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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 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Add MS 27699

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Title:
Gaston Fébus, Livre de la chasse; Livre des oraisons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Livre de la chasse (Book of the Hunt), a treatise on hunting in Middle French, written between 1387 and 1389 by Gaston III (b. 1331, d. 1391), count of Foix, commonly known as Gaston Fébus. Fébus was regarded as one of the greatest huntsmen of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

6. Add MS 34360

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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

7. Add MS 35320

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Title:
Pierre Louis de Valtan, Exposition of the Apostles' Creed
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a presentation copy of an Exposition of the Apostles' Creed, by Pierre Louis de Valtan (d. 1517), Archdeacon of Angers and later Bishop of Rieux. The text is written in rhymed Latin verse, with accompanying short prose texts placed as glosses in the margins. It features a dedi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1495
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 41667 I

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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

9. Add MS 42133

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Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose; Jean de Meun, Codicille and Testament
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: (18th century addition), rubric: 'Cy est le Roman de la Rose/ ou lart danours est tout enclose', beginning: 'Maintes gens vous disent que songes/ ne sont que fables et mensonges'; ff. 9r-143v: Roman de la Rose, beginning (imperfect): 'I cercle dor onques encores/ Ne fu si ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 171 folios

10. Add MS 88973

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Add MS 88973
Title:
Cartulary of Lacock Abbey
Scope & Content:
The earlier of the two Lacock cartularies, numbered '523' in Davis, Medieval Cartularies (1958), p. 59. The later cartulary is Add MS 88974. The core part of the manuscript (ff. 7r-72r) contains charters, rentals and custumaries relating to Lacock Abbey, copied in stages in the thirteenth centu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century-Early 16th century
Extent:
Parchment codex