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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 E III
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Scope & Content:: (ff. 316). Louis le Gros to death of Saint Louis (1270), = ib. iii, p. 251-iv, p. 428. A second original division of the work (still apparently called volume premier) ended with the end of the reign of Louis le Gros (f. 94 b), see the colophon quoted below. Wants leaves after ff. 238 (eight), 26...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1487
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 E IV
Title:
Scope & Content:: (ff. 280). Philip III to Charles V (but the reign of Philip of Valois is wanting, and only two leaves of that of Charles V are remaining), = ib. v, pp. 1-303, and vi, pp. 1-232, 314-318. Wants leaves after ff. 169 (about thirteen quires), 209 (three leaves), 211 (eleven), 235 (two), 239 (two), 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1487
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 E IX
Title:: Jean Rotz, Boke of Idrography (The 'Rotz Atlas')
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains the Boke of Idrography (also known as the Rotz Atlas) by Jean Rotz, hydrographer and navigtor of Dieppe, who probably took part in the expedition from Dieppe to Sumatra under the command of Jean Parmentier in 1529–30, and in 1539 travelled to Guinea and Brazil. The atlas ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1535-1542
Extent:: 32 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 E V
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Scope & Content:: (ff. 211). Charles VI. Jean Juvénal's chronicle beg. 'Lan mil ccc quatrevingtz xvi iour de Septembre ala de vie a trespas'; ends Iriens nen fut ordonne'. Continuation (by Gilles le Bouvier ?) beg. (f. 169 b) 'En lan dessusdit fut ne monseigneur Charles iiiie filz du roy'; ends 'ne vindrent point...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1487
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 E VI
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Scope & Content:: (ff. 299). Charles VII. By Jean Chartier. Preface beg. 'Au nom du pere, du filz'; text, 'Pour mettre nostre entendemint a entrer en la matiere'. Ends (at the same point as in 20 C. IX) 'commencerent les pages fort a plourer'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1487
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 E VII-VIII
Title:: 20 E. VII, VIII POSTILLAE on the Hexateuch and Psalms, by the Franciscan, Nicolaus de Lyra (d. 1340 or 1349), With the additions of the converted Jew, Paulus de Sancta Maria, Bishop of Carthagena, 1403, and of Burgos, 1415-1435. Two volumes, apparently written in the same hand. Vol. I is unfinished, and it does not appear whether any other portions of the Bible were ever completed. The arrangement differs somewhat from the editions, such as Kobergers Bible (Nuremberg, 1485) and the edition ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 E X
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Scope & Content:: PLANS of fortifications, neatly drawn in pen-and-ink with little or no explanatory matter. The plan (temp Hen. VIII ?) of a projected fort, with the description, on f. 1 has evidently no connexion with the rest of the MS. It represents a work apparently about 1/4 mile square, with towers of the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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