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1. Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X

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Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
Title:
Royal Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by English sovereigns from Edward IV onwards. c 1100-c 1800. c 1950 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1100-c 1800
Extent:
2034 items

2. Royal MS 17 E III

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Royal MS 17 E III
Title:
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, translated by Jean Corbechon, Livre des proprietez des choses
Scope & Content:
Contents: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, translated in 1372 as the Livre des proprietez des choses by Jean Corbechon for Charles V of France. Decoration: 1 large miniature in four compartments, in colours and gold, with a foliate initial in colours and gold, and a partial ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

3. Royal MS 20 D XI

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Royal MS 20 D XI
Title:
Cycle of Guillaume d'Orange
Scope & Content:
A collection of chansons de geste known as the Grand cycle de Guillaume d'Orange about the deeds of the legendary French hero William of Orange and his extended family. The Grand cycle comprises both the Cycle de Guillaume and the Cycle de Narbonne. These include tales of Guillaume's ancestors, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Royal MS 8 E XI

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Royal MS 8 E XI
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Scope & Content:
'SERMONES Dominicales Parisiensis' (so colophon): the same set of homilies on the gospels [by Guillaume Pérault] as in 8 D. X, but differently divided and not containing the moralia for the twenty-fifth Sund. after Trinity. The original scribe made about i66 sermons out of the series, but the ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Royal MS 14 B V

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Royal MS 14 B V
Title:
Genealogical Chronicle of the English Kings
Scope & Content:
Contents: A roll chronicle containing the genealogy of the kings of England from the Heptarchy to Edward I as a king (1272-1307), but without portraits of his children, in the form of a diagram of interconnected roundels with portraits of kings in colours and gold, and an accompanying commentary...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 roll

6. Royal MS 1 C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 1 C III
Title:
Bible from Genesis to Tobit, in Anglo-Norman French
Scope & Content:
I C. III BIBLE, in French, from Genesis to Tobit; preceded by the epistle of Jerome to Paulinus (f. 1, 'Frere Ambros a moi portaunt tes petitz douns'). The pro, logue to the Pentateuch (f. 5) is entitled 'Ci comence la preface de seint Jerome le chapellain en launcien testament', and begins 'Jeo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Royal MS 12 G IV

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Royal MS 12 G IV
Title:
The Compendium Medicinae with a collection of medical tracts and recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: A medical miscellany compiled by 'frater Johannes de Grenborough', for thirty years 'infirmarius' at [St Mary's] Coventry, containing the following texts: ff. 1r-4v: Recipes in Latin and Middle English, probably copied on flyleaves from the collection that follows; ff. 5r-127r: Gilbe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century to the 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

8. Royal MS 10 B IX

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Royal MS 10 B IX
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Scope & Content:
TRACTS on Dictamen or official letter-writing, with models and commonplaces in Latin, French, and English, several translations from the Classics, a romance and other miscellaneous matter. Some of the model letters may be copies of actual state papers, &c. As the composition of the different...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Royal MS 12 E I

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Royal MS 12 E I
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Scope & Content:
Lives of Saints and theological collections of the early 14th cent., in Latin; bound up with a Latin metrical arithmetic and other matter in hands of the 15th cent. Contents: 1. Algorismus Metricus: the common versified arithmetic [by Alexander de Villa Dei], cf. 8 C. IV, art. 11. Without title...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume (197 folios)

10. Royal Appendix MS 55

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Royal Appendix MS 55
Title:
Collection of 16th century compositions, in French and Italian, by anonymous authors.
Scope & Content:
ff. 11. Songs, chiefly French, by anonymous composers. Nos. 1-9 appear to be for a treble voice; nos. 10 and 11, for a bass; and no. 12, for a tenor. Except where the contrary is stated, they are unaccompanied. 1. 'Fault jl qu'au mal que j'endure '; with accompaniment for lute, in tablature. f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item (11 folios)