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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C IV
Title:
Scope & Content:: ADDRESS to James I from his 'poore oppressed prisner and loyall subiect, Anthonic Atkinson'; 20 Apr. 1603. The writer, apparently a searcher at the port of Hull, refers to a previous book sent to the late Queen, which was 'the cause of the afflictions of Gilbert Wilkinson and myself'. He recomme...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Apr 1603
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C IX
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'AN ORATION of Coelius the second Cvrio for the trew and auncyent avthoritie of Christ his chvrche agaynst Antony Florebell of Mvtiny': a translation by John Philpott [Archdeacon of Winchester, Protestant martyr, d. 1555] of the Pro uera et antiqua ecclesiae Christi autoritate in Antonium Floreb...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1550-1551
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C V
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'OF THE SACRAMENT of thankesgeuing: a short treaties of Peter Martir's making.' A tract on the Eucharist (probably compiled from various works of Peter Martyr Vermigli) addressed to [Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset,] the Lord Protector, and dated Westminster, 1 Dec. [1548]. The contents are sum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1548
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C VI
Title:
Scope & Content:: DISSERTATION on a true pastor: a Roman Catholic tract addressed to, and written at the command of, the King [? James I] by W. E. Dedicatory letter beg. 'The lack of practize I haue in wrytinge'; text, 'Since both the lawe of nature'. Paper; ff. 20. Quarto. 81/4 in. x 6 in. Early XVII cent. Boun...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C VII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE OPENING of the unreasonable writing of our Inglish toung', by John Hart, Chester Herald, 1551. Preceded by a list of contents, a dedication to Edward VI, and 'the authors prologue to his countrey men'. On f. 1 b is a poetical address of four lines from 'the booke to the author', and the rep...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1551
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C VIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'MYROURE of Lyf': a long religious poem in Northern English, mainly, but not exclusively, founded on the Somme des vertus et des vices (or Somme le Roi) of Frère Laurent. It consists of a commentary on the Lord's Prayer, followed by an exposition of the seven gifts with their corresponding vices...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C X
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE THINGES that were scene and hearde by me, Josaphat Barbaro, citezein of Venice, on twoo voiages that I made, thone vnto Tana (Azov, in Russia) and thother into Persia': translation by William Thomas, Clerk of the Council to Edward VI, of Giosafat Barbaro's Viaggio ... alla Tana. Viaggio ......
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1550-1552
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'ONE of the highe Articles of the most holy Popishe Faythe, called Donatio Constantini. Translated into Deutche throughe Doctour Martyn Luther . . . 1537': anonymous translation of Luther's tract of that date. A hand in the margin, with a note in Cranmer's writing on f. 14 b, proves that this is...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1538
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE PREFACE of the greate Athanas[i]us in the Salmes of Davyd, Angelius Policianus interpreter owte of the Greke tong in to the Latyn': a translation of Magni Athanasii in Psalmos Opusculum Ange[to] Pol[itiano] interprete, 1519, by Henry Parker, 10th Lord Morley, with a prologue addressed to th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1509-1547]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A LADDER to heaven of twelve staves': a religious treatise on Christian virtues, in twelve divisions, probably adapted from a pre-Reformation treatise, or perhaps by a Roman Catholic. Beg. 'First seeke the Kingdome of God, &c. [Matth. vi. 33]. The first of the twelve ladder-steppes'. Paper...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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