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2021. Royal MS 20 D III

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Royal MS 20 D III
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Scope & Content:
LANCELOT DU LAC: the first portion of the first part of the prose romance (corresponding to Sommer, Vulgate Text of the Arthurian Romances, vol. iii, 1910), see Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, p. 353. Cf. 19 C. XLII, above Beg. 'En la marche de Gaule e de la petite Bretaigne-; ends 'e li rois et sa c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

2022. Royal MS 20 D IV

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Royal MS 20 D IV
Title:
Lancelot du Lac
Scope & Content:
The present manuscript contains part of the prose cycle known as Lancelot du Lac, or the Prose Lancelot, beginning two-thirds of the way through the second part at 'Mout fu rice la cours ke li rois tint a celle pentecouste' (f. 1r) and ending half way through the third part, the Agravain, at 'Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1300-1380
Extent:

A parchment codex

2023. Royal MS 20 D IX

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Royal MS 20 D IX
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FRENCH TRANSLATION of the Authenticum (Justinian's Novellae) and Tres Libri (Codex, libb. x-xii). Originally the MS. doubtless also included the Institutes, which are comprised in the table of chapters at the end, but seven quires and part of the eighth were removed from the beginning of the boo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 item

2024. Royal MS 20 D V

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Royal MS 20 D V
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ST. GREGORY the Great, forty homilies on the Gospels: the same translation (by Pierre de Hangest ?) as in 15 D. V, art. 1, and containing the homilies in the same order. A missing leaf after f. 49 contained the end of hom. xiii and beginning of hom. xiv (23, 24 of Migne, Patr. Lat. lxxvi). After...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:
1 item

2025. Royal MS 20 D VI

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Royal MS 20 D VI
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A French legendary, comprising 57 saints' lives in prose, including some attributed to Wauchier de Denain
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a legendarium (legendary), or collection of saints' lives, a term which derives its name from the Latin word legenda 'things to be read'. The text is written in prose and represents one of over 30 French prose legendaries to survive from the 13th and 14th centuries. The text...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

2026. Royal MS 20 D VII

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Royal MS 20 D VII
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Content: The Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris, continued by Jean de Meun at f. 25r; 'Et si lay je perdu espoir'.. ff. 1r-128r: beginning, 'Maintes gens dient quen songes/ Na se flabes non et menconges/ Mus on puet telz songes songes/ Qui ne sont mie mencongier', ending: 'Ainsi oi la ro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 128 folios.

2027. Royal MS 20 D VIII

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Royal MS 20 D VIII
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Scope & Content:
'LE SECOND Volume de Moustrelet (sic)': Chronicle of France, from 1428 to 1443 and 1448 to 1450. The text is not that of Monstrelet (though the narrative is the same in substance to a great extent), but agrees with the Croniques of Jean de Wavrin (ed. Hardy, Rolls Series, 1879-1891), vol- v, bk....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2028. Royal MS 20 D X

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Royal MS 20 D X
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Scope & Content:
COPIES OF TREATIES, especially documents connected with the Peace of Brétigny between England and France. French, except where otherwise noted. The headings are:- 1. 'De pace Francie et Anglie': thirty-three documents issued in the name of Edward III and connected with the Peace of Brétigny. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item

2029. Royal MS 20 D XI

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Royal MS 20 D XI
Title:
Cycle of Guillaume d'Orange
Scope & Content:
A collection of chansons de geste known as the Grand cycle de Guillaume d'Orange about the deeds of the legendary French hero William of Orange and his extended family. The Grand cycle comprises both the Cycle de Guillaume and the Cycle de Narbonne. These include tales of Guillaume's ancestors, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2030. Royal MS 20 E I

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Royal MS 20 E I
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Scope & Content:
(ff. 225). Priam of Troy to death of Pepin (768), Chroniques de S. Denis (ed. P. Paris), i, p. 6-ii, p. 53. Wants table of chapters (a quire ?) and one leaf at beginning and one leaf after f. 6. Beg. ' . . . des contrees de Saxoine qui estoit appellee Angle'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1487
Extent:
1 item

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