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Project / Collection Royal Manuscripts Digitisation Project Archive Reference (shelfmark) Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X

11. Royal MS 2 B VII, ff 84r-280r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 2 B VII, ff 84r-280r
Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Psalter, illustrated with miniatures of the Life of Christ, and bas-de-page scenes with images from the bestiary, legends of saints, and other sources (including hunting scenes). Descriptions: f. 84r: Inscription by Henry Manners, 2nd earl of Rutland (1526 - 1563), courtier and soldier, arrest...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1310-1320
Extent:
196 folios.

12. Royal MS 2 B VII, ff 280v-302r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 2 B VII, ff 280v-302r
Title:
Canticles, with scenes from the Passion
Scope & Content:
Canticles, with scenes from the Passion of Christ and other miniatures. Decoration: f. 280v: Miniature of four scenes of the Resurrection in quatrefoils, with: (top left) Christ lying in the uncovered sepulchre, with soldiers apparently repulsing a disciple (perhaps Joseph of Arimathaea); (top...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1310-1320
Extent:
22 folios.

13. Royal MS 2 B VII, ff 302v-318v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 2 B VII, ff 302v-318v
Title:
Litany, with miniatures of saints and scenes from the Bible
Scope & Content:
Litany, with miniatures of saints, scenes from the Bible, and bas-de-page scenes. Decoration: f. 302v: Miniature of the Last Judgement, with an historiated initial 'R' of a group of bishops, and a bas-de-page scene of Paul giving a letter to a messenger. f. 303r: Two-register miniature of P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1310-1320
Extent:
17 folios.

14. Royal MS 2 B VII, ff 319r-319v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 2 B VII, ff 319r-319v
Title:
Later inscription by customs officer
Scope & Content:
Inscription by Customs Officer Baldwin Smith, who seized the manuscript in the course of his duties in October 1553 and presented it to Queen Mary Tudor: inscribed 'hunc librum nautis ad exteros transvehendum datu[m]: / spectatus et honestus vir Baldwinus Smithus Londini / a portoriis et vectigal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1553
Extent:
1 folio.

15. Royal MS 6 C I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 6 C I
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Ownership marks and inscriptions relating to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury and the Old Royal Library. ff. 2r-3v: A set of letters between Isidore of Seville and Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), written in Latin, beginning, 'Domino meo et dei servo.....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

1 volume

16. Royal MS 10 E IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 10 E IV
Title:
Decretals of Gregory IX with gloss of Bernard of Parma (the 'Smithfield Decretals')
Scope & Content:
The Decretals of Gregory IX, edited by Raymund of Penyafort (or Peñafort); with the glossa ordinaria of Bernard of Parma in the margin. The text is dedicated to the University of Paris (f. 4r), but both the text and gloss were written in Southern France, probably in Toulouse, and include a chara...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300-c 1340
Extent:

314 folios.

17. Royal MS 11 E XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 11 E XI
Title:
Magister Sampson, Benedictus de Opitiis and others, Motets
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a collection of motets by a 'Magister Sampson', formerly believed to be bishop of Chichester 1536 and of Coventry and Lichfield 1543-1554, but now thought to be a composer from the Netherlands, and by Benedictus de Opitiis, preceded by a hymn in honour of Henry VIII, with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1516
Extent:

17 folios.

18. Royal MS 12 C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C III
Title:
Filippo Alberici, Hieroglyphica and emblematic inscriptions
Scope & Content:
A SYSTEM of ideographic writing, in Latin, composed probably by an Italian at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century, and illustrated by coloured drawings of the emblems and examples of sentences constructed from them. Preceded by an index rerum 'quae ab Egytiis (sic) quondam hiero...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1507
Extent:

Parchment manuscript

19. Royal MS 12 C VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C VIII
Title:
Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues and Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes the Apologues by Pandolfo Collenuccio of Pesaro (ff. 3v-71r), and Lucian's Dialogues (ff. 71v-87v), prefaced with a dedicatory letter to Henry VIII by Geoffrey Chambers, who presented the book to the King on his retum from a journey to Italy (ff. 1v-3r). In the binding ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1509-c 1517
Extent:

87 + 19 folios.

20. Royal MS 12 C VIII/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C VIII/1
Title:
Detached binding from Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues and Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues (Royal MS 12 C VIII)
Scope & Content:
Post-1600 detached chemise binding embroidered with gold and silver thread and seed-pearls with the badge and motto of Prince Henry Frederick (1594-1612), formerly attached to Royal MS 12 C VIII and now stored separately.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1610
Extent:
Detached chemise binding