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1. Add Ch 11282

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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

2. Add MS 15732

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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

3. Add MS 22398

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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

4. Add MS 29986

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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