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2181. Royal MS 18 B XXIX

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Royal MS 18 B XXIX
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TREATISE entitled 'A true Description of the life o Claudius of Guyse, Abbot of Cluny in Fraunce, conteineinge his diuelish deedes even almost from his birth to the death of the Cardinall of Lorraine, &c. Translated out of frenshe into English by W. Shute, 1599'. The original French work wit...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1599
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1 item

2182. Royal MS 18 B XXV

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Royal MS 18 B XXV
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HOMILIES for Festivals, in English. The collection, which differs but slightly from another in Harley MS. 2247, consists of eighty-nine (originally ninety?) sermons in two series, de tempore and (f. 82) de sanctis. About 55 are more or less closely parallel in contents to the corresponding sermo...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2183. Royal MS 18 B XXVI

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Royal MS 18 B XXVI
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HISTORY of the Crusades, in English, in five books. Books i-iv deal respectively with the expeditions of Robert, Duke of Normandy, Godfrey of Bouillon, Richard Coeur- de-Lion, and Edward I; and book v is a translation from the French of the Flos Historiarum of Frere Haiton [Hethoum, Prince of Go...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1518-1520
Extent:
1 item

2184. Royal MS 18 B XXVII

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Royal MS 18 B XXVII
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'A BOKE of the authorite and an absolute perfection of the holy scripture, compiled in Latine by the righte famous clerke Maister Henry Bullinger and now translated into Englyshe by William Gybson': translation of lib. i of Heinrich Bullinger's 'De scripturae sanctae auttoritate . . . deque epis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1548-1550
Extent:
1 item

2185. Royal MS 18 B XXVIII

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Royal MS 18 B XXVIII
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'A BRIEF SOMME of Geographia, which dothe treat o all partes and provinces of the worlde and specially of countreis lately dyscovered by your maiestie and by themperour Charles of that name the vth and of the kynges of Portugall and Spayne' (so described in the introductory letter to Henry VIII)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1535-1543
Extent:
1 item

2186. Royal MS 18 B XXX

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Royal MS 18 B XXX
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TABLE of contents of an anonymous treatise, or scheme for a treatise, called 'The Revelation of the Divine Majestie', in 24 books and a preface. Each of the books has for title a word or passage of Genesis i. 1-5. It is of a cosmographical, and in parts alchemical (cf. Bk. 4, 5), character rat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2187. Royal MS 18 B XXXI

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Royal MS 18 B XXXI
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THE FALL OF PRINCES: poem by John Lydgate in nine books (5140 x 7 + 19 x 8 lines), being his translation of Laurent de Premierfaits French version of Giovanni Boccaccio's Latin prose work De casibus Virorum Illustrium. The divisions between the books are generally only distinguished by a somewha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

2188. Royal MS 18 C I

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Royal MS 18 C I
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MISCELLANEOUS genealogical, heraldic, and historical collection, possibly by one of the Styward family of Ely, though it does not seem to contain any of the same hands as Add. MS. 15644 or Egerton MSS. 2162, 2599. Included are:- 1. Pedigree (to circ. 1600) of the descendants of Sir William Bran...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

2189. Royal MS 18 C II

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Royal MS 18 C II
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Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
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Contents: f. i recto: A fragment of two inquisitions post-mortem of Elizabeth, wife of John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby, written in Latin, the second dated 7 August, 1 Hen [IV, i.e. 1400]. f. 1r: 'Counsels of Prudence', an 8-line extract from John Lydgate's Troy Book (Bk. II, ll. 1849-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2190. Royal MS 18 C III

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Royal MS 18 C III
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'MR. [HUGH] HALLES a priestes discourse of gardeninge applied to a spirituall vnderstandinge'. For the author, whose Christian name is given in the Lumley cat., see Cal. State Papers, Domestic, 1581-1590, pp. 128, 129, 138, 142. In treating of the uses of the ordinary gardening tools, viz. the s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 item

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