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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 E I vol 2
Title:: Vincent of Beauvais, translated by Jean de Vignay, Le miroir historial (a French translation of the Speculum historiale) books 6-9
Scope & Content:: The first volume (books 1-9) of Le miroir historiale, (32 books in total) is now bound in two parts, foliated separately of which this manuscript is part 2 and contains books 6-9. Part 1 contains books 1-5 and the table of contents of book 6. The original Latin work, the Speculum Historiale was ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1479-1480
Extent:: The second part of a parchment codex bound in two volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 E IV
Title:: Jehan de Wavrin, Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes the third volume of the Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre (also known as the Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre) of Jean (Jehan) de Wavrin, preceded by a list of contents (ff. 1r-9v). The text of the chronicle begins with the coronation of Richard II and ends...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1470-c 1480
Extent:: 329 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 D I
Title:: Guyart des Moulins, La Bible historiale
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes volume 4 (Tobit to Acts of the Apostles) of the second edition of the Bible historiale (the so-called petite Bible historiale), a French adaptation of Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica by Guyart des Moulins (c. 1291-1295). The volume supplemented the set that includes...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1470-c 1479
Extent:: 439 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 E IV
Title:: Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, vol. 1
Scope & Content:: The first volume of the Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne (Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre)by Jean de Wavrin, Seigneur de Forestel, contains a chronicle of British history from its mythical origins up to the reign of Edward II. This copy has been bound in two s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1471-1483
Extent:: A parchment codex bound as 2 separate volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 E IV, ff 1r-174v
Title:: Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, volume I, ff. 1-174
Scope & Content:: The first volume of the Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne by Jean de Wavrin, seigneur de Forestel, contains a chronicle of British history from its mythical origins up to the reign of Edward II. It has been bound in two separate parts. Part 1 contains a table of r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1471-1483
Extent:: The first part of a parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 E IV, ff 175r-350v
Title:: Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, volume I, ff 175r-350v
Scope & Content:: The first volume of the Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne by Jean de Wavrin, Seigneur de Forestel, contains a chronicle of British history from its mythical origins up to the reign of Edward II. It has been bound in two separate parts. Part II (ff. 175-350) contin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1471-1483
Extent:: The second part of a parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 E IV, ff ix-xviii
Title:: Binding and flyleaves for part 2 of Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre, volume 1, ff 175r-350v
Scope & Content:: This section corresponds to the binding and flyleaves for part 2.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1471-1757
Extent:: 7 flyleaves and manuscript binding.

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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

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

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