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1771. Royal MS 20 A X

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Royal MS 20 A X
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'LES DEUX premiers livres des Odes d'Horace' translated into French prose by Pierre de Ferron, 'gentilhomme françois de la Prouince de Guienne', with a dedicatory letter, dated 20 Oct. 1619, 'de France et de nostre maison de Ferron (ou de Beaupuy pres Thonneinx [? Tonneins, Lot-et-Garonne] en la...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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1619
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1 item

1772. Royal MS 20 A XI

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Royal MS 20 A XI
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HISTORICAL POEMS in French, &c., viz.:- 1. Chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft (see 20 A. II) to the year 1307. Without title, but a 16th-17th cent. hand heads it 'Cronicon Angliae Gallico metro manuscriptum'. The MS. is B of Wright's edition, and has a lacuna of 65 lines after 1. 6 of p. 150 o...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century
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1 item

1773. Royal MS 20 A XII

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Royal MS 20 A XII
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'LIVRE DE SENECQUE des quatre vertus cardinales': French translation of the Formula Honestae Vitae, or De quattuor virtutibus of Pseudo-Seneca (S. Martin of Braga, see 8 A. XXI, art. 26, &c.), with dedication to Jean, Duc de Berry. The evidence as to the date and authorship of the translatio...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
Late 14th century
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1 item

1774. Royal MS 20 A XIII

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Royal MS 20 A XIII
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HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS and paraphrase of the Acts of the Apostles in French, based mainly on Petrus Comestor but not agreeing with Guyart des Moulins, see 19 D. III. The rubric heading is 'Chi endroit se commenchent les ewangiles del an en roumant. Et se commenche premiers a lannontiation s. Ieh...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
c 1300
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1 item

1775. Royal MS 20 A XIV

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Royal MS 20 A XIV
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'LE LIVRE des Prieres ecclesiastiques et administration des Sacremens et autres Cerimonies et façon de faire dont on vse en l'Eglise d'Angleterre': a translation of the Second Prayer Book of Edward VI, by Jan Bellemain (see above, 16 E. I), with dedicatory letter to the King, dated 'De vostre ho...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1553
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1 item

1776. Royal MS 20 A XIX

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Royal MS 20 A XIX
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BOETHIUS, De consolatione philosophiae anonymous translation both of the prosae and metra) into French verse. A different translation from that of Renaud de Louhans in 19 A. IV. Other copies are in Add. MS. 26767 and at Paris, Bibl. Nat. anc. fonds fr. 577 (see Paulin Paris, Les MSS. François, v...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
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1 item

1777. Royal MS 20 A XV

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Royal MS 20 A XV
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LIVRE des Enseignemens moraux. This title is on the 18th cent. binding, but seems to be of no authority. Casley calls it Les Essais morales (sic), and the 1542 inventory describes it simply as 'Liber in Gallica lingua qui inscribitur Initium sapientiae est timor domini'. Contents:- 1. Moral aph...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
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1 item

1778. Royal MS 20 A XVIII

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Royal MS 20 A XVIII
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CHRONICLE of England, in French, from Brutus to A. D. 1329. The concluding section, which begins (f. 311) at the coronation of Edward II, and is in a different hand (late 14th cent.), is taken from the Brute chronicle (see Brie, Geschichte und Quellen der m.e. Prosachronzk The Brute of England,....
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
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1 item

1779. Royal MS 20 A XX

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Royal MS 20 A XX
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EIGHTEEN short poems on 'Dames illustres qui ont esté Roynes', by Jaques de Bonjeu. Holograph. in a letter presenting the MS. to Queen Elizabeth, dated Paris, 15 June, 1575, the author says that he composed them for [Catherine de Médicis] the Queen-Mother, 'pour de chascune faire vne piece de ta...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1575
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1 item

1780. Royal MS 20 B I

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Royal MS 20 B I
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'FLAUE VEGESCE de la choze de cheualerie': the French translation [by Jean de Vignay ?] of the De Re Militari of Vegetius, see above, 17 E. V, art. 2. For certain difficulties in the attribution to J. de Vignay, arising from the early date of one of the Cambridge MSS. (Caius College, 424), see P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
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1 item

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