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Language French, Middle Place Bruges, Belgium Level [40] File

1. Harley MS 6199

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6199
Title:
Statuts de l'Ordre de la Toison d'Or
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-77r: Statuts de l'Ordre de la Toison d'Or. The earliest copy of the Statutes of the Order of the Golden Fleece, with a register of chapters held from 1429 to 6 May 1481. Decoration: 1 miniature depicting the knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece, with a scatter border ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1481-1486
Extent:
1 volume

2. Royal MS 15 D IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 D IV
Title:
Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant, a French translation of Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni
Scope & Content:
Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated into French by Vasco da Lucena (b. c. 1435, d. 1512) as Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant and dedicated to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1433, d. 1477). ff. 1r-10r: Table of rubrics ff. 11r-14r: Translator's prologue, with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1470s
Extent:
1 volume

3. Royal MS 15 E V

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 E V
Title:
Perceforest, Volume 1
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the first volume of Le Roman de Perceforest (Anciennes croniques Dangleterre, faictz et gestes du roy Perceforest, et des chevaliers du Franc Palais), revised by David Aubert (fl. 1458-1479), librarian to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, with his preface (ff. 3-4). The...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
Last decade of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Royal MS 17 E II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 E II
Title:
Raoul Lefèvre, Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes (Collection of the stories of Troy), composed in 1464 by Raoul Lefèvre (fl. 15th century), chaplain to Philip the Good (b. 1396, d. 1467), Duke of Burgundy. At the beginning of the list of contents and in the colophon it is re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1475-c 1483
Extent:

1 volume

5. Royal MS 17 F I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 F I
Title:
Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant, a French translation of Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni
Scope & Content:
Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, in a French translation by Vasco da Lucena, Quinte Curse Ruffe des faiz du grant Alexandre and dedicated to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (B. 1433, d. 1477). The manuscript was copied by Jean Duchesne of Lille; another copy by the same scrib...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Royal MS 19 E II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 E II
Title:
Perceforest, Volume 3 (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the third volume of Le Roman de Perceforest (Anciennes croniques Dangleterre, faictz et gestes du roy Perceforest, et des chevaliers du Franc Palais), revised by David Aubert (fl. 1458-1479), librarian to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy The other two volumes of the set...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
Last decade of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

7. Royal MS 19 E III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 E III
Title:
Perceforest, Volume 2 (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the second volume of Le Roman de Perceforest (Anciennes croniques Dangleterre, faictz et gestes du roy Perceforest, et des chevaliers du Franc Palais), revised by David Aubert (fl. 1458-1479), librarian to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy The other two volumes of the se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
Last decade of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Royal MS 20 C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 C III
Title:
Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant, a French translation of Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni
Scope & Content:
Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated into French by Vasco da Lucena (b. c. 1435, d. 1512) as Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant and dedicated to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1433, d. 1477). Contents: ff. 1r-11r: Table of Contents. The incipit gives the date o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c. 1485-1490
Extent:

1 volume

9. Yates Thompson MS 4

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 4
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Jacques de Brégilles')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome, including a calendar (ff. 1r-12v), and with later notes on the family of Jacques de Brégilles, French (ff. 194r-v), an added prayer to the Virgin Mary in French, 16th c (ff. 204r-209v), and a 16th c French verse (f. 210r). ff. 41v, 178v, 186v-186*v are blank. Decora...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1460
Extent:
1 volume

10. Yates Thompson MS 32

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 32
Title:
Chroniques abrégées des Anciens Rois et Ducs de Bourgogne, attributed to Olivier de la Marche
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains the Chroniques abrégées des Anciens Rois et Ducs de Bourgogne, attributed to Olivier de la Marche. On the title page (f. 1v) is the following rubric: 'S'ensuivent aulcunes chroniques, extraittes d'aulcunes anciens registres et aultres enseignements d'anciens rois, prince...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c. 1485-1490
Extent:

1 volume