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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
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Add MS 18857

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Title:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible hystoriaulx) (2nd of 2 volumes)
Scope & Content:
This large codex is the second of two volumes comprising an illuminated copy of Guyart des Moulins's Bible historiale (Bible hystoriaulx), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica, known as La Grande Bible historiale complétée (Fournié, 'Les manuscrits de la Bible historiale...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1415
Extent:
Parchment codex

6. Add MS 19401

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Title:
Letters to sovereigns of Scotland, volume 1, 1525-1603
Scope & Content:
The first volume of a collection of letters sent to sovereigns of Scotland, between 1525 and 1603. Including letters by King Henry VIII of England, Queen Elizabeth I of England, and Sir John Maitland, Lord Maitland of Thirlestane, Lord Chancellor of Scotland. f. 1r Printed title-page: ‘Origina...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1525-1603
Extent:
1 volume.

7. 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

8. Add MS 22597

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Title:
Tenor and treble parts and incidental music for a collection of compositions, by various composers.
Scope & Content:
(String Quintets, Motets and a Carol, in the same hand, Song in 'Don Quixote,' by R. Courteville, in a later hand.) ff. 3-15, 18-21b, 53 Tenor part of the following Anthems: — [late 16th cent.]. 1. 'The Lorde blesse vs.' 'R. White.' Attributed by Tudway, in Harley MS 7339, f. 34b, to Matthew Wh...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume (53 folios)

9. 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.

10. 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