Search

Language French Digitised Content Platform BL legacy Digitised Manuscripts (unavailable) Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 5242

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 5242
Title:
Polyglot Bible
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Coptic, French, Geez, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, Latin, Persian, Spanish, and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
1665
Extent:
20 folios

2. Add MS 5259

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 5259
Title:
Drawings and notes on human and animal anatomy
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains anatomical images and representations of pathological conditions affecting the human body. Some of the inscriptions on these drawings feature historic language. Where these inscriptions have been transcribed, they are enclosed in inverted commas. Drawings and manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (231 items)

3. Add MS 5464

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 5464
Title:
Draft treatise against papal supremacy by Edward VI
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-3v: An inserted paper bifolium contains an unfinished copy of the preface to a collection of passages of Scripture on faith by Edward VI addressed to his uncle the Duke of Somerset, Edward Seymour, in French. A complete copy is found in Add MS 9000. It is followed by practice o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1548-1549
Extent:
Paper codex

4. Add MS 5474

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 5474
Title:
Le Roman de Tristan en prose
Scope & Content:
Contents: The longer version (Version II) of the prose Roman de Tristan, Part II, with interpolations from the Lancelot en prose (ff. 141-151). The death of Tristan is followed by nine episodes, each beginning with a formula such as 'Or dist li contes..' (Chapters IX to XVII in Ménard, Tristan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 305 folios.

5. Add MS 13961

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 13961
Title:
Noel de Fribois, Abregé des croniques de France
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-71v: An abbreviated chronicle of France. from the destruction of Troy to the death of Louis de Mâle, Count of Flanders, in 1383, composed in 1459 by Noel de Fribois, councillor to King Charles VII of France. There are five successive versions of the text. This manuscript is on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

6. Add MS 15229

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 15229
Title:
Le Roman de Renart
Scope & Content:
Contents: Fourteen episodes of the French verse romance, Le Roman de Renart (Reynard the Fox), attributed to Pierre de Saint Cloud, Richard of Lison and others. The Roman is based on a large collection of tales from Oriental sources, mostly collected and translated in Picardy or the Paris area ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Middle
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

7. Add MS 15268

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 15268
Title:
Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César
Scope & Content:
Contents: The Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César is a universal chronicle covering the period from Creation to the rise of Julius Caesar. It was compiled early in the 13th century. This manuscript, with the alternative title Li Livre des Ansienes Estoires, contains the first redaction of the text...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 314 folios.

8. Add MS 16405

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 16405
Title:
Nicephorus Gregoras, Historiae Romana and Antirrhetica priora
Scope & Content:
Nicephorus Gregoras, Historiae Romana and Antirrhetica priora, including: Epitaphs in memory of Fillipo Strozzi in French. Notes in Greek, Arabic and Latin. Greek proverbs in alphabetical order (from A to Ω), with Latin translation, in two parallel columns.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
12 items

9. Add MS 18850

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 18850
Title:
Book of Hours (the 'Bedford Hours')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours of the use of Paris, known as the 'Bedford Hours'. The manuscript was produced in several phases. Its first owner, probably a member of the French royal family, remains untraced, but Louis (d. 1415), duke of Guyenne and dauphin of France, has been suggested as a possible candidate ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410-1430
Extent:

1 volume

10. Add MS 18855

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 18855
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a Book of Hours, made in Tours in the 1st quarter of the 16th century. Two leaves from a Flemish calendar illuminated by the artist Simon Bening (b. c. 1483, d. 1561) were added to the volume (ff. 108 and 109), probably in the first half of the 19th century. They were subseq...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

Limit your search

more »
more »
more »
more »

  • BL legacy Digitised Manuscripts (unavailable) 41