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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XX
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Scope & Content:: DIALOGUE between Dives and Pauper, in eleven parts, part i treating of Holy Poverty, the other parts of the Ten Commandments. The authorship is uncertain, the attribution by Bale and others (repeated by John Theyer in this and the other Royal MS.) to Henry Parker, a Carmelite of Doncaster, who p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXI
Title:
Scope & Content:: THE SAME WORK, wanting two leaves (after ff. 22, 34) and without table of capitula. The text resembles that of the preceding MS. Many side-notes in a 16th cent. hand. Colophon, 'A nece nos tristi saluet pia passio Christi'. At the end (f. 245 b) is a table of epistles and gospels and references ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A FAITHFULL FRENDE and Remembrancer to a Generall of an Armie in Diuers Respects': a treatise on the Art of War by John Shoote, 'an auncient Captaine, one of the Marshals of her Maiesties Hall', 1598. At f. 50 is an account of the battle of Ivry, 1590. Given by the author, who was perhaps ident...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1598
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A TOUCHSTONE or triall of witches discoveringe them by scripture': consisting chiefly of passages of Scripture to be repeated by the suspects after the preacher. At the end are a few notes on other tests for witches. Paper; ff. 7. Quarto. 81/2 in. x 61/2 in. Early XVII cent. Not in the old cata...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: MEDICAL COLLECTION, viz.:- 1. Brief notes on urines, in Latin, including three series, viz.:-(a) Beg. 'Rufus, subrufus, significant perfectam digestionem'. f. 1;-(b) Beg. 'Vrina rufa significat salutem et bonam disposicionem'. f. 1 b;-(c) Beg. 'In vrina consideranda sunt diuersa'. f. 3 b. 2....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXIX
Title:
Scope & Content:: NARRATIVE, by James Bell, afterwards (1595) a prebendary in Wells Cathedral (see Dict. Nat. Biogr.), of the journey of Princess Cecilia, daughter of Gustavus I of Sweden, wife of Christopher, Margrave of Baden, from Stockholm, which she left with her husband, 13 Nov. 1564, a few days after their...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1565
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXV
Title:
Scope & Content:: SERMON on Ezekiel xxxiii. ii, preached at S. Paul's Cross, London [27 Oct. 1584], by Samuel Harsnet, fellow, of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, subsequently Bishop of Chichester (1609) and Norwich (1619), and Archbishop of York (1628). Printed in 1656 (with Three Sermons by Dr. Richard Stuart; 2nd ed....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXVI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE DIVYNE CLOWDE of Unknowynge': a religious treatise on contemplation, in 75 chapters (table, f. 2). Printed in a modernized form by Father H. Collins, The Divine Cloud, 1871 (see also an article by D. M. M'Intyre in The Expositor, Oct. 1907, p. 373). The authorship is unknown, the attributio...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: THE SAME WORK: a late copy, with modernized spelling, possibly from the preceding MS. Paper; ff. 65. Quarto. 83/4 in. x 63/4 in. End of XVI cent. Belonged to [John, Lord] Lumley (autogr. signature, f. 2). Lumley cat. f. 39 ; not in the other old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: SERMON on 2 (4) Kings xviii. 22, directed against the Church of Rome. Paper; ff. 19. Quarto. 83/4 in. x 63/4 in. Early XVII cent. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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