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Language French, Old Level [40] File

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 19
Title:: Brunetto Latini, Li Livres dou Trésor
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of Li Livres dou Trésor (The Book of the Treasure), written by the Florentine philosopher, notary, and statesman Brunetto Latini (b. c. 1220, d. 1294) during his exile in France between 1260 and 1266. The Trésor is an encyclopaedic work, notable as one of the firs...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 21
Title:: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, Roman de la Rose; Le Pèlerinage de mestre Jehan de Meung; le Testament
Scope & Content:: Content: Le pèlerinage de Jehan de Meun (ff. 1r-2v) is an addition in a later hand of the first quarter of the sixteenth century. This is likely an abridged and reworking version of Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine, a moralizing poem by Guillaume de Diguleville written in 1330. The Roman de la...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1380-1390
Extent:: 1 volume

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