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Place Lyons, France Material Type Archives and Manuscripts Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 4848

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Title:
'LA DISCIPLINE ECCLESIASTIQUE des Eglises reformées de France. C'est à dire L'ordre par lequel elles sont conduittes et gouvernées'; 1609
Scope & Content:
The main work (ff. 3-44b) consists of fourteen chapters, at the end of which is a list of the National Synods 1559-1609, with those of 1612 and 1614 added in a later hand. For a similar MS, carrying the list of Synods down to 1637, see Harley MS. 3980. The second part contains accounts of the tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1609
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 29250

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', with incunables printed by Peter Liechenstein and Johann Trechsel
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', written by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The treatise has been bound together with some late 15th-century incunables: Ephemerides sive Almanack perpetuus by the Castilian astronomer and historian Abraham Za...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Add MS 57911

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GAIUS SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS: 'De vita duodecim Caesarum'; Italy, late 15th cent. Latin. 16th-cent. note inside the upper board 'Emptus.xxxv.B.'. Near contemporary Italian paper title pasted in (f. iv). Owned by Benoit Le Court, a 16th-cent. jurist and humanist from Lyons, whose coat of arms is stamped at the centre of each cover panel. The 16th-cent. purchase note inside the upper board is similar to notes in other manuscripts from his library. See D. Gid, Catalogue des reliures françoises e...
Scope & Content:
Bindings FRENCH: Lyons, France: Blind-tooled binding for Benoit Le Court bound in Lyons: mid 16th cent.: Lat. History: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Biography: Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, historian: De vita duodecim Caesarum by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus: late 15th cent.: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 59677

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Title:
Pierre Sala, Fables
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of 13 animal Fables in French verse, written by the French poet Pierre Sala (b. c. 1457, d. c. 1529), and dedicated to Louise de Savoy (b. 1476, d. 1531), Duchess of Angoulême and regent of France. This manuscript was intended as a presentation copy, but wa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1525-1526
Extent:
1 volume