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11. Add MS 31841

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Add MS 31841
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

12. 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

13. Add MS 35320

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Add MS 35320
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

14. 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

15. 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

16. Add MS 89066/1

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Add MS 89066/1
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)

17. Add MS 89066/2

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Add MS 89066/2
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)

18. Arundel MS 10

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Arundel MS 10
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Latin copy of the Historia Regum Brittaniae ('The History of the Kings of Britain') by Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154/55), bishop of St Asaph and historian. The work presents a pseudo-historical account of the kings of Britain; it opens with a legend that tells of how B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

19. Burney MS 169

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Burney MS 169
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 contents with incipit stating the translator's nam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1468-1475
Extent:

1 volume

20. Cotton Ch II 26

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Cotton Ch II 26
Title:
Bundle of fragmentary letters addressed to Edward II
Scope & Content:
A bundle of 48 fragmentary letters addressed to Edward II, including: f. 1: From Philip V of France. f. 2: Regarding Henry of Lancaster. f. 3: From an unidentified sender, written 22 January. f. 4: From Philip V of France concerning a marriage. f. 5: Petition to Edward II. f. 6: Regarding...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1307-1327
Extent:
1 bundle

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