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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XIX
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Scope & Content:: 'AN ADMONYSYONE to evarye degrye, showing the right waye to joye and parfyte reste', &c., by Edward Wollaye: a series of poems on the duties of all classes of society, and warnings to evil-doers. Preceded by a dedication, prose preface, and poetical memorial to Queen Elizabeth. At the end (f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1558-1603]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XL
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Scope & Content:: 'THE KINGS SWORDE ordained of God', &c. : a sermon on Ps. xlv. 3, by William Loe, D.D., preached at Whitehall, 14 Jan. 1622[3] 'being the moneth of his ordinary wayting'. With a dedication to Prince Charles, in which he prays for his prosperous voyage [to Spain] and safe return, At the begin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1623
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLI
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Scope & Content:: 'THE COLONIES, beeing the seaventh booke of the second weeke of the noble, learned, and religious Lord of Bartas [Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas], translated by Josuah Sylvester, 1603.' Beg. 'While through the Worldes vnhaunted wildernes'. Preceded by a dedication, in verse, to James I, beg. 'Ou...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLII
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Scope & Content:: 'THE SWORNE BOOKE' of 'Honoryus' (see f. 4 b, 11. 3, 6): a translation of a book of magic, entitled (see Sloane MS. 3854, f. 138 b) 'Liber de vita anime racionalis, qui liber sacer uel liber angelorum vel liber iuratus nuncupatur, quem fecit Honorius magister Thebarum', purporting to be compiled...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLII-XLIV
Title:: The Sworne Book of Honorius and other texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: 3 parchment codices bound together in the following order: Royal MS 17 A xlii: The Sworne Book of Honorius and other magical texts, 15th century (ff. 1-82); Royal MS 17 A xiv: Curiosity, or The Curious Man, a poem translated from Latin or Spanish, 17th century (ff. 1-12); Royal MS...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th to 17th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: ANIMADVERSIONS by [William] Hopkinson [of St. John's College, Cambridge, see Cooper, Ath. Cantabr. ii, p. 5] on some translations from the Hebrew Old Testament into Latin by Immanuel Tremellius (see his Testamenti Veteris Biblia Sacra, 1580). Paper; ff. 23. 71/2 in. x 51/4 in. Late XVI cent. No...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: A WOULD-BE POEM, without rhyme, or sense, apparently a very literal translation (? from the Italian or Spanish) of a poem on 'Curiosity' or 'The Curious Man' (?). Beg. 'Perchaunce hit might bee best to shun at all that home'. Paper; ff. 12. 71/2 in. x 53/4 in. Early XVII cent. Not in the old ca...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLIX
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A CERTAINE TREATISE cauled the institution of a christen prince or ruler, collected by Erasmus of Rotherodame': an abstract of the Institutio principis Christiani of Erasmus (Opera, 1703-1706, iv, p. 562) by John, Lord Lumley (whose signature occurs at the end), 1550. Addressed to his father-in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1550
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLV
Title:
Scope & Content:: LEGAL ABRIDGEMENT or common-place book, alphabetically arranged, Abbe-Wrecke, with additions at the end. Law French. The authorities cited are nearly all from year-books, &c., tempp. Hen. VI-Hen. VII. On. f. 2 are a few aphorisms in Latin. Paper; ff. 384. 71/2 in. x 61/2 in. XVII cent. Much ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XLVI
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Scope & Content:: 'THE LAUDE or prayse to be saide vnto the Virgyn Mary, mother of Chryste Jesu, made by the excellent clerke Erasmus in the Latten tonge and translatyd into Englyshe by Henry Parker, knyght, Lorde Morley': a translation of the 'Paean Virgini matri dicendus' of Erasmus (Opera, 1703-6, v, p. 1227)....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1509-1547]
Extent:: 1 item

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