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Additional 14787 - f6v

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Arundel 38 - f37

Thomas HOCCLEVE, The Regiment of Princes (De Regimine Principum)
England, S. E. (London?); between 1411 and 1432

John Mowbray (b. 1392, d. 1432), Lord Mowbray and Segrave, 2nd duke of Norfolk, magnate (the family arms, ff. 1, 37, 71)

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Arundel 59 - f1

Thomas HOCCLEVE, Pseudo-Aristotle, De Regimine Principum; Secrets of the Philosophers; Secretum Secretorum
England, S. E. (London); between c. 1460 and 1485

Thomas Wall, Windsor Herald, 1525: his added arms (f. 1)

 

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Arundel 68 - f61
(part 1 ff. 75-135 and ff. 143-166v)

Registrum Prioratus Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis, including a Martyrology
England, S. E. (Canterbury, Christ Church); 2nd half of the 13th century

(?) Johanna de Mohun

 

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Arundel 68 - f65
(part 4 ff. 65-66v)

Registrum Prioratus Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis
England, S. E. (Canterbury, Christ Church); c. 1520

(?) Thomas Goldstone

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Arundel 74 - f1

BEDE, Historia ecclesiastica (ff. 1-99), De muliere forti, Epistola Cuthberti
England, E. (East Anglia? or Norwich?); between c. 1375 and 1406

Henry Despenser (d. 1406), bishop of Norwich (his arms, ff. 1, 21).

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Arundel 93 - f3

DIODORUS SICULUS, Bibliotheca historiarum, in the translation of Poggio Bracciolini
Netherlands, S. (Ghent); 1482-1485

Raphael de Marcatellis (b. 1437, d. 1508), abbot of St Bavon's, Ghent: with his arms (ff. 3, 129)

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Arundel 93 - f129

DIODORUS SICULUS, Bibliotheca historiarum, in the translation of Poggio Bracciolini
Netherlands, S. (Ghent); 1482-1485

Raphael de Marcatellis (b. 1437, d. 1508), abbot of St Bavon's, Ghent: with his arms (ff. 3, 129)

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Arundel 103 - f4

LUDOLPHUS DE SAXONIA, Vita Christi (chapters 1-60)
Germany, S. (Eberbach); 1413

A member of the Rotenhan family of Bamberg: with their arms (f. 4)

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Arundel 104-II - f250v

Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings
England, N.; 1st quarter of the 15th century

Unidentified owner: heraldic arms gules three lions passant guardant or, armed and langued argent, surmounted by a crest coronet (vol. II, f. 250v).

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Arundel 108 - f10v

Missal
Germany, S. (Würzburg); between 1443 and 1455

Backhouse 1997 has identified the arms on f. 10v as those of Gottfried von Limpurg, bishop from 1443 to 1455

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Arundel 124 - f1

Marcus Tullius CICERO, De oratore (ff. 1-88); De senectute (ff. 89-101); De amicitia (ff. 101v-116v); De optimo genere oratorum (ff. 116v-118v)
Italy, N. (Veneto?, Bologna?); 1st half of the 15th century

Unidentified arms (f. 1)

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Arundel 130 - f1

Ordinal, and noted Breviary, Use of Sarum (ff. 1-100), Metrologus de plana musica (ff. 100-117v), Offences which deserve excommunication (f. 118, fragment)
England; between 1446 and 1461

Henry Percy (b. 1421, d. 1461), 3rd earl of Northumberland, magnate: his arms, and in the borders a crescent moon and pair of manacles (f. 1).

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Arundel 204 - f1

Jacobus Angelus de SCARPERIA, Plutarchi Vita Cesaris
Italy, Central (Rome); c. 1460

? Johann Pirckheimer (b. 1440, d. 1501), son of Hans Pirckheimer, Nuremberg patrician, jurist, diplomat, and humanist, and his wife Barbara, née Löffelholz: arms of Pirckheimer on the dexter side, and those of Löffelholz(?) on the sinister (f. 1).

