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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXV
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Scope & Content:: TREATISE on the nature and use of Horary Rings, in Latin, dedicated to the Princess Elizabeth, by William Buckley (see Dict. Nat. Biogr.), the Cambridge mathematician, who had had such a ring made for her. Preface dated King's College, 17 Mar. 1546/7. The vellum fly-leaves (ff. 1, 13) are parts ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1547
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXVI
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Scope & Content:: 'IOANNIS DVDLAEI Northumbriae Ducis iam tum securi percutiendi ad populum Londinensem concio, quam sua manu scriptam pugno comprimens memoriter tamen pronuntiauit': speech on the scaffold by John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, beheaded 22 Aug. 1553. Latin. There are at least three English versi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1553
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXVII
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Scope & Content:: COMPLIMENTARY VERSES, in Latin, on the marriage of the Princess Elizabeth to Frederic, Elector Palatine [14 Feb. 1612/3 ]. By John Gordon (cf. 7 D. XII), Dean of Salisbury, whose second wife, Geneviève Pétau, was Elizabeth's French teacher (see Dict. Nat. Biogr.). The poem, in 339 hexameters, is...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1613
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXI
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Scope & Content:: COMPLIMENTARY VERSES, in Latin, to Queen Elizabeth by Thomas Pembridge, [Student] of Christ Church [1563]. He graduated at Cambridge in 1570, and was incorporated at Oxford againing 1572. About 250 elegiac couplets, ending with a request for donations. Paper; ff. 11. Quarto. 8 in. x 6 in. Temp. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1558-1603]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXII
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Scope & Content:: THEOLOGICAL TRACTS, in Latin, by Galterus Delenus [Wouter Deelen or Deleen, cf. 7 D. XX]. dedicated to Henry VIII as a new-year's gift for 1539, viz.:-(1) 'De timore Domini'. f. 2 ;-(2) 'De preeminentia publica et ciuili'. f. 9;-(3) 'De certitudine religionis Christiane'. f. 15. Dated at the end...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1538
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXIII
Title:: Complimentary verses to Edward VI on his progress through Hampshire by the boys of Winchester College
Scope & Content:: 'CARMEN GRATVLATORIVM': verses by forty-one boys of Winchester College to Edward VI on his progress through Hampshire, 5 Sept. 1552. Among the writers (see also Kirby's Winchester Scholars) are: John Chaundler [afterwards D.D., sub-warden of New College, prebendary of Worcester and canon of Linc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1552
Extent:: 15 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXIV
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Scope & Content:: 'VRBIVM et regionum quarundam clogia. Item Geographie et Rhetorice Compendia': commonplace-book of geography and rhetoric, containing brief quotations in Latin verse concerning cities, countries, &c., and definitions of rhetorical tropes, &c. The 'figurae ultimae' (f. 15) seem to be late...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXIX
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Scope & Content:: TWO EXERCISES, in Latin, probably for the degree of D.D. in the schools at Cambridge, by Theophilus Feild, royal chaplain [fellow of Pembroke College 1598, Bishop of Llandaff 1619, St. Davids 1627, and Hereford 1635- 1636, see Dict. Nat. Biogr.]. Dedicated to James I. The first (f. 3) is dated 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1610
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXV
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Scope & Content:: 'EPITHALAMIVM in nuptias honoratissimi Comitis Somersetensis [Robert Carr, al. Ker, Earl of Somerset] et nobilissimae virginis Franciscae Howarde' [divorced wife of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex], 26 Dec. 1613, by William Alabaster [fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Roman Catholic convert a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1613
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXVI
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Scope & Content:: Dedication in elegiacs (Grosart's introduction, p. xli), and appeal to the King for aid against extortions by the patron of his vicarage [Bere-Regis, co. Dorset]. The poem, entitled 'Carmen gratulatorium' and addressed to the King on his accession, consists here of 725 hexameters, beg. 'Musa qui...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603
Extent:: 1 item

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