Search

Language French, Old Level [40] File

11. Add MS 72412

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 72412
Title:
Remonstrance of the House of Commons to King James I against Impositions, 1610, and the Treatise of James Whitelocke against Impositions, 1610
Scope & Content:
Trumbull Papers. In 1610 the House of Commons was very concerned with the issue of impositions - that is, new customs duties imposed by the Crown without parliamentary sanction - as an arbitrary exaction against the property rights of the subject and the authority of Parliament. This manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1610-1642
Extent:
1 volume

12. Add MS 74756 A

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 74756 A
Title:
Scope & Content:
THOMAS BECKWITH (1731-1786), F.S.A., HERALD PAINTER, OF YORK: ‘A Genealogical and Historical Account of the Families of Malebysse and Beckwith’; 1786, with later additions by other hands. Partly copies and printed. Partly Latin and Norman French. Paper: ff. ii+188. 480 mm x 340 mm. Binding ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, French, Old, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
1786
Extent:
1 item

13. Arundel MS 57

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 57
Title:
Michael of Northgate, Ayenbite of Inwyt
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript contains the only copy of the Middle English text, Ayenbite of Inwyt, together with religious poems and treatises. The first and last quires (ff. 1-12, 97-108) appear to have been added not long after the manuscript was written, possibly as protective flyleaves (see G...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1340
Extent:

A parchment codex consisting of 3 items

14. Arundel MS 288

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 288
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vellum, Svo., pp. 254, xii. Cent., formerly belonging to John Parker; articles 1, 2, 8-11, are in a later 1. A poem upon the Passion of Our Saviour, in the early French Language, in stanzas of four lines. p. 1. The beginning is wanting, but it ends thus, "Pur ceo, Sire, te pri pur mei ames aniis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and French, Old
Date Range:
12th century-13th century
Extent:
1 item

15. Arundel MS 292

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 292
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vellum, 4to., ff. 116, xiii. Cent. 1. The Credo, the Pater Noster, Ave Maria, in manus tuas, and short meditations upon the words "memorare novissima tua, et in eternum non peccabis," in old English verse. fol. 3. Beginning, "I leue in Godd almicten fader Dat heuene and er6e made to gar." End, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 item

16. Cotton MS Tiberius E IV

Reference (shelfmark):
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

17. Cotton MS Vespasian A XVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian A XVIII
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Vespasian A XVIII
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
6 items

18. Cotton MS Vespasian B XX

Reference (shelfmark):
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

19. Harley MS 49

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 49
Title:
Roman de Tristan en prose
Scope & Content:
Roman de Tristan en prose (Prose Tristan), imperfect at the beginning, with an index or table of contents (ff. 149r-154v). Incipit: 'Sadoc vient ce part & regardoit contremont & contreval....' The missing first page has been replaced with a flyleaf that had originally been a pastedown. B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

20. Harley MS 200

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 200
Title:
Robert of Avesbury, Chronicles; Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita sancti Edwardi regis
Scope & Content:
Composite volume, with booklets consisting of f. 2 (late 15th century); ff. 4–147 (mid 15th century); and ff. 150–207 (first half of the 13th century), bound together with additions by Symonds D’Ewes. f. 2r: Full page miniature, 185 × 110 mm, in colours and gold of a coronation, with the heir t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century-Late 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

Limit your search

more »

more »
more »
more »