Search

Project / Collection Royal Collection

2051. Royal MS 17 D XII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 D XII
Title:
Scope & Content:
'MAISTER OF GAME': the treatise on hunting by Edward, 2nd Duke of York. The order and titles of the chapters agree with the text printed from Cotton MS. Vespasian B. XII by Baillie-Grohman (cf. 17 A. LV, &c.). The title-page, 'A booke of hunting made by the Master of the game to Kinge Henry ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2052. Royal MS 17 D XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 D XIII
Title:
Scope & Content:
EXPOSITION of the Book of Ecclesiastes by Henry Parker, Knight, with a dedication to Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector, and a preface. The author does not seem to be the same as the Sir Henry Parker, 10th Lord Morley, who translated 17 A. XXX, &c.; for Morley, who is described...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1547-1550
Extent:
1 item

2053. Royal MS 17 D XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 D XIV
Title:
Scope & Content:
TRANSCRIPTS of works and letters, &c., of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor (exec. 1535), mostly written by him when a prisoner in the Tower (April, 1534-July, 1535). In English, with a few exceptions. Printed, with a few exceptions mentioned below, in The Workes of Sir T. More (ed. by Willia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1550-1557
Extent:
1 item

2054. Royal MS 17 D XIX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 D XIX
Title:
Scope & Content:
THE SAME WORK: a text more resembling 17 D. VI, but not a derivative of it. Rubric title erased except the last four words 'Gilis (sc. Aegidius de Columna) de regimine principum'. Side-notes as usual. Some, but not all, of the division headings are given. No portraits. The verses to Prince John ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2055. Royal MS 17 D XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 D XV
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect, including The Cook’s Tale of Gamelyn; Anonymous, Somnium Vigilantis; John Fortescue, The Declaration Made by John Fortescue; The Balet of the King; attributed to John Russell, The Book of Nurture. Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Genera...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2056. Royal MS 17 D XVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 D XVI
Title:
Scope & Content:
LIVRE contenant cinquante emblemes chrestiens premierement inuentez par la noble damoiselle Georgette de Montenay . . . escrits, tirez et tracez par la main et plume de moy Esther Inglis, l'an de mon aage cinquante et trois, a Lislebourg [Edinburgh] en Escosse, l'an 1624': drawings and verses co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1624
Extent:
1 item

2057. Royal MS 17 D XVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 D XVII
Title:
Scope & Content:
'AN EVANGELICALL TRAGOEDIE, or A Harmonie of the passion of our Lord Iesus Christe, paraphrastically expounded according to the Fower Evangelistes', in five acts, by 'Thomas Beard, Minister of the Word'. In the dedicatory letter to James I the author states that he has translated from a work by ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

2058. Royal MS 17 D XVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 D XVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:
THOMAS HOCCLEVE, The Regement of Princes (cf. 17 C. XIV, 17 D. VI, art. 1). Without title or portraits. Side-notes in Latin as usual. The treatise proper is divided by headings (De iusticia, De pietate, &c.), which do not appear in 17 D. VI and not always in Harley MS. 4866. There are also s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2059. Royal MS 17 D XX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 D XX
Title:
Scope & Content:
ANDREW OF WYNTOUN, Original Chronicle of Scotland, in verse, with other tracts, viz.:- 1. The orygynale cronykyl of Scotland, by Androwe of Wyntowne (so his name in the prologue), canon of St. Andrews and prior of St. Serf's Inch on Loch Leven.; compiled for Sir John Wemyss (d. 1428). The secon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2060. Royal MS 17 D XXI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 D XXI
Title:
Scope & Content:
CHRONICLE OF THE BRUTE in English prose to A. D. 1419, comprising the original text to 1333 and two continuations (B and C of Brie) to 1377 and 1419 (siege of Rouen) respectively; see F. W. D. Brie, Geschiche der mittelenglischen Prosachronik The Brute of England, Marburg, 1905, and his edition,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

Limit your search

more »
more »
more »
more »