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Arundel 249 - f1

PSEUDO-SENECA, Tractatus de quatuor virtutibus, and other grammatical texts
England or Netherlands, S.; 3rd quarter of the 15th century

Unidentified owner, 15th century: with his crest and arms, quarterly 1 and 4 azure, 3 scallops or; 2 and 3 argent(?), a chevron sable between 3 unidentified objectsgules (said by Thompson 1979, possibly to be lions dormant coward); Crest: out of a ducal coronet per pale or and azure, a bull's head azure horned or (f. 1), (perhaps Malet and Lyons, two Somerset families, see Thomson 1979).

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Arundel 255 - first-leaf

Commissio qua constituit Benedictum Longum rectorem Caneae insulae Cretae
Italy, N. E. (Venice); 1567

Benedictus Longus, 1567: his portrait with his arms (first leaf), a dedication (first leaf verso) and his name with the date 1567 stamped in gilt on the binding.

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Arundel 271 - f4

PSEUDO-CICERO, Rhetorica ad Herennium , with glosses
Italy, N. E. (Veneto?, Venice?); 1st half of the 15th century

Unidentified owner: his arms, added? (f. 1).
Inscribed, 15th century: 'Antoline cuius est liber iste noli bono more irasci abre'(?) (f. 1 erased, read with UV light).
Inscribed, 15th century: 'Iste liber est mei francisci t…e Mill…y(?).
Peregrinus ad scolas una benedicti magistri' (f. 1).
Blasius de Cesena de Manganellis of Pavia, 1438: long ownership inscription (f. 1).

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Arundel 366 - f1

Johannes de GIGLIS, Libellus de Canonizatione sanctorum
(Italy, Central? (Rome?)) and England; between 1478 and 1486 (1485?)

John Morton (d. 1500), administrator and archbishop of Canterbury: owned by him while bishop of Ely (1478-1486), perhaps when he went to Rome in 1485: the first page includes '...D. D. Johannem Morton episcopum Eliensem...', and his arms (f. 1)

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Arundel 429 - f3

Baldus de Ubaldis (ff. 3-102); Albericus de Rosate (ff. 105-250); Iohannes Petri de Ferreriis(?) or Albericus(?) (f. 251), Lectura feudorum (ff. 3-93); Conclusiones feudorum (f. 93); Commentarius ad pacem Constantie (ff. 93-102); Pax Constantie (ff. 102v-104v); Opus statutorum (ff. 105-250); Thesaurus civilis sapientiae (f. 251)
Italy, N.; between 1413 and 1415

Unidentified owner, 1413: arms with the letters 'G' to the left and 'AR' to the right (f. 3).

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Arundel 443 - f1

BONIFACE VIII (b. 1235, d. 1303), glossed by Johannes ANDREAE (b. c. 1270, d. 1348), Glossed Liber Sextus Decretalium
England; 1st quarter of the 14th century

Unidentified owner, first quarter of the 14th century: with three coats of arms: barry of 8, or and gules (perhaps of the Fitz-Alan or Poyntz familes?);
Nicholas de Poyntz (b. c.1278, d. before 1312) married Elizabeth Zouche before 1287 or 1288.

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Arundel 443 - f1

BONIFACE VIII (b. 1235, d. 1303), glossed by Johannes ANDREAE (b. c. 1270, d. 1348), Glossed Liber Sextus Decretalium
England; 1st quarter of the 14th century

Unidentified owner, first quarter of the 14th century: with three coats of arms: gules bezanty, a canton argent perhaps with a charge, now unclear (probably of the Zouche family) (f. 1);
Nicholas de Poyntz (b. c.1278, d. before 1312) married Elizabeth Zouche before 1287 or 1288.

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Arundel 443 - f1

BONIFACE VIII (b. 1235, d. 1303), glossed by Johannes ANDREAE (b. c. 1270, d. 1348), Glossed Liber Sextus Decretalium
England; 1st quarter of the 14th century

Unidentified owner, first quarter of the 14th century: with three coats of arms: barry of 6, argent and azure (perhaps of the de Gray family?).

