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

1. Add MS 18855

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 18855
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a Book of Hours, made in Tours in the 1st quarter of the 16th century. Two leaves from a Flemish calendar illuminated by the artist Simon Bening (b. c. 1483, d. 1561) were added to the volume (ff. 108 and 109), probably in the first half of the 19th century. They were subseq...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Add MS 37421

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Add MS 37421
Title:
Fragment from the Book of Hours (the 'Hours of Etienne Chevalier')
Scope & Content:
1 miniature by Jean Fouquet from the book of hours, comissioned by Etienne Chevalier (d. 1474) and therefore known as the 'Hours of Étienne Chevalier'. 47 other remaining miniatures excised from this manuscript are in the Musée Condé at Chantilly (40 miniatures), Paris, Louvre, Dépatement des Ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1452-1461
Extent:

1 leaf

3. Egerton MS 609

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 609
Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is part of the 'Irish-Northumbrian' group, according to Marsden, 'The Gospels of St Augustine' (1999), p. 290 and n. 25. It was probably copied by an Insular scribe, according to Glunz, History of the Vulgate in England (1933), no. 31. Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Epistle of St Jerome ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Egerton MS 1668

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1668
Title:
Copies of letters and papers relating to the history of France, chiefly during the reign of Henri III.; 1478-1618:- 1. “Relation des propos tenus entre le Pape, l'Empereur et le Sieur de Vueilly [Claude Dodieur, Sieur de Vély, afterwards Bishop of Relines], ambassadeur du Boy François I. prez sa Sainteté, touchant la paix entre les dits sieurs, empereur et roy;" [6 avril 1536], f. 1. 2. "Lettres patentes pour les seigneurs de Veruin [Jacques de Coney] et Mareschal [Oudart] de Biez [son b...
Scope & Content:
Henry III of France: Copies of papers relating to the history of France during his reign: 1574-1589.: Fr. includes: ff. 1-8 Francis I of France: Relation des propos entre lui, le Pape et l'Empereur, 1536,: 17th cent.ff. 1-8 Claude de Dodieu, Sieur de Vély; French Ambassador to Paul III., a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1478-1699
Extent:
1 item

5. Egerton MS 2802

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2802
Title:
Cartulaire de Quimperlé (Quimperle) the Cartulary of the abbey of the Holy Cross at Quimperlé, Brittany
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4v-8r, Life of St. Gurthiern, in three parts. Part i. incipit: 'Haec est genealogia Sancti Gurthierni nobilis genere, incliti officio, quam quidam laieus fidelis nomine iuthael filius aidan demonstravit' (f. 4v). Part ii. incipit: 'Incipit vero conversatio Sancti Gurthierni secun...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1100-1755
Extent:

A parchment codex, 164 folios

6. Egerton MS 2831

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2831
Title:
Jerome, Commentarium in Isaiam, book 14 to book 18
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is thought to date from before Alcuin's arrival at the abbey of Marmoutiers (or Saint-Martin de Tours) in 796, on the basis of the owner inscription (see Provenance). It is one of the surviving witnesses of the early collaboration between Insular and Continental scribes at the Be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 8th century
Extent:

A parchment codex