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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X Name Charles II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1630-1685 Level [40] File

1. Royal MS 1 C IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 1 C IX
Title:
Glossed Wycliffite Bible, in the later version (from Genesis to Job)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the books of the Bible from Genesis to Job, in the later version of the Middle English translation produced by the followers of John Wycliffe (b. c. 1320s, d. 1384). Accompanying marginal glosses appear throughout the book, written in the same hand as the main text. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Royal MS 12 C XIX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C XIX
Title:
Bestiary with theological texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see Two East Anglian Picture Books: A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburgh Club, 1988), p. 5, who characterises...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1200-c 1210
Extent:

1 volume

3. Royal MS 13 A III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A III
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-133r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae, including the prologue addressed to Robert, Earl of Gloucester (ff. 1r-v); the prologue to the Prophecies of Merlin and epistle to the Bishop of Lincoln (ff. 68r-v). Book 9, chapter 20 and Book 10, chapter 1 are lacking (a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

4. Royal MS 17 E VII vol 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 E VII vol 1
Title:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale
Scope & Content:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible historiale complétée moyenne according to Berger 1884), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica with additional books supplied from the French translation of the Bible made at Paris c. 1250; bound in two volumes. The first volume ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1356-1357
Extent:
264 folios.

5. Royal MS 17 E VII vol 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 E VII vol 2
Title:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale
Scope & Content:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible historiale complétée moyenne according to Berger 1884), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica with additional books supplied from the French translation of the Bible made at Paris c. 1250; bound in two volumes. The first volume ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1357
Extent:
342 folios.

6. Royal MS 19 A IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 A IX
Title:
Gossuin de Metz, L'Image du monde
Scope & Content:
Contents: Gossuin (Gautier) de Metz (c. 1245), L'Image du monde, a French version of De imagine mundi by Honorius of Autun. ff. 1r-3v: Table of chapters; ff. 4r-4v: Prologue, This manuscript contains a unique prologue linking it to Caxton's printed editions and stating 'ce p[rese]nt volume ap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1464
Extent:

Parchment codex