Search

Project / Collection Additional Manuscripts Language French, Old Level [40] File

1. Add MS 10292

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 10292
Title:
Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle)
Scope & Content:
Contents: The prose Lancelot-Grail (Sommer, Vulgate Version (1909-1916), vols I and II); ff. 1r-76r: L'estoire del Saint Graal, incipit, 'Chil ki se tient et iuge au plus petit et au plus peceor du monde'; explicit, 'Ore no[us] co[n]saut sainte marie' (Sommer, vol. I); ff. 76r-216v: L'estoire...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1316
Extent:

1 volume

2. Add MS 10293

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 10293
Title:
Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle)
Scope & Content:
Contents: The prose Lancelot-Grail continued (Sommer, Vulgate Version (1909-1916), vols III-V). This part of the cycle is sometimes known as the Lancelot-propre or Lancelot du Lac, as it deals mainly with the courtly exploits of Lancelot : ff. 2r-129r: Lancelot’s birth, education, and arrival...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Add MS 10294

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 10294
Title:
Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle)
Scope & Content:
Contents: The prose Lancelot-Grail continued (Sommer Vulgate Version (1909-1916), vols VI and VII): ff. 2r-53r: La Queste del Saint Graal, from the second folio, incipit, 'toucera de si pres q[ue] v[ous] ne le voldries avoir baillie', explicit, 'Si se taist atant li contes que plus nen dist d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1316
Extent:

1 volume

4. Add MS 10294/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 10294/1
Title:
Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle)
Scope & Content:
The first folio from each of Add MS 10293 and Add MS 10294, now bound together in a separate volume, Add MS 10294/1, numbered Additional 10293, f. 1 and Additional 10294, f. 1. A note on the first paper flyleaf states: 'Separated from the volume for better preservation, 6 December, 1860'. Cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
1316
Extent:

2 folios, one from Add MS 10293 and one from Add MS 10294

5. Add MS 12042

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 12042
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Contents: Le Roman de la Rose: ff. 1-32v: The first section by Guillaume de Lorris, begun around 1220, incipit, 'Maintes gens dient quen songes'; ff. 32v-148r: The continuation by Jean de Meun (or 'Jehan Chopinel'), composed between 1269 and 1278, begins with the rubric, 'Encor des co[m]pla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 166 folios

6. Add MS 31840

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 31840
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Roman de la Rose (ff. 3-142), followed by a collection of moral verses (ff. 142r-v). It includes: ff. 3r-28r: The first section of the Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Loris. Rubric: 'Cest livre est apele la rose/ Du lart damours est toute enclose'. Beginning 'Maint...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 142 folios.

7. Add MS 32125, ff 1r-58v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 32125, ff 1r-58v
Title:
Wace, Roman de Brut; Description of England
Scope & Content:
This part contains 2 texts: ff. 1r-58r, Wace, Roman de Brut in Anglo-Norman verse. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Ky vot oyr e wot saver / De rey en rey e de eir en eir / ke cil furent e dunt vindrent / ke engleterre primes tindrent'. Numerous leaves are missing between ff. 48 and 49, with the loss of line...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French, Old
Date Range:
1275-1300
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex, 58 folios

8. Add MS 32125, ff 59r-245v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 32125, ff 59r-245v
Title:
Estoire del Saint Graal (ff. 59r-205v); Robert de Boron, Merlin (ff. 206r-245v).
Scope & Content:
This part contains 2 texts: ff. 59r-205v, Estoire del Saint Graal (part of the 'Vulgate' cycle, see Sommers, Arthurian Romances, (1909)), in Old French prose. Rubric in red ('Ici comence...') has been mostly cut away in binding. Incipit of the prologue (f. 59r): 'Cil qui la hautesce e la seign...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French, Old
Date Range:
1300-1325
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex, 145 folios.

9. Add MS 38118

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 38118
Title:
Apocalypse (the 'Huth Apocalypse') in prose with gloss, with a prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée: 'Saint Pol lapostre dit que tous iceux qui vuelent debonairement vivre en Ihesu Christ'. Ending: 'et dist ainsi '. ff. 2r-43v: Apocalypse : 'Ie Iehan vostre frère et parconniers en tribulations'. Ending: 'La grace nostre seigneur soit ave...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 44 folios.

10. Add MS 54180

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 54180
Title:
Laurent d'Orléans, La Somme le Roi
Scope & Content:
La 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 comandement'; preceded by a rubric: 'Ce sont les X commandemenz nostre seigneur jesus'; explicit (including the date of the compilation): 'Cest l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
c 1295
Extent:

208 folios.