whiche he made hymselfe by his lyre dayes'; without the prologue; explicit: 'Thus endethe testamente of John Lydgate monke of Bery on whose sowle Ihesu haue mercy. Et sic est finis. sit laus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
5 folios.

323. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 6r-146r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 6r-146r
Title:
John Lydgate, Troy Book
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate, Troy Book, a verse paraphrase in five books of the prose Historia Troiana of Guido delle Colonne. Incipit: 'O mighty Mars, that with thy sterne lyght In armes hast the powere and the myght'; explicit: 'This litele boke lowly I betake Yt to supporte, and þus an ende I make.' Followe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1457-1460
Extent:
140 folios.

324. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 147v-162r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 147v-162r
Title:
John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes, rubric: 'In this preambile shortly is comprihendid a mery conseyte of John Lydgate monke of Bury declarynge how he aionyde þe sege of Thebes to the mery tallys of Caunterburye'; prologue, incipit: 'Whan bright Phebus passyd was þe ram Mid of Aprile and in the bulle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1457-1460
Extent:
18 folios.

325. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 163r-164r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 163r-164r
Title:
William Cornish, A Treatise between Information and Truth
Scope & Content:
William Cornish (or Cornysh, d. 1523), A Treatise between Information and Truth; title: 'In the Fleete maade be me William Cornysshe otherwyse called Nysshewhete, chapelman with the moost famost and noble kyng Henry the viith, his raigne the xixth yere, the moneth of July, a Treatise bitwene Tro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
2 folios.

326. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 165r-166v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 165r-166v
Title:
John Skelton, On the Death of the Earl of Northumberland
Scope & Content:
John Skelton, On the Death of the Earl of Northumberland, an elegy on the death of Henry Percy, 4th earl of Northumberland, killed at Blackmoor Edge in 1489; title: 'Skelton laureat upon the dolorus dethe and muche lamentable chaunce of the mooste honorable Erle of Northumberlande'; preface inci...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
2 folios.

327. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 167r-180v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 167r-180v
Title:
Le assemble de dyeus
Scope & Content:
Le assemble de dyeus, an anonymous poem, attributed to John Lydgate in the 17th-century table of contents (f. 1r) and listed as 'The Discord betwixt Reason and Sensualytie written by Jhon Lydgate', but it is not Lydgate's poem 'Resoun and Sensuallyts'. Also attributed to Lydgate by Wynkyn de Wor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
14 folios + 1 blank unfoliated folio.

328. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 181r-183r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 181r-183r
Title:
John Lydgate, The reignes of the kyngis of Englande
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate, The reignes of the kyngis of Englande, a history in verse covering the period from William the Conqueror to Henry VI and continued by anonymous editors to Henry VIII. Prefatory stanza incipit: 'In this litill tretis men may se and be indusyde To the reyngne of the kingis of Ingland...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
3 folios.

329. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 183v-185v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 183v-185v
Title:
The blsyoure of the arms of kyngis
Scope & Content:
Description of the arms of various kings, entitled 'The blsyoure of the arms of kyngis', including the arms of the city of Jerusalem, the three kings of Cologne, Prester John, the Emperor of Constantinople, and other Christian and non-Christian monarchs. Title: 'The armes of certayne kyngis cris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
3 folios.

330. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 186r-195

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 186r-195
Title:
William Peeris, Descent of the Lords Percy
Scope & Content:
William Peeris, Descent of the Lords Percy, a chronicle of the Percy family, composed in c. 1516-1523. Chronicle in verse (97 stanzas, usually of rhyme royal, but longer stanzas occur irregularly), entitled, 'Here begynnythe the prolouge of this litle treatyse folowinge, whiche is the discente o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
10 folios.