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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 E IV
Title:: Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, vol. 1
Scope & Content:: The first volume of the Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne (Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre)by Jean de Wavrin, Seigneur de Forestel, contains a chronicle of British history from its mythical origins up to the reign of Edward II. This copy has been bound in two s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1471-1483
Extent:: A parchment codex bound as 2 separate volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 E V
Title:: Perceforest, Volume 1
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the first volume of Le Roman de Perceforest (Anciennes croniques Dangleterre, faictz et gestes du roy Perceforest, et des chevaliers du Franc Palais), revised by David Aubert (fl. 1458-1479), librarian to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, with his preface (ff. 3-4). The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: Last decade of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 E VI
Title:: Poems and Romances (the ''Talbot Shrewsbury book'')
Scope & Content:: A collection of fifteen romances, chivalric treatises, instructional texts, chronicles and statutes compiled as a gift to Margaret of Anjou, on her betrothal to Henry VI, from the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, who escorted her to England for the marriage in 1444. The contents are as follows: f. 1v: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1444-1445
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 A VIII
Title:: Taḥrīr kitāb al-majisṭī تحرير كتاب المجسطي Ptolemy بطلميوس Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:: The Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). This was the most influential and enduring astronomic...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 15th-16th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+192+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 B IV
Title:: Alphabetum Syamense
Scope & Content:: Thai syllabary and numerals in a sloping hand, with romanized equivalents. Thought to have been presented to King Charles II on 26 September 1684 by a Thai embassy on behalf of King Narai (Ramathibodi III) who reigned Ayutthaya from 1656 to 1688
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Thai
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 3 folios

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