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431. Royal MS 16 C IV Part 1

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Royal MS 16 C IV Part 1
Title:
John Tzetzes, Antehomerica
Scope & Content:
John Tzetzes, Antehomerica, Homerica and Posthomerica, with scholia, ff 3r-42v, inc. Ἀργαλέου πολέμοιο μέγαν πόνον Ἰλιακοῖο. Scholia inc. Ὁ παρὼν ποιητὴς φιλοσύντομος ὤν. Preceded by a title-leaf, ff 2r-v, with epitaphs of Laomedon and Hector and Δημητρίου ἐπῶν ποιητοῦ πρὸς τοὺς φθονερούς, taken ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1560-1603
Extent:

46 folios

432. Royal MS 16 C IV Part 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 C IV Part 2
Title:
John Tzetzes, Antehomerica, in a Latin verse translation
Scope & Content:
Latin verse translation of Tzetzes' Antehomerica, Homerica and Posthomerica and scholia, with verse arguments preceding each work, ff 1r-88r. Followed by: f 88v, An extract from the letter of Jean Perrelle prefixed to his 1535 edition of Theodorus Gaza, De mensibus. ff 90r-93v, Agathemerus, Ge...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1565-1579
Extent:

98 folios

433. 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

434. Royal MS 16 G VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 G VI
Title:
Les Grandes chroniques de France
Scope & Content:
The present manuscript contains a revised edition of the Grandes Chroniques de France that was commissioned by the future John II as Duke of Normandy (1332-1350), before his assumption of the throne. The text of the chronicle extends to the death of Louis IX (1270). The volume is prefixed by two...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1332-1350
Extent:

A parchment codex, 447 folios.

435. Royal MS 16 G VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 G VIII
Title:
Caesar, translated by Jan Du Quesne (or Jean Duchesne), Bellum Gallicum (Les commentaires de Cesar)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes the earliest surviving copy of the French translation of Caesar's Bellum Gallicum by Jan Du Quesne (or Duchesne) of Lille, addressed to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, that perhaps can be identified as the Duke's presentation copy. Another manuscript of the Commentair...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1473-1476
Extent:

338 folios.

436. Royal MS 17 E IV

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Royal MS 17 E IV
Title:
Ovide moralisé, a French translation of Ovid''s Metamorphoses
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-271r: Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, or Ovide moralisé, the second anonymous French translation of this Latin work, with a prologue and a list of contents (ff. 5r-12v); this version of the text is believed to have been used by Caxton for his translation; it is also found...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

437. Royal MS 17 E VII vol 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 E VII vol 1
Title:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale
Scope & Content:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible historiale complétée moyenne according to Berger 1884), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica with additional books supplied from the French translation of the Bible made at Paris c. 1250; bound in two volumes. The first volume ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1356-1357
Extent:
264 folios.

438. Royal MS 17 E VII vol 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 E VII vol 2
Title:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale
Scope & Content:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible historiale complétée moyenne according to Berger 1884), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica with additional books supplied from the French translation of the Bible made at Paris c. 1250; bound in two volumes. The first volume ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1357
Extent:
342 folios.

439. Royal MS 17 F II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 F II
Title:
La Grande histoire César (Les faits des Romains, with additional texts)
Scope & Content:
The Grande histoire César is a revision of the Faits des Romains which was probably made specifically for Edward IV (see colophon below), but the presence of the drawn arms of Louis of Gruuthuse in the Royal volume (f. 9r) suggests Gruuthuse’s role in its production. The manuscript includes: A ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1479
Extent:

359 folios.

440. Royal MS 18 D IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D IX
Title:
Bible Historiale, Volume 1
Scope & Content:
The first of two volumes, the second of which is Royal MS 18 D X. The fourth volume is Royal MS 15 D I, but it was written previously and altered to include the arms of Edward IV. It is not known whether the third volume ever existed. It contains part of the second edition of the Bible Historial...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1479
Extent:

A parchment codex, 319 folios

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