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11. Royal MS 17 E II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 E II
Title:
Raoul Lefèvre, Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes (Collection of the stories of Troy), composed in 1464 by Raoul Lefèvre (fl. 15th century), chaplain to Philip the Good (b. 1396, d. 1467), Duke of Burgundy. At the beginning of the list of contents and in the colophon it is re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1475-c 1483
Extent:

1 volume

12. Royal MS 20 C V

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 C V
Title:
Des cleres et nobles femmes, an anonymous French translation of Boccacio's De mulieribus claris
Scope & Content:
Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris is a moralizing compilation of biographical sketches of famous women begun in 1361 and revised several times before his death in 1375. The work was very popular, as attested by the number of translations and including this anonymous French translation, Des cleres...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1410
Extent:

A parchment codex.

13. Royal MS 20 B VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 B VI
Title:
Philippe de Mézières, Epistre au Roi Richart
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Epistre au Roi Richart (Letter to King Richard), written by Philippe de Mézières (b. c. 1327, d. 1405), a crusader, former tutor to Charles VI of France (r. 1380-1422), and counsellor to Charles V (r. 1364-1380), the King's father. By 1395, he had retired to the Cele...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1395
Extent:
1 volume

14. Royal MS 16 F IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 F IX
Title:
Histoire de Troie, a French translation of Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Histoire de Troie (History of Troy), an anonymous French prose translation of the Historia destructionis Troiae (History of the destruction of Troy), written by the Italian judge and poet Guido delle Colonne (fl 13th century). This is the first of five Fren...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

15. 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

16. Royal MS 20 A V

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A V
Title:
Roman d'Alexandre en Prose
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Roman d’Alexandre en Prose (Prose Romance of Alexander), a French adaptation of the Latin Historia de Preliis (interpolated version I2), imperfect at the end. The work details various episodes from the life of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great (b. 356, d. 323 B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

17. Royal MS 20 D VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 D VI
Title:
A French legendary, comprising 57 saints' lives in prose, including some attributed to Wauchier de Denain
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a legendarium (legendary), or collection of saints' lives, a term which derives its name from the Latin word legenda 'things to be read'. The text is written in prose and represents one of over 30 French prose legendaries to survive from the 13th and 14th centuries. The text...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

18. Royal MS 19 B IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B IV
Title:
Les Dits Moraulx des Philosophes, a French translation of Guillaume de Tignonville's Dicta moralia antiquorum philosophorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Les Dits Moraulx des Philosophes (The Moral Sayings of the Philosophers), a French translation of the Latin Dicta moralia antiquorum philosophorum by Guillaume de Tignonville, or Thignonville (d. 1414), Councillor to King Charles VI of France and Prevost of Par...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

19. 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

20. Royal MS 15 D IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 D IV
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 rubrics ff. 11r-14r: Translator's prologue, with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1470s
Extent:
1 volume