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91. Royal MS 19 D I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 D I
Title:
Roman d'Alexandre en prose and other texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes eight works forming a compendium of the wonders of the East combined with crusading texts: ff. 1r-46r: Roman d'Alexandre en prose, entitled here La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, an anonymous translation into French of Leo of Naples, Historia de proeliis; rubric: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1333-c 1340
Extent:

1 volume

92. Royal MS 20 A II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A II
Title:
Peter of Langtoft's Chronicle, the Lament of Edward II, fragments of Arthurian romances, and a letter attributed to Joanna, Queen of Sicily
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains: ff. 1r-9v, Drawings (see descriptions below) with various inscriptions, distichs and poems; ff. 10 r-v, Verse lament of Edward II; ff. 11r-146v, Peter of Langtoft (Pierre de Langtoft), Chronicle of England; (missing folios from between ff. 146 and 147 have been boun...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1307-c 1327
Extent:

A parchment codex, 169 folios.

93. Royal MS 20 D IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 D IV
Title:
Lancelot du Lac
Scope & Content:
The present manuscript contains part of the prose cycle known as Lancelot du Lac, or the Prose Lancelot, beginning two-thirds of the way through the second part at 'Mout fu rice la cours ke li rois tint a celle pentecouste' (f. 1r) and ending half way through the third part, the Agravain, at 'Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1300-1380
Extent:

A parchment codex

94. Royal MS 20 D VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 D VII
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Content: The Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris, continued by Jean de Meun at f. 25r; 'Et si lay je perdu espoir'.. ff. 1r-128r: beginning, 'Maintes gens dient quen songes/ Na se flabes non et menconges/ Mus on puet telz songes songes/ Qui ne sont mie mencongier', ending: 'Ainsi oi la ro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 128 folios.

95. Sloane MS 3525

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3525
Title:
Aldobrandino of Siena, Le Régime du corps; Le livre de toutes herbes; Roger Frugard, Chirurgia; Antidotarium Nicolai; and other medical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v, 1r-7v, 22v, 23r-v: Recipes in a hand of the 17th century. ff. 3r-5v: Table of contents, probably compiled by the scribe; this does not accurately list all contents, but contains a list of the chapters of the Régime du corps, and of the texts on ff. 82-108. ff. 6r-16v: A ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

96. Stowe MS 57

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 57
Title:
Scutum Bede, a collection of Latin treatises, including a Libellus de nominibus naturalium rerum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of a compilation of Latin moral, grammatical and historical treatises in prose and verses including interlinear and marginal glosses, probably collected by Geoffrey of Ufford (fl. c. 1154) and entitled 'Scutum Bede Collectivus Gaufridi de Ufford' (f. 1r); this appears to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Old, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1154
Extent:

1 volume

97. Stowe MS 947

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 947
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Content: The Roman de la Rose was begun by Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1230) and continued by Jean de Meun approximately forty years later. ff. 1r-155v: beginning: 'Maintes gens dient/ Que en songes/ Na se fables non/ Et menconges/ Mais len puet tel/ Songes songier/ Qui ne sont mie mencongier/ Ain...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

98. Yates Thompson MS 9

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 9
Title:
Bible (Proverbs-Revelation)
Scope & Content:
Contents: A copy of the Bible, containing Proverbs-Revelation. This manuscript was formerly known as Add MS 41751 and is the second of two volumes, the first being Harley MS 616, which contains Genesis-Psalms (incomplete). This two-volume Bible is one of the three extant manuscripts of the Fre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

99. Yates Thompson MS 11

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 11
Title:
Collection of moral tracts
Scope & Content:
This collection of moral tracts originally formed one volume with the Somme le Roy, Add. MS 28162. The manuscript includes: ff. 2r-7r: Traité de la sainte abbaye; incipit: 'La sainte abbaie e la religion doit estre fondee...' ff. 7r-28: Traité de l'amour de Dieu; incipit: 'Vous vouliez que je...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1290-c 1300
Extent:

1 volume

100. Yates Thompson MS 12

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 12
Title:
William of Tyre, Histoire d'Outremer
Scope & Content:
The Histoire d'Outremer, a French translation of the Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum by William, archbishop of Tyre (d. 1185), with a continuation to 1232. The manuscript must have been written after 1232, and probably before c. 1261, when a further continuation of the Histoire ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1232-1261
Extent:

1 volume

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