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1. Add Ch 1528

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Add Ch 1528
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 Ch 11282

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Add Ch 11282
Title:
Grant by Odelina de Trachy, abbess of St Mary of Soissons, to the Knights Templar of Mont-de-Soissons, of Ermengarde and her daughter Helota
Scope & Content:
Grant by Odelina de Trachy [r. 1257-73], abbess of St Mary of Soissons, to the Knights Templar of Mont-de-Soissons and their preceptor Pierre Bouana, of Ermengarde, daughter of Helindis Lahasar, and her daughter Helota; given June 1264. Endorsed: in a late 13th-century hand, ‘m. de ff. / De Les...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1264
Extent:
1 leaf

3. Add Ch 66585

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Add Ch 66585
Title:
Acknowledgement of fealty by Jehanne de Longueioe, abbess of St Antoine des Champs, Paris, to the Celestines of Paris, for land held of them
Scope & Content:
Acknowledgement by Jehanne de Longueioe, abbess of St Antoine des Champs, Paris, of the fealty owed to the prior and convent of the Celestines of Paris (Notre Dame de l’Annunciation or l’Assomption), for land the abbey holds at Val Raguelin from the Celestines, part of the fee of Tournedoz near ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1534
Extent:
1 leaf

4. Add MS 29986

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Add MS 29986
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

5. Add MS 89480

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Add MS 89480
Title:
Letter of Mary, Queen of Scots, to Jacques Bochetel de la Forest, French ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
An original letter from Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1542, d. 1587; r. 1542-1567), to Jacques Bochetel de la Forest (d. 1595), French ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603), sent from Carlisle and dated 26 June 1568. The letter asks the ambassador to send George Douglas as an emissary to F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
26 Jun 1568
Extent:
1 leaf

6. Cotton MS Titus A XVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus A XVII
Title:
Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France, an anonymous French account of the consecration, coronation and royal entrance into Paris of Claude de France (b. 1499, d. 1524), Queen of France, and wife of Francis I (r. 1515-1547), which took place on 10-12 May 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1517
Extent:

1 volume

7. Cotton MS Vespasian B III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B III
Title:
Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne, a eulogistic French poem in honour of Anne of Brittany (b. 1477, d. 1514), Queen of France, followed by a prose description of her funeral in 1514. The work has been attributed to Pierre Choque (b. c. 1450, d. 1530), herald ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1514
Extent:
1 volume

8. Egerton MS 984

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 984
Title:
Proceedings of the condemnation trial of Joan of Arc; extracts from Martial d’Auvergne, Les Vigiles du roi Charles VII
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a later copy of the condemnation trial or processus against Joan of Arc (b. c. 1412, d. 1431). Joan was put on trial following her capture by the Burgundian army outside the walls of Compiègne on 23 May 1430. Pierre Cauchon (b. 1371, d. 1442), Bishop of Beauvais, conduct...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 1251

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1251
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('Hours of Eleanor Worcester')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1: Added paper fragment of a printed 15th- or 16th-century book concerning canon law, inscribed on the recto with a book curse in Middle English verse, ‘Thys boke ys one and godes kors ys anoder they that take the ton god gef them the toder’ (DIMEV no. 5660-3), late-15th/16th cent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1430-c 1440
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 3661

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3661
Title:
The elections of abbesses of Holy Trinity Abbey, Caen
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a guide to the election of abbesses of Holy Trinity Abbey in Caen, France, based upon the procedure followed at Agnès de Thieuville’s election in 1482. The guide is appended with a later account of the appointment of Anne de Montmorency as abbess in 1555, by which time a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1482
Extent:
1 volume