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Arundel 503 - f1

Willibald PIRCKHEIMER, Translations into German of classical and other texts, dedicated to Johann von Schwarzenberg
Germany, S. (Nuremberg); 1517

Hans Imhoff (b. 1488, d. 1526), and Felicitas Pirckheimer (b. 1497, d. 1530), daughter of Willibald Pirckheimer, 1517: their arms and the date '1517' (ff. 1, 104v); probably a joint present from Pirckheimer and Imhoff to Felicitas who had united their families (see Bartrum 2002).

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Burney 38 - front cover

Florus of Lyons (?) , Commentary on the Pauline Epistles
France, Cental (Paris?); last quarter of the 13th century

Claude d'Urfé (b. 1501, d. 1558), at the Château de la Bastie, Forez, Rhône-Alpes: with his arms in the centre of the covers of the binding.

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Burney 107 - f1

STRABO, in the Latin translation of Guarino da VERONA, De situ orbis
Italy, Central? (Rome?); between 1458 and 1464

Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (b. 1405 d. 1464): with his arms Pope Pius II (between 1458 and 1464) surmounted by three-tiered coronet, but without the crossed keys (f. 1).

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Burney 154 - f1

Marcus Tullius CICERO, Philippica, omitting 5.12-6.6
Italy, Central? (Florence?); 2nd quarter of the 15th century, c. 1430

A member of the Gonzaga family after 1433: with the family's arms as used between 1433 and 1530 (f. 1)

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Burney 157 - f2

Marcus Tullius CICERO, Pseudo-Cicero, and others, Orationes, etc.
Italy, N.E. (Venice); 2nd half of the 15th century

Probably written for (by and?) a member of the Erizzo family of Venice, to judge by the script and the now-overpainted arms, which were azure a bend or; the Erizzo family arms have a reversed gothic ‘E’ and a hedgehog ('riccio' in modern Italian), both sable, on the bend, but these are no longer visible due to over-painting (ff. 2, 102v, 121v, 151v

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Burney 158 - f2

Marcus Tullius CICERO, Orationes in C. Verrem
Italy, Central? (Rome?); 3rd quarter of the 15th century

A member of the Maffei of Volterra family: the family's arms (f. 2).

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Burney 160 - f1

Marcus Tullius CICERO, De oratore
Italy, Central? (Florence?); c. 1425 (after 1421)

Mario Maffei (b. 1463, d. 1537), of Volterra: with his arms (f. 1, cf. Burney 161).

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Burney 168 - f1

Quintus Curtius RUFUS, Historia Alexandri Magni
Italy, Central (Florence); 3rd quarter of the 15th century

Unidentified owner: with his arms, bendy of five sable and argent over an erasure (cf. Burney 142 and 245), in chief argent, an eye(?), the shield and the text flanked by the letters 'V B' (f. 1; cf. Burney 142)

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Burney 169 - f11

Quintus Curtius RUFUS, translated by Vasco da LUCENA, History of Alexander the Great (Les faize d'Alexandre)
Netherlands, S. (Bruges); between c. 1468 and 1475

Philippe de Cluis (Cluys), Knight of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem and Bailiff of the Morea: purchased by him in 1475: dated inscription (f. 13); the arms of the Cluys family of Bourges and of his order (f. 11).

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Burney 187 - f2

JUSTIN, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
Italy, N. E.(?) (Ferrara?); 1st half of the 15th century (before 1469)

Jacopo Sacrati (d. 1506?), of Ferrara, ambassador to Florence: 'Justinus mei Iacobi ['Iacobi' over an erasure] de sacrato' (f. 1); with the added arms of the Sacrati family of Ferrara (f. 2; cf. Additional 6028); and with a symbol, perhaps an ‘E’, 'f', ‘J’, or 't' (f. 1; as in Additional 6028 and Harley 2764, both owned by Sacrati), and '6', lower down (cf. Additional 6028, f. ii, which has '2').

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Burney 188 - f3

JUSTIN, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
Italy, Central (Florence); c. 1465 - c. 1475

Unidentifed owner: his erased arms (f. 3).

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Burney 190 - f2

JUVENAL, Satires
Italy, Central (Florence); last quarter of the 15th century

A member of the Tedaldi family of Florence: the family's arms, or, three bars-gemels gules, a lion rampant azure langued and armed gules (f. 2).

