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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D X
Title:: Bible Historiale, Volume 2
Scope & Content:: The second of two volumes, the first being Royal MS 18 D IX. The fourth volume in the set 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. Contains the second edition of the Bible Historiale, a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1479
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 E I
Title:: Jean Froissart, Chroniques, vol. 2
Scope & Content:: Includes volume 2 of the 'Chroniques' of Froissart, covering the period 1377-1385. The text of the present manuscript is classified by Kervyn de Lettenhove as the première rédaction, seconde série. Incipit: 'Quant le duc de Bourgongne cut fait ceste chevauchee'. Explicit: 'en la ville de Gand', ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 367 + 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 E II
Title:: Jean Froissart, Chroniques, vol. 4
Scope & Content:: Includes volume 4 of the 'Chroniques' of Froissart, covering the period 1389-1400, preceded by a list of contents (ff. 2r-5v). Incipit: 'Cy commence la table de ce quart et darrenier volume que fist et compila sire Jehan Froissard des croniques de France et dangleterre'. Table begins: 'Le premie...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1480
Extent:: 419 + 7 folios.

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 B XIII
Title:: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:: Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun; rubric: 'Ci commence le romans de la rose Ou lart damors est toute enclose'; incipit: 'Maintes genz dient que en songes Na se fables non et menconges'; explicit: 'Ainsint oi la rose vermeille Atant fu ior et ie mesueille.' Colophon: 'Expl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and French, Old
Date Range:: c 1320-c 1340
Extent:: A parchment codex, 144 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 C IV
Title:: Le songe du vergier, attributed to Évrart de Trémaugon
Scope & Content:: Le Songe du vergier is a French translation of the Latin tract Somnium viridari compiled in 1376 and attributed to Évrart de Trémaugon, councillor to Charles V and maître des requêtes at the hotel de roi (see Schnerb-Lièvre, 1982, pp. lxxvii-lxxxviii). The manuscript is the presentation copy off...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1378
Extent:: 247 folios.

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:: Parchment codex

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.

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

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

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