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1. Add Ch 1513

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Scope & Content:
Jehan Flesque, captain of Conches, gives a discharge to the tresurer or the duke of York from the wages of the garrison of Conches.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2 Feb 1447
Extent:
1 item

2. Add Ch 2607

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Title:
Order of Charles, Duke of Orléans, to Pierre Sauvage, his secretary, to pay for a complete set of armour
Scope & Content:
Charles, Duke of Orléans (b. 1394, d. 1465), orders Pierre Sauvage, his secretary and silversmith, to pay 83l. 7s. 6d. to Richard de Melleville, his armourer, for a complete set of steel armour for his use.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
14 Sept 1415
Extent:
1 leaf

3. Add Ch 11271

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Title:
Acknowledgement by Marie, abbess of St Stephen’s Abbey, Soissons, to the Knights Templar of Mont-de-Soissons
Scope & Content:
Acknowledgement by Marie, abbess of St Étienne’s Abbey, Soissons, to the Knights Templar of Mont-de-Soissons, that the abbey owes them two bushels of winter grain. In return, the Templars quitclaim all right to the tithes of Mariuas and Villeneuve. Endorsed: in a 13th-century hand, ‘de labess d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1233
Extent:
1 leaf

4. Add Ch 12634

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Title:
Acknowledgement by Guy, count of Flanders, and Isabeau, his wife, countess of Namur, of a debt to Raoul de Harcout
Scope & Content:
Acknowledgement by Guy [de Dampierre, d. 1305], count of Flanders and marquis of Namur, and Isabeau [of Luxembourg, 1247-98], his wife, countess of Namur, of a debt to their clerk Raoul de Harcout of 150 gros livres tournois; dated 1294. The recto also features a summary of the charter's content...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1294
Extent:
1 leaf

5. Add Ch 19858

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Title:
Letter of Anne of Woodstock, countess of Stafford, appointing John Harper as her steward
Scope & Content:
Letter of Anne of Woodstock (b. c. 1382, d. 1438), countess of Stafford, Buckingham, Hereford and Northampton, and lady of Brecknock, appointing John Harper (b. 1395, d. 1464) as her steward of Staffordshire; given at London, 15 July 1428. Affixed with a fragmentary seal, red, a quatrefoil loze...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1428
Extent:
1 leaf

6. Add Ch 20396

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Title:
Grant by Anne of Bohemia, Queen of England, to John del Shagh, vicar of Prestbury, of lands in the town of Macclesfield
Scope & Content:
Anne of Bohemia (b. 1366, d. 1394), Queen of England and wife of Richard II (r. 1377-1399), grants to John del Shagh (fl. 1377-1416), vicar of Prestbury [Cheshire], lands measuring 32 x 15 feet in the town of Macclesfield, Cheshire, for building purposes, subject to the condition of leaving spac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1390
Extent:
1 leaf

7. Add Ch 75719

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Title:
Will of Katherine de Bassi of Tournai
Scope & Content:
Will of Katherine de Bassi of Tournai, wife of the late Baldwin du Bas, making arrangements for paying her debts, her burial, and her goods. Includes payments to parish priests, hostels, hospitals, the sick, her relatives and those of her husband; dated 1 May 1360. Endorsed: in a late 14th-cent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1360
Extent:
1 leaf

8. Add Ch 77136

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Title:
Indenture between Margaret of Brotherton, Countess of Norfolk, Bruisyard Abbey and Sir Robert Carbevell, concerning lands to be granted to the abbey
Scope & Content:
Chirograph containing an indenture between Margaret of Brotherton (b. c. 1322, d. 1399), Countess of Norfolk, and Bruisyard Abbey, Suffolk, on the one hand, and Sir Robert Carbevell on the other, regarding tenements in Babraham, Sawston, and Pampisford (Cambridgeshire), held for life by Roger of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
6 Jul 1378
Extent:
1 leaf

9. Add MS 22937

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Title:
Guillaume de Diguleville, Les Trois Pèlerinages
Scope & Content:
Les Trois Pèlerinages, three poems composed in 1330-1358 by Guillaume de Diguleville (or Guillermus de Deguilevilla, Degulleville, Deguileville), a monk of Chaalis in Valois. ff. 1r-74v: Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine, prologue and four books containing the first recension of the text, an allegory ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:

A parchment codex, 191 folios

10. Add MS 27699

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Title:
Gaston Fébus, Livre de la chasse; Livre des oraisons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Livre de la chasse (Book of the Hunt), a treatise on hunting in Middle French, written between 1387 and 1389 by Gaston III (b. 1331, d. 1391), count of Foix, commonly known as Gaston Fébus. Fébus was regarded as one of the greatest huntsmen of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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