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31. Stowe MS 57

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 57
Title:
Scutum Bede, a collection of Latin treatises, including a Libellus de nominibus naturalium rerum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of a compilation of Latin moral, grammatical and historical treatises in prose and verses including interlinear and marginal glosses, probably collected by Geoffrey of Ufford (fl. c. 1154) and entitled 'Scutum Bede Collectivus Gaufridi de Ufford' (f. 1r); this appears to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Old, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1154
Extent:

1 volume

32. Stowe MS 947

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 947
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Content: The Roman de la Rose was begun by Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1230) and continued by Jean de Meun approximately forty years later. ff. 1r-155v: beginning: 'Maintes gens dient/ Que en songes/ Na se fables non/ Et menconges/ Mais len puet tel/ Songes songier/ Qui ne sont mie mencongier/ Ain...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

33. Yates Thompson MS 11

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 11
Title:
Collection of moral tracts
Scope & Content:
This collection of moral tracts originally formed one volume with the Somme le Roy, Add. MS 28162. The manuscript includes: ff. 2r-7r: Traité de la sainte abbaye; incipit: 'La sainte abbaie e la religion doit estre fondee...' ff. 7r-28: Traité de l'amour de Dieu; incipit: 'Vous vouliez que je...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1290-c 1300
Extent:

1 volume

34. Yates Thompson MS 12

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 12
Title:
William of Tyre, Histoire d'Outremer
Scope & Content:
The Histoire d'Outremer, a French translation of the Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum by William, archbishop of Tyre (d. 1185), with a continuation to 1232. The manuscript must have been written after 1232, and probably before c. 1261, when a further continuation of the Histoire ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1232-1261
Extent:

1 volume

35. Yates Thompson MS 19

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 19
Title:
Brunetto Latini, Li Livres dou Trésor
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Li Livres dou Trésor (The Book of the Treasure), written by the Florentine philosopher, notary, and statesman Brunetto Latini (b. c. 1220, d. 1294) during his exile in France between 1260 and 1266. The Trésor is an encyclopaedic work, notable as one of the firs...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

36. Yates Thompson MS 21

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 21
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, Roman de la Rose; Le Pèlerinage de mestre Jehan de Meung; le Testament
Scope & Content:
Content: Le pèlerinage de Jehan de Meun (ff. 1r-2v) is an addition in a later hand of the first quarter of the sixteenth century. This is likely an abridged and reworking version of Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine, a moralizing poem by Guillaume de Diguleville written in 1330. The Roman de la...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1380-1390
Extent:

1 volume

37. Add MS 89788

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89788
Title:
Trilingual dictionary, Psalter, and Hebrew grammar
Scope & Content:
A composite volume containing four discrete parts bound together at Ramsey Abbey in the 13th century. The most notable contents are a Hebrew-Latin-Middle French dictionary (part 2), a Hebrew Psalter with a Latin gloss (part 3), and a Hebrew-Latin grammar (part 4). The dictionary is unique, draws ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
middle of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

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