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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 C IV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'LE LIVRE de Iehan Bocace des cas des nobles hommes et femmes translate de latin en francois par Laurens de Premierfait clerc du diocese de Troyes; et fut complie ceste translacion le xxve. iour dauril .milcccc. et .ix. et est assauer. le lundi apres pasques closes' (so colophon, but the dates d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 C IX
Title:
Scope & Content:: JEAN CHARTIER, 'La cronicque du temps de treschrestien roy Charles de France .viie. de ce nom' [1422- 1461]. For another copy see below, 20 E. VI. The author, who was a brother of Alain Chartier, the poet, and of Guillaume Chartier Bishop of Paris, names himself in the preface as 'Iehan Charetie...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 C V
Title:: Des cleres et nobles femmes, an anonymous French translation of Boccacio's De mulieribus claris
Scope & Content:: Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris is a moralizing compilation of biographical sketches of famous women begun in 1361 and revised several times before his death in 1375. The work was very popular, as attested by the number of translations and including this anonymous French translation, Des cleres...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1410
Extent:: A parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 C VI
Title:
Scope & Content:: LANCELOT DU LAC: the concluding part of the prose romance, including also the Quest of the Saint-Graal and the Morte Arthur. Attributed, as often, to Walter Map. See Ward, Catalogue of Romances, i, p. 350, and cf. 19 B. VII, 19 C. XIII, &c. The text is collated in H. O. Sommer's Vulgate Text...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1283
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 C VII
Title:
Scope & Content:: CHRONIQUES DE FRANCE ou de Saint Denis: the portion (corresponding to vols. v, vi of Paulin Paris' edition) from the accession of Philip III, 1270, to the coronation of Charles VI, 1380. For the earlier portion see above, 16 G. VI, but the two volumes do not belong to one another. Without title ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 C VIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'LARBRE DES BATAILLES', by Honoré Bonet (al. Bonnet), Prior of Salon [Selonnet, Basses-Alpes, afterwards Abbot of L'Île-Barbe], see 15 E. VI, art. 10. The present MS., however, differs from 15 E. VI, Add. MS. 22768, and most of the later copies and editions in two important respects. It includes...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 D I
Title:: Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César, second redaction
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the earliest surviving copy of the second redaction of the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César, probably produced in the 14th century. This version focuses on Troy, eliminating the biblical histories and the history of Alexander and integrates portions of the prose translati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1330-c 1340
Extent:: 363 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 D II
Title:: Le Roman de Tristan en prose
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the second part of Le Roman de Tristan en prose, attributed to Hélie de Borron (fl. 13th century), and written in Middle French prose. Contents: ff. 2r-315r: Le Roman de Tristan en prose, written in Middle French, imperfect at the beginning, lacking the fir...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 D III
Title:
Scope & Content:: LANCELOT DU LAC: the first portion of the first part of the prose romance (corresponding to Sommer, Vulgate Text of the Arthurian Romances, vol. iii, 1910), see Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, p. 353. Cf. 19 C. XLII, above Beg. 'En la marche de Gaule e de la petite Bretaigne-; ends 'e li rois et sa c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 D IV
Title:: Lancelot du Lac
Scope & Content:: The present manuscript contains part of the prose cycle known as Lancelot du Lac, or the Prose Lancelot, beginning two-thirds of the way through the second part at 'Mout fu rice la cours ke li rois tint a celle pentecouste' (f. 1r) and ending half way through the third part, the Agravain, at 'Ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1300-1380
Extent:: A parchment codex

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