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21. Royal Appendix MS 64

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Royal Appendix MS 64
Title:
15th century Canons, by Sydrach Rahel. CANONS for 4 voices to the first lines of the Psalms (Vulgate version), by Sydrach Rahel, with a dedication, in French, to James I, from which it appears that they are intended to be accompanied by the lute (? in unison). At the end are canons on the 'Oratio Dominica' (à 5), and on the words 'Viuat Jacobus primus, rex Angliae, in eternum' (two settings, à 2). See Cat. of Music, i, p. 115. Temp. James I. The MS. was formerly numbered Add. 5341, but was...
Scope & Content:
The first lines of the Psalms in the Latin Vulgate version, set as Canons (in 4 parts, unless the contrary is stated) by Sydrach Rahel. From the dedication to James I, in French, it appears that they are intended to be accompanied by the lute, i.e. in unison with the voices. Included also are the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
[1603-1625]
Extent:
1 volume (28 folios)

22. Royal MS 17 F II

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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.

23. Royal MS 20 E IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 E IX
Title:
Jean Rotz, Boke of Idrography (The 'Rotz Atlas')
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains the Boke of Idrography (also known as the Rotz Atlas) by Jean Rotz, hydrographer and navigtor of Dieppe, who probably took part in the expedition from Dieppe to Sumatra under the command of Jean Parmentier in 1529–30, and in 1539 travelled to Guinea and Brazil. The atlas ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1535-1542
Extent:
32 folios.

24. Royal MS 16 G VI

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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.

25. Royal MS 19 A XXII

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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

26. Royal MS 12 C XII

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Royal MS 12 C XII
Title:
A collection in prose and verse, including culinary recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript consists of eight originally independent units or booklets, each containing from one to four quires. See Hathaway, Fouke le Fitz Waryn (1975), p. xliv-xlvii on how this manuscript was compiled. The contents include: ff. 1r-v, Office in honour of Thomas, Earl of Lancas...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1320-1340
Extent:

1 volume

27. 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

28. Royal MS 16 C IV Part 2

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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

29. Royal MS 18 D IX-X

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Royal MS 18 D IX-X
Title:
Bible Historiale, Volumes 1 and 2
Scope & Content:
These two volumes (Royal 18 D. IX and Royal 18 D. X) contain part of the second edition of the Bible Historiale, a French adaptation by Guyart des Moulins (c. 1291-95) of Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica. The fourth volume is Royal MS 15 D I, but it was written previously and altered to inc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1479
Extent:

Two parchment volumes

30. Royal MS 19 B XVI

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Royal MS 19 B XVI
Title:
Le Miroir des Dames (an anonymous French translation of Durand de Champagne's Speculum Dominarum)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 15th-century copy of Le Miroir des Dames, an anonymous French translation of the Speculum dominarum, a treatise on queenship written for Jeanne de Navarre (b. 1273, d. 1305), Queen of France and wife of Philip IV (r. 1285-1314), by her confessor, Durand de Champ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1428
Extent:

1 volume