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Burney 198 - f4

TITUS LIVIUS, Ab urbe condita; each Decade preceded by the tables attributed to Donato degli Albanzani (ff. 1-3v, 103-105v, 195-196v)
Italy N. E.? (Padua?); c. 1400

Cardinal Pietro Riario (b. 1445, d. 1474), after 1471: with his arms as cardinal (added to ff. 4, 106, 197).

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Burney 201 - f266

LIVY, Ab urbe condita, first (ff. 109-258) and third (ff. 266-417) decades, the latter preceded (259-265v) by a table of chapters
Italy, N.E. (Venice) ; c. 1464

Written in 1464 for a member of the Ciera family of Venice, with a scribal colophon: ‘Finis. Die 24 mensis decembris 1464’ (f. 417), and arms: party per fess, argent and azure, a lion rampant countercharged, f. 266; cf. Eugenio Morando di Custoza, Libro d'arme di Venezia (Verona: [Rilegata da Galvagni], 1979), no. 836).

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Burney 202 - f3

Lucius Annaeus FLORUS, Epitome bellorum omnium annorum DCC
Italy; last quarter of the 14th or 1st half of the 15th century (perhaps between 1405 and 1433)

An ecclesiastical member of the Capra family, perhaps Bartolomeo Capra (b. c.1365, d. 1433), bishop of Cremona from 1405, and archbishop of Milan from 1414: the family's arms, argent, a goat rampantsable, in chief or a displayed eagle sable, the whole before a processional cross or (f. 3).

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Burney 210 - f2

Valerius MAXIMUS, Facta et dicta memorabilia
France, N.?; 3rd quarter of the 15th century

Unidentified original owner: the arms gules, with the letters SPQR bendwise, or (f. 2), are presumably intended to be the arms of Rome.

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Burney 221 - f2

OVID, Fasti
Italy, Central? (Rome?); c. 1440 - c. 1460

Mario Maffei (b. 1463, d. 1537), of Volterra: with his arms and the usual erased ‘De figli …’ inscription (f. 2; cf. Burney 214).
[the original arms appear to have included the tincture gules (f. 2)]

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Burney 239 - f1

Cornelius NEPOS, Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium
Italy N. or N. E.? (Milan?); c. 1435 - c. 1450

Unidentified original(?) owner: with their arms party per fess, gules and vert, a letter 'B' or, the shield depicted as if hanging from a hook (f. 1)

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Burney 241 - f2

Sextus PROPERTIUS, Elegiae (ff. 2-94v); followed by an anonymous derivation of ‘Monobyblos’ (ff. 94v-95)
Italy, N. E.; 3rd quarter of the 15th century

A member of the Morosini family: the family's arms, or, a bend azure, surmounted by a helm argent and an eagle crest sable langued gules, lion rampant supporters each robed or a bend azure (f. 2).

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Burney 244 - f2

Marcus Fabius QUINTILIANUS, Institutiones
Italy, Central (Florence); c. 1440 - c. 1450

Unidentified owner: with his arms azure, a lion rampant vert tongued gules, holding a branch vert (f. 2; identified in the Catalogue of Manuscripts…, I, part II, 1840, p. 63, probably incorrectly, as of the Scaglione family).

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Burney 245 - f1

SALLUST, Jugurtha (ff. 1-54), Catilina (ff. 55-81v)
Italy, Central (Fabriano); 1477

Unidentified owner, c.1477, probably the original owner of Burney 142 and 168: his arms, gules, a phoenix argent, in chief or, an eye(?) argent (f. 1), with erasures to each side of the arms.

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Burney 248 - f1

Lucius Annaeus SENECA, Pseudo-Seneca, De beneficiis (ff. 1-106v), De clementia (ff. 107-126v), followed by (ff. 127-130v) the fourteen letters between Seneca and Paul, with prologue
Italy, Central (Florence); 3rd quarter of the 15th century

? Pietro Riario (b. 1445, d. 1474), after he was created cardinal in 1471: his arms as cardinal (f. 1; cf. Burney 198), although the red ecclesiastical hat may be an addition to the original arms.

