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1. Add MS 10323

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Add MS 10323
Title:
Raimon Feraud, La Vida de Sant Honorat
Scope & Content:
Contents: Raimond Feraud, 'La Vida de Sant Honorat (Life of Saint Honorat), an adaptation in Provençal verse of the Latin, Vita Sancti Honorati. The text is imperfect, beginning with the rubric, ‘Ayssi comensa la vida el romans de n[ost]ro senh[or] S[ant] Honorat de Lerins’. There are lacunae ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Occitan, Old and Provençal, Old
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

2. Add MS 21218

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Add MS 21218
Title:
Roman de Philomena
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-3v: A spurious will of Charlemagne in Latin, with the rubric, 'Testamentum Karoli magni condam regis francie', dated 811; f. 4r- The Roman de Philomena, or Notre Dame de la Grasse, an account of Charlemagne's campaigns in Carcassone and Narbonne and the foundation of the Abbe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Occitan, Old and Provençal, Old
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3. Add MS 22636

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Add MS 22636
Title:
Thesaurus Pauperum and a collection of medical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-22v: A herbal text with pharmacopoeial and cosmetic recipes (beginning 'Ad faciendum pulchra...'), in a script of the second half of the 15th century. ff. 23r-46v: Pope John XXI, Thesaurus Pauperum. f. 46r: Fragment of a poem in Occitan (see Harley 7403, f. 49r). ff. 47-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Occitan, Old
Date Range:
13th century-14th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Cotton MS

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Cotton MS
Title:
Cotton Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
The Cotton Manuscripts contains a variety of material, much of it relating to the history, literature and culture of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 17th century. It is particularly rich in: (a) manuscripts written in Old English; (b) monastic cartularies; (c) saints’ Liv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Arabic, Cipher, Coast Miwok, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, Dutch, Middle, English, English, Middle, English, Old, Flemish, French, French, Old, German, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Inuit, Irish, Irish, Middle, Italian, Javanese, Latin, Low German, Occitan, Old, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Saxon, Old, Scots, Scots, Spanish, Temne, and Welsh
Date Range:
5th century-19th century
Extent:
1,429 manuscripts

5. Cotton MS Julius E I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius E I
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Julius E I
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Latin, and Occitan, Old
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
3 items

6. Cotton MS Julius E I, ff 13–280

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Cotton MS Julius E I, ff 13–280
Title:
Gascon Register A
Scope & Content:
Dated: Languages: Latin, Franch, Gascon
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Latin, and Occitan, Old
Date Range:
1318-1319
Extent:
1 item

7. Cotton MS Julius E I, ff 281–352

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius E I, ff 281–352
Title:
Records relating to Gascony
Scope & Content:
Dated: Languages: Latin, Franch, Gascon
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Latin, and Occitan, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Harley MS 2928

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Harley MS 2928
Title:
Psalter; Expositio Hymnorum; an Old Occitan translation of the Gospel of St John (Chapters 13 to 17); a Benediction in verse; Alcuin, De Laude Psalmorum; the canon Si Quis Suadente from the II Lateran Council (1139)
Scope & Content:
Contents: This 12th-century manuscript from the South of France (Aquitaine) consists of a Psalter with litanies, hymns and an Old Occitan version of the Gospel of St John (chapters 13 to 17). It ends with Alcuin's treatise about the use of the book of Psalms, followed by a canon from the II Lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Occitan, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

9. Harley MS 4830

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4830
Title:
Laws of the city of Avignon
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-17v: Laws of the city of Avignon, beginning with the rubric 'Aiso es la carta del covenes de la civitat de Avigno[n]', followed by the 'Convention de Beaucaire', a charter dated May 1251 ending the civil liberties of the city, as agreed between the municipal authorities of Avi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Occitan, and Occitan, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 4940

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4940
Title:
Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d'amor
Scope & Content:
Contents: Matfre Ermengaud (Matfres Ermengau, Eymengau) de Beziers, Breviari d'Amor. An encyclopedic work explaining how the world is an emanation of love, it consists of 34,550 lines in verse in the Occitan dialect composed between 1288 and 1292. Decoration: 2 full-page miniatures with fol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Occitan, Old
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex, 232 folios