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851. Add MS 18838

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Title:
"LE LIVRE et ordonnance de la devote confrarie du Psaultier de la glorieuse vierge Marie;" instituted in Brittany in the year 1479, consequent on the preaching of the Dominican friar, Alain de la Roche: containing the history of its foundation, the Pope's bull, instances of miraculous interventions of the Virgin Mary, a prayer to her, in verse, etc. Vellum; end of XVth cent. Octavo. [Add. 18,838.]
Scope & Content:
Brittany: L'ordonnance de la confrarie du Psaultier de la Vierge Marie: 1479.: Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

852. Add MS 18839

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ORIGINAL Certificate of acknowledgment by Gaston Tabou [or Taveau], Seigneur de Verrières et du Buysson, of homage to Jacques de Chaseron Baron de Montfaucon, with enumeration of his lands, tenants, etc.; 9 May, 1496. Vellum. In the original binding of stamped leather. Folio. [Add. 18,839.]
Scope & Content:
Bindings FRENCH: Leather, with blind tooling, fleurs-de-lis and roses: 1496. Gaston de Taveau, Seigneur de Verrières et du Buysson: Certificate of acknowledgment of his homage to J. de Chaseron: 1496.: Fr. Jacques de Chaseron, Baron de Montfaucon: Homage paid by G. de Taveau to: 1496.: Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 May 1496
Extent:
1 item

853. Add MS 18840

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Title:
COPY of challenge to combat from Jean de Bourbon, Comte de Clermont, to Thomas, Duke of Clarence, son of Henry IV. of England; 6 Jul. 1406. Fr., f. 1; Copy of challenge from the same, as Duc de Bourbon, to the Princes Pedro, Duke of Coimbra, and Enrique, Duke of Viseu, sons of John I. of Portugal; Paris, 16 Sept. 1414: with the answer; Septe [Ceuta], 23 Oct. 1415. Fr., f. 2; Proclamation and rules of the Order of the Dragon, instituted by the Comte de Foix. Fr., f. 3. Vellum; end of the XVth...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 Thomas Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence: Challenge of Jean Duc de Bourbon to: 1406.: Fr. ff. 1, 2 Jean de Bourbon, Comte de Clermont; Duc de Bourbon: Challenges to the Dukes of Clarence, Coimbra, and Viseu: 1406, 1414, 1415.: Fr. f. 2 Pedro, Duke of Coimbra; and Prince of Portugal: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

854. Add MS 18850

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Title:
Book of Hours (the 'Bedford Hours')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours of the use of Paris, known as the 'Bedford Hours'. The manuscript was produced in several phases. Its first owner, probably a member of the French royal family, remains untraced, but Louis (d. 1415), duke of Guyenne and dauphin of France, has been suggested as a possible candidate ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410-1430
Extent:

1 volume

855. Add MS 18855

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a Book of Hours, made in Tours in the 1st quarter of the 16th century. Two leaves from a Flemish calendar illuminated by the artist Simon Bening (b. c. 1483, d. 1561) were added to the volume (ff. 108 and 109), probably in the first half of the 19th century. They were subseq...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

856. Add MS 18856

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Title:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible hystoriaulx) (1st of 2 volumes)
Scope & Content:
This large codex is the first of two volumes comprising an illuminated copy of Guyart des Moulins's Bible historiale (Bible hystoriaulx), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica, known as La Grande Bible historiale complétée (Fournié, 'Les manuscrits de la Bible historiale'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1415
Extent:

Parchment codex

857. Add MS 18857

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Title:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible hystoriaulx) (2nd of 2 volumes)
Scope & Content:
This large codex is the second of two volumes comprising an illuminated copy of Guyart des Moulins's Bible historiale (Bible hystoriaulx), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica, known as La Grande Bible historiale complétée (Fournié, 'Les manuscrits de la Bible historiale...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1415
Extent:
Parchment codex

858. Add MS 18912

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Title:
CERTIFIED copy of the Papal bull of canonization of the nineteen martyrs of Gorkum, slain at Briel in the year 1572; with the "Instructio Processus," depositions of witnesses, and other papers, relating to miracles and proofs of sanctity, 1658-1675. Latin and French. Included in the collection are original letters of Joannes Migetius, Petrus de Hullegarde, Joannes ab Heinmen, Cornelius van Puttens, Paulus Verulanus, Rudolphus ab Heinmen, Joannes Braessemius, and Frater Seraphinus Bruxellensi...
Scope & Content:
Paulus Verulanus: Letters. Seraphinus Bruxellensis, Cappucinus: Letters. Cornelius van Puttens: Letters. Joannes Migetius: Letters. Petrus Hullegarde, M D of Brussels: Letters. Rudolphus ab Heinmen: Letters. Joannes ab Heinmen: Letters. Gorkum, South Holland: Bull of canonization of marty...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

859. Add MS 18964

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Title:
ORIGINAL documents relating to the sale of the hotel d'Argenson, in the Rue des Poulies at Paris, to Louis de Bourbon Comte de Vermandois, Admiral of France [natural son of Louis XIV]; 1681. With signatures of Louis XIV., Colbert, René de Voyer d'Argenson, and others. French. Accompanied by a groundplan of the hotel. Paper. Folio. [Add. 18,964.]
Scope & Content:
Topography France: Documents relating to the sale of the hotel d'Argenson in Paris: 1681. Réné de Voyer d'Argenson: Signature: 1681. Louis XIV of France: Signature: 1681. Jean Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay: Signature: 1681. Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Vermandois: Sale of Hotel d'Arge...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1681
Extent:
1 item

860. Add MS 18982

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Title:
Royalist correspondence, primarily addressed to Prince Rupert, 1645-1658
Scope & Content:
This volume includes correspondence to Prince Rupert during 1645; on the politics of the royalists in exile, and his naval career between 1648 and 1653. At the end is an undated document, a memorial between his brother, Charles Lewis, Elector Palatine, and King Charles II. There is some material...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1645-1658
Extent:
1 volume

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