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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 E II-III
Title:: 15 E. II, III 'DES PROPRIETEZ des Choses': French translation by Jean Corbechon of the Liber de proprietatibus rerum (cf. 12 E. III) of Bartholomaeus Anglicus. In nineteen books. Printed, Lyons, 1482, &c. Cf. also Paulin Paris, Les MSS. François, i, p. 260, ii, pp. 217-222. Two volumes. Vol. i contains books i-xi; the table of rubrics prefixed had been carried further, but the continuation is crased. Vol. ii, books xi-xix, has prefixed to its table a short preface beg. 'Or auons par lay...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1482
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 E IV
Title:: Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, vol. 1
Scope & Content:: The first volume of the Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne (Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre)by Jean de Wavrin, Seigneur de Forestel, contains a chronicle of British history from its mythical origins up to the reign of Edward II. This copy has been bound in two s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1471-1483
Extent:: A parchment codex bound as 2 separate volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 E IV, ff 1r-174v
Title:: Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, volume I, ff. 1-174
Scope & Content:: The first volume of the Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne by Jean de Wavrin, seigneur de Forestel, contains a chronicle of British history from its mythical origins up to the reign of Edward II. It has been bound in two separate parts. Part 1 contains a table of r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1471-1483
Extent:: The first part of a parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 E IV, ff 175r-350v
Title:: Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, volume I, ff 175r-350v
Scope & Content:: The first volume of the Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne by Jean de Wavrin, Seigneur de Forestel, contains a chronicle of British history from its mythical origins up to the reign of Edward II. It has been bound in two separate parts. Part II (ff. 175-350) contin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1471-1483
Extent:: The second part of a parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 E IV, ff ix-xviii
Title:: Binding and flyleaves for part 2 of Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre, volume 1, ff 175r-350v
Scope & Content:: This section corresponds to the binding and flyleaves for part 2.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1471-1757
Extent:: 7 flyleaves and manuscript binding.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 E V
Title:: Perceforest, Volume 1
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the first volume of Le Roman de Perceforest (Anciennes croniques Dangleterre, faictz et gestes du roy Perceforest, et des chevaliers du Franc Palais), revised by David Aubert (fl. 1458-1479), librarian to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, with his preface (ff. 3-4). The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: Last decade of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 E VI
Title:: Poems and Romances (the ''Talbot Shrewsbury book'')
Scope & Content:: A collection of fifteen romances, chivalric treatises, instructional texts, chronicles and statutes compiled as a gift to Margaret of Anjou, on her betrothal to Henry VI, from the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, who escorted her to England for the marriage in 1444. The contents are as follows: f. 1v: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1444-1445
Extent:: 1 volume

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