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1. 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

2. 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

3. Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, ff 62–71

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Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, ff 62–71
Title:
Pedigree of Pierre de Luxembourg, comte de Saint-Po, Marguerite de Baux and Louis de Luxembourg, comte de Saint-Po
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 62r-71v: The pedigree of Pierre de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol (b.1390, d. 1433), Marguerite de Baux (b. 1394, d. 1469), and Louis de Luxembourg, Comte de Saint-Pol (b. 1418, d. 1475). Decoration: 1 full-page coat of arms of the counts of Luxembourg; 2 sets of 12 heraldic shi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B XI