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1. Add Ch 66585

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Add Ch 66585
Title:
Acknowledgement of fealty by Jehanne de Longueioe, abbess of St Antoine des Champs, Paris, to the Celestines of Paris, for land held of them
Scope & Content:
Acknowledgement by Jehanne de Longueioe, abbess of St Antoine des Champs, Paris, of the fealty owed to the prior and convent of the Celestines of Paris (Notre Dame de l’Annunciation or l’Assomption), for land the abbey holds at Val Raguelin from the Celestines, part of the fee of Tournedoz near ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1534
Extent:
1 leaf

2. Add MS 11662

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Title:
A versified chronicle from the priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs (imperfect), followed by a modern copy of the cartulary
Scope & Content:
Part of this manuscript (ff. 4-9) was produced in Paris (the abbey of Saint-Martin-des-Champs) between 1072-1079, according to Prou, 'Dessins du XIe siècle' (1890). This chronicle is now imperfect because of a lacking folio after f. 4. A complete copy of this text with illuminations was made in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Add MS 35167

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Title:
Glossed Gospel of St Luke
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Gospel of St Luke with the Glossa Ordinaria. Typically associated with Anselm of Laon, the Glossa Ordinaria (marginal and interlinear) was a commentary designed to help readers interpret the Bible. Contents: ff. 1r-3r: A prologue without glosses, beginning ‘Lucas S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Add MS 37518

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Title:
Lexicon Tironianum
Scope & Content:
This 9th-century French manuscript contains a lexicon of Tironian notes: a shorthand attributed to Tiro (b. 94, d. 4 BC), slave of Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), that consisted of 4000 signs in its medieval variant. The manuscript was produced at the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, as i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Arundel MS 490

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 490
Title:
Decretum Gratiani; Collectio Eberbacensis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was written at the very end of the 12th century in Northern France, more likely in Sens than in Paris (see Stirnemann, 'En quête de Sens' (2007), p. 305). The conciliar canons of the third Council of Lateran (1179) provide the terminus a quo for the manuscript. The manuscript con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Cotton MS Julius C III

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Cotton MS Julius C III
Title:
A collection of original letters addressed to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the correspondence of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), first Baronet, of Conington Hall in Huntingdonshire, antiquarian and founder of the Cottonian Library. Whereas the British Museum’s catalogue describes this manuscript as a ‘collection of 328 original Lett...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1592-1649
Extent:

1 volume

7. Cotton MS Titus A XVII

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Cotton MS Titus A XVII
Title:
Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France, an anonymous French account of the consecration, coronation and royal entrance into Paris of Claude de France (b. 1499, d. 1524), Queen of France, and wife of Francis I (r. 1515-1547), which took place on 10-12 May 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1517
Extent:

1 volume

8. Cotton MS Vespasian B III

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Cotton MS Vespasian B III
Title:
Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne, a eulogistic French poem in honour of Anne of Brittany (b. 1477, d. 1514), Queen of France, followed by a prose description of her funeral in 1514. The work has been attributed to Pierre Choque (b. c. 1450, d. 1530), herald ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1514
Extent:
1 volume

9. Davis386

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Davis386
Title:
The Gospels of Matthew and Mark with Glosses
Scope & Content:
The manuscript from the 1st quarter of the 13th century contains the Gospels of Matthew and Mark with interlinear and marginal Gloss. It features a Parisian Romanesque binding by the so-called ‘Starry Griffin’ binder, and historiated initials by the so-called ‘Almagest’ workshop, named after a c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

10. Egerton MS 984

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 984
Title:
Proceedings of the condemnation trial of Joan of Arc; extracts from Martial d’Auvergne, Les Vigiles du roi Charles VII
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a later copy of the condemnation trial or processus against Joan of Arc (b. c. 1412, d. 1431). Joan was put on trial following her capture by the Burgundian army outside the walls of Compiègne on 23 May 1430. Pierre Cauchon (b. 1371, d. 1442), Bishop of Beauvais, conduct...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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