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Language French Place Tours, France Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. 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

2. Egerton MS 1668

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1668
Title:
Copies of letters and papers relating to the history of France, chiefly during the reign of Henri III.; 1478-1618:- 1. “Relation des propos tenus entre le Pape, l'Empereur et le Sieur de Vueilly [Claude Dodieur, Sieur de Vély, afterwards Bishop of Relines], ambassadeur du Boy François I. prez sa Sainteté, touchant la paix entre les dits sieurs, empereur et roy;" [6 avril 1536], f. 1. 2. "Lettres patentes pour les seigneurs de Veruin [Jacques de Coney] et Mareschal [Oudart] de Biez [son b...
Scope & Content:
Henry III of France: Copies of papers relating to the history of France during his reign: 1574-1589.: Fr. includes: ff. 1-8 Francis I of France: Relation des propos entre lui, le Pape et l'Empereur, 1536,: 17th cent.ff. 1-8 Claude de Dodieu, Sieur de Vély; French Ambassador to Paul III., a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1478-1699
Extent:
1 item

3. Harley MS 4329

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4329
Title:
Martin de Braga (translated by Jean Courtecuisse), Le livre des quatre vertus (De quatuor virtutibus); Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by Laurent de Premierfait), Le livre de vieillesse (De senectute); Le livre de amitié (De amicitia); letter of Bernard of Clairvaux; hymn to the Virgin
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-28v: Martin de Braga (translated by Jean Courtecuisse), Le livre des quatre vertus (De quatuor virtutibus). ff. 30r-129v: Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by Laurent de Premierfait), Le livre de vieillesse (De senectute). ff. 130r-192v: Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1460
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 5319

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5319
Title:
Compilations of French texts with German vocabulary and practice sentences; Arabic book with Qur'an text; The Fifteen Oes
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three distinct parts, containing a 17th-century compilation of French letters and German vocabulary and practice sentences (ff. 2r-69v); an Arabic book that may have been written in the 15th or 16th century (ff. 70r-109v); and a copy of the Fifteen Oes, date...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, French, German, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1475-1654
Extent:
1 volume

5. Stowe MS 903

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 903
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. XVIII. (ff. 210). GENERALITÉ de Tours, consisting of the three provinces of Touraine (f. 7), Anjou (f. 74), and Maine (f. 143); by [Thomas Hue, Marquis] de Miromenil, Intendant, 1698. Tours, France: Memoir on the généralité of: 1698.: Fr. Thomas Hue, Marquis de Miroménil; Intendant of Tou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item