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Language French, Old Material Type Archives and Manuscripts Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 10289

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Title:
Li Romanz du Mont Saint-Michel, a miscellany of romances, moralistic and religious texts and medical recipes.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64r: Guillaume de Saint Pair or Guillelme de Seint Paier, Li romanz du Mont Saint Michel or Roman de Mont Saint Michel, incipit, 'Molz pelerins qui vunt al munt', explicit, 'Longue de corne ou il est mis'. ff. 64r-81v: André de Coutances or Andreu de Costances, Roman de la Rés...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1275-1300
Extent:

A parchment codex, 179 folios

2. Add MS 10292-10294/1

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Title:
Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle)
Scope & Content:
The entire French Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle) in four separate volumes (order separately): Add MS 10292: L'estoire del Saint Graal; L'estoire de Merlin. Add MS 10293: The Lancelot propre. Add MS 10294: La Queste del Saint Graal; Morte Artu. Add MS 10294/1: The first folio from A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
1316
Extent:

A parchment codex divided into 4 volumes

3. Add MS 10324

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Title:
THE METAMORPHOSES Of Ovid, translated into French verse. On vellum, of the xvth century. Quarto. [10,324.]
Scope & Content:
Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet: Metamorphoses: translated into old French verse.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 12228

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Title:
Meliadus or Guiron le Courtois
Scope & Content:
Meliadus or Guiron le Courtois (part of the romance also known as Palamedes) was composed between 1235 and c. 1240. The present manuscript contains the prologue, with attribution to Hélie de Boron, in which he claims to have been given two castles by King Henry in return for his work (f. 2v), an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1352-1362
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Add MS 17333

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Title:
Apocalypse (the 'Val-Dieu Apocalypse')
Scope & Content:
Content: Apocalypse (Revelation), in parallel Latin and French. Latin version: ff. 1r-47v: 'Apocalipsis Ihesu Christi quam dedit illi Deus palam facere servis suis'. Ending: ' Et fratrum tuorum prophetarum et corum qui servant verba libri huius. Deus adora'. Old French version: ff. 1r-47v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1320-1330
Extent:

A parchment codex, 47 folios.

6. Add MS 17708

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Title:
"L'AGI de puberta, ou Lou Chincho Merlicho," a poem in a patois of the South of France, f. 1; "Dialogue d'Horace et de Lydie, par [Etienne Augustin de] Wailly," f. 13; "La solitude, par [Pierre de] Ronsard," f. 13 b; "Cansoun deis oousselets," f. 14; "Chanson sur la vie," f. 15. Paper; XIXth cent. Octavo. [Add. 17,708.]
Scope & Content:
Language. Dialects: French. L'Agi di Puberta, in patois. Poetry FRENCH: Poems: in Old French. includes: f. 13 Etienne Augustin de Wailly: Dialogue d'Horace et de Lydie. f. 13 b Pierre de Ronsard: La solitude.: Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and French, Old
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 18633

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Title:
Apocalypse in Latin with a verse translation and prose commentary in French [imperfect] (ff. 1r-50v); with a paraphrase in Middle English prose (ff. 10v-39r).
Scope & Content:
Contents: Apocalypse in Latin with a verse translation and prose commentary in French. ff. 1r-50v: Latin text: 'Apocalipsis Ihesu Christi quam dedit illi Deus palam facere servis suis'. Ending: 'Gratia Domini Nostri Ihesu Christi cum omnibus vobis. Amen'. ff. 1r-50v: French text: 'Ceste livre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 50 folios.

8. Add MS 19559

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Title:
STATUTA Westmonasterii secunda, anno 13o Edw. I. A.D. 1285 (imperfect at the beginning.) On the back, a poem on holding a Court Baron, in Norman French; followed by discussions of points of law, in French and Latin. Vellum Roll; end of the XIIIth cent. [Add. 19,559.]
Scope & Content:
Law OF ENGLAND: Poem on holding a Court Baron: 13th cent.: Norman-French. Law OF ENGLAND: Statuta Westmonasterii secunda: 1285.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French, Old
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 28162

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Title:
Somme le Roi
Scope & Content:
The Somme le Roi, a moral compendium compiled in 1279 by the Dominican Friar Laurent for King Philip III of France (r. 1270-1285); incipit: 'Le premier commandement'; preceded by a rubric: 'Cest le premier commandement qui dex commanda'; explicit (including the wrong date of the compilation): 'C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
c 1290-c 1300
Extent:

A parchment codex, 146 folios

10. Add MS 32125

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Add MS 32125
Title:
Wace, Roman de Brut; the Anglo-Norman Description of England; Estoire del Saint Graal; Robert de Boron, prose Merlin
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 2 separate items bound together: ff. 1r-58v, Wace, Roman de Brut, in Anglo-Norman verse (ff. 1r-58r); an extract from the Anglo-Norman Description of England (ff. 58r-v). ff. 59r-245v, Estoire del Saint Graal (ff. 59r-205v); Robert de Boron, Merlin (ff. 206r-245v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French, Old
Date Range:
1275-1325
Extent:

A parchment codex, 245 folios.