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1. Add Ch 1528

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Title:
Letter of Margaret, Archduchess of Austria, to the Council of Flanders, concerning a treaty between the Holy Roman Emperor and the King of France
Scope & Content:
Original letter of Margaret of Austria (b. 1480, d. 1530), Archduchess of Austria and Governor of the Low Countries, to the Council of Flanders, transmitting to them the translation of a treaty concluded at Calais between Charles V (r. 1519-1556), Holy Roman Emperor, and Francis I (r. 1515-1547)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
13 Oct 1521
Extent:
1 document

2. Add MS 11662

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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
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Add MS 14399

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A collection of mostly English songs, as well as some lute music, cantatas and duets
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs for a treble voice, with a bass figured for harpsichord; except in no. 13, which is unaccompanied. Nos. 1-7 are in the hand of Matthew Lock. 1. 'Cupid once, when weary grown.' By Pelham Humfrey. [In , 1679.] f. 4b. 2. 'Cloris, qui domptetout le nionde.' Anonymous. f. 5b. 3. 'Hark, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 15606

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Title:
Anthology of religious and didactic texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: Religious and didactic poems and prose texts in Burgundian French: First section: ff . 2r-5r: Calendar; ff. 6r-17v: De David li prophecie, an allegorical battle between the vices and virtues ff. 18r-35r: Eructavit, a rhyming paraphrase of Psalm 45, composed in 1180 for 'Madame d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Add MS 15732

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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

6. Add MS 22398

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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

7. Add MS 25434

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Title:
Richard of Ireland (pseudonym), Les Prophecies de Merlin.
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains only Les Prophecies de Merlin (imperfect): a collection of historical and ecclesiastical prophecies (written c. 1274-1279) purportedly dictated by Merlin to 'Maistre Antoine', bishop of Wales, and other scribes. The work, however, also features narrative materials about M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex.

8. Add MS 26667

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Title:
Chronique Universelle
Scope & Content:
Contents: Chronique Universelle, a chronicle of universal history from the Creation to 1340, divided into 6 ages. Decoration: 7 full-page miniatures in colours with gold. Initials and line fillers in gold on red grounds. The subjects of the miniatures are: f. 1r: The Expulsion from Paradi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1480-1490
Extent:

Parchment codex

9. Add MS 28260

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Title:
Moral and didactic texts in French
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: inserted leaves containing fragments of grammatical treatises in Latin in a 13th-century hand; ff. 3r-33v: Philip of Novara (Philippe de Novare) (b. 1195, d. c. 1270), Les Quatre Ages de l'Homme, a treatise on the four ages of Man, composed between 1265 and 1270 in the Cr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 101 folios

10. Add MS 29986

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Title:
Le Miroir des Dames (an anonymous French translation of Durand de Champagne's Speculum dominarum)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Le Miroir des Dames, an anonymous French translation of the Speculum dominarum, a treatise on queenship written for Jeanne de Navarre (b. 1273, d. 1305), Queen of France and wife of Philip IV (r. 1285-1314), by her confessor, Durand de Champagne. The manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1407-1410
Extent:
1 volume

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