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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 C XIV, ff 117r-171v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Codinus, Patria Constantinopoleos (TLG 3168.005), with marginal notes by Isaac Casaubon and Patrick Young, partly in Latin. Comprises: 1. (ff 117r-135v) Περὶ τῶν πατρίων. Imperfect, comprising PG 157.436A-457B. inc. Φασὶ μέν τινες ᾽Αργείους; expl. αὐτὸς τέθειται. 2. (ff 135v-137r) Περ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1584
Extent:: 55 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 2r-81v
Title:: Guitmund of Aversa, De Corpore et Sanguine Christi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-81v: Guitmund of Aversa, De Corporis et Sanguinis Christi (About the Body and the Blood of Christ), beginning 'Ad rem his temporibus necessariam' and ending, imperfect, 'in hoc mundo carnalis conversatio'. Decoration: large initial in red with penwork decoration (f. 2r). Ru...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 D VII
Title:: Josephus Flavius, Antiquitates Iudicae; Josephus Flavius, De Bello Iudaico
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript is the second volume of a two volume-set containing Josephus Flavius's Antiquitates Iudicae. The first volume is Royal MS 13 D VI and contains books 1-14 of the work written by Josephus. This manuscript consists of the last books, 15-20, and includes Josephus's De Bell...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 163r-165v
Title:: Early modern copy of Aldhelm's letter to Heahfrith (Ehfrid) (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff 163r-165v : Aldhelm, Letter to Ehfrid, with corrections in the hand of Patrick Young in the 17th century. Decoration: No decoration.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 82r-162v, 166r-168v
Title:: Aldhelm, De Virginitate; Aldhelm, letter to Heahfrith (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. : Aldhelm's De Virginitate, with a table of contents (ff. 82r-85v) and a sketch of a writing figure (f. 85v). One of the scribes may also have been the main hand of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 183 (see Bishop, 'Early Example' (1966), p. 247). It is followed by a copy of Aldh...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 10th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D IX
Title:: Bible Historiale, Volume 1
Scope & Content:: The first of two volumes, the second of which is Royal MS 18 D X. The fourth volume is Royal MS 15 D I, but it was written previously and altered to include the arms of Edward IV. It is not known whether the third volume ever existed. It contains part of the second edition of the Bible Historial...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1479
Extent:: A parchment codex, 319 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 B XIX, ff 1-36
Title:: Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Sedulius, hymn Cantemus, socii, Domino; two acrostics poems in praise of Sedulius
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-32v: Sedulius, Carmen Paschale with interlinear Latin glosses and a few interlinear Old English glosses (ff. 5r, 25r, 28r). ff. 32v-34v Sedulius, the hymn Cantemus, socii, Domino. ff. 34v-35r: An acrostic poem in praise of Sedulius (attributed to Liberatus), beginning: 'Sedul...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 15 B XIX

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 D XII, ff 1r-5v
Title:
Scope & Content:: I. John Tzetzes, Antehomerica, Homerica and Posthomerica, with scholia Imperfect, ending in the gloss on line 240 of the Antehomerica. Poem inc. ᾽Αργαλέου πολέμοιο μέγαν πόνον ᾽Ιλιακοῖο. Scholia inc. ῾Ο παρὼν ποιητὴς φιλοσύντομος ὤν.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: c 1560
Extent:: 5 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 D XVIII, ff 60r-127v
Title:
Scope & Content:: II. Achilles Tatius, Leucippe et Clitophon (TLG 0532.001), with marginal glosses by Henri Estienne, notes by Isaac Casaubon and variants from two Vatican and Florence manuscripts by Patrick Young. The text is of Vilborg's group α.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 68 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal Appendix MS 74
Title:: Collection of partially scored, and complete compositions, of sacred music, largely of English origin, composed, for instruments, and voice; including: for Bass-violin, Lute, and Strings, and also including Madrigals, Anthems, Metrical Psalms or Hymns, and Services.
Scope & Content:: Vol. I. ff. 53. Apparently written about 1547-1548, before the first Booke of the Common Prayer, 1549. In many cases the versions of the Psalms followed closely resemble those in the Prymer of 1544.Collection of partially scored, and complete compositions, of sacred music, largley of English or...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1547-1548
Extent:: 1 of three volumes (53 folios) (Part book)

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