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Project / Collection England and France 700-1200 Project Language French Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 11662

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Title:
A versified chronicle from the priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs (imperfect), followed by a modern copy of the cartulary
Scope & Content:
Part of this manuscript (ff. 4-9) was produced in Paris (the abbey of Saint-Martin-des-Champs) between 1072-1079, according to Prou, 'Dessins du XIe siècle' (1890). This chronicle is now imperfect because of a lacking folio after f. 4. A complete copy of this text with illuminations was made in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
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A parchment codex

2. Add MS 15732

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Add MS 15732
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Latin copy of the Historia Regum Brittaniae ('The History of the Kings of Britain') by Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154/55), bishop of St Asaph and historian. The work presents a pseudo-historical account of the kings of Britain; it opens with a legend that tells of how B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Add MS 22398

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Add MS 22398
Title:
Aileranus Sapiens, Canon evangeliorum; Ansegisus, Collection of capitularies; Edictum Pistense; Lex Salica; Capitulare legibus additum; Capitulare missorum generale; Alcuin, Disputatio Pippini cum Albino; Lex Ribuaria
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the collection of capitularies made in 827 by Ansegisus (d. c. 833), abbot of Fontenelles. The manuscript includes various other Carolingian legal texts and two short tracts on urine and prognostics. Contents: f. 2r: A fragment of a breviary to the Gospel of Matthew in a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex