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51. Royal MS 15 D I

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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.

52. Royal MS 20 A XVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A XVII
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose; Thomas de Bailleul, la Bataille d'Annezin
Scope & Content:
The Roman de la Rose was begun by Guillaume de Lorris between 1225 and 1245 and was continued between 1269-1278 by Jean de Meun. It is around 20,000 octosyllabic lines of French verse narrating the dream of a young lover, in which his long quest for the object of his desire ends when he breaches...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c1340-1350
Extent:

A parchment codex

53. Royal MS 16 F II

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

54. Royal MS 19 B XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B XIII
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun; rubric: 'Ci commence le romans de la rose Ou lart damors est toute enclose'; incipit: 'Maintes genz dient que en songes Na se fables non et menconges'; explicit: 'Ainsint oi la rose vermeille Atant fu ior et ie mesueille.' Colophon: 'Expl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
c 1320-c 1340
Extent:

A parchment codex, 144 folios

55. Royal MS 14 E I vol 2

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

56. Royal MS 20 A III, ff 121-236

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Royal MS 20 A III, ff 121-236
Title:
Prose Brut chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: Prose Brut chronicle: ff. 121r-122v: Des Grantz Geants; ff. 122v-236r: Prose Brut (long version to 1333), with two lines lacking at the end; explicit, 'Et après la bataille les Engleis pristrent les espoilles des Escotz...'. The text is very similar to Dublin, Trinity College MS 50...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex

57. Royal MS 20 A III, ff 1-120

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A III, ff 1-120
Title:
Gossuin de Metz, L'Image du Monde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-120: Gossuin, or Gautier, de Metz (c. 1245), L'Image du monde, a French version of De imagine mundi by Honorius of Autun, divided into two parts (the common division between Parts 2 and 3 of the text is not marked): ff. 1r-50r: Part I, a study of Creation and science from a hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1342
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex

58. Royal Appendix MS 48

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal Appendix MS 48
Title:
Masses and Motets, in parts, by Nicolas Ludford.
Scope & Content:
Vol. IV. ff. 27. Before A.D. 1533. passim Offertoria, etc., introduced in some Masses for each day of the week, inparts, by Nicolas Ludford. The first seven are sequences, following the Alleluia cum versibus, and are inserted before the ‘Credo.’ They appear to be for tenor, contra-tenor, treble...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1533
Extent:
1 of four volumes (62 folios) (Part books)

59. Royal Appendix MS 45

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal Appendix MS 45
Title:
Masses and Motets, in parts, by Nicolas Ludford.
Scope & Content:
Vol. I. ff. 62. Before A.D. 1533. Masses for each day of the week, in parts, by Nicolas Ludford. Passim. Offertoria, etc., introduced in some Masses for each day of the week, in parts, by Nicolas Ludford. The seven in this volume are sequences, following the Alleluia cum versibus, and are inse...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1533
Extent:
1 of four volumes (62 folios) (Part books)

60. Royal Appendix MS 46

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal Appendix MS 46
Title:
Masses and Motets, in parts, by Nicolas Ludford.
Scope & Content:
Vol. II. ff. 69. Before A.D. 1533. Masses for each day of the week, in parts, by Nicolas Ludford. Passim. Offertoria, etc., introduced in some Masses for each day of the week, in parts, by Nicolas Ludford. The seven in this volume are sequences, following the Alleluia cum versibus, and are ins...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1533
Extent:
1 of four volumes (62 folios) (Part books)