Cambridge, Trinity College MS. R.14.14. Paper. 210x162mm. Three volumes, two printed the last in manuscript folios 60-141. The Contents of this Book. Firste an Epistle dedicatorye of the Booke of Armory of Clauius Paradine. A Discourse vpon the Creste of the Lorde Burghley. Another Discourse vpon the Philosophers Arte. By Fraunces Thynne. A notice of the author from Woods Athenae Oxonienses (I.319) is written below, and at the bottom of the page is the name R. Neile. On the verse is a full-page coloured drawing of the Arms of Lord Burghley. 1. [The Epistle Dedicatory follows, signed in the Author's autograph and occupying 4 folios, dated Bermonsey 2 August 1575.] 2. [On the next page is a full-page coloured drawing of Francis Thynne's arms.] 3. [A discourse upon the Lorde Burghleyghe his Creste.] 4. [Six line stanzas over 15 pages in verse, 'When burning Sunne with gleames of golden light'.] f 72v A coloured drawing of a King standing on the Sun joining hands with a Queen standing on the Moon. Both hold a spray of flowers which is in the beak of a dove. [Rosarium Philosophorum emblem 2]. The scrolls have text 'Oh mone consent that maryed we may bee'. 'On sonne yt is reasonne that I obey to thee', 'The sprite giues lyfe which doth these two agree'. 5. f73 A Discourse vppon the Philosopher's Armes. f73v [Coloured drawing of these Arms]. 6. Text in verse, 'The sacred booke doth truely tell in speeche of heauenly penne'. There are sixteen coloured drawings in the poem, mostly of planets in their cars. f141 List of authors cited. [MS Ashmole 766 I, is another copy of these same tracts, signed by the author.]