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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LIII
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Scope & Content:: 'VINCVLA VNIONIS, siue Scita Britannica, id est De unione Insulae Britannicae tractatus secundus', the author's name 'per Dauid Humium Theagrium' being carefully erased here and again on f. 21: a sequel to a tract published in London, 1605, by David Hume, of Godscroft ('Theagrius') in Berwickshi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1605
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LIV
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Scope & Content:: 'RATIO LEGENDAE HISTORIAE': a tract, in Latin, addressed to Edward VI by Petrus Olivarius of Valentia [editor of Pomponius Mela, &c., see Antonio, Bibl. Hisp. Nova, ii, p. 206] ; cf. l5 C. 1. Paper (vellum cover); ff. 34. Quarto. 81/4 in. x 6 in. Temp. Edw. VI. On the vellum cover (f. 34 b) ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1547-1553]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LIX
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Scope & Content:: 'PYRAMIS quinto Nouembris 1605 sacra, ad serenissimum principem Iacobum (&c.). Guilielmus Gagerus posuit, 1608': a Latin poem, in about 1,300 hexameters, on the Gunpowder Plot, by William Gager, the Latin dramatist and chancellor of Ely (see Dict. Nat. Biogr., and cf. other poems by him in A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1608
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LVI
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Scope & Content:: 'CARMEN PANEGYRICVM', on James I, in 284 Latin hexameters, by George Carleton (cf. 12 A. XLIII), n.d.; mainly an invective against the Church of Rome. Paper; ff. 9. Quarto. 81/4 in. x 61/2 in. A.D. 1603-1618. Casley's Catalogue transposes the numbers of this MS. and 12 A. LXI. Not in the older c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603-1618
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LVII
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Scope & Content:: COMPLIMENTARY VERSES, in Latin, to Charles I on his coronation [2 Feb. 1626], by members of Westminster School. The verses in this case are all anonymous. Paper; ff. 17. Quarto. 8 in. x 6 in. A.D. 1626. Not in the old catalogues. includes: ff. 5-5v, 7-7v, 8v-9v, 10v-11 Poetry GREEK: Richard Cl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Modern and Latin
Date Range:: 1626
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LVIII
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Scope & Content:: COMPLIMENTARY VERSES, in Latin and English, to Charles I, upon his return from Scotland in 1633, by twenty-seven boys of Westminster School; cf. 12 A. XIII, mostly by the same boys. Among the English poems are two (ff. 2 b, 12) of Abraham Cowley, printed with slight changes in the 1636 edition o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1633
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LXI
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Scope & Content:: COMPLIMENTARY VERSES, in Latin, to James I, describing his progress through London [15 Mar. 1603/4], in 716 hexameters. Anonymous. Beg. 'Ecquis hic insuetus mundi concursus in urbem'. Paper ; ff. 11. Quarto. 83/4 in. x 61/4 in. A.D. 1604. In Casley's Catalogue this MS.and 12 A.LVI are transpose...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1604
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LXII
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Scope & Content:: 'IANVS': complimentary verses, in Latin, addressed at the new year (1529) to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, &c. The poem, which is a prophecy of Wolsey's career, in 179 hexameters, put in the mouth of Janus, ends with his accession to the see of Winchester, to which his appointm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1528
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LXIII
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Scope & Content:: 'IVLII CLAVDII IGVINI Oratio Hortatoria', addressed to Henry VIII, recommending an offensive alliance against the Turks with the Emperor Charles V, n.d. Prefixed, in another hand, is a sonnet in Italian superscribed SOT, beg. 'Com' hor stanco nochier afflitt' et lasso'. Paper; ff. 48. Folio. 10...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1519-1546
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A LXIV
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Scope & Content:: 'CHARITES OXONIENSES siue Laetitia Musarum', &c.: complimentary Latin verses on the visit of Christian IV of Denmark to England, 1606, by ninety-eight members of Oxford University. Prefaces in verse addressed to James I and in prose to Christian IV. Among the authors are: George Abbot, Mast...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1606
Extent:: 1 item

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