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Burney 259 - f1

Caius Suetonius TRANQUILLUS, De vita Caesarum
Italy (Ferrara? Rome? Naples?); 2nd quarter of the 15th century, perhaps between 1430 and 1440?

Mario Maffei (b. 1463, d. 1537), of Volterra: his added arms, and the erased remains of the typical inscription, 'De [figli …] Mario […]' (f. 1).

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Burney 270 - f1

VIRGIL, Pseudo-Virgil; Pseudo-Ovid, Aeneis, with prologue, and most Argumenta
Italy, Central (Rome); 3rd quarter of the 15th century

Written by Andrea da Firenze for a member of the Strozzi family: their arms (f. 1), identified in unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.

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Burney 271 - f57

VIRGIL, Bucolica (ff. 1-16), Georgica (ff. 16v-56), Aeneis (ff. 57-236)
Italy, N. E.? or Central, Rome?; 3rd quarter of the 15th century

?? - a roundel enclosing an escutcheon depicting a dragon(?)-head.

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Burney 275 - Fore-edge

PRISCIAN, Cicero, and Pseudo-Cicero, Boethius, Aristotle, Euclid, Adelard of Bath, Ptolemy, translated by Gerard of Cremona, Scholastic miscellany (see Notes for contents)
France, Central (Paris); between 1309 and 1316

Jean, duc de Berry (b. 1340, d. 1416), a gift from Clement VII in 1387 (ownership inscription written by Jean's secretary, Jean Flamel, f. 2v; ownership inscription and signature 'Jehan', f. 560v; his arms, edges).

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Burney 275 - Fore-edge

PRISCIAN, Cicero, and Pseudo-Cicero, Boethius, Aristotle, Euclid, Adelard of Bath, Ptolemy, translated by Gerard of Cremona, Scholastic miscellany (see Notes for contents)
France, Central (Paris); between 1309 and 1316

Probably made for Franciscus Caracciolo of Naples, chancellor of Paris (chancellor 1309, d. 1316) (arms of or a lion rampant azure of the Caracciolo family, and or on key gules of the chancellor of Paris, ff. 94r, 120, 166 (key only), 184, 336, and 359v; erased ownership inscriptions of Franciscus Caraccioli, ff. 2, 561v)

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Burney 290 - f2

PSEUDO-AUGUSTINE, Augustine, Manuale (ff. 2-46v), Retractiones (extract), De beata vita (ff. 47-86v); and Psalms, Prayers, Litanies
England, S. E. (London?); between 1503 and 1522

Probably written by the Flemish scribe Pieter Meghen (b. 1466, d. 1540) of ’s-Hertogen-bosch for one of Meghen’s patrons, Christopher Urswick, (b. 1448?, d. 1522), courtier, diplomat, and ecclesiastic: added arms of the Urswick family of argent on a bend sable, three lozenges of the first, on each a saltire gules, and above, Christopher Urswick's motto ‘Misericordia’ written on a banderole (f. 2, lower margin).

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Burney 292 - f9

AUGUSTINE, De civitate dei
Italy, N. (Padua or Verona?); c. 1440 - c. 1470

The arms of the Donati family of Venice (f. 9) and possibly those of the Capodilista family of Padua, of a lion rampant on an azure field and an eagle in the chief, crested with a crowned eagle’s head.

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Burney 292 - f9

AUGUSTINE, De civitate dei
Italy, N. (Padua or Verona?); c. 1440 - c. 1470

The arms of the Donati family of Venice (f. 9) and possibly those of the Capodilista family of Padua, of a lion rampant on an azure field and an eagle in the chief, crested with a crowned eagle’s head.

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Burney 311 - f1

Lactantius PLACIDUS, etc., Ovidii Metamorphoseon fabularum narratio, and other mythological texts
Italy, N. E.; 1462

The Donati family of Venice, (arms, f. 1).

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Burney 316 - f1

Treatise on grammar, beginning 'Litera est vox quae scribi potest individua …' and excerpts from classical authors (ff. 105v-111)
Italy, Central (Florence); 3rd quarter of the 15th century, c.1465?

Unidentified owner: arms, or, a chevron gules, an ox(?) passant proper below, and three stars(?) gules above (f. 1).

