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1511. Royal MS 14 E III

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Royal MS 14 E III
Title:
Estoire del Saint Graal, La Queste del Saint Graal, Morte Artu
Scope & Content:
The present manuscript contains the three texts from the Lancelot-Grail Prose Cycle: Estoire del Saint Graal, incomplete, incipit (f. 3r):' Chil ki la hauteche:..', breaking off (f.88v) at: 'en a touchier a ses..'; La Queste del Saint Graal, incipit (ff. 89r) 'A la veille de pentecouste...' and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
c 1315-1325
Extent:

1 volume

1512. Royal MS 14 E IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 E IV
Title:
Jehan de Wavrin, Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes the third volume of the Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre (also known as the Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre) of Jean (Jehan) de Wavrin, preceded by a list of contents (ff. 1r-9v). The text of the chronicle begins with the coronation of Richard II and ends...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1470-c 1480
Extent:
329 folios.

1513. Royal MS 14 E V

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Royal MS 14 E V
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Scope & Content:
JEHAN BOCCACE de Certald, 'Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes maleureux': the later of the two French translations made by Laurens du Premierfait of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus illustrium virorum et feminarum. Made for the Duke of Berry in 1409 (see Paulin Paris, MSS. François de la Bibl. d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1470-1483
Extent:
1 item

1514. Royal MS 14 E VI

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Royal MS 14 E VI
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Scope & Content:
'RUSTICAN, du cultivement des terres', also called 'Le livre des prouffits champestres et ruraulx': the version made for Charles V of France, by an anonymous translator, of the Commoda Ruralia of Petrus de Crescentiis, in twelve books. Preceded by table of rubrics, 'rieules de la matiere', trans...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1473-1483
Extent:
1 item

1515. Royal MS 15 A I

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Royal MS 15 A I
Title:
Jane Lumley, translation of Isocrates, Archidamus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Archidamus, one of the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley. The manuscript is a presentation copy, probably intended as a New Year's gift fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1516. Royal MS 15 A II

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Royal MS 15 A II
Title:
Jane Lumley, translation of Isocrates, Evagoras
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Evagoras, one of the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley and written in her own hand. The manuscript is a presentation copy, described in Lu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1517. Royal MS 15 A III

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Royal MS 15 A III
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Scope & Content:
PLUTARCH, De capienda ex inimicis utilitate, translated into Latin, with dedicatory letter and Greek and Latin epigrams addressed to Queen Elizabeth, by Johannes Rainoldus, probably the John Raynolds who was B.C.L. at Oxford (college not stated) in 1560 (see Foster's Alumni). He states in his pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1574
Extent:
1 item

1518. Royal MS 15 A IV

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Royal MS 15 A IV
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Scope & Content:
COMMENTARY on Juvenal's Satires, in Latin: probably a shortened form of the series of scholia generally known by the name of Cornutus, although neither the homogeneity of that collection nor the identity of its author has been sufficiently established (see F. Osann, preface to L. Annaeus Cornutu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 item

1519. Royal MS 15 A IX

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Royal MS 15 A IX
Title:
Jane Lumley, translations of Isocrates, Orationes, and Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis
Scope & Content:
This volume is a commonplace book containing the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley, and written in her hand. Two of the orations are prefaced by dedicatory epistles to her f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1520. Royal MS 15 A V

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Royal MS 15 A V
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Scope & Content:
HISTORIA APOSTOLICA of Arator the subdeacon, with the biblical Acts of the Apostles prefixed, &c., viz.: 1. Acts of the Apostles, Vulgate version, with the usual preface (Berger, Préfaces, 1902, no. 244) beg. 'Lucas natione Syrus, cuius laus in euangelio', and table of chapters. The verse v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 11th century
Extent:
1 item

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