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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXX
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Scope & Content:: 'THE INSTITVTION of a Christen man', otherwise known as the Bishops' Book: a copy of one of the editions printed (cf. B. M. press-mark 3932. e. 30) by Thomas Berthelet in 1537. In the margins and on inserted leaves (some of the printed leaves being cut out) are draft corrections [by the King] co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1537-1538
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXXI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'DAUIDS DELIGHTS or A President for a Prince. Entitled to the thryse-noble, vertuous and most hopefull yonge Prince Henry Fredericke, Prince of Wales.' The writer holds up David as an example to the Prince to follow, illustrating his arguments by many quotations from the Scriptures, especially t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603-1612
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXXII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A DISCOUERIE of the true causes whie Ireland was never entirely subdued and brought vnder obedience of the Crowne of England vntill the beginning of his Majesties happie raigne. By [Sir John Davies,] his Majesties Attorney Generall of Ireland'. Printed in 1612. Paper; ff. 91. Quarto. 9 in. x 6...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXXIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: CLEMENT OF LLANTHONY'S Concordia Evangelistarum, followed by an appendix of other passages of Scripture designed to form an epitome of doctrine. For a discussion of the authorship of the translation, which is intimately connected with the earlier Wycliffite version of the New Testament, see Fors...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXXIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'AN INVECTIVE against Treason': a poem in fifty-two seven-line verses, with reference to the Gunpowder Plot, by Nicholas Breton. With an autograph dedication 'to the highe and moste Noble Lorde the Duke of Lineux' [Ludovic Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 1583-1624]. Printed first in 1616 as The Hate...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1610
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXXV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A DESCRIPTION of the seuerall fireworkes inuented and wrought by his Maiesties Gonners and what is intended to be performed (to the view) in euerie of them': five set-pieces [by john Nodes and Thomas Butler, at the Princess Elizabeth's marriage, 11 Feb. 1613], with illustrative coloured drawing...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1613
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXXVI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A TRUE BREUIAT of such sperate debtes [i.e. that may be expected to be paid] as are due to the Crowne of England since the 30th of Queen Elizabeth [1587-8] vntill Michaelmas in the xjth yeare' of the reign of James I [1613], certified by the several offices of the Remembrancers and Auditors to ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1617
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXXVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'ALARME to the Battle of that greate day of God Almightie': a religious anti-Roman discourse, by John Wade. This is only the first of six treatises set forth on the title-page. With a dedication to James I. Apparently autograph. Paper; ff. 19. Quarto. 9 in. x 63/4 in. Circ. 1620. Not in the old...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1620
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXXVIII
Title:: Travels of Sir John Mandeville in Middle English
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. The text is based on a Middle English translation known as the 'defective version' because it is thought to have been translated from a manuscript in Anglo-Norman French that was lacking the second gathering, omi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 D I
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'OF THE DOMES of Urines', by Henry Daniel: a treatise compiled in 1378 (see lib. ii, cap. 6, f. 47 b) or 1379 (Sloane MS. 1100, f. 118, in some Latin lines appended at the end). Other copies, usually with the prologue in Latin and often entitled Liber Uricrisiarum, are in Sloane MSS. 1100, 1721,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: 1 item

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