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

2001. Royal MS 20 B VIII

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Royal MS 20 B VIII
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LANCELOT DU LAC: the third part only of the prose romance (corresponding to Sommer, Vulgate Text of the Arthurian Romances, vol. v, 1912), see Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, p. 349, and cf. 19 C. XIII, above. The last pages of the text are somewhat condensed, and it ends abruptly at Sommer's p. 381....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 item

2002. Royal MS 20 B X

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Royal MS 20 B X
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'MAUNDEVYLE': the French text of the travels (cf. 20 A. I). The present MS. seems closely akin to Harley MS. 4383, see G. F. Warner, Buke of John Maundeuill (Roxburghe Club, 1889), introd., p. ix, and is therefore used in the Roxburghe edition to supply that part of the French text (from p. 103,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2003. Royal MS 20 B XI

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Royal MS 20 B XI
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'VIRGESSES, les Establissemenz de Cheualerie': the translation of Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari, made in 1284 by Jean de Meun for Jean de Brienne, comte d'Eu (see below, 20 B. XV). Imperfect, wanting three chapters at the end. For other MSS. see P. Meyer in Romania, xxv, 1896, p. 402....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

2004. Royal MS 20 B XII

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Royal MS 20 B XII
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POEM entitled 'Le premier liure de la Cosmographie en rethoricque Francoyse, contenant la description des portz et isles de la mer, auec summaire mention des meurs des peuples et adresse des ventz propres a naviguer par tout luniuers, compose par Iehan Mallart, escripuain, cosmographe et mathema...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1533-1544
Extent:
1 item

2005. Royal MS 20 B XIII

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Royal MS 20 B XIII
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'LE SONGE VERITABLE': anonymous political tract in verse (about 3170 lines), in the form of a dialogue between Chascun and Povrete, Souffrance, Verite, Commune Renommee, Excusacion, Faulx Gouvernement, Experience, Fortune, Raison and Dampnacion. Printed from a Paris MS. (Bibl. Nat., n. acqu. fr....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2006. Royal MS 20 B XIV

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Royal MS 20 B XIV
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William of Waddington, Manuel de Pechies, Robert Grosseteste, Le Chasteau d'Amour, a collection of religious and moral poems and a prose treatise
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This manuscript contains a collection of religious and moral poems, including William of Waddington's Manuel de Pechiez and Robert Grosseteste's Le Chasteau d'Amour, a prose sermon, the Mirour de Seinte Eglise or Speculum Ecclesiae by Edmund Rich; and a collection of Miracles of the Virgin in ve...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2007. Royal MS 20 B XIX

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Royal MS 20 B XIX
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CHANSONS of the cycle of Guillaume d'Orange; see Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, 1883, p. 654, for fuller description. Most of the seven branches here given, chiefly concerned with Narbonne, and written in tirades of decasyllabic verse (except art. 5, which is in alexandrines) with a six-syllable ver...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 item

2008. Royal MS 20 B XV

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Royal MS 20 B XV
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'LE LIURE de Flauue Vegece de lart de cheualerie': the same translation as in 20 B. XI. Preceded by the same table of contents. Prologue beg. 'Les anciens ont este coustumiers de mettre en escript'; text, 'Nous ne veons pas que le peuple des Rommains'; ends 'que lancienne doctrine ne nous a mons...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2009. Royal MS 20 B XVI

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Royal MS 20 B XVI
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'VNG RECOEUL nomme le Blason darmes pour congnoistre et apprendre a blasonner armes . . . recoeulliet par le sieur de Maumetz et de Boncourt cappitaine dauxi . . . et aussy aultres traictiez concernant lorigination des rois darmes herauldz darmes comme il apert au contenu de ce liure. RIOTUAS': ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1540
Extent:
1 item

2010. Royal MS 20 B XVII

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Royal MS 20 B XVII
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TREATISE on the art of letter-writing, entitled 'Vng petit traicte en francoys pour bien coucher par escript epistres que lon dit uulgairement lettres missives', preceded by a letter of the author, Loys Du Brun, dedicating his work 'A noble et excellente dame ma dame Anne de Rochefort', presumab...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1529-1530
Extent:
1 item

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