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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X Level [40] File

1941. Royal MS 19 B XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B XIII
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun; rubric: 'Ci commence le romans de la rose Ou lart damors est toute enclose'; incipit: 'Maintes genz dient que en songes Na se fables non et menconges'; explicit: 'Ainsint oi la rose vermeille Atant fu ior et ie mesueille.' Colophon: 'Expl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
c 1320-c 1340
Extent:

A parchment codex, 144 folios

1942. Royal MS 19 B XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B XIV
Title:
Scope & Content:
CHRONIQUE DE NORMANDIE: the same work as in 15 E. VI, art. 12, but including certain interpolated passages (e.g. ff. 34 b, 45 b, 90 b) as in Add. MS. 20811 and Cotton MS. Vitellius F. XVI (cf. the Rouen edition of 1505). There are lacunae, probably due to loss of leaves of an archetype, at f. 20...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1943. Royal MS 19 B XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B XV
Title:
Apocalypse ('The Queen Mary Apocalypse')
Scope & Content:
The Apocalypse in Anglo-Norman with commentary and with the prologue of Gilbert de la Porrée translated into Anglo-Norman. The illuminations include 73 miniatures in colours and gold, the subjects of which are as follows: f. 1r, Paul preaching. f. 1v, John and representatives of the churches...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
first quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 item

1944. Royal MS 19 B XVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B XVI
Title:
Le Miroir des Dames (an anonymous French translation of Durand de Champagne's Speculum Dominarum)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 15th-century copy of Le Miroir des Dames, an anonymous French translation of the Speculum dominarum, a treatise on queenship written for Jeanne de Navarre (b. 1273, d. 1305), Queen of France and wife of Philip IV (r. 1285-1314), by her confessor, Durand de Champ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1428
Extent:

1 volume

1945. Royal MS 19 B XVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B XVII
Title:
Scope & Content:
'LA LEGENDE DOREE en francois que frere Iehan de Vignay translata de latin en francois' (so colophon): version made circ. 1340 of the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (cf. 10 B. XII, art. 3, &c.). The transiator mentions his previous translation of 'Le mireoir des hy...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1382
Extent:
1 item

1946. Royal MS 19 B XVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B XVIII
Title:
Scope & Content:
'LE LIVRE DEZ FAIZ DARMES et de Cheuallerie', by Christine de Pisan (cf. 15 E. VI, art. 14). The passage relating to alleged English treachery is retained. Table of contents to each part. Preface (f. 4) beg. 'Pource que hardiment est tant neccessaire'; text, 'Chaton le vaillant combatant'. Incom...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1947. Royal MS 19 C I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 C I
Title:
Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d'Amor
Scope & Content:
Contents: Matfre Ermengaud (or Matfres Ermengau, Eymengau) de Beziers: ff. 1r: Chanson, incipit, 'Dregz de natura comanda don amors pren naysshe men'; ff. 2r-250v: Breviari d'Amor, preceded by a table of rubrics. This encyclopaedic work, explaining how the world is an emanation of love, cons...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Occitan, Old
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 256 folios

1948. Royal MS 19 C II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 C II
Title:
Scope & Content:
1. 'LE LIVRE de vices et de vertus' (so colophon): the moral treatise or series of treatises known as 'Somme le Roy', composed by Frère Laurent, al. Lorens, Friar Preacher, confessor to Philippe III, le Hardi, King of France (d. 1285). It agrees in substance and order with Cotton MS. Cleopatra A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item

1949. Royal MS 19 C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 C III
Title:
Scope & Content:
'LIBER de quatuor nouissimis' (so colophon): treatise of the four last things, viz. Death, judgement, Hell, and Heaven, in French, being a version of the Latin treatise, doubtfully attributed to Henricus de Langenstein, al. de Hassia [Rector of the University of Vienna, d. 1397, see Fabricius, B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1950. Royal MS 19 C IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 C IV
Title:
Le songe du vergier, attributed to Évrart de Trémaugon
Scope & Content:
Le Songe du vergier is a French translation of the Latin tract Somnium viridari compiled in 1376 and attributed to Évrart de Trémaugon, councillor to Charles V and maître des requêtes at the hotel de roi (see Schnerb-Lièvre, 1982, pp. lxxvii-lxxxviii). The manuscript is the presentation copy off...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1378
Extent:

247 folios.

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