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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 E I
Title:: Jean Froissart, Chroniques, vol. 2
Scope & Content:: Includes volume 2 of the 'Chroniques' of Froissart, covering the period 1377-1385. The text of the present manuscript is classified by Kervyn de Lettenhove as the première rédaction, seconde série. Incipit: 'Quant le duc de Bourgongne cut fait ceste chevauchee'. Explicit: 'en la ville de Gand', ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 367 + 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 E II
Title:: Jean Froissart, Chroniques, vol. 4
Scope & Content:: Includes volume 4 of the 'Chroniques' of Froissart, covering the period 1389-1400, preceded by a list of contents (ff. 2r-5v). Incipit: 'Cy commence la table de ce quart et darrenier volume que fist et compila sire Jehan Froissard des croniques de France et dangleterre'. Table begins: 'Le premie...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1480
Extent:: 419 + 7 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 E V
Title:: Histoire tripartite or Chronique de Baudouin d'Avennes
Scope & Content:: Contents: The Histoire tripartite or Chronique de Baudouin d'Avennes, a compilation of ancient history also known as Le trésor des histoires or Le trésor de sapience, consisting of: ff. 1r-19r: Table of Chapters; f. 20r: Prologue; ff. 21r-390r: Histoire tripartite in 368 chapters, up to the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1473 to 1479
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 E VI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'LA FLEUR DES HYSTOIRES', vols. ii and iii. The recension of this large historical collection by Jean Mansel to which the present volume belongs is not that contained in 16 F. VI, VII and the Paris MSS. Bib]. Nat., londs fr. 302-304, &c., but the earlier (?) recension contained in Paris MSS....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1460
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 A I
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'L'HIMNE de la Paix au tres-auguste et serenissime Roy d'Angleterre, d'Escosse et d' Irlande' [James I]: anonymous poem in 1438 lines (rhyming Alexandrines) in honour of Peace, with eulogies of James and a prophecy, partly put in the mouth of Queen Elizabeth, of his reign and the succession of P...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1604-1612
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 A II
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'LE LIVRE DE LAPOCALIPSE': the French version of, and commentary on, the Apocalypse which are best known as occurring in a group of East Anglian and French illuminated MSS. of the 13th century, but which appear also in many other MSS. of later date (see L. Delisle and P. Meyer, L'Apocalypse en f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 A III
Title:
Scope & Content:: FRENCH POEMS, viz.:- 1. La Belle Dame sans Merci, by Alain Chartier (d. circ. 1430-1440). Without title or author's name. Printed in his collected works (ed. Duchesne, 1617, p. 502). Twelve stanzas (ll. 129-176, 657-704) are missing by the loss of a pair of leaves after f. 3 and f. 13. f. 1. B...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 A IV
Title:
Scope & Content:: FRENCH POEMS, viz.:- 1. Le 'liure de Boece de consolacion et.de confort': Boethius de consolatione philosophiae translated (both prosae and metra) into French verse in 1336 by the Dominican 'Frere Renaut de Louens' [of Louhans Saône-et-Loire]. Other copies are in Egerton MS. 2633 and a Paris MS...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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