Archive Reference (shelfmark): Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 A VIII
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Scope & Content:: STATUTES (4 to 20 Edw. I) and law-treatises, including part of the treatise called Britton. In Latin, except where otherwise noted. Contents:- 1. The Second Statute of Westminster, 13 Edw. I [after Easter, 1285]; in Latin, except clause xxxiv which is in French, clause xlix being here omitted (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 A X
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Scope & Content:: 'LES DEUX premiers livres des Odes d'Horace' translated into French prose by Pierre de Ferron, 'gentilhomme françois de la Prouince de Guienne', with a dedicatory letter, dated 20 Oct. 1619, 'de France et de nostre maison de Ferron (ou de Beaupuy pres Thonneinx [? Tonneins, Lot-et-Garonne] en la...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1619
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 A XI
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Scope & Content:: HISTORICAL POEMS in French, &c., viz.:- 1. Chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft (see 20 A. II) to the year 1307. Without title, but a 16th-17th cent. hand heads it 'Cronicon Angliae Gallico metro manuscriptum'. The MS. is B of Wright's edition, and has a lacuna of 65 lines after 1. 6 of p. 150 o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 A XII
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Scope & Content:: 'LIVRE DE SENECQUE des quatre vertus cardinales': French translation of the Formula Honestae Vitae, or De quattuor virtutibus of Pseudo-Seneca (S. Martin of Braga, see 8 A. XXI, art. 26, &c.), with dedication to Jean, Duc de Berry. The evidence as to the date and authorship of the translatio...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 A XIII
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Scope & Content:: HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS and paraphrase of the Acts of the Apostles in French, based mainly on Petrus Comestor but not agreeing with Guyart des Moulins, see 19 D. III. The rubric heading is 'Chi endroit se commenchent les ewangiles del an en roumant. Et se commenche premiers a lannontiation s. Ieh...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 A XIV
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Scope & Content:: 'LE LIVRE des Prieres ecclesiastiques et administration des Sacremens et autres Cerimonies et façon de faire dont on vse en l'Eglise d'Angleterre': a translation of the Second Prayer Book of Edward VI, by Jan Bellemain (see above, 16 E. I), with dedicatory letter to the King, dated 'De vostre ho...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1553
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 A XIX
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Scope & Content:: BOETHIUS, De consolatione philosophiae anonymous translation both of the prosae and metra) into French verse. A different translation from that of Renaud de Louhans in 19 A. IV. Other copies are in Add. MS. 26767 and at Paris, Bibl. Nat. anc. fonds fr. 577 (see Paulin Paris, Les MSS. François, v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 A XV
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Scope & Content:: LIVRE des Enseignemens moraux. This title is on the 18th cent. binding, but seems to be of no authority. Casley calls it Les Essais morales (sic), and the 1542 inventory describes it simply as 'Liber in Gallica lingua qui inscribitur Initium sapientiae est timor domini'. Contents:- 1. Moral aph...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 A XVI
Title:: Chansons, in French, set to music for several, but in most cases three voices, in parts.
Scope & Content:: Except where the contrary is stated, the chansons are for three voices and are anonymous. The contra-tenor is sometimes called 'Concordans.' The names of the composers are given only in a few cases, but several are by Josquin des Pres, and one at least (f. 10b) is by Alexander Agricola. Content...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume (36 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 A XVII
Title:: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose; Thomas de Bailleul, la Bataille d'Annezin
Scope & Content:: The Roman de la Rose was begun by Guillaume de Lorris between 1225 and 1245 and was continued between 1269-1278 by Jean de Meun. It is around 20,000 octosyllabic lines of French verse narrating the dream of a young lover, in which his long quest for the object of his desire ends when he breaches...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c1340-1350
Extent:: A parchment codex

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