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1791. Royal MS 20 B XIX

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Royal MS 20 B XIX
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CHANSONS of the cycle of Guillaume d'Orange; see Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, 1883, p. 654, for fuller description. Most of the seven branches here given, chiefly concerned with Narbonne, and written in tirades of decasyllabic verse (except art. 5, which is in alexandrines) with a six-syllable ver...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 item

1792. Royal MS 20 B XV

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Royal MS 20 B XV
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'LE LIURE de Flauue Vegece de lart de cheualerie': the same translation as in 20 B. XI. Preceded by the same table of contents. Prologue beg. 'Les anciens ont este coustumiers de mettre en escript'; text, 'Nous ne veons pas que le peuple des Rommains'; ends 'que lancienne doctrine ne nous a mons...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1793. Royal MS 20 B XVI

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Royal MS 20 B XVI
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'VNG RECOEUL nomme le Blason darmes pour congnoistre et apprendre a blasonner armes . . . recoeulliet par le sieur de Maumetz et de Boncourt cappitaine dauxi . . . et aussy aultres traictiez concernant lorigination des rois darmes herauldz darmes comme il apert au contenu de ce liure. RIOTUAS': ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1540
Extent:
1 item

1794. Royal MS 20 B XVII

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Royal MS 20 B XVII
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TREATISE on the art of letter-writing, entitled 'Vng petit traicte en francoys pour bien coucher par escript epistres que lon dit uulgairement lettres missives', preceded by a letter of the author, Loys Du Brun, dedicating his work 'A noble et excellente dame ma dame Anne de Rochefort', presumab...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1529-1530
Extent:
1 item

1795. Royal MS 20 B XVIII

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Royal MS 20 B XVIII
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YEAR-BOOKS: a miscellaneous collection including reports for 9 Henry VI (printed, with the terms in the wrong order, by Henry Smyth, 1545 ?, repr. in Le primier pari des Ans del Roy Henrie le 6, 1609), f. 2; 4 Hen. VI (pr. by Robert Redman, 1527 ?, repr. R. Tottell, 1556 ?, and 1609, as above), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1796. Royal MS 20 B XXI

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Royal MS 20 B XXI
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POEMS translated or composed by Jean le Fèyre of Ressons-sur-Matz, viz.:- 1. Les Lamentations de Matheolus, a satirical poem on women and the miseries of marriage: French version of the Latin poem by Mahieu, or Matheolus, of Boulogne. Both original and translation, the Latin from the unique MS....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1797. Royal MS 20 C I

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Royal MS 20 C I
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'LES FAIS des des (sic) Rommains comipilez ensemble de Saluste, de Suetoine et de Lucan': see above, 17 F. II. There is no table of chapters. Prologue beg. 'Chascun homme a qui dieu'. The continuation after the death of Caesar, absent in most MSS. and represented by a different continuation in 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1798. Royal MS 20 C IV

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Royal MS 20 C IV
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'LE LIVRE de Iehan Bocace des cas des nobles hommes et femmes translate de latin en francois par Laurens de Premierfait clerc du diocese de Troyes; et fut complie ceste translacion le xxve. iour dauril .milcccc. et .ix. et est assauer. le lundi apres pasques closes' (so colophon, but the dates d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1799. Royal MS 20 C IX

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Royal MS 20 C IX
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JEAN CHARTIER, 'La cronicque du temps de treschrestien roy Charles de France .viie. de ce nom' [1422- 1461]. For another copy see below, 20 E. VI. The author, who was a brother of Alain Chartier, the poet, and of Guillaume Chartier Bishop of Paris, names himself in the preface as 'Iehan Charetie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1800. Royal MS 20 C VI

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Royal MS 20 C VI
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LANCELOT DU LAC: the concluding part of the prose romance, including also the Quest of the Saint-Graal and the Morte Arthur. Attributed, as often, to Walter Map. See Ward, Catalogue of Romances, i, p. 350, and cf. 19 B. VII, 19 C. XIII, &c. The text is collated in H. O. Sommer's Vulgate Text...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1283
Extent:
1 item

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