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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 B XIX
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Scope & Content:: CHANSONS of the cycle of Guillaume d'Orange; see Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, 1883, p. 654, for fuller description. Most of the seven branches here given, chiefly concerned with Narbonne, and written in tirades of decasyllabic verse (except art. 5, which is in alexandrines) with a six-syllable ver...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 B XV
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Scope & Content:: 'LE LIURE de Flauue Vegece de lart de cheualerie': the same translation as in 20 B. XI. Preceded by the same table of contents. Prologue beg. 'Les anciens ont este coustumiers de mettre en escript'; text, 'Nous ne veons pas que le peuple des Rommains'; ends 'que lancienne doctrine ne nous a mons...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 B XVI
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Scope & Content:: 'VNG RECOEUL nomme le Blason darmes pour congnoistre et apprendre a blasonner armes . . . recoeulliet par le sieur de Maumetz et de Boncourt cappitaine dauxi . . . et aussy aultres traictiez concernant lorigination des rois darmes herauldz darmes comme il apert au contenu de ce liure. RIOTUAS': ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1540
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 B XVII
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Scope & Content:: TREATISE on the art of letter-writing, entitled 'Vng petit traicte en francoys pour bien coucher par escript epistres que lon dit uulgairement lettres missives', preceded by a letter of the author, Loys Du Brun, dedicating his work 'A noble et excellente dame ma dame Anne de Rochefort', presumab...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1529-1530
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 B XVIII
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Scope & Content:: YEAR-BOOKS: a miscellaneous collection including reports for 9 Henry VI (printed, with the terms in the wrong order, by Henry Smyth, 1545 ?, repr. in Le primier pari des Ans del Roy Henrie le 6, 1609), f. 2; 4 Hen. VI (pr. by Robert Redman, 1527 ?, repr. R. Tottell, 1556 ?, and 1609, as above), ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 B XX
Title:: Le livre et la vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre
Scope & Content:: The Vraye histoire du bon roy Alexandre, incipit (rubric):'Comment nostre seigneur donna congnoissance a Alixandre de trier le bien du mal'; (text): 'Puis que le premier pere duman lignage'; with a table of contents (ff. 1r-2v). The French text of the Vraye histoire is based on the Latin Histori...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1420-c 1425
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 B XXI
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Scope & Content:: POEMS translated or composed by Jean le Fèyre of Ressons-sur-Matz, viz.:- 1. Les Lamentations de Matheolus, a satirical poem on women and the miseries of marriage: French version of the Latin poem by Mahieu, or Matheolus, of Boulogne. Both original and translation, the Latin from the unique MS....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 C I
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Scope & Content:: 'LES FAIS des des (sic) Rommains comipilez ensemble de Saluste, de Suetoine et de Lucan': see above, 17 F. II. There is no table of chapters. Prologue beg. 'Chascun homme a qui dieu'. The continuation after the death of Caesar, absent in most MSS. and represented by a different continuation in 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 C II
Title:: Cleriadus et Meliadice; Historia Apollonii regis Tyri
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains copies of two French romances: Cleriadus et Meliadice, and the Historia Apollonii regis Tyri (History of Apollonius of Tyre), translated in French as La cronique et historie des merveilleuses aventures de Appolin roy de Thir. Contents: ff. 1r-209v: Cleriadus et Meliadi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 C III
Title:: Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant, a French translation of Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni
Scope & Content:: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated into French by Vasco da Lucena (b. c. 1435, d. 1512) as Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant and dedicated to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1433, d. 1477). Contents: ff. 1r-11r: Table of Contents. The incipit gives the date o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c. 1485-1490
Extent:: 1 volume

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