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1. Add MS 10289

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Add MS 10289
Title:
Li Romanz du Mont Saint-Michel, a miscellany of romances, moralistic and religious texts and medical recipes.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64r: Guillaume de Saint Pair or Guillelme de Seint Paier, Li romanz du Mont Saint Michel or Roman de Mont Saint Michel, incipit, 'Molz pelerins qui vunt al munt', explicit, 'Longue de corne ou il est mis'. ff. 64r-81v: André de Coutances or Andreu de Costances, Roman de la Rés...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1275-1300
Extent:

A parchment codex, 179 folios

2. Add MS 10292

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Add MS 10292
Title:
Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle)
Scope & Content:
Contents: The prose Lancelot-Grail (Sommer, Vulgate Version (1909-1916), vols I and II); ff. 1r-76r: L'estoire del Saint Graal, incipit, 'Chil ki se tient et iuge au plus petit et au plus peceor du monde'; explicit, 'Ore no[us] co[n]saut sainte marie' (Sommer, vol. I); ff. 76r-216v: L'estoire...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1316
Extent:

1 volume

3. Add MS 10293

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Add MS 10293
Title:
Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle)
Scope & Content:
Contents: The prose Lancelot-Grail continued (Sommer, Vulgate Version (1909-1916), vols III-V). This part of the cycle is sometimes known as the Lancelot-propre or Lancelot du Lac, as it deals mainly with the courtly exploits of Lancelot : ff. 2r-129r: Lancelot’s birth, education, and arrival...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. 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

5. 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

6. Add MS 10294

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Add MS 10294
Title:
Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle)
Scope & Content:
Contents: The prose Lancelot-Grail continued (Sommer Vulgate Version (1909-1916), vols VI and VII): ff. 2r-53r: 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 d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1316
Extent:

1 volume

7. Add MS 10294/1

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Add MS 10294/1
Title:
Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle)
Scope & Content:
The first folio from each of Add MS 10293 and Add MS 10294, now bound together in a separate volume, Add MS 10294/1, numbered Additional 10293, f. 1 and Additional 10294, f. 1. A note on the first paper flyleaf states: 'Separated from the volume for better preservation, 6 December, 1860'. Cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
1316
Extent:

2 folios, one from Add MS 10293 and one from Add MS 10294

8. 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

9. Add MS 12228

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Add MS 12228
Title:
Meliadus or Guiron le Courtois
Scope & Content:
Meliadus or Guiron le Courtois (part of the romance also known as Palamedes) was composed between 1235 and c. 1240. The present manuscript contains the prologue, with attribution to Hélie de Boron, in which he claims to have been given two castles by King Henry in return for his work (f. 2v), an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1352-1362
Extent:

A parchment codex

10. Add MS 28162

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Add MS 28162
Title:
Somme le Roi
Scope & Content:
The Somme le Roi, a moral compendium compiled in 1279 by the Dominican Friar Laurent for King Philip III of France (r. 1270-1285); incipit: 'Le premier commandement'; preceded by a rubric: 'Cest le premier commandement qui dex commanda'; explicit (including the wrong date of the compilation): 'C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
c 1290-c 1300
Extent:

A parchment codex, 146 folios

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