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1. Add MS 7970

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Title:
Dialogue de la duchesse de Bourgogne à Jésus Christ (ff. 2-140)
Scope & Content:
Content: The Dialogue de la duchesse de Bourgogne à Jésus Christ, a treatise on contemplation, was commissioned by Margaret of York to her almoner, Nicolas Finet in c. 1468. ff. 2r-140v: Rubric: 'Le dialogue de la duchesse de Bourgogne a Ihesus Christ'. Beginning: 'Comme la vye humaine est di...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
Between 1468 and 1477
Extent:

A parchment codex, 142 folios.

2. Add MS 10043

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Title:
The first volume of a three-part glossed History Bible in Middle Dutch, covering the Old Testament books of Genesis until Tobit, with commentary from the Historia Scholastica by the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1179).
Scope & Content:
This is the first volume of a three-part Dutch History Bible: a bible in which the biblical text alternates with commentary from the Historia Scolastica by the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1179). This part contains the Old Testament books from Genesis to Tobit; its other two volumes are ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1431
Extent:

Parchment codex

3. Add MS 15229

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Title:
Le Roman de Renart
Scope & Content:
Contents: Fourteen episodes of the French verse romance, Le Roman de Renart (Reynard the Fox), attributed to Pierre de Saint Cloud, Richard of Lison and others. The Roman is based on a large collection of tales from Oriental sources, mostly collected and translated in Picardy or the Paris area ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Middle
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

4. Add MS 15641

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Title:
Christine de Pizan, Livredes trois vertus
Scope & Content:
Contents: Christinede Pizan, Le Livre destrois vertus (The Book of the Three Virtues), an educational treatise forwomen composed in 1405, with the alternative title, Le Trésor de la cité des dames. Written in three books. The text belongs to Willard's Northern group (Willard, Trois vertus, 198...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 17399

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Title:
Prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée (ff. 2r-3v); Apocalypse (Revelation) in prose with glosses (ff. 3v-58v).
Scope & Content:
Contents: Apocalypse (Revelation) in prose, with prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée. f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf. ff. 2r-3v: Prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée: 'Saint Paul lapostre dit'. Ending: 'Sique len peut chascune partie par soy seurement entendre et dire. Et dit ainsi'. ff. 3v-58v: Apoca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 58 folios.

6. Add MS 17446

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Title:
Christine de Pizan, Les Enseignemens Moraux; moral and spiritual poems in French
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-3v: 'Instruction et doctrine a bien vivre et mourir' (printed in the Oeuvres Poetiques de Guillaume Alexis Prieur de Bercy, ed. by Arthur Piaget and Emile Picot, 3 vols, Societe des Anciens Textes Francais (Paris: 1536). ff. 4r-5v: 'Contre aulcuns exces qui se commettent chasc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
late 15th century or early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 19992

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Title:
Histoire de la vie Joseph
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was probably part of a Psalter and contains a series of images illustrating the life of Joseph. This is the third of three series of images: the first series would have depicted the life of Christ and the second the Acts of the Apostles. Two further leaves illustrated by the same...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

8. Add MS 22283

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Title:
Homilies, poems and prose treatises (The Simeon Manuscript)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a compilation of homilies, poems and prose treatises in Middle English. Its production is closely associated with Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. a.1, although there are differences in the content and decoration. Notes: - the lower case letters in brackets refer to t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

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 24065

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Title:
Pierre Desceliers, World map
Scope & Content:
Map of the known world comissioned by Henry II of France (r. 1547–59) or the Duc de Montmorency. One of the earliest maps to show Canada and Australia (‘Terre Australle’). Includes twenty-six long descriptive texts, for which no other source is known. Decoration: Hand-painted illustrations of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1550
Extent:

Parchment roll