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1. Add MS 10293, f 1

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Add MS 10293, f 1
Title:
The beginning of the Lancelot en prose
Scope & Content:
Contents: Recto and verso of the first folio of Lancelot en prose containing the first miniature of the cycle and the opening section of the text, incipit, 'En la marche de gaule', explicit, 'co[mme] chiex q[ui] porte ensenges'. Decoration: 1 large miniature in colours on a gold ground of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1315
Extent:

Part of a parchment codex, 1 folio

2. Add MS 10293, ff 2-383

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Add MS 10293, ff 2-383
Title:
Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle), the second of 4 volumes
Scope & Content:
Contents: The Lancelot en Prose (Sommer, Vulgate Version (1909-1916), III-V divides the narrative into three parts, each corresponding to one volume of the edition): III. Lancelot’s birth, education, and arrival at Camelot; the deeds of Arthur’s knights; the opening line, ‘En la marche de gau...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1316
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex, 382 folios

3. Add MS 10294, ff 2-96

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Add MS 10294, ff 2-96
Title:
Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle)
Scope & Content:
Contents: Parts VI and VII of the Lancelot-Grail: VI: 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 des aventures del s[aint] graal'. (ff. 2r-53r); VII: Morte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1316
Extent:

Part of a parchment codex, 95 folios

4. Arundel MS 57, ff 1r-12v

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Arundel MS 57, ff 1r-12v
Title:
Glossed Aristotle De anima, with added texts in Latin, French and Middle English
Scope & Content:
1. A fragment of Aristotle's De anima with glosses added in the late 13th century (ff. 1r-12v); On the lower half of the pages and in spaces in the Aristotle text have been added: (i) Inscription (see below, item 2), verses (f. 2: Boffey 539.5, 1227, 1961.3, 3238.5) and a list of contents of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1250-1300
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex: 12 folios

5. Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v

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Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v
Title:
Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour, Robert Grosseteste, Rules, and other text including charms.
Scope & Content:
The second unit of the manuscript includes: Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour (Bestiary of love) (ff. 70r-81r); Robert Grosseteste, Rules (ff. 81r-85r); Rules of Friendship or La Diffinission de Amurs (ff. 85r-85v); Charm against wounds (f. 85v) and Charm for bloodletting (f. 85v). Decorat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French, Old
Date Range:
1300-1329
Extent:
15 folios.

6. Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v

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Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v
Title:
Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle; Guide to nightly and daily meditations
Scope & Content:
The third unit of the manuscript includes: Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle (ff. 86r-102v), Sermon on penance from the Church Fathers, followed by added prayers (ff. 103r-110r); Guide to nightly and daily meditations with diagrams (ff. 110v-112v); Charms for bloodletting, against wounds and fever (f. 11...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French, Old
Date Range:
1300-1329
Extent:
26 folios.

7. Harley MS 585, ff 130r-193r

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Harley MS 585, ff 130r-193r
Title:
Lacnunga (Leechbook)
Scope & Content:
Lacnunga (i.e. 'remedies' or 'cures') is a collection of medical recipes, magical charms and invocations mainly in Old English, partly in Latin and Old Irish. Rubric 'With heafod wræce' with later marginal note in Latin 'Ad dolorem capitis', incipit: 'Genim hamorwyrt and efenlastan nyðowearde', ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Old, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
63 folios.

8. Harley MS 978, ff 22r-37r

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Harley MS 978, ff 22r-37r
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Medical miscellany including: Pseudo-Aristoteles, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (from the Secretum Secretorum), translated by John of Seville (ff. 22r-23r). Rubric in the margin: 'Epistula Aristotelis ad / Alexandrum macedonem / de conservacione / sanita/tis', incipit:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
16 folios (f. 37v is blank)

9. Harley MS 978, ff 40r-67v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 40r-67v
Title:
Marie de France, Fables
Scope & Content:
Marie de France, Fables. Title added in the upper margin 'Ici cumence le ysope', incipit: 'Ci ki sevient de leccrure', explicit: 'qua lui pusse mal me rendre'. See Dean and Boulton 1999, no. 179.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
28 folios.

10. Harley MS 978, ff 118r-160r

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Harley MS 978, ff 118r-160r
Title:
Marie de France, Lais
Scope & Content:
Marie de France, Lais; incipit: 'Ki deus ad dune en science?', explicit: 'Chahum nel deust oblier'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
43 folios.

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