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21. Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 1v-8r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 1v-8r
Title:
Maps and other prefatory material
Scope & Content:
Prefatory material including: 1. Diagram of Winds (f. 1v); similar to one in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS. 16. f. 1v; 2. Itinerary from London to the Holy Land with images of towns, their names, and descriptions of places (ff. 2r-5r); 3. Map of Britain, with indications of a great hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1250-1259
Extent:
8 folios.

22. Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 8v-156v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 8v-156v
Title:
Matthew Paris, Historia Anglorum
Scope & Content:
The only complete copy of the Historia Anglorum, a history of England covering the years 1070-1253, probably composed and written by Matthew Paris in the period between 1250-1255 (ff. 10r-156v). Prologue incipit: 'De chronographia, id est temporum descripcione'; text incipit: 'Anno dominice inca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1250-1259
Extent:
148 folios.

23. Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 157r-231r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 157r-231r
Title:
Matthew Paris, Chronica Maiora, with a continuation
Scope & Content:
The autograph copy of the Chronica Maiora, Part III, by Matthew Paris, covering the years 1254-1259 (the date of Paris's death) (ff. 157r-218v); incipit: 'Anno domini m cc liiii qui est annus domini regis H III xxxciii'. Includes numerous marginal notes and additions by the author. The first two...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1250-15th century
Extent:
75 folios.

24. Royal MS 15 E IV, ff 1r-174v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 E IV, ff 1r-174v
Title:
Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, volume I, ff. 1-174
Scope & Content:
The first volume of the Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne by Jean de Wavrin, seigneur de Forestel, contains a chronicle of British history from its mythical origins up to the reign of Edward II. It has been bound in two separate parts. Part 1 contains a table of r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1471-1483
Extent:

The first part of a parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

25. Royal MS 15 E IV, ff 175r-350v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 E IV, ff 175r-350v
Title:
Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, volume I, ff 175r-350v
Scope & Content:
The first volume of the Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne by Jean de Wavrin, Seigneur de Forestel, contains a chronicle of British history from its mythical origins up to the reign of Edward II. It has been bound in two separate parts. Part II (ff. 175-350) contin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1471-1483
Extent:

The second part of a parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

26. Royal MS 15 E IV, ff ix-xviii

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 E IV, ff ix-xviii
Title:
Binding and flyleaves for part 2 of Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre, volume 1, ff 175r-350v
Scope & Content:
This section corresponds to the binding and flyleaves for part 2.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1471-1757
Extent:

7 flyleaves and manuscript binding.

27. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 1v-5r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 1v-5r
Title:
John Lydgate, Testament
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate, Testament, incipit: 'The testamente of John Lydgate, monke of Berry [Bury St Edmunds Abbey] whiche he made hymselfe by his lyre dayes'; without the prologue; explicit: 'Thus endethe testamente of John Lydgate monke of Bery on whose sowle Ihesu haue mercy. Et sic est finis. sit laus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
5 folios.

28. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 6r-146r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 6r-146r
Title:
John Lydgate, Troy Book
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate, Troy Book, a verse paraphrase in five books of the prose Historia Troiana of Guido delle Colonne. Incipit: 'O mighty Mars, that with thy sterne lyght In armes hast the powere and the myght'; explicit: 'This litele boke lowly I betake Yt to supporte, and þus an ende I make.' Followe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1457-1460
Extent:
140 folios.

29. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 147v-162r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 147v-162r
Title:
John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes, rubric: 'In this preambile shortly is comprihendid a mery conseyte of John Lydgate monke of Bury declarynge how he aionyde þe sege of Thebes to the mery tallys of Caunterburye'; prologue, incipit: 'Whan bright Phebus passyd was þe ram Mid of Aprile and in the bulle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1457-1460
Extent:
18 folios.

30. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 163r-164r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 163r-164r
Title:
William Cornish, A Treatise between Information and Truth
Scope & Content:
William Cornish (or Cornysh, d. 1523), A Treatise between Information and Truth; title: 'In the Fleete maade be me William Cornysshe otherwyse called Nysshewhete, chapelman with the moost famost and noble kyng Henry the viith, his raigne the xixth yere, the moneth of July, a Treatise bitwene Tro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
2 folios.

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