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1. Add MS 12042

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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

2. Add MS 31840

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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.

3. Add MS 38118

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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.

4. Cotton MS Tiberius E IV

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Cotton MS Tiberius E IV
Title:
Winchcombe Chronicle; Calendar; Bede, De Temporum Ratione; Bede, De Natura Rerum; Bede, De Temporibus; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Sphere; Helperic of Auxerre, De Computo; Robert the Lotharingian, Excerptio de Chronica Mariani; Abbo of Fleury, Computus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-27v: The Winchcombe Chronicle, including the bull of Pope Leo III (pope between 795-816) to King Cenwulf of Mercia (reigned 796-821) and his heirs, regarding the monastery where Cenwulf would be buried (Winchcombe) and other monastic houses in England (f. 13v); the purported fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Cotton MS Vespasian B XX

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Cotton MS Vespasian B XX
Title:
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lives of the Canterbury saints etc; charters and privileges allegedly granted to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r–v: Charter of Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury (between 597-604), granting privileges to the Benedictine monastery of St Peter and St Paul (St Augustine’s, Canterbury). ff. 3r–18v: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin (Canterbury), Historia minor de adventu sancti Augustini, preceded b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Harley MS 225

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Harley MS 225
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, De Gestis Britonum; Epistre de Sibille
Scope & Content:
ff. 3r–78r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, De Gestis Britonum (Historia Regum Britanniae), including 15th-century annotations. ff. 78v–79v: Epistre de Sibille (Epistle to Sibille), with the heading: ‘Ceste lepistre de Sibille Ffraunce’, prophecy in Old French added in the mid-14th century, beginning: 'L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

7. Harley MS 334

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Harley MS 334
Title:
Gautier de Metz, L’image du monde
Scope & Content:
f. 2* verso: ‘A medecyne for the stomok’, Middle English, late 14th century. ff. 1r–107v: Gautier de Metz, L’image du monde (Le livre de clergie en roumans). f. 108r–v: Pen trials, 15th century, including the opening section of a charter. Decoration: 1 large miniature in colours, gold, and s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Old
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

8. Harley MS 913

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Harley MS 913
Title:
The Kildare Lyrics
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-2r: A theological tract. f. 3r-6v: The Land of Cokaygne ('Fur in see bi west Spaygne / Is a lond ihote Cokaygne'). f. 6v: Bissop lorles, kyng redeles (Abuses of the age). ff. 7r-8v: Hail seint Michel wiþ þe lange sper (Satire on the people of Kildare). ff. 9r-10r: Swet ihe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 1321

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Harley MS 1321
Title:
Chansons from the cycles of William of Orange and Aimeri de Narbonne
Scope & Content:
Contents: Chansons de Geste from the cycles of William of Orange (Guillaume d'Orange): and Aimeri de Narbonne (Aymeri de Nerbonne) ff. 4r-38v: Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube, Girart de Vienne (Girard de Viane), 5,560 lines, lacking 1 leaf at the beginning that perhaps contained a miniature; ff. 3...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1225-1275
Extent:

1 volume

10. Harley MS 3860

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3860
Title:
History of the Kings of England and Scotland; L'estoire des Sept Sages de Rome; Le Château d'amour;Manuel des Péchés; Housebondrie
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-22r: Brevis historia Regum Angliae et Scotiae usque ad Henricum III (a brief history of the Kings of England and Scotland up to Henry III); ff. 23r-47r: Anonymous, L'estoire des Sept Sages de Rome (version A). ff. 48r-61v: Robert Grosseteste, Le Château d'amour. ff. 61r-77v:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex, 82 folios.

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