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1. Add Ch 2607

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Add Ch 2607
Title:
Order of Charles, Duke of Orléans, to Pierre Sauvage, his secretary, to pay for a complete set of armour
Scope & Content:
Charles, Duke of Orléans (b. 1394, d. 1465), orders Pierre Sauvage, his secretary and silversmith, to pay 83l. 7s. 6d. to Richard de Melleville, his armourer, for a complete set of steel armour for his use.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
14 Sept 1415
Extent:
1 leaf

2. Add MS 22937

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Add MS 22937
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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Cotton MS Otho D II

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Cotton MS Otho D II
Title:
A collection of travellers' accounts of the East, including La Fleur des Histoires de la terre d'Orient, translated by Jean d'Ypres; Jean d'Arras, Roman de Melusine
Scope & Content:
Contents: Six texts on the Orient, including a set of letters, compiled and translated into French in 1351 by Jean d'Ypres or Jean le Long, Abbot of St Bertin from 1365 to 1383 (ff. 1-85v); Jean d'Arras, Roman de Melusine (ff. 86r-150v). The foliation for the contents is that of the re-mounte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Middle
Date Range:
1400-1415
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/2

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Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/2
Title:
Coronation Book of Charles V, King of France
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a presentation copy of the Coronation Book of Charles V (r. 1364–1380), King of France, comprising the French coronation order commissioned by him in 1365 (see his colophon on f. 74v). The order was subsequently supplemented with texts of several oaths, probably sometime...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1365-1380
Extent:

1 volume

8. Harley MS 3869

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Harley MS 3869
Title:
John Gower, Confessio amantis, Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, pageant verses, and some short Latin verse; Marian hymns in English and Latin
Scope & Content:
Confessio amantis by John Gower (d. 1408), along with his French Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, and some of his short Latin verse. Also includes (in the hand of another scribe), pageant verses by John Lydgate and Marian hymns in English and Latin. Contents: ff. 2r–4v: John Lydgat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

9. Harley MS 4000

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Harley MS 4000
Title:
An epistolary discourse in defence of the Protestant religion
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Note suggesting that this work came from the Queen's closet due to the markings E R A F H ('Elizabetha Regina Angliae Franciae Hiberniae') on the original vellum binding that has been pasted onto f. 2r and f. 77v. ff. 3r–4r: An explanation of the contents, written in the same hand as the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1567
Extent:

1 volume

10. Harley MS 4203

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Harley MS 4203
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-181v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; an English translation of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous Men’); featuring Latin rubrics, and a co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume