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1501. Royal MS 15 A IX

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Royal MS 15 A IX
Title:
Jane Lumley, translations of Isocrates, Orationes, and Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis
Scope & Content:
This volume is a commonplace book containing the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley, and written in her hand. Two of the orations are prefaced by dedicatory epistles to her f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1502. Royal MS 15 A VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A VII
Title:
Collection of Latin poetry and fables, including Statius, Achilleis, and Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of Latin works, probably arranged as part of a school curriculum. They include the unfinished epic poem, the Achilleid, by the Greco-Roman author Publius Papinius Statius (b. c. 45, d. c. 96); a popular collection of proverbial wisdom, known as the Catonis D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1503. Royal MS 15 A XVI, ff 1r-73v

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Royal MS 15 A XVI, ff 1r-73v
Title:
Juvencus, Evangelia, Aldhelm of Sherborne, Enigmata (imperfect); Bede the Venerable, De arte metrica (extract, chapter 25)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A table of contents written by different hands including an inscription referring to the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine, Canterbury, preceded by a medieval pressmark. A seal with a ship at the bottom of the folio. ff. 2r-57r: Juvencus (fl. c. 330), Evangelia (Gospels) with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 15 A XVI

1504. Royal MS 15 A XVI, ff 74-84

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Royal MS 15 A XVI, ff 74-84
Title:
Martin the Irishman, Scholica graecarum glossarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 74v-83v: Martin the Irishman (b. 819, d. 875), Scholica graecarum glossarum; alphabetical glossary of words chiefly of Greek origin: Decoration: Initial and rubric in red (f. 74v). Added in the 11th century: full page outline drawing of a Romanesque building with towers (f. 84 u...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 15 A XVI

1505. Royal MS 17 B XXVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 B XXVIII
Title:
Book of expenses of Princess Mary, with an inventory of her jewels; catalogue of printed books in the Royal Library
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a record of the household expenses of Princess Mary, later Mary I (r. 1553-1558), Queen of England, for the period 1536-1544. The accounts feature marginal notes and corrections written in Mary's hand, and her signature inscribed at the end of each month for the first ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1536-1581
Extent:
1 volume

1506. Royal MS 18 C II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 C II
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
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

1507. Royal MS 19 B IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B IV
Title:
Les Dits Moraulx des Philosophes, a French translation of Guillaume de Tignonville's Dicta moralia antiquorum philosophorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Les Dits Moraulx des Philosophes (The Moral Sayings of the Philosophers), a French translation of the Latin Dicta moralia antiquorum philosophorum by Guillaume de Tignonville, or Thignonville (d. 1414), Councillor to King Charles VI of France and Prevost of Par...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1508. Royal MS 20 D XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 D XI
Title:
Cycle of Guillaume d'Orange
Scope & Content:
A collection of chansons de geste known as the Grand cycle de Guillaume d'Orange about the deeds of the legendary French hero William of Orange and his extended family. The Grand cycle comprises both the Cycle de Guillaume and the Cycle de Narbonne. These include tales of Guillaume's ancestors, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1509. Sloane Ch XXXII 13

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane Ch XXXII 13
Title:
Chirograph of an arbitration between Lady Katherine and John Latimer
Scope & Content:
Chirograph of an arbitration by Thomas of Hamstead, John Warduton, John Wakelin, parson of Cotsbrook, and John of Wardford, chaplain, granting to Lady Katherine in her dispute with John Latimer that she may have the rooms from the chapel to the great hall in Braybrooke Castle (Northamptonshire) ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1355
Extent:
1 leaf

1510. Sloane Ch XXXIII 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane Ch XXXIII 6
Title:
Grant by Cecilia Minchun to her granddaughters Margery and Clarice, of land in Redmarley
Scope & Content:
Grant by Cecilia Minchun of Redmarley, widow, to Margery and Clarice, daughters of Helie, daughter of Cecilia, of two acres of land in the Broadfield (lato campo) of Radmarley (Gloucestershire), in return for a payment of half a mark of silver. Endorsed: in a 16th-century hand, ‘Rydmaleye’. Af...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

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