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1. Add Ch 1513

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Scope & Content:
Jehan Flesque, captain of Conches, gives a discharge to the tresurer or the duke of York from the wages of the garrison of Conches.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2 Feb 1447
Extent:
1 item

2. Add Ch 77733

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Add Ch 77733
Title:
Le Précepte d'Assise
Scope & Content:
Guernsey, 3 May 1507. Signed by the notaries Johannes Nicolle and Philippus Asselme. Le Précepte d'Assise is one of the most important documents for the medieval history of Guernsey. It acts as a “constitution”, designed to end disputes between the English monarchy and the local population, set...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1507
Extent:
1 parchment single-sheet document

3. Add MS 10043

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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

4. Add MS 15641

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Add MS 15641
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 17446

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Add MS 17446
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

6. Add MS 19992

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Add MS 19992
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

7. 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

8. Add MS 89066

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Add MS 89066
Title:
Eustache Marcadé, Mystère de la Vengeance de Nostre Seigneur Ihesu Crist
Scope & Content:
Eustache Marcadé, Mystère de la Vengeance de Nostre Seigneur Ihesu Crist
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1465
Extent:
Parchment codex (in two volumes)

9. 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

10. Cotton Ch IV 9

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Cotton Ch IV 9
Title:
Receipt that Adam Orleton, bishop of Hereford, has delivered valuables to the Tower of London for the coronation of Edward III
Scope & Content:
Receipt that Adam Orleton, bishop of Hereford (r. 1317-1327) and Treasurer, in the presence of Walter de Norroy, baron of the Exchequer, has delivered to the Tower of London and Sir Robert Woodhouse, Keeper of the King's Wardrobe, by the hands of Orleton's clerk, Sir John of Houton, plate and va...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1327
Extent:
1 leaf