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71. Royal MS 19 D II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 D II
Title:
Guyard des Moulins, Bible historiale ('The Bible of John the Good')
Scope & Content:
Guyard des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible historiale complétée moyenne according to Berger 1884), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica. Preface incipit: 'Pour ce que li deables'. The manuscript's content follows the general arrangement of the text of the Bible historia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1350-1356
Extent:

526 folios.

72. Royal MS 19 D III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 D III
Title:
Bible Historiale, Volumes 1 and 2, in the expanded early version (Grande Bible historiale complétée) and additional texts
Scope & Content:
The Bible historiale complétée, Guyart des Moulins' expanded translation of Peter of Comestor's Historia Scolastica with prologues, is copied here together with several books from the Bible du xiiie siècle (the Paralipomena of Jeremiah and Ezra/Nehemiah) and other texts (lives of Julian the Apos...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1411
Extent:

A parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

73. Royal MS 19 D III, ff 1r-288v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 D III, ff 1r-288v
Title:
Bible Historiale, Volume 1, with prefaces and additional material
Scope & Content:
A summary of the contents: Translator's prologue: rubric: 'Cy com[m]ence le prologue du translateur qui translate et mist de latin en francois la bible hystorial selons les hystoires scolastiques.'; incipit : 'Pource que le dyable...' (f. 1r); explicit: 'Et en lan de grace mil CC xxIIII et XVII...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1411
Extent:

The first volume of a parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

74. Royal MS 19 D III, ff 289r-604v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 D III, ff 289r-604v
Title:
Bible historiale, Volume 2, with additional material including Saints' lives
Scope & Content:
A summary of the contents: Proverbs to Maccabees (ff. 289r-450v): rubric: ‘Cy com[m]ence la seconde partie principale de la bible qui parle de sapience...’ (f. 289r); L'histoire de Jehan Hyrcan: rubric: 'Cy com[m]ence lystoire Iehan Hyrcan..'; incipit; 'Apres la mort Symon frere Iudas...'; ex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1411
Extent:

The second volume of a parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

75. Royal MS 19 E V

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 E V
Title:
Benvenuto da Imola, Romuléon, translated by Jean Miélot
Scope & Content:
Romuléon of Benvenuto da Imola (Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola), compiled around 1361-1364, at the request of Gomez Albornoz, governor of the city of Bologna, in the French translation by Jean Miélot, canon of Lille, and secretary to Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, composed in 1463 ('Et fut ledi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1480
Extent:

418 folios.

76. Royal MS 20 A III, ff 1-120

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A III, ff 1-120
Title:
Gossuin de Metz, L'Image du Monde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-120: Gossuin, or Gautier, de Metz (c. 1245), L'Image du monde, a French version of De imagine mundi by Honorius of Autun, divided into two parts (the common division between Parts 2 and 3 of the text is not marked): ff. 1r-50r: Part I, a study of Creation and science from a hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1342
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex

77. Royal MS 20 A III, ff 121-236

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A III, ff 121-236
Title:
Prose Brut chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: Prose Brut chronicle: ff. 121r-122v: Des Grantz Geants; ff. 122v-236r: Prose Brut (long version to 1333), with two lines lacking at the end; explicit, 'Et après la bataille les Engleis pristrent les espoilles des Escotz...'. The text is very similar to Dublin, Trinity College MS 50...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex

78. Royal MS 20 A IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A IV
Title:
Martin de Brion, Tresample description de toute la Terre Saincte, prefaced with a dedication to Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
This volume is one of only three known manuscript copies of a historical geography of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, written by Martin de Brion, a relative of Philippe de Chabot (b. 1492, d. 1543), seigneur of Brion and Admiral of France. The work is a description of various sites of interest in th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1540
Extent:
1 volume

79. Royal MS 20 A XVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A XVI
Title:
Chansons, in French, set to music for several, but in most cases three voices, in parts.
Scope & Content:
Except where the contrary is stated, the chansons are for three voices and are anonymous. The contra-tenor is sometimes called 'Concordans.' The names of the composers are given only in a few cases, but several are by Josquin des Pres, and one at least (f. 10b) is by Alexander Agricola. Content...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (36 folios)

80. Royal MS 20 A XVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A XVII
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose; Thomas de Bailleul, la Bataille d'Annezin
Scope & Content:
The Roman de la Rose was begun by Guillaume de Lorris between 1225 and 1245 and was continued between 1269-1278 by Jean de Meun. It is around 20,000 octosyllabic lines of French verse narrating the dream of a young lover, in which his long quest for the object of his desire ends when he breaches...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c1340-1350
Extent:

A parchment codex