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2041. Royal MS 17 D II

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Royal MS 17 D II
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'THE LYFE of Theseus': a translation by Henry Parker, Lord Morley (cf. 17 A. XXX, &c.), from Plutarch through the Latin version of ' Lappus Florentinus', i. e. Lapo Birago (printed 1478, 1496, &c.). With a prologue addressed to Henry VIII, whose style is that used after 1543. Vellum; ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1543-1547
Extent:
1 item

2042. Royal MS 17 D III

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Royal MS 17 D III
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'THE PLEASAUNT POESYE of princelie practise, composed of late in meatre royall by the symple and vnlearned Sir William Forrest preciste, muche parte collecte owte of a booke entiteled The gouernaunce of noblemen, which booke the wise philosopher Aristotele wrote too his discyple Alexandre the gr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1548
Extent:
1 item

2043. Royal MS 17 D IV

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Royal MS 17 D IV
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'THE MAISTER OF GAME': the treatise on hunting by Edward, 2nd Duke of York (1402-1415). The order of the chapters and the headings correspond with 17 B. XLI, but at the end is the Latin colophon :- 'Ardula (sic) lucra labor pariens non est honorosus. Dulcia sepi (sic) graui sub pondere munera c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2044. Royal MS 17 D IX

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Royal MS 17 D IX
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REGINALD PECOCK, 'Þe folewer to þe Donet': a sequel to the Donet into Cristen Religioun of the same author, who was Bishop of St. Asaph 1444 and of Chichester from 1450 till his resignation, circ. 1459. Some account of both works is given by C. Babington in his introduction to Pecock's Repressor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1450-1460
Extent:
1 item

2045. Royal MS 17 D V

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Royal MS 17 D V
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TWO MYSTICAL TREATISES on Theology, in English, viz.:- 1. 'The diuine clowde of vnknowynge' (so colophon); see 17 C. XXVI, XXVII. Certain passages scored through in red in 17 C. XXVI (ff. 7, 22) correspond to omissions in the text of this MS., the language of which is much modernized, but the r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2046. Royal MS 17 D VI

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Royal MS 17 D VI
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Thomas Hoccleve, The Regement of Princes, with other poems
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The manuscript includes five works by Thomas Hoccleve (b. c. 1367, d. 1426): 1. The Regement of Princes, incipit: 'Musyng up on the restles besynesse The which this troubly world hath ay on honde'. Includes marginal notes in Latin providing the sources of the text. Printed from this manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
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150 + 8 folios.

2047. Royal MS 17 D VII

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Royal MS 17 D VII
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A GODLY MEDITATION of Hieronymus Savanorola vpon the 80 [79] psalme of David, Qui Regis Israell, intede.' Beg. 'Forasmoche as we knowe the Lorde by workes'. Girolamo Savonarola's exposition was printed in Latin at Venice, 1505, and Italian and German translations in 1496 and 1542. Paper; ff. 35...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 16th century
Extent:
1 item

2048. Royal MS 17 D VIII

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Royal MS 17 D VIII
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'OON OF FOURE, þat is o book of alle foure gospeleris gaderyd schortly in to oo story by Clement of Lantony' (so colophon); cf. 17 C. XXXIII, art. i. Prologue beg. 'Clement a preest of þe chirche of Lantony gaderid alle þe sentensis'; text, 'In þe bigynnyng eipir first of alle pinges was goddis ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item

2049. Royal MS 17 D X

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Royal MS 17 D X
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PARAPHRASE in verse of Psalms xxi and xlv, by Edmond Skory, with a fulsome dedication in prose to James I. The writer was a son of John Scory, Bishop of Hereford (d. 1585), and another work of his was printed as An extract out of the Historie of the Last .King Henry the fourth, &c., 1610. He...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1603-1625]
Extent:
1 item

2050. Royal MS 17 D XI

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Royal MS 17 D XI
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'THE LIVES of Scipio and Haniball writen by Plutarke . . . and translated out of the Greke into Laten by Donatus Acciolus [Acciaiuoli], and out of Laten into Englishe by Henry Parker, Knight, Lorde Morleye' (cf. 17 A. XXX, &c.), with a prologue addressed to Henry VIII, whose style is that in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1523-1534
Extent:
1 item

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