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Burney 343 - f1

Johannes Jovianus PONTANUS, Partenopeius
Italy, S. (Naples); 3rd quarter of the 15th century (after 1455)

Alfonso II, duke of Calabria (1448-1495), king of Naples (1494-1495): with his arms and devices (f. 1).

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Burney 353 - f2

Antonius VEGNATUS, De re militari, with prefatory letter
Italy, N. E. (Venice); between 1486 and 1501

Agostino Barbarigo, Doge of Venice (Doge 1486 to 1501) (his arms, f. 2, and dedication to him, ff. 2, 3v).

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Egerton 640 - f1

The Pedigree and arms of the family of Las Casas
Spain, Central (Madrid); 1790

A member of the Las Casas family, 1790: its arms (f. 1), officially drawn up and attested by Don Julian Joseph Brochero, principal king of arms of Spain (f. 2), and dated Madrid, February 1790 (f. 61v).

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Egerton 753 - f1

[Commission from Andrea Gritti, doge of Venice, appointing Francesco Morosini governor of Treviso]
Italy, N. (Venice); 1528

Francesco Morosini: his arms flanked by the letters 'FM' (f. 1), and the text starting with 'Nos Andreas Gritti Dei Gratia Dux Venetiarum et Caetera, committimus tibi nobili viro Francisco Mauroceno' (f. 1);

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Egerton 754 - f1

[Commission from Andrea Gritti, Doge of Venice, appointing Andrea Gritti governor of Šibenik]
Italy, N. (Venice); 1534

Andrea Gritti: his arms, inscribed 'Nos Andreas Griti Dei Gratia Dux Venetiar Etc.' (f. 1).

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Egerton 755 - f1

[Commission of Andrea Gritti, doge of Venice, appointing Aloysio Capello podestà of Castelfranco]
Italy, N. (Venice); 1538

Aloysio Capello: his arms, and the text beginning 'Nos Andreas Griti Dei Gratia Dux Venetiarum et Caetera, committimus tibi Nobili viro Aloysio Capello' (f. 1)

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Egerton 759 - f1v

[Commission from the doge of Venice, Francesco Ericcio, to Antonio Molino]
Italy, N. E. (Venice); 1635

Made in 1635 as a commission by the doge of Venice, Francesco Ericcio, to Antonio Molino appointing him Proveditore of Cattaro for two years: inscription, and Molino's heraldic device (ff. 1v-2).

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Egerton 760 - f1

[Commission of Doge Francisus Erizzo to Antonio Barbadico]
Italy, North (Venice); 1643

Antonio Barbadico: his arms (f. 1), and inscribed 'Nos Franciscus Erizzo Dei Gratias Dux Venetiarum et caetera Commitimus tibi nobili viro Antonio Barbadico' (f. 1), with the date '1643, 7 Agosto' (f. 143v).

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Egerton 761 - f3

[Commission of Doge Franciscus Molino to Giovanni Semitecolo]
Italy, N. (Venice); 1644

(?) Giovanni Semitecolo: his appointment, inscribed 'Nos Franciscus Molino Dei Gratia Dux Venetiarum, committimus tibi nobili viro Ioanni Semitecolo' (f. 4), and dated 1644 (f. 77).

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Egerton 762 - f1

[Commission of Agostino Barbarigio, doge of Venice, appointing Giovanni Andrea Pizzamanno podestà of Conegliano]
Italy. N. (Venice); 1498

Giovanni Andrea Pizzamanno: Colophon 'Dat In nostro ducali palacio die xxiiij mensis Januarij ... Mcccclxxxxviijuo' (f. 22); his appointment, and arms (f. 1).

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Egerton 820 - f1

[Commission from Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice, appointing Aloysio Zeno capitano of Ravenna]
Italy, N. (Venice); 1508

Aloysio Zeno: inscribed 'Dat In nostro Ducali palatio Die primo octobris Mmo D.viijuo...' (f. 18); appointing Aloysio Zeno, capitano of Ravenna: his arms (f. 1).

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Egerton 880 - f4

Pauli Aemilii VERONENSIS, In gallicam antiquitatem
France, Central (Paris); c. 1495

Charles VIII (b. 1470, d. 1498), king of France: dedication '... ad Carolum Octavum Regem ...' (f. 1) and arms of France (f. 4).

