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1. 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

2. 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

3. Add MS 31841

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Title:
Christine de Pizan, Livre des trois vertus
Scope & Content:
Contents: Christine de Pizan, Le Livre des trois vertus (The Book of the Three Virtues), an educational treatise for women composed in 1405, with the alternative title, Le Trésor de la cité des dames. Written in three books. Several folios, including the opening folio, are missing, and six fol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 34360

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Add MS 34360
Title:
Collection of poems, including works by John Lydgate and Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of poems in Middle English, principally written by John Lydgate (b. c. 1370, d. c. 1451) and Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The volume also contains four roundels in Middle French, attributed to William de la Pole (b. 1396, d. 1450), 1st Duke of Su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 35320

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Title:
Pierre Louis de Valtan, Exposition of the Apostles' Creed
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a presentation copy of an Exposition of the Apostles' Creed, by Pierre Louis de Valtan (d. 1517), Archdeacon of Angers and later Bishop of Rieux. The text is written in rhymed Latin verse, with accompanying short prose texts placed as glosses in the margins. It features a dedi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1495
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 38120

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Add MS 38120
Title:
Guillaume de Diguleville, Les Trois Pèlerinages
Scope & Content:
Les Trois Pèlerinages, three poems composed in 1330-1358 by Guillaume de Diguleville (or Degulleville, Deguileville), a monk of Chaalis in Valois. ff. 1r-110r: Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine, prologue and four books containing the first recension of the text, an allegory of the pilgrimage of the so...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:

Parchment codex

7. Add MS 41667 I

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Add MS 41667 I
Title:
Two leaves from a French music book ('The Mac Veagh fragment')
Scope & Content:
Two conjoint leaves (each 280 x 200 mm), known as the Mac Veagh fragment, originally from a French music book, containing six motets in Latin and French, of which only the second is complete. According to a note signed 'T.F.B.' on f. 26r, the fragment was found, in August 1895, in the binding of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

2 leaves

8. Add MS 89066/1

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Title:
Eustache Marcadé, Mystère de la Vengeance de Nostre Seigneur Ihesu Crist
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains the first volume of the Mystère de la Vengeance de Nostre Seigneur Ihesu Crist by Eustache Marcadé (the second volume is Add MS 89066/2). Scene-openings and main stage directions, translated from rubrics, are as follows: - ff. 2r-3v: List of 108 characters and their titl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1465
Extent:
Parchment codex (first of two volumes)

9. Add MS 89066/2

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Title:
Eustache Marcadé, Mystère de la Vengeance de Nostre Seigneur Ihesu Crist
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is the second volume of the Mystère de la Vengeance de Nostre Seigneur Ihesu Crist by Eustache Marcadé (the first volume is Add MS 89066/1). - f. 1r: (see Add MS 89066/1, f. 137v for rubric): Pilate is brought under arrest before Emperor Tiberius, and is convicted of Christ's mur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1465
Extent:
Parchment codex (second of two volumes)