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2291. Royal MS 19 C VIII

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Royal MS 19 C VIII
Title:
Hugues de Lannoy (?), Imaginacion de vraye noblesse, with the preface by Quentin Poulet
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains the Enseignement de la vraye noblesse attributed to Hugues de Lannoy with the title changed to the Imaginacion de vraye noblesse and prefaced with a dedication to Henry VII by Quentin Poulet, royal librarian and the scribe of this manuscript. ff. 1r-2v: Quentin Poulet, P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1496
Extent:

Parchment codex

2292. Royal MS 19 C X

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Royal MS 19 C X
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Scope & Content:
'TRESORS the work of Brunetto Latini, see above, 17 E. I. The MS., which is not mentioned in the list in Chabaille's edition, is akin to, but not derived from, Paris MS. Bibl. Nat., fonds fr. 1109 (formerly 7363), and contains the chapters on Berengarius and his successors, but not the interpola...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

2293. Royal MS 19 C XI

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Royal MS 19 C XI
Title:
Scope & Content:
MORAL TREATISES and poems, mostly French translations from Latin works. Contents:- 1. The Moralized Game of Chess in French, translated by Jean de Vignay from the 'De ludo Scaccorum' (see 12 B. XXIII, 12 E. I, art. 9) of Jacobus de Cessolis, preceded by a prologue dedicating the work to 'Jehan ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2294. Royal MS 19 C XII

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Royal MS 19 C XII
Title:
Scope & Content:
ESTOIRE DEL SAINT GRAAL: the prose romance purporting to be from a Latin original translated by Robert de Borron; cf. 14 E. III, art. 1, and Sommer's Arthurian Romances, vol. i. Imperfect at the end, wanting four or five leaves. No original title, but space is left for a long rubric (or a miniat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 item

2295. Royal MS 19 C XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 C XIII
Title:
Scope & Content:
LANCELOT DU LAC: the prose romance, including the Quest of the Saint Graal and the Morte Arthur, which are here, as commonly, attributed to Walter Map (see Ward, Catalogue of Romances, i, p. 345). The text is divided by the scribe into five sections, viz. (i) Equivalent to the text of Sommer's A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 item

2296. Royal MS 19 D I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 D I
Title:
Roman d'Alexandre en prose and other texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes eight works forming a compendium of the wonders of the East combined with crusading texts: ff. 1r-46r: Roman d'Alexandre en prose, entitled here La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, an anonymous translation into French of Leo of Naples, Historia de proeliis; rubric: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1333-c 1340
Extent:

1 volume

2297. Royal MS 19 D II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 D II
Title:
Guyard des Moulins, Bible historiale ('The Bible of John the Good')
Scope & Content:
Guyard des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible historiale complétée moyenne according to Berger 1884), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica. Preface incipit: 'Pour ce que li deables'. The manuscript's content follows the general arrangement of the text of the Bible historia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1350-1356
Extent:

526 folios.

2298. Royal MS 19 D III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 D III
Title:
Bible Historiale, Volumes 1 and 2, in the expanded early version (Grande Bible historiale complétée) and additional texts
Scope & Content:
The Bible historiale complétée, Guyart des Moulins' expanded translation of Peter of Comestor's Historia Scolastica with prologues, is copied here together with several books from the Bible du xiiie siècle (the Paralipomena of Jeremiah and Ezra/Nehemiah) and other texts (lives of Julian the Apos...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1411
Extent:

A parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

2299. Royal MS 19 D III, ff 1r-288v

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Royal MS 19 D III, ff 1r-288v
Title:
Bible Historiale, Volume 1, with prefaces and additional material
Scope & Content:
A summary of the contents: Translator's prologue: rubric: 'Cy com[m]ence le prologue du translateur qui translate et mist de latin en francois la bible hystorial selons les hystoires scolastiques.'; incipit : 'Pource que le dyable...' (f. 1r); explicit: 'Et en lan de grace mil CC xxIIII et XVII...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1411
Extent:

The first volume of a parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

2300. Royal MS 19 D III, ff 289r-604v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 D III, ff 289r-604v
Title:
Bible historiale, Volume 2, with additional material including Saints' lives
Scope & Content:
A summary of the contents: Proverbs to Maccabees (ff. 289r-450v): rubric: ‘Cy com[m]ence la seconde partie principale de la bible qui parle de sapience...’ (f. 289r); L'histoire de Jehan Hyrcan: rubric: 'Cy com[m]ence lystoire Iehan Hyrcan..'; incipit; 'Apres la mort Symon frere Iudas...'; ex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1411
Extent:

The second volume of a parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

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