Chroniques abrégées des Anciens Rois et Ducs de Bourgogne, attributed to Olivier de la Marche
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The manuscript contains the Chroniques abrégées des Anciens Rois et Ducs de Bourgogne, attributed to Olivier de la Marche. On the title page (f. 1v) is the following rubric: 'S'ensuivent aulcunes chroniques, extraittes d'aulcunes anciens registres et aultres enseignements d'anciens rois, prince...
This volume contains an illustrated copy of the Grande Chronique de Normandie, written in Middle French. Originally compiled around 1350, this anonymous work is based on a 13th-century chronicle of Normandy as well as the 12th-century Roman de Rou by the Norman poet Wace (b. c. 1110, d. after 11...
A collection of readings for major feast days. Contents: ff. 1r-168v: Bible readings, often from the Epistles, for different feast days over the year. f. 168v: A reading for the dedication of a new church. ff. 169r-201r: Bible readings for different saints’ days, including St Louis (f. 191r)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 14th century
This manuscript contains a copy of La Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin, an epic poem in Middle French written by Jean Cuvelier, recounting the chivalric deeds of the French hero, Bertrand du Guesclin (b. 1320, d. 1380), Breton knight and military commander during the Hundred Years War. The manusc...
Dante Alighieri, Divina commedia. Pope-Hennessy 1993 proposed a date for the manuscript of after 1444, partly depending on the representations of the dome and cupola of Florence Cathedral, under construction during these years. Contents: 1. (ff. 1r-63v): Inferno. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Nel mezo d...
Book of Hours, Use of Bourges, with a Parisian calendar (ff. 1r-12v). The text ends imperfectly, a rubric and a catchword have been erased on f. 198v. Note of S. C. Cockerell comparing use to BL Harley 2952 (erased); Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 1151; BL Add. 32454 [book of hours of the 1st hal...
This manuscript contains a copy of De Secundo Bello Punico (On the Second Punic War) by the Roman historian Titus Livius (b. 59 BC, d. 17), commonly known as Livy. The manuscript's scribe has been identified as the 'Scribe of the Ottoboni Livy' (see Reeve, 'The Third Decade of Livy in Italy' (...
Contents: f. i: Bookplate of Henry Yates Thompson. f. iii: Short catalogue of the volume’s contents. ff. 1r-213v: Suetonius, De vita Caesarum (On the Lives of the Caesars). ff. 214r-217v: Ausonius (b. c. 310, d. c. 122), Caesares (Caesars), verses on emperors from Caesar to Heliogabalus. ff...
Psalter ('The Camaldoli Psalter'), with partial gloss
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f. 1r: Prayers to Christ and Mary. ff. 1v–7v: Calendar. ff. 8r–9r: Prayers. ff. 9v–134r: Psalter. ff. 134r–148v: Canticles. ff. 148v–150v: Litany. ff. 151r–184v: Prayers (some of those on ff. 183r–184v later additions). Decoration: 1 large full-page miniature of crucified Christ with Mar...
