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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D II, ff 165r-166v
Title:: John Skelton, On the Death of the Earl of Northumberland
Scope & Content:: John Skelton, On the Death of the Earl of Northumberland, an elegy on the death of Henry Percy, 4th earl of Northumberland, killed at Blackmoor Edge in 1489; title: 'Skelton laureat upon the dolorus dethe and muche lamentable chaunce of the mooste honorable Erle of Northumberlande'; preface inci...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1516-1527
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D II, ff 167r-180v
Title:: Le assemble de dyeus
Scope & Content:: Le assemble de dyeus, an anonymous poem, attributed to John Lydgate in the 17th-century table of contents (f. 1r) and listed as 'The Discord betwixt Reason and Sensualytie written by Jhon Lydgate', but it is not Lydgate's poem 'Resoun and Sensuallyts'. Also attributed to Lydgate by Wynkyn de Wor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1516-1527
Extent:: 14 folios + 1 blank unfoliated folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D II, ff 181r-183r
Title:: John Lydgate, The reignes of the kyngis of Englande
Scope & Content:: John Lydgate, The reignes of the kyngis of Englande, a history in verse covering the period from William the Conqueror to Henry VI and continued by anonymous editors to Henry VIII. Prefatory stanza incipit: 'In this litill tretis men may se and be indusyde To the reyngne of the kingis of Ingland...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1516-1527
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D II, ff 183v-185v
Title:: The blsyoure of the arms of kyngis
Scope & Content:: Description of the arms of various kings, entitled 'The blsyoure of the arms of kyngis', including the arms of the city of Jerusalem, the three kings of Cologne, Prester John, the Emperor of Constantinople, and other Christian and non-Christian monarchs. Title: 'The armes of certayne kyngis cris...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1516-1527
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D II, ff 186r-195
Title:: William Peeris, Descent of the Lords Percy
Scope & Content:: William Peeris, Descent of the Lords Percy, a chronicle of the Percy family, composed in c. 1516-1523. Chronicle in verse (97 stanzas, usually of rhyme royal, but longer stanzas occur irregularly), entitled, 'Here begynnythe the prolouge of this litle treatyse folowinge, whiche is the discente o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1516-1527
Extent:: 10 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D II, ff 195v-211v
Title:: Proverbial and moral verses transcribed from the walls and ceilings of Percy's houses
Scope & Content:: Proverbial and moral verses transcribed from the walls and ceilings of Percy's houses, Leconfield and Wressel castles, two Yorkshire seats of the family (see Dickens 1955). The proverbis of the garett over the bayne at Kekingfelde' (sic); incipit: 'The sermountynge pleasure who can expresse' (f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1516-1527
Extent:: 11 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D III
Title:: The Burghley Atlas
Scope & Content:: An atlas of England and Wales, made by Christopher Saxton (1542x4–1610/11), map maker, under the patronage of Thomas Seckford (1515/16–1587), lawyer and administrator. Owned by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520/21-1598), royal minister, whose notes and annotations are found throughout. It ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1574-1592
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D IV
Title:
Scope & Content:: JOHN LYDGATE, Fall of Princes (cf. 18 B. XXXI). In nine books. Imperfect, wanting one leaf after f. 32 (bk. i, ch. xiv, ll. 337-504), six after f. 41 (bk. i, ch. xxiii in ed. printed by J. Wayland [1558 ?] or xxii in ed. 1554, beg. 'After this Pirrhus' to bk. ii, ch. ii, l. 126), two quires (pre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1446-1470
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D IX
Title:: Bible Historiale, Volume 1
Scope & Content:: The first of two volumes, the second of which is Royal MS 18 D X. The fourth volume is Royal MS 15 D I, but it was written previously and altered to include the arms of Edward IV. It is not known whether the third volume ever existed. It contains part of the second edition of the Bible Historial...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1479
Extent:: A parchment codex, 319 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D IX-X
Title:: Bible Historiale, Volumes 1 and 2
Scope & Content:: These two volumes (Royal 18 D. IX and Royal 18 D. X) contain part of the second edition of the Bible Historiale, a French adaptation by Guyart des Moulins (c. 1291-95) of Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica. The fourth volume is Royal MS 15 D I, but it was written previously and altered to inc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1479
Extent:: Two parchment volumes

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