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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B I
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Scope & Content:: 17 B. 1 CONCORDANCE to the New Testament in the later Wycliffite version, alphabetically arranged, with an interesting preface explaining the methods of the compiler, who is not named. Preface beg. 'Mannes mynde þat is ofte robbid'; text, 'Aaron: bi þe ordre of Aaron Heb. vii. co'. Some passag...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B II
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Scope & Content:: 'MAISTIR OF GAME': the treatise on hunting by Edward, second Duke of York (cf. 17 A. LV). Imperfect, wanting at the beginning one leaf with part of the table of contents, three (?) leaves after f. 12, two after f. 16, and one at the end. On ff. 2, 2 b are medical recipes in a 16th cent. hand, a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B III
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Scope & Content:: SERMON for Easter, on Matt. xxviii. 6. Beg. 'This feast wee celebrate in commemoration of our Saviour's triumph'. Imperfect. Paper; ff. 14. 71/4 in. x 51/4 in. XVII cent. (first half). This MS. and the net two are bound together. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B IV
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Scope & Content:: 'THEATRVM ACADEMIARVM or the Universitie of universities, containinge all such Academics as doe at this daye florish in our christian worlde . . . by Samuell Lewkenor, gentleman': a description of the universities in the several countries of Europe, dedicated to Lord Lumley, 8 Aug. 1599. The aut...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1599
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B IX
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Scope & Content:: 'A DISCOVERYE of popishe corruption requiringe a Kingely reformation', by William Crashawe, B.D., Preacher at the Temple. Autograph. With a dedication to James I, in which the writer accuses the Roman Catholics of 'falsifijnge of authors, alteringe their bookes, when they be deade, puttinge out ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B L
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Scope & Content:: TRANSCRIPTS of letters, &c., chiefly connected with Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, circ. 1590-1600, viz.:- 1. 'Verses made by the Earle of Essex in his Trouble'; printed in A. B. Grosart's Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies Library, iv, p. 97, W. B. Devereux' Lives of the Earls of Es...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B V
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Scope & Content:: ROYAL COMMISSION to John [Whitgift], Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir Thomas Egerton, Knight, Lord, Keeper, Thomas [Sackville], Baron Buckhurst, Lord High Treasurer, Bishops, Privy Councillors, and many others as members of the High Commission for Causes Ecclesiastical, and for carrying out and enf...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B VI
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Scope & Content:: 'TO THE UNITY of Greate Brittayne, Liber 2, siue de Legibus antiquae Britanniae', by George Saltron [al. Saltern], of the Middle Temple (entered from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1590): a discourse chiefly on the spurious letter of Pope Eleutherus to King Lucius (Jaffé- Wattenbach, no. 69). Dedicat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B VII
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Scope & Content:: 'A REBUKE to rebellion': a poem in thirty-four ninelined stanzas, by Thomas Churchyard. Begins: 'Myne eyes they wepe, my hart it bledes in brest, My soule doth sobbe, my bodie quakes for feare'. Ends: 'Then shall my mouth, my mynd, my pen and all Be prest to serve, at each good subjects call'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B VIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A TABLE BOOKE for a Prince, contayninge shorte remembrances for the government of himselfe and his empire. By P[atrick] S[cot].' With a dedication to Prince Charles, afterwards Charles I. Printed, with considerable variations, as A Table-Booke for Princes 1621. Paper; ff. 58. 73/4 in. x 61/4 i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

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