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2311. Royal MS 19 E III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 E III
Title:
Perceforest, Volume 2 (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the second volume of Le Roman de Perceforest (Anciennes croniques Dangleterre, faictz et gestes du roy Perceforest, et des chevaliers du Franc Palais), revised by David Aubert (fl. 1458-1479), librarian to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy The other two volumes of the se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
Last decade of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2312. Royal MS 19 E IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 E IV
Title:
Scope & Content:
'LA FORTRESSE de la Foy', translated by Pierre Richard, dit l'Oiselet, from a Latin original attributed to Alphonso de Spina: an unfinished copy very similar to 17 F. VI, VII (see above), but not in the same hand. Imperfect, wanting a quire after f. 42, a pair of leaves after ff. 126, 132, three...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2313. Royal MS 19 E V

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 E V
Title:
Benvenuto da Imola, Romuléon, translated by Jean Miélot
Scope & Content:
Romuléon of Benvenuto da Imola (Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola), compiled around 1361-1364, at the request of Gomez Albornoz, governor of the city of Bologna, in the French translation by Jean Miélot, canon of Lille, and secretary to Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, composed in 1463 ('Et fut ledi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1480
Extent:

418 folios.

2314. Royal MS 19 E VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 E VI
Title:
Scope & Content:
'LES CRONIQUES DE BURGUES des le commencement du monde par lordre des aages compilees et ordenees en Latin par reuerent pere en dieu Guillaume (sic) euesque de Burgues. Et par le commandement du roy de France Charles le quint translatees en francois par son petit clerconnet frere Jehan Goulein d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1407
Extent:
1 item

2315. Royal MS 20 A I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A I
Title:
Scope & Content:
'LE GESTE de sire Johan Maundeuill dez meruaill de monde' (so heading of table, f. 117b): the well-known fictitious travels of a (fictitious?) Sir John Mandeville, a native of St. Albans, represented as setting out for the East in 1322 and returning in 1356, written in French [by Jean de Bourgog...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2316. Royal MS 20 A II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A II
Title:
Peter of Langtoft's Chronicle, the Lament of Edward II, fragments of Arthurian romances, and a letter attributed to Joanna, Queen of Sicily
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains: ff. 1r-9v, Drawings (see descriptions below) with various inscriptions, distichs and poems; ff. 10 r-v, Verse lament of Edward II; ff. 11r-146v, Peter of Langtoft (Pierre de Langtoft), Chronicle of England; (missing folios from between ff. 146 and 147 have been boun...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1307-c 1327
Extent:

A parchment codex, 169 folios.

2317. Royal MS 20 A III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A III
Title:
Gossuin de Metz, L'image du monde; Prose Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-120: Gossuin de Metz, L'image du monde; ff. 121-236: Prose Brut Chronicle.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

2318. Royal MS 20 A III, ff 1-120

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A III, ff 1-120
Title:
Gossuin de Metz, L'Image du Monde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-120: Gossuin, or Gautier, de Metz (c. 1245), L'Image du monde, a French version of De imagine mundi by Honorius of Autun, divided into two parts (the common division between Parts 2 and 3 of the text is not marked): ff. 1r-50r: Part I, a study of Creation and science from a hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1342
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex

2319. Royal MS 20 A III, ff 121-236

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A III, ff 121-236
Title:
Prose Brut chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: Prose Brut chronicle: ff. 121r-122v: Des Grantz Geants; ff. 122v-236r: Prose Brut (long version to 1333), with two lines lacking at the end; explicit, 'Et après la bataille les Engleis pristrent les espoilles des Escotz...'. The text is very similar to Dublin, Trinity College MS 50...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex

2320. Royal MS 20 A IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A IV
Title:
Martin de Brion, Tresample description de toute la Terre Saincte, prefaced with a dedication to Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
This volume is one of only three known manuscript copies of a historical geography of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, written by Martin de Brion, a relative of Philippe de Chabot (b. 1492, d. 1543), seigneur of Brion and Admiral of France. The work is a description of various sites of interest in th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1540
Extent:
1 volume

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