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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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