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41. Royal MS 12 B XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 B XIV
Title:
Bernard André, L'exposition du Pseaulme Huitesme; Vita beatae Katerinae; Aristotelis ad Magnum Alexandrum de Vite Institutione Oratio
Scope & Content:
This volume is a presentation manuscript, containing selected compositions of the French Augustinian friar and poet Bernard André (b. 1450, d. 1522), also known as Andreas. André was a noted chronicler of the reign of Henry VII of England (r. 1485-1509) and a poet laureate, who served as tutor i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1509-1517
Extent:

1 volume

42. Royal MS 14 E IV

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.

43. Royal MS 19 C IV

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.

44. Royal MS 14 E I vol 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 E I vol 1
Title:
Vincent of Beauvais, translated by Jean de Vignay, Le miroir historial (a French translation of the Speculum historiale), books 1-5
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 1 and contains books 1-5 with a table of contents of book 6. Part 2 is Royal MS 14 E I, vol 2 and contains books 6-9. The original Latin work...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1479-1480
Extent:

The first part of a parchment codex bound in two volumes

45. Royal MS 13 A III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A III
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-133r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae, including the prologue addressed to Robert, Earl of Gloucester (ff. 1r-v); the prologue to the Prophecies of Merlin and epistle to the Bishop of Lincoln (ff. 68r-v). Book 9, chapter 20 and Book 10, chapter 1 are lacking (a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

46. Royal MS 15 E IV

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

47. Royal MS 19 D II

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.

48. Royal MS 18 E II

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.

49. Royal MS 20 D I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 D I
Title:
Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César, second redaction
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the earliest surviving copy of the second redaction of the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César, probably produced in the 14th century. This version focuses on Troy, eliminating the biblical histories and the history of Alexander and integrates portions of the prose translati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1330-c 1340
Extent:

363 folios.

50. Royal MS 16 G VIII

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.