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Egerton 942 - f1

DEMOSTHENES, Olynthiac, Philippic and other Orations, including the De corona, with the argumenta of Libanius
Italy, Central (Florence); last quarter of the 15th century

? Alexander Farnese (1468-1549), from 1534 pope Paul III: Farnese arms (f. 1); made for him after 1490, according to Pernot 1981 p. 696.

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Egerton 1068 - f41

Book of Hours, Use of Angers
France, Central (Paris); c. 1500

Unidentified owner, Angers?, c. 1500: arms argent, three bars sable, over all a lion rampant gules (ff. 14, 21, 27, 41,44v, 56 [obliterated], 82v, 101); the Verjuys family of Brussels bore these arms.

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Egerton 1070 - f4v

Book of Hours, Use of Paris ('The Hours of René d'Anjou')
France, Central (Paris); c. 1410

René d'Anjou (b. 1409, d. 1480), king of Naples: his added arms (f. 4v)

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Egerton 1867 - f2

Frontinus, Laurentius LIPPIUS, Stategema, translation of Isocrates, De regno
Italy; last quarter of the 15th century

Unidentified owner, late 15th century: arms (f. 2).

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Egerton 2176 - f8

The Travels of Marco Polo
France, Central (Paris); 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century

Unidentified owner: his arms, overpainted with the arms of France (f. 8).

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Egerton 2388 - f2

Jean BENARD, Account of the Norman noblemen who accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066; a treatise on Elizabethan heraldry and genealogy; and an account on the Court of Queen Elizabeth
France, Central (Paris); 1569

Inscription 'Au roy' [Charles IX of France, b. 1550, d. 1574], with 'Sainct Germain desprez lez Paris, ce premier Jour de Janvier 1569', signed by the author 'J. Benard' (f. 3); his heraldic arms (f. 2), and motto on binding.

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Egerton 2798 - f3

Grant of nobililty from Philip II to Andres Gomez Marocho, of Xeres de la Frontera
Spain, S.; 1589

Inscribed '... Andres Gomes Marocho ... De Xeres de la Frontera (f. 50), his portrait and his arms (ff. 2v-3); dated Granada, 18 November 1589 (f. 48v).

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Egerton 2892 - f1

Richard ROTHERAM, De pluralitate beneficiorum (ends imperfectly)
England, Central (Oxford?); 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century

Unidentified owner, middle of the 15th century: arms of the see of Winchester, gules, a sword and key crossed, or and argent (f. 1).

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Egerton 3266 - f15

JEROME, Pseudo-Jerome, and others, Epistles and treatises
Italy, N. E. (Venice?); c. 1390

Unidentified member of the Cornaro family of Venice: arms party per pale or and azure, and the monogram 'I C' (f. 15)

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Egerton 3295 - f2

Carta executoria de Hidalguia (proof of gentility)
Spain, N. (Valladolid); 18 December 1625

Issued by Philip II of Spain to Pedro Ruiz of Cenicero: his arms and portrait (ff. 1v-2).

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Egerton 3311 - f2

Office and Mass of the Dead (vol. 1)
Netherlands, S. (Liège); between 1531 and 1538

Apparently written for use in the cathedral church of St Lambert at Liège: includes the anniversary of the election of the bishop Everard de la Marck (d. 1538) on 30 December: de la Marck's arms (f. 2)

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Hargrave 274 - f328v

Nova Statuta , 1 Edward III to 3 Henry VII (ff. 50-350v), preceded by an alphabetical list of contents (ff. 1-49)
England, S. E. (London); 1488 or 1489

? John Gill/Gyll (b. c.1430, d. 1499), of Buckland, Hertfordshire, c.1488: with his arms in all the borders: sable, two chevrons argent, the second charged with three pierced mullets of the field, in base a cinquefoil of the second, on a canton or, a lion passant guardant gules (see General Armory Two: Alfred Morant's Additions and Corrections to Burke's General Armory, ed. by Cecil R. Humphery-Smith (London: Tabard Press, 1973), p. 71)