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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XIII
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Scope & Content:: 'GENETHLIACA Ducis Eboracensis': similar Westminster verses, in Latin and Engl., on the birth of James, Duke of York (James II, b. 13 Oct. 1633). One of the English pieces (f. 2 b) is by Abraham Cowley, then aged barely 15, though he had already written similar verses (cf. 12 A. LVIII) and his P...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1633
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XIV
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Scope & Content:: 'ORATIO CONSOLATORIA super morte Henrici Octaui', &c., by Iodocus Harchius (Josse de Harchies), a medical and theological writer, of Mons in Hainault. Dedicated to [Henry Fitzalan,] Earl of Arundel. Fol. lowed (f. 18 b) by an epitaph, in the same hand, on Henry VIII in three elegiac couplets...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1547
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XIX
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Scope & Content:: 'Venatio Catholica, seu Pietatis Pontificiae pars secunda': a continuation from the arrest of Fawkes to his execution. Printed with a revised edition of the Pietas in 1609. Dedicated to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. Paper; ff. 13, 15, 18. Quarto. 8 (last, 81/4) in. x 6 in. A.D. 1605- 1609. N...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1605-1609
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XL
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Scope & Content:: THESIS on episcopal ordination, in Latin, by the same author, addressed to James I, n.d. The writer proposes two questions, (a) 'Ordinare episcopi', and (b) 'Gloria dispar', but treats only the former. Paper; ff. 18. Quarto. 73/4 in. x 6 in. Temp. Jas. I. Not in the old catalogues.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1603-1625]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XLII
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Scope & Content:: ARMS of Knights of the Order of the Garter, 'anno 1603' . Apparently not before the latter part of the year or the beginning of 1604, as the shield of Henry Brooke, Lord Cobham, is left blank. He was arrested in July and convicted of treason in November, and was degraded 12 Feb. 1603/4. The volu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603-1604
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XLIII
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Scope & Content:: 'CARMEN PANEGYRICVM' to Queen Elizabeth, in 317 Latin hexameters, by George Carleton [fellow of Merton College, Oxford, 1580, Bishop of Llandaff 1618, and of Chichester 1619-1628]. Printed by Nichols, Progresses of Qu. Elizabeth, vol. ii, under the year 1592 (p. 33), but it contains an allusion ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1597
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XLIV
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Scope & Content:: 'BEATVS VENTER qui te portauit': Latin address and verses to James I by a Welsh recusant, 'Robertus Puëus' (Robert Pugh ?). The dedicatory letter, or 'supplex gratiarum actio' (f. 2), is followed by a prayer for the King (as son of Mary Stuart) and Queen and a 'Canticum amen' in 37 elegiac coupl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1604
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XLIX
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Scope & Content:: 'BOXALL his oration in the praise of the Kinge of Spaine' (so title in Lord Lumley's hand): a Latin discourse delivered or prepared apparently on the occasion of the reported birth of a prince (30 Apr. 1555 ?) by John Boxall, Secretary of State to Queen Mary, afterwards Dean of Peterborough, &am...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1555
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XLV
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Scope & Content:: 'QVADRVPEDUM ANIMALIVM Descriptio': excerpts from the treatise De Differentiis Animalium (Paris, 1552) of Edward Wotton, fellow of Corpus Christi College (1520) and Greek Reader at Oxford, physician to Henry VIII, with interlined references and marginal Greek and English names of the animals, ta...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1558
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XLVI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'ARCHIPROPHETA': a tragedy in Latin on the story of S. John the Baptist by Nicolaus Grimoaldus (Nicholas Grimald, fellow of Merton College 1541, see Dict. Nat. Biogr.), dedicated to Richard Cox, the first Dean of Christ Church (1546-1553, Bishop of Ely 1559, 1581), probably with a view to Grimal...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1546-1547
Extent:: 1 item

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