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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X Language French Name Henry VII, King of England and Lord of Ireland, 1457-1509

1. Royal MS 16 F II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 F II
Title:
Charles d'Orleans, Poetry; Pseudo-Heloise, Epistles; 'Les demands d'amours'; 'Le livre dit grace entiere'.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-136v: Charles d'Orleans, Poetry (a selection of 166 poems, many of them written during his captivity in England from 1415 to 1440). ff. 137r-187v: Pseudo-Heloise, 'Les epistres de labesse Heloys du Paraclit, laquelle abaye maistre Abaielart fonda aincois quil mourust', a prose...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1483; 1492-1500
Extent:

1 volume

2. Royal MS 19 A XXII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 A XXII
Title:
Jean Chapuis, Sept articles de la foi
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Sept articles de la foi (Seven articles of the faith), also known as the Trésor, a French poem that explores the nature of the Trinity and seven significant events in the Life of Christ: his Nativity, Baptism, Crucifixion, Harrowing of Hell, Resurrection, and Ascensi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1440
Extent:
1 volume

3. Royal MS 19 B XVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B XVI
Title:
Le Miroir des Dames (an anonymous French translation of Durand de Champagne's Speculum Dominarum)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 15th-century 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 Champ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1428
Extent:

1 volume

4. Royal MS 19 C VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 C VIII
Title:
Hugues de Lannoy (?), Imaginacion de vraye noblesse, with the preface by Quentin Poulet
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains the Enseignement de la vraye noblesse attributed to Hugues de Lannoy with the title changed to the Imaginacion de vraye noblesse and prefaced with a dedication to Henry VII by Quentin Poulet, royal librarian and the scribe of this manuscript. ff. 1r-2v: Quentin Poulet, P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1496
Extent:

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