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21. Royal MS 12 A XXIII

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Royal MS 12 A XXIII
Title:
Complimentary verses and address to Elizabeth I on her visit to Oxford by Geoffrey Lewis, of Christ Church
Scope & Content:
Complimentary verses and address to Elizabeth I on her visit to Oxford by Geoffrey Lewis, of Christ Church. In Latin and Greek. Greek elegiac ode inc. (f 2v) Εἰ πολιτῶν νοῦς, γλῶσσα σοφῶν, εἰ δῆμος ἕκαστος, and address (f 3r) ᾽Επὶ πολλῶν μὲν ἄν τις ὁρᾶν.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1566?
Extent:

6 folios

22. Royal MS 12 B XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 B XIV
Title:
Bernard André, L'exposition du Pseaulme Huitesme; Vita beatae Katerinae; Aristotelis ad Magnum Alexandrum de Vite Institutione Oratio
Scope & Content:
This volume is a presentation manuscript, containing selected compositions of the French Augustinian friar and poet Bernard André (b. 1450, d. 1522), also known as Andreas. André was a noted chronicler of the reign of Henry VII of England (r. 1485-1509) and a poet laureate, who served as tutor i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1509-1517
Extent:

1 volume

23. Royal MS 12 E XXIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 E XXIII
Title:
Medical miscellany in prose and verse
Scope & Content:
Contents: A collection of medical texts in prose and verse made up of two independent parts (ff. 4-67 and ff. 68-112), compiled with added leaves at the beginning and end (ff. 1-3, 113-120). The contents are: f. 4r-22r: A medical poem attributed to Quintus Serenus Sammonicus (d. 212), with the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

24. Royal MS 12 G VIII

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Royal MS 12 G VIII
Title:
Liber nouem iudicum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Liber nouem iudicum, a twelfth-century compendium on judicial astrology. The text provides the statements of nine different authorities, mostly Arabic, on the topics of the twelve astrological houses. The colophon (f. 78r) states ‘Explicit liber nouem iudicum quem mi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

25. Royal MS 13 A I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A I
Title:
Historia Alexandri Magni and other texts relating to Alexander the Great
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes four works forming a compendium of Alexander's legends in Latin. Contents: ff. 2r-51v: Pseudo-Callisthenes, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated from Greek into Latin by Julius Valerius, beginning, 'De nectanabi prudentia atque...' ff. 51v-78r: Epistola Alexandri ad Ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

26. Royal MS 13 A III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A III
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-133r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae, including the prologue addressed to Robert, Earl of Gloucester (ff. 1r-v); the prologue to the Prophecies of Merlin and epistle to the Bishop of Lincoln (ff. 68r-v). Book 9, chapter 20 and Book 10, chapter 1 are lacking (a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

27. Royal MS 13 A XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A XIV
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, and other texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of texts, principally in Latin, written in Ireland between the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century, and which formerly belonged to the Dominican convent at Limerick. They include a copy of the Topographia Hiberniae (Topography of Ireland), an a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

28. Royal MS 13 E VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 E VI
Title:
Ralph of Diceto, Series causae inter Henricum regem et Thomam archiepiscopum, Abbreviationes chronicorum, and Imagines historiarum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of the major works of Ralph of Diceto (b. c. 1120, d. c. 1202), a medieval chronicler, archdeacon of Middlesex and dean of St Paul's Cathedral. The Abbreviationes chronicorum (Abbreviations of chronicles) and Imagines historiarum (Images of History) are two chroni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1199-1209
Extent:
1 volume

29. Royal MS 14 B V

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 B V
Title:
Genealogical Chronicle of the English Kings
Scope & Content:
Contents: A roll chronicle containing the genealogy of the kings of England from the Heptarchy to Edward I as a king (1272-1307), but without portraits of his children, in the form of a diagram of interconnected roundels with portraits of kings in colours and gold, and an accompanying commentary...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 roll

30. Royal MS 14 B XXXII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 B XXXII
Title:
Declaration of expenses of the navy between Wales and Ireland by Sir Anthony Poyntz, Vice-Admiral, 8 April-23 September 1523
Scope & Content:
A roll containing a declaration of expenses of Henry VIII's 'navye on the see between Wales and Irelond', by Sir Antony Poyntz (b. 1480, d. 1533), Vice-Admiral, 8 April-23 September 1523. The recto records the expenses for ten ships in the king's navy: the Minion, the George of Fowey, the Chris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1523
Extent:
A paper roll

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