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1. Royal MS 13 A XIV

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Royal MS 13 A XIV
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, and other texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of texts, principally in Latin, written in Ireland between the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century, and which formerly belonged to the Dominican convent at Limerick. They include a copy of the Topographia Hiberniae (Topography of Ireland), an a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Royal MS 14 E II

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Royal MS 14 E II
Title:
Jean de Courcy, Le chemin de Vaillance; Christine de Pisan, L'epistre Othea; Alain Chartier, Le breviaire des nobles and other texts in French
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-294v: Jean de Courcy, Le chemin de Vaillance, beginning: 'La glorieuse trinite Trois persones en vnite', ending: 'Pardonnez moy car ie songoye'. ff. 295r-331v: Christine de Pisan, L'Epistre Othea, beginning: 'Othea, deesse deprudence, Quy les bons adresse en vaillance'. ff. 3...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1473-1483
Extent:

1 volume

3. Royal MS 15 D IV

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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

4. Royal MS 15 E I

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Royal MS 15 E I
Title:
William of Tyre, Histoire d'Outremer
Scope & Content:
Contents: Histoire d'Outremer, or Livre d’Eracles, a history of the Crusades in French, based on Guillelmus, Archbishop of Tyre (b. 1130, d. c.1190), Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum, with a continuation to 1231. Decoration: 18 large miniatures in colours and gold with full...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c. 1479-c. 1480
Extent:

Parchment codex

5. Royal MS 15 E V

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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

6. Royal MS 16 F IX

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Royal MS 16 F IX
Title:
Histoire de Troie, a French translation of Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Histoire de Troie (History of Troy), an anonymous French prose translation of the Historia destructionis Troiae (History of the destruction of Troy), written by the Italian judge and poet Guido delle Colonne (fl 13th century). This is the first of five Fren...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Royal MS 16 G V

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Royal MS 16 G V
Title:
Des cleres et nobles femmes, an anonymous French translation of Boccacio's De mulieribus claris
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Des cleres et nobles femmes, an anonymous French translation of the poem De mulieribus claris (Concerning Famous Women), begun in 1361 by Giovanni Boccaccio (b. 1313, d. 1375) and revised several times before his death in 1375. The work is a moralizing compilation of bio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c. 1440
Extent:
1 volume

8. Royal MS 16 G VII

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Royal MS 16 G VII
Title:
Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César; Li Fet des Romains
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 'Les anciennes hystoires romainnes' (The Ancient History of the Romans). The work consists of two separate texts: the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César (Ancient History until Caesar) and Li Fet des Romains (The Acts of the Romans). The text of the Histoire ancienne compris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

9. Royal MS 17 E II

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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

10. Royal MS 17 F I

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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