Search

Language French, Old Digitised Content No Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 10292-10294/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 10292-10294/1
Title:
Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle)
Scope & Content:
The entire French Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle) in four separate volumes (order separately): Add MS 10292: L'estoire del Saint Graal; L'estoire de Merlin. Add MS 10293: The Lancelot propre. Add MS 10294: La Queste del Saint Graal; Morte Artu. Add MS 10294/1: The first folio from A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
1316
Extent:

A parchment codex divided into 4 volumes

2. Add MS 10324

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 10324
Title:
THE METAMORPHOSES Of Ovid, translated into French verse. On vellum, of the xvth century. Quarto. [10,324.]
Scope & Content:
Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet: Metamorphoses: translated into old French verse.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 17708

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 17708
Title:
"L'AGI de puberta, ou Lou Chincho Merlicho," a poem in a patois of the South of France, f. 1; "Dialogue d'Horace et de Lydie, par [Etienne Augustin de] Wailly," f. 13; "La solitude, par [Pierre de] Ronsard," f. 13 b; "Cansoun deis oousselets," f. 14; "Chanson sur la vie," f. 15. Paper; XIXth cent. Octavo. [Add. 17,708.]
Scope & Content:
Language. Dialects: French. L'Agi di Puberta, in patois. Poetry FRENCH: Poems: in Old French. includes: f. 13 Etienne Augustin de Wailly: Dialogue d'Horace et de Lydie. f. 13 b Pierre de Ronsard: La solitude.: Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and French, Old
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 19559

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 19559
Title:
STATUTA Westmonasterii secunda, anno 13o Edw. I. A.D. 1285 (imperfect at the beginning.) On the back, a poem on holding a Court Baron, in Norman French; followed by discussions of points of law, in French and Latin. Vellum Roll; end of the XIIIth cent. [Add. 19,559.]
Scope & Content:
Law OF ENGLAND: Poem on holding a Court Baron: 13th cent.: Norman-French. Law OF ENGLAND: Statuta Westmonasterii secunda: 1285.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French, Old
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 32125, ff 1-58

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 32125, ff 1-58
Title:
Wace, Roman de Brut; Description of England
Scope & Content:
This part contains 2 texts: ff. 1r-58r, Wace, Roman de Brut in Anglo-Norman verse. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Ky vot oyr e wot saver / De rey en rey e de eir en eir / ke cil furent e dunt vindrent / ke engleterre primes tindrent'. Numerous leaves are missing between ff. 48 and 49, with the loss of line...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1275-1300
Extent:

Part of a parchment codex, 58 folios.

6. Add MS 32125, ff 59-245

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 32125, ff 59-245
Title:
Estoire del Saint Graal (ff. 59r-205v); Robert de Boron, Merlin (ff. 206r-245v).
Scope & Content:
This part contains 2 texts: ff. 59r-205v, Estoire del Saint Graal (part of the 'Vulgate' cycle, see Sommers 1909), in Old French prose. Rubric in red ('Ici comence...') has been mostly cut away in binding. Incipit of the prologue (f. 59r): 'Cil qui la hautesce e la seignurie de si haute estori...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1300-1325
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex, 177 folios.

7. Add MS 74253

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 74253
Title:
ROBERT GLOVER (d.1588), SOMERSET HERALD: miscellaneous genealogical and heraldic collections; circa 1556-1581. Mostly autograph. Partly Latin and Norman French. This composite manuscript consists mostly of British and foreign genealogies, many accompanied by drawings of arms in trick. It includes a pedigree (f. 3v), circa 1556-1565, of the descendants of James II of Scotland down to the two sons of Matthew Stuart, 4th Earl of Lennox, who is described as 'modo existens in Anglia', annotat...
Scope & Content:
Heraldry: Genealogies: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Robert Glover, Somerset herald: Wrest Park, Bedfordshire: Miscellaneous genealogical and heraldic collections of Robert Glover: circa 1566-1581: Partly Latin and Norman French: Mostly autograph. includes: f. 3v James II of Scotl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1556-1581
Extent:
1 item

8. 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

9. Add MS 74756 A-D

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 74756 A-D
Title:
PEDIGREE OF THE FAMILY OF BECKWITH OF CO. YORK., 1786, WITH RELATED PAPERS, 1773-2000. Partly copies and printed. Partly Latin and Norman French. Presented, with Add. Chs. 77046-77049, by Canon John Douglas Beckwith on behalf of Sir Edward Beckwith Ashmore, K.C.B., D.S.O., and the Trustees of the Royal Green Jackets Museum, Winchester, 9 May 2000. Four parts. As follows:-
Scope & Content:
Beckwith family; of Yorkshire: Pedigree and arms, with related papers: 1773-2000: Partly Latin and Norman French: Partly copies and printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, French, Old, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
1773-2000
Extent:

4 items

10. Arundel MS 1-550

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 1-550
Title:
Arundel Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel (d 1646). 550 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, French, Old, German, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Irish, Italian, Latin, Low Saxon, and Slavic languages
Date Range:
c 1100-c 1640
Extent:
552 items

Limit your search

more »
more »
more »