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11. Add MS 24065

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Add MS 24065
Title:
Pierre Desceliers, World map
Scope & Content:
Map of the known world comissioned by Henry II of France (r. 1547–59) or the Duc de Montmorency. One of the earliest maps to show Canada and Australia (‘Terre Australle’). Includes twenty-six long descriptive texts, for which no other source is known. Decoration: Hand-painted illustrations of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1550
Extent:

Parchment roll

12. 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

13. Add MS 89789

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Add MS 89789
Title:
The Red Book of Bath
Scope & Content:
The Red Book of Bath (Latin ‘Liber Rubeus Bathoniae’) is an administrative compilation made for the town’s officials. Its texts relate to the regulation of trade and commerce, to law and justice, and to the history of Bath. The manuscript is named after the colour of its medieval binding, which w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1412-1430
Extent:
1 volume

14. Add Roll 75855

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Add Roll 75855
Title:
Household expenses of Philippa of Hainault, queen of England
Scope & Content:
This roll contains a fragmentary account of the household expenses of Queen Philippa of Hainault (b. c. 1314, d. 1369), wife of King Edward III (r. 1327-1377). This roll is a loose middle membrane from a larger roll, now lost. Records payments made by the queen’s household between 20 November ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
1 roll

15. Arundel MS 10

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Arundel MS 10
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Latin copy of the Historia Regum Brittaniae ('The History of the Kings of Britain') by Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154/55), bishop of St Asaph and historian. The work presents a pseudo-historical account of the kings of Britain; it opens with a legend that tells of how B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

16. Cotton Ch XI 71

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Cotton Ch XI 71
Title:
Grant by Anne of Bohemia, Queen of England, to Robert Westende, purveyor of the queen’s coaches, of an annuity of 40s.
Scope & Content:
Anne of Bohemia (b. 1366, d. 1394), Queen of England and wife of Richard II (r. 1377-1399), grants to Robert Westende, purveyor of the Queen’s coaches, an annuity of 40s from the issues of the manor of Cosham, Wiltshire; given at Windsor, 6 May 1394 [17 Richard II]. Affixed with Anne’s red sea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1394
Extent:
1 leaf

17. Cotton MS Claudius A VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius A VI
Title:
Cartulary of Boxgrove Priory; Ivo of Chartres, Sermones; Epistolae; Marbod of Rennes, Epistola V; Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistola X; anonymous monk ('G') of Pontlevoy, three letters
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains two parts that were separately produced at different locations and periods of time. The first part (ff. 1-155) contains the Latin cartulary of the Benedictine priory of St Mary and St Blaise at Boxgrove in the diocese of Chichester that was written by several s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

18. Egerton MS 613

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Egerton MS 613
Title:
Prose and Verse Miscellany
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany of verse and prose texts of a religious and didactic character. ff. 71r-74v: booklet with 15th-century medical recipes against gout, pestilence, swellings and other pains. 130 x 90 mm ( text space: 95 x 75 mm) The core parts of the manuscript were compl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex (composite)

19. Egerton MS 613, f 29v

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Egerton MS 613, f 29v
Title:
La Légende des Trois Maries
Scope & Content:
Prose in Middle French: 'Anne e emere furent sorurs' (La Légende des Trois Maries).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
Parchment leaf

20. Egerton MS 613, f 30r

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 613, f 30r
Title:
Les Quinze Signes du Jugement Dernier
Scope & Content:
Prose in Middle French: 'Ore oez les quinze signes des iurz deuant le iur de Juise' (Les Quinze Signes du Jugement Dernier).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
Parchment leaf