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Project / Collection Royal Manuscripts Digitisation Project Language French Name Henry VI, King of England and Lord of Ireland, 1421-1471

1. Add MS 18850

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 18850
Title:
Book of Hours (the 'Bedford Hours')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours of the use of Paris, known as the 'Bedford Hours'. The manuscript was produced in several phases. Its first owner, probably a member of the French royal family, remains untraced, but Louis (d. 1415), duke of Guyenne and dauphin of France, has been suggested as a possible candidate ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410-1430
Extent:

1 volume

2. Cotton MS Domitian A XVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A XVII
Title:
Psalter (‘Psalter of Henry VI’)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was made around 1405-1410, possibly for Louis, duke of Guyenne and Dauphin of France; in c. 1420 it was supplemented with a set of computistical tables (ff. 8r-11r); and in c. 1430-1431 the Psalter was possibly adapted for king Henry VI of England. At this stage the English arms ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1405-c 1430
Extent:

288 folios.

3. Royal MS 15 E VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 E VI
Title:
Poems and Romances (the ''Talbot Shrewsbury book'')
Scope & Content:
A collection of fifteen romances, chivalric treatises, instructional texts, chronicles and statutes compiled as a gift to Margaret of Anjou, on her betrothal to Henry VI, from the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, who escorted her to England for the marriage in 1444. The contents are as follows: f. 1v: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1444-1445
Extent:
1 volume