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2331. Royal MS 20 A XIX

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Royal MS 20 A XIX
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BOETHIUS, De consolatione philosophiae anonymous translation both of the prosae and metra) into French verse. A different translation from that of Renaud de Louhans in 19 A. IV. Other copies are in Add. MS. 26767 and at Paris, Bibl. Nat. anc. fonds fr. 577 (see Paulin Paris, Les MSS. François, v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2332. Royal MS 20 A XV

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Royal MS 20 A XV
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LIVRE des Enseignemens moraux. This title is on the 18th cent. binding, but seems to be of no authority. Casley calls it Les Essais morales (sic), and the 1542 inventory describes it simply as 'Liber in Gallica lingua qui inscribitur Initium sapientiae est timor domini'. Contents:- 1. Moral aph...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2333. Royal MS 20 A XVI

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Royal MS 20 A XVI
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Chansons, in French, set to music for several, but in most cases three voices, in parts.
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Except where the contrary is stated, the chansons are for three voices and are anonymous. The contra-tenor is sometimes called 'Concordans.' The names of the composers are given only in a few cases, but several are by Josquin des Pres, and one at least (f. 10b) is by Alexander Agricola. Content...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (36 folios)

2334. Royal MS 20 A XVII

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Royal MS 20 A XVII
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Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose; Thomas de Bailleul, la Bataille d'Annezin
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The Roman de la Rose was begun by Guillaume de Lorris between 1225 and 1245 and was continued between 1269-1278 by Jean de Meun. It is around 20,000 octosyllabic lines of French verse narrating the dream of a young lover, in which his long quest for the object of his desire ends when he breaches...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c1340-1350
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A parchment codex

2335. Royal MS 20 A XVIII

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Royal MS 20 A XVIII
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CHRONICLE of England, in French, from Brutus to A. D. 1329. The concluding section, which begins (f. 311) at the coronation of Edward II, and is in a different hand (late 14th cent.), is taken from the Brute chronicle (see Brie, Geschichte und Quellen der m.e. Prosachronzk The Brute of England,....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 item

2336. Royal MS 20 A XX

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Royal MS 20 A XX
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EIGHTEEN short poems on 'Dames illustres qui ont esté Roynes', by Jaques de Bonjeu. Holograph. in a letter presenting the MS. to Queen Elizabeth, dated Paris, 15 June, 1575, the author says that he composed them for [Catherine de Médicis] the Queen-Mother, 'pour de chascune faire vne piece de ta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1575
Extent:
1 item

2337. Royal MS 20 B I

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Royal MS 20 B I
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'FLAUE VEGESCE de la choze de cheualerie': the French translation [by Jean de Vignay ?] of the De Re Militari of Vegetius, see above, 17 E. V, art. 2. For certain difficulties in the attribution to J. de Vignay, arising from the early date of one of the Cambridge MSS. (Caius College, 424), see P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 item

2338. Royal MS 20 B II

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Royal MS 20 B II
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LEGENDARY LIVES of saints translated from the Latin into French, as follows:- 1. 'De lassumpcion nostre dame selon les dis de Ysidore'. Beg. 'Apres lascencion de nostre seigneur Ihesu Crist, la benoite vierge Marie mere de dieu fut xii ans ou enuiron en ce monde'; ends 'laquelle vit et regne pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2339. Royal MS 20 B III

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Royal MS 20 B III
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Treatise on the love of God
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ff. 1r-89v: Treatise on the love of God for guiding life: ‘Vos volez qe ie vous enueasse chose qi confortait vostre alme. mes ieo faz le contraire Car ieo vous en voi mez grevaunces. … [89v] sanz mesesez sanz fin ou cil vos amaint qui est sanz comencement et sanz fin. Qui vivit et regnat per inf...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

2340. Royal MS 20 B IV

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Royal MS 20 B IV
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'LE LIVRE DORE des meditacions de la vie nostre seigneur Ihesucrist selon Bonneauanture': translation of the Meditationes Vitae Christi commonly attributed to Bonaventura (but see above, 7 A. I, art. 5, &c.). The translation, dedicated to Henry V, is by Jehan Galopes dit le Galoys, dean of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1422
Extent:
1 item

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