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2. Cotton MS Vespasian B XIV
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vespasian B XIV
- Title:
- Marie de France, Le Lais de Launval, and Fables; Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de uita sancti Thome Cantuariensis; Beneit of St Albans, La Vie de Thomas Becket, and other texts
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1*r: An added list of the manuscript's contents, written in the hand of Richard James (b. 1592, d. 1638), English scholar and first librarian of the Cotton library. ff. 1r-8v: Marie de France, Le Lay de Launval (The Lay of Launval), a poem in Anglo-Norman French, the text beginn...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 13th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
3. Harley MS 2
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2
- Title:
- Collection of historical and theological texts, including Elias of Evesham, ‘Quadrilogus’ of materials relating to Thomas Becket; Eustace of Faversham, Vita sancti Edmundi Cantuariensis;and William of Malmesbury, De Gesta Pontificum
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains ten parts written in England during the 2nd half of the 12th century or the 1st half of the 13th century. Most likely they were once part of different manuscripts (as suggested by a quire mark (‘III’) on f. 257v). A (? late) 13th-century table of contents that lists all...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century
- Extent:
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1 volume
4. Stowe MS 52
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 52
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- "VITA beati Thomæ arehiepiscopi et martiris": the Quadrilogus, or compilation by E[lias?] of Evesham, from the four Lives by John of Salisbury, Herbert of Boseham, William of Canterbury, and Alan, Abbot of Tewkesbury. The prologue begins "Post summi favoris dote vestitos," and the Life itself "T...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 13th century
- Extent:
- 1 item