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Le Miroir des Dames (an anonymous French translation of Durand de Champagne's Speculum Dominarum)
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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...
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...
Geoffroy de la Tour-Landry, Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour-Landry; Renaut de Louhans, Mélibée et Prudence; Philippe de Mézières, Griseldis
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This manuscript contains a copy of Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry (The Book of the Knight of the Tower), written by Geoffroy IV de la Tour Landry (b. before 1330, d. between 1402 and 1406), a nobleman of Anjou, for the instruction of his daughters. The volume also contains a number of ...
Chansons, in French, set to music for several, but in most cases three voices, in parts.
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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...
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
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Content: The Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris, continued by Jean de Meun at f. 25r; 'Et si lay je perdu espoir'.. ff. 1r-128r: beginning, 'Maintes gens dient quen songes/ Na se flabes non et menconges/ Mus on puet telz songes songes/ Qui ne sont mie mencongier', ending: 'Ainsi oi la ro...
An imperfect seal of Carrow Priory, a lozenge, red, with a seated Virgin and Child on the right and a praying prioress on the left, holding a scroll saying ‘mater d mem’; above the scroll a crescent and a star; at the top a hand extending from the heavens in blessing, with the legend, ‘sigillum ...
Power of attorney by Alice, once the wife of Richard Penvey of Haverfordwest, to Richard Newton, Robert Turbot and John Couyntre
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Power of attorney by Alice, once the wife of Richard Penvey of Haverfordwest and executor of Richard’s will, to Richard Newton, apprentice of the law, Robert Turbot and John Couyntre, merchants of Haverfordwest. Since Alice’s seal is unknown, that of Humphrey (1390-1447), duke of Gloucester, is ...
Chirograph of an arbitration between Lady Katherine and John Latimer
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Chirograph of an arbitration by Thomas of Hamstead, John Warduton, John Wakelin, parson of Cotsbrook, and John of Wardford, chaplain, granting to Lady Katherine in her dispute with John Latimer that she may have the rooms from the chapel to the great hall in Braybrooke Castle (Northamptonshire) ...
Grant by Margaret Taylour, widow, to William Saundre, Robert Bristow, John Baker, Nicholas Lathell and John Wyborn, of a shop and a messuage
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Grant by Margaret Taylour, widow, to William Saundre, Robert Bristow, John Baker, Nicholas Lathell and John Wyborn, of a shop with a solarium above, and an attached messuage and garden, which John Taylour once held, in the parish of Charlwood, Surrey; given at Charlwood, 9 January 1460. Endorse...
