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2. 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
3. Royal MS 20 D VII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 20 D VII
- Title:
- Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
- Scope & Content:
- Content: The Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris, continued by Jean de Meun at f. 25r; 'Et si lay je perdu espoir'.. ff. 1r-128r: beginning, 'Maintes gens dient quen songes/ Na se flabes non et menconges/ Mus on puet telz songes songes/ Qui ne sont mie mencongier', ending: 'Ainsi oi la ro...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Old
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex, 128 folios.
4. 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
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
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 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 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
8. 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
9. Royal MS 12 C XIX
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 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
10. Royal MS 19 B XIII
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 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