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241. 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

242. Royal MS 20 C V

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 C V
Title:
Des cleres et nobles femmes, an anonymous French translation of Boccacio's De mulieribus claris
Scope & Content:
Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris is a moralizing compilation of biographical sketches of famous women begun in 1361 and revised several times before his death in 1375. The work was very popular, as attested by the number of translations and including this anonymous French translation, Des cleres...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1410
Extent:

A parchment codex.

243. Royal MS 20 D II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 D II
Title:
Le Roman de Tristan en prose
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the second part of Le Roman de Tristan en prose, attributed to Hélie de Borron (fl. 13th century), and written in Middle French prose. Contents: ff. 2r-315r: Le Roman de Tristan en prose, written in Middle French, imperfect at the beginning, lacking the fir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:

1 volume

244. Royal MS 20 D VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 D VI
Title:
A French legendary, comprising 57 saints' lives in prose, including some attributed to Wauchier de Denain
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a legendarium (legendary), or collection of saints' lives, a term which derives its name from the Latin word legenda 'things to be read'. The text is written in prose and represents one of over 30 French prose legendaries to survive from the 13th and 14th centuries. The text...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

245. Sloane MS 314

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 314
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', with a treatise on geomancy and an account of a necromantic ritual
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', written by poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400), together with a treatise on geomancy, an account of a necromantic ritual, and a fragment of a baptismal office from a 13th-century missal. It has been suggested that the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

246. Sloane MS 2401

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2401
Title:
Aldobrandino of Siena, Le Régime du corps; Le livre Ypocrae; medical charms and recipes
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of Le Régime du corps, a handbook for health composed by Aldobrandino of Siena (d. 1296/1299), an Italian physician. Three other copies of Le Régime du corps also contain roughly 140 historiated initials with comparable subject matter: Cambridge, Uni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

247. Stowe MS 54

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 54
Title:
Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César
Scope & Content:
Contents: Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César (or Histoire Universelle), a universal history from the time of Thebes to 60 BC, as follows: ff. 2r-30r: The story of Thebes from the birth of Oedipus to the conquest by Theseus and the story of Hercules; ff. 30v-45r: The siege and capture of Troy, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

248. 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

249. Yates Thompson MS 8

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 8
Title:
Breviary, Use of Verdun, Winter portion ('The Breviary of Renaud de Bar' or 'The Breviary of Marguerite de Bar')
Scope & Content:
The first volume of a Breviary, of which the second is now in the Public Library at Verdun (Verdun, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 107). The manuscript appears to have been made for Renaud de Bar, canon of Verdun Cathedral, provost of the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Verdun (from 1302), and Bisho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1302-1303
Extent:
1 volume

250. Yates Thompson MS 10

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 10
Title:
Apocalypse, in French
Scope & Content:
A manuscript of the Apocalypse (Book of Revelation) with commentary, in French (ff. 1r-139v), beginning "Saint Pol l'apostre dit que touz ceulz qui veulent piement vivre en Ihesucrist souffreront persecucion...", and ending "...Que nous puissions ovec lui en sa gloire en coprs et en ame sanz reg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1370-c 1390
Extent:

1 volume

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