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1. Royal MS 12 C XIX

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Royal MS 12 C XIX
Title:
Bestiary with theological texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see Two East Anglian Picture Books: A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburgh Club, 1988), p. 5, who characterises...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1200-c 1210
Extent:

1 volume

2. Royal MS 12 F XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 F XIII
Title:
Bestiary and Lapidary ('the Rochester Bestiary')
Scope & Content:
The Rochester Bestiary is a richly illuminated bestiary, or book of beasts. It is known as the Rochester Bestiary because it was once owned by the Benedictine monks of the cathedral priory of St Andrew, Rochester. Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Added leaves from a service book containing lessons and pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1230
Extent:

1 volume

3. Royal MS 13 A XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A XIV
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, and other texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of texts, principally in Latin, written in Ireland between the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century, and which formerly belonged to the Dominican convent at Limerick. They include a copy of the Topographia Hiberniae (Topography of Ireland), an a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Royal MS 14 E III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 E III
Title:
Estoire del Saint Graal, La Queste del Saint Graal, Morte Artu
Scope & Content:
The present manuscript contains the three texts from the Lancelot-Grail Prose Cycle: Estoire del Saint Graal, incomplete, incipit (f. 3r):' Chil ki la hauteche:..', breaking off (f.88v) at: 'en a touchier a ses..'; La Queste del Saint Graal, incipit (ff. 89r) 'A la veille de pentecouste...' and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
c 1315-1325
Extent:

1 volume

5. Royal MS 19 A XVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 A XVIII
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose (abridged version)
Scope & Content:
Content: Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris continued by Jean de Meun. This manuscript contains an abridged version of the romance. The text is only 14,000 lines long, with omissions noted. For example on f. 5, rubrics marked by paraphs summarise the narrative omitted, e.g., '[P] Oyseuse, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 94 folios.

6. Royal MS 19 B XII

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Royal MS 19 B XII
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose; poems including Jean Chapuis, Les Sept Articles de Foi
Scope & Content:
Contents: The Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris continued by Jean de Meun. Jean de Meun's portion begins f. 28v: ' Et si lay je perdue espoir'. ff. 2r-147v: 'Maintes genz dient quen songe/ Na se fables non et mensonge./ Mais on puet tel songe songier/ Qui me sont mie mensongier'. Ending:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 194 folios.

7. Royal MS 19 B XIII

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Royal MS 19 B XIII
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun; rubric: 'Ci commence le romans de la rose Ou lart damors est toute enclose'; incipit: 'Maintes genz dient que en songes Na se fables non et menconges'; explicit: 'Ainsint oi la rose vermeille Atant fu ior et ie mesueille.' Colophon: 'Expl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
c 1320-c 1340
Extent:

A parchment codex, 144 folios

8. Royal MS 19 C I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 C I
Title:
Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d'Amor
Scope & Content:
Contents: Matfre Ermengaud (or Matfres Ermengau, Eymengau) de Beziers: ff. 1r: Chanson, incipit, 'Dregz de natura comanda don amors pren naysshe men'; ff. 2r-250v: Breviari d'Amor, preceded by a table of rubrics. This encyclopaedic work, explaining how the world is an emanation of love, cons...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Occitan, Old
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 256 folios

9. Royal MS 19 D I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 D I
Title:
Roman d'Alexandre en prose and other texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes eight works forming a compendium of the wonders of the East combined with crusading texts: ff. 1r-46r: Roman d'Alexandre en prose, entitled here La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, an anonymous translation into French of Leo of Naples, Historia de proeliis; rubric: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1333-c 1340
Extent:

1 volume

10. Royal MS 20 A II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A II
Title:
Peter of Langtoft's Chronicle, the Lament of Edward II, fragments of Arthurian romances, and a letter attributed to Joanna, Queen of Sicily
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains: ff. 1r-9v, Drawings (see descriptions below) with various inscriptions, distichs and poems; ff. 10 r-v, Verse lament of Edward II; ff. 11r-146v, Peter of Langtoft (Pierre de Langtoft), Chronicle of England; (missing folios from between ff. 146 and 147 have been boun...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1307-c 1327
Extent:

A parchment codex, 169 folios.