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2211. Royal MS 18 C XXIII

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Royal MS 18 C XXIII
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'A DEMONSTRATION of divers parts of Warre, especially of the Discipline of Cavalleria': treatise, addressed to Charles I, by Gen. Sir Edward Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon (d. 1638). Written towards the end of the author's life. The running title is 'The Demonstrance of Cavallerye'. A short extract i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1627-1638
Extent:
1 item

2212. Royal MS 18 C XXIV

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Royal MS 18 C XXIV
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DOCQUET-BOOK of signed bills as warrants for the Great Seal, entitled 'The note of all the billes signed by the Kinges maiestie and the counsaile', 19 Oct. 4 Edw. VI [1550]-3 July, 7 Edw. VI [1553] i.e. to the end of the reign. The margins are arranged in four columns giving date, nature of do...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1550-1553
Extent:
1 item

2213. Royal MS 18 C XXV

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Royal MS 18 C XXV
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AGLAURA, a tragedy, in five acts, by Sir John Suckling (d. 1642). With three prologues, the first to the general public, beg. 'I've thought vpon't, and cannot tell which way', the second 'for ye Court', beg. 'Those common passions, hopes and feares that still', and the third 'To ye king', beg. '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1638-1639
Extent:
1 item

2214. Royal MS 18 C XXVI

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Royal MS 18 C XXVI
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TRANSLATION of, and commentary on, the Psalter in English, attributed (assuming this to be the same work of which the first part is in 18 D. I, see below) to Richard Rolle of Hampole. The text is given verse by verse in Latin and English. The present volume contains Ps. lxxxix-cxvii (Vulgate num...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2215. Royal MS 18 D I

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Royal MS 18 D I
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TRANSLATION of, and commentary on, Ps. i-lxxix- (lxxx). 13, with prologue entitled 'Here bigynneþ þe prologe vppon þe sauter. þat Richard heremyte of Hampole translatid in to Englyshe. aftir þe sentence of doctours and resun'. For the question of the authorship of the commentary see the precedin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2216. Royal MS 18 D II

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Royal MS 18 D II
Title:
John Lydgate, Troy Book and Siege of Thebes, with verses by William Cornish, John Skelton, William Peeris and others
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: Added table of contents, 17th century (f. 1r). 1. John Lydgate, Testament (ff. 1v-5r); 2. John Lydgate, Troy Book (ff. 6r-146r); 3. John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes (ff. 147v-162r); 4. William Cornish, A Treatise between Information and Truth (ff. 163r-164r); 5. John ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1457-c 1530
Extent:

213 + 5 folios.

2217. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 1v-5r

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Royal MS 18 D II, ff 1v-5r
Title:
John Lydgate, Testament
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate, Testament, incipit: 'The testamente of John Lydgate, monke of Berry [Bury St Edmunds Abbey] whiche he made hymselfe by his lyre dayes'; without the prologue; explicit: 'Thus endethe testamente of John Lydgate monke of Bery on whose sowle Ihesu haue mercy. Et sic est finis. sit laus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
5 folios.

2218. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 6r-146r

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Royal MS 18 D II, ff 6r-146r
Title:
John Lydgate, Troy Book
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate, Troy Book, a verse paraphrase in five books of the prose Historia Troiana of Guido delle Colonne. Incipit: 'O mighty Mars, that with thy sterne lyght In armes hast the powere and the myght'; explicit: 'This litele boke lowly I betake Yt to supporte, and þus an ende I make.' Followe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1457-1460
Extent:
140 folios.

2219. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 147v-162r

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Royal MS 18 D II, ff 147v-162r
Title:
John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes, rubric: 'In this preambile shortly is comprihendid a mery conseyte of John Lydgate monke of Bury declarynge how he aionyde þe sege of Thebes to the mery tallys of Caunterburye'; prologue, incipit: 'Whan bright Phebus passyd was þe ram Mid of Aprile and in the bulle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1457-1460
Extent:
18 folios.

2220. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 163r-164r

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Royal MS 18 D II, ff 163r-164r
Title:
William Cornish, A Treatise between Information and Truth
Scope & Content:
William Cornish (or Cornysh, d. 1523), A Treatise between Information and Truth; title: 'In the Fleete maade be me William Cornysshe otherwyse called Nysshewhete, chapelman with the moost famost and noble kyng Henry the viith, his raigne the xixth yere, the moneth of July, a Treatise bitwene Tro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
2 folios.

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