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11. Add MS 27699

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Add MS 27699
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

12. Add MS 31841

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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

13. 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

14. 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

15. Add MS 38120

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Add MS 38120
Title:
Guillaume de Diguleville, Les Trois Pèlerinages
Scope & Content:
Les Trois Pèlerinages, three poems composed in 1330-1358 by Guillaume de Diguleville (or Degulleville, Deguileville), a monk of Chaalis in Valois. ff. 1r-110r: Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine, prologue and four books containing the first recension of the text, an allegory of the pilgrimage of the so...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:

Parchment codex

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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)

20. Add MS 89066/1

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Add MS 89066/1
Title:
Eustache Marcadé, Mystère de la Vengeance de Nostre Seigneur Ihesu Crist
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains the first volume of the Mystère de la Vengeance de Nostre Seigneur Ihesu Crist by Eustache Marcadé (the second volume is Add MS 89066/2). Scene-openings and main stage directions, translated from rubrics, are as follows: - ff. 2r-3v: List of 108 characters and their titl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1465
Extent:
Parchment codex (first of two volumes)