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 D VIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'LE SECOND Volume de Moustrelet (sic)': Chronicle of France, from 1428 to 1443 and 1448 to 1450. The text is not that of Monstrelet (though the narrative is the same in substance to a great extent), but agrees with the Croniques of Jean de Wavrin (ed. Hardy, Rolls Series, 1879-1891), vol- v, bk....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 D X
Title:
Scope & Content:: COPIES OF TREATIES, especially documents connected with the Peace of Brétigny between England and France. French, except where otherwise noted. The headings are:- 1. 'De pace Francie et Anglie': thirty-three documents issued in the name of Edward III and connected with the Peace of Brétigny. Th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 D XI
Title:: Cycle of Guillaume d'Orange
Scope & Content:: A collection of chansons de geste known as the Grand cycle de Guillaume d'Orange about the deeds of the legendary French hero William of Orange and his extended family. The Grand cycle comprises both the Cycle de Guillaume and the Cycle de Narbonne. These include tales of Guillaume's ancestors, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 E I
Title:
Scope & Content:: (ff. 225). Priam of Troy to death of Pepin (768), Chroniques de S. Denis (ed. P. Paris), i, p. 6-ii, p. 53. Wants table of chapters (a quire ?) and one leaf at beginning and one leaf after f. 6. Beg. ' . . . des contrees de Saxoine qui estoit appellee Angle'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1487
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 E II
Title:
Scope & Content:: (ff. 289). Charlemagne to death of Philip I (1108), = ib. 11, p. 55-111, p. 250. The original end of vol. i was apparently at f. 223 b of this volume. Leaves are missing after ff. 203 (nine ?), 209 (one), 223 (nine?), 224 (five ?), 225 (nine ?), 231 (two), 237 (one), 256 (two), 267 (sixteen ?).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1487
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 E III
Title:
Scope & Content:: (ff. 316). Louis le Gros to death of Saint Louis (1270), = ib. iii, p. 251-iv, p. 428. A second original division of the work (still apparently called volume premier) ended with the end of the reign of Louis le Gros (f. 94 b), see the colophon quoted below. Wants leaves after ff. 238 (eight), 26...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1487
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 E IV
Title:
Scope & Content:: (ff. 280). Philip III to Charles V (but the reign of Philip of Valois is wanting, and only two leaves of that of Charles V are remaining), = ib. v, pp. 1-303, and vi, pp. 1-232, 314-318. Wants leaves after ff. 169 (about thirteen quires), 209 (three leaves), 211 (eleven), 235 (two), 239 (two), 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1487
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 E IX
Title:: Jean Rotz, Boke of Idrography (The 'Rotz Atlas')
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains the Boke of Idrography (also known as the Rotz Atlas) by Jean Rotz, hydrographer and navigtor of Dieppe, who probably took part in the expedition from Dieppe to Sumatra under the command of Jean Parmentier in 1529–30, and in 1539 travelled to Guinea and Brazil. The atlas ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1535-1542
Extent:: 32 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 E V
Title:
Scope & Content:: (ff. 211). Charles VI. Jean Juvénal's chronicle beg. 'Lan mil ccc quatrevingtz xvi iour de Septembre ala de vie a trespas'; ends Iriens nen fut ordonne'. Continuation (by Gilles le Bouvier ?) beg. (f. 169 b) 'En lan dessusdit fut ne monseigneur Charles iiiie filz du roy'; ends 'ne vindrent point...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1487
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 E VI
Title:
Scope & Content:: (ff. 299). Charles VII. By Jean Chartier. Preface beg. 'Au nom du pere, du filz'; text, 'Pour mettre nostre entendemint a entrer en la matiere'. Ends (at the same point as in 20 C. IX) 'commencerent les pages fort a plourer'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1487
Extent:: 1 item

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