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Language French, Middle Level [32] Fonds

11. Add MS 19992

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Title:
Histoire de la vie Joseph
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was probably part of a Psalter and contains a series of images illustrating the life of Joseph. This is the third of three series of images: the first series would have depicted the life of Christ and the second the Acts of the Apostles. Two further leaves illustrated by the same...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

12. Add MS 22283

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Add MS 22283
Title:
Homilies, poems and prose treatises (The Simeon Manuscript)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a compilation of homilies, poems and prose treatises in Middle English. Its production is closely associated with Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. a.1, although there are differences in the content and decoration. Notes: - the lower case letters in brackets refer to t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

13. Add MS 24065

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Title:
Pierre Desceliers, World map
Scope & Content:
Map of the known world comissioned by Henry II of France (r. 1547–59) or the Duc de Montmorency. One of the earliest maps to show Canada and Australia (‘Terre Australle’). Includes twenty-six long descriptive texts, for which no other source is known. Decoration: Hand-painted illustrations of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1550
Extent:

Parchment roll

14. Add MS 42133

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Add MS 42133
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose; Jean de Meun, Codicille and Testament
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: (18th century addition), rubric: 'Cy est le Roman de la Rose/ ou lart danours est tout enclose', beginning: 'Maintes gens vous disent que songes/ ne sont que fables et mensonges'; ff. 9r-143v: Roman de la Rose, beginning (imperfect): 'I cercle dor onques encores/ Ne fu si ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 171 folios

15. Add MS 88973

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Add MS 88973
Title:
Cartulary of Lacock Abbey
Scope & Content:
The earlier of the two Lacock cartularies, numbered '523' in Davis, Medieval Cartularies (1958), p. 59. The later cartulary is Add MS 88974. The core part of the manuscript (ff. 7r-72r) contains charters, rentals and custumaries relating to Lacock Abbey, copied in stages in the thirteenth centu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century-Early 16th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

16. Add MS 89066

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Add MS 89066
Title:
Eustache Marcadé, Mystère de la Vengeance de Nostre Seigneur Ihesu Crist
Scope & Content:
Eustache Marcadé, Mystère de la Vengeance de Nostre Seigneur Ihesu Crist
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1465
Extent:
Parchment codex (in two volumes)

17. Add MS 89169

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Add MS 89169
Title:
Cartulary of Burton Abbey
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–5r: Table of contents to the cartulary, with folio references. ff. 6r–7v: Table of contents arranged by issuer. ff. 8r–74v: The earliest section of the cartulary, created c.1230–41 with 13th- to 15th-century additions, arranged partially by the status of grantors (foundation and royal; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century-15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

18. Add MS 89789

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Add MS 89789
Title:
The Red Book of Bath
Scope & Content:
The Red Book of Bath (Latin ‘Liber Rubeus Bathoniae’) is an administrative compilation made for the town’s officials. Its texts relate to the regulation of trade and commerce, to law and justice, and to the history of Bath. The manuscript is named after the colour of its medieval binding, which w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1412-1430
Extent:
1 volume

19. Add Roll 75855

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Add Roll 75855
Title:
Household expenses of Philippa of Hainault, queen of England
Scope & Content:
This roll contains a fragmentary account of the household expenses of Queen Philippa of Hainault (b. c. 1314, d. 1369), wife of King Edward III (r. 1327-1377). This roll is a loose middle membrane from a larger roll, now lost. Records payments made by the queen’s household between 20 November ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
1 roll

20. Egerton MS 274

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Egerton MS 274
Title:
Musical miscellany in French and Latin
Scope & Content:
A musical miscellany the main part of which was copied in France in the second half of the thirteenth century, with many 14th- and 15th-century additions near the end, the music written both in square notes and Gothic neumes. Alison Stones connects its historiated initials with artistic activity...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
13th century - 15th century
Extent:

1 volume