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41. Royal MS 19 A IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 A IX
Title:
Gossuin de Metz, L'Image du monde
Scope & Content:
Contents: Gossuin (Gautier) de Metz (c. 1245), L'Image du monde, a French version of De imagine mundi by Honorius of Autun. ff. 1r-3v: Table of chapters; ff. 4r-4v: Prologue, This manuscript contains a unique prologue linking it to Caxton's printed editions and stating 'ce p[rese]nt volume ap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1464
Extent:

Parchment codex

42. Royal MS 19 C VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 C VII
Title:
Geoffroy de la Tour-Landry, Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour-Landry; Renaut de Louhans, Mélibée et Prudence; Philippe de Mézières, Griseldis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry (The Book of the Knight of the Tower), written by Geoffroy IV de la Tour Landry (b. before 1330, d. between 1402 and 1406), a nobleman of Anjou, for the instruction of his daughters. The volume also contains a number of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

43. Royal MS 20 A III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A III
Title:
Gossuin de Metz, L'image du monde; Prose Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-120: Gossuin de Metz, L'image du monde; ff. 121-236: Prose Brut Chronicle.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

44. Sloane MS 2401

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2401
Title:
Aldobrandino of Siena, Le Régime du corps; Le livre Ypocrae; medical charms and recipes
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of Le Régime du corps, a handbook for health composed by Aldobrandino of Siena (d. 1296/1299), an Italian physician. Three other copies of Le Régime du corps also contain roughly 140 historiated initials with comparable subject matter: Cambridge, Uni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

45. Yates Thompson MS 10

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 10
Title:
Apocalypse, in French
Scope & Content:
A manuscript of the Apocalypse (Book of Revelation) with commentary, in French (ff. 1r-139v), beginning "Saint Pol l'apostre dit que touz ceulz qui veulent piement vivre en Ihesucrist souffreront persecucion...", and ending "...Que nous puissions ovec lui en sa gloire en coprs et en ame sanz reg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1370-c 1390
Extent:

1 volume

46. Yates Thompson MS 27

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 27
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris ('The Hours of Yolande of Flanders')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, use of Paris, known as the 'Hours of Yolande of Flanders', includes: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13v-107r: Hours of the Virgin. ff. 107v-124v: Seven Penitential Psalms. ff. 125r-128r: Litany. 13 leaves from this manuscript were given by John Ruskin to the Ruskin School of Fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1353-1363
Extent:

1 volume

47. Yates Thompson MS 32

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 32
Title:
Chroniques abrégées des Anciens Rois et Ducs de Bourgogne, attributed to Olivier de la Marche
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains the Chroniques abrégées des Anciens Rois et Ducs de Bourgogne, attributed to Olivier de la Marche. On the title page (f. 1v) is the following rubric: 'S'ensuivent aulcunes chroniques, extraittes d'aulcunes anciens registres et aultres enseignements d'anciens rois, prince...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c. 1485-1490
Extent:

1 volume

48. Yates Thompson MS 35

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 35
Title:
Jean Cuvelier, La Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of La Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin, an epic poem in Middle French written by Jean Cuvelier, recounting the chivalric deeds of the French hero, Bertrand du Guesclin (b. 1320, d. 1380), Breton knight and military commander during the Hundred Years War. The manusc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1380-1392
Extent:
1 volume