'DE PRINCIPE': a treatise on government, in Latin, dedicated, probably as a new-year's gift, to Queen Elizabeth by 'Petrus Perusinus' [Pietro Bizzari, prebendary of Salisbury 1561, see Dict. Nat. Biogr.], dated London, 25 Dec. 1561. Printed in a revised form in Bizzari Opuscula, Aldus, 1565. Pap...
'TRACTATVLVS de regimine seu caritate principum', by 'frater Stephanus Baronis' or Stephen Baron, a Franciscan Observant, provincial of the order, and confessor to Henry VIII. Printed by W. de Worde, n. d., and at Paris, n. d. Preface beg. 'Sacre regie maiestati, &c. Cogitans, serenissime re...
'CARMEN NVPTIALE': Latin verses by the boys of Winchester College, addressed to Philip and Mary on their marriage, [July,] 1554. The twenty-five contributors (for whom see Kirby's Winchester Scholars) include John Merick, afterwards (1575) Bishop of Sodor and Man, f. 96; Lewis Owen, LL.D., Profe...
'REGIA VENATIO': Latin poem on hunting (228 elegiac couplets), by George Tuke, 'concionator Castrofeldensis' (preacher at Chesterfield, co. Derby ?), addressed to James I on his visit to Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, at Rufford Abbey, co. Notts., [Aug.] 1614. The author is identified b...
TREATISE on elementary Arithmetic, in Latin. The date 1546 occurs as an example, but the author is unknown. Possibly by William Buckley (see 12 A. XXV, below), who also compiled an Arthmetica memorativa in verse (London, 1572). Beg. 'Ars supputandi quam docere instituimus'. Paper; ff. i + 18. Q...
'AXIOMATA quaedam Christiana. Charta. [Saec.] xvi'. Thus described by Casley, but a MS. note by Planta in a copy of his Catalogue states that the MS. was burnt in the fire of 1731. Perhaps identical with Roy. App. 78, art. 6 (see below).
'PETRI CARMELIANI Brixiensis poete laureati ad Edwardum clarissimum Angli. principem de vere carmen': Easter Latin verses to the Prince of Wales, afterwards Edward V, by Petrus Carmelianus of Brescia, the court poet (see Dict. Nat. Biogr., but this poem is not noticed). Prose preface dated from ...