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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D VIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: BIBLE in French, i.e. probably a bible historiale moyenne or a grande bible historiale (see above, 17 E. VII): last volume only, containing Maccabees and the New Testament. For the minute differences by which alone this text is distinguished from the latter part of a complete Bible of the 13th c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D X
Title:: Bible Historiale, Volume 2
Scope & Content:: The second of two volumes, the first being Royal MS 18 D IX. The fourth volume in the set is Royal MS 15 D I, but it was written previously and altered to include the arms of Edward IV. It is not known whether the third volume ever existed. Contains the second edition of the Bible Historiale, a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1479
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 E I
Title:: Jean Froissart, Chroniques, vol. 2
Scope & Content:: Includes volume 2 of the 'Chroniques' of Froissart, covering the period 1377-1385. The text of the present manuscript is classified by Kervyn de Lettenhove as the première rédaction, seconde série. Incipit: 'Quant le duc de Bourgongne cut fait ceste chevauchee'. Explicit: 'en la ville de Gand', ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 367 + 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 E II
Title:: Jean Froissart, Chroniques, vol. 4
Scope & Content:: Includes volume 4 of the 'Chroniques' of Froissart, covering the period 1389-1400, preceded by a list of contents (ff. 2r-5v). Incipit: 'Cy commence la table de ce quart et darrenier volume que fist et compila sire Jehan Froissard des croniques de France et dangleterre'. Table begins: 'Le premie...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1480
Extent:: 419 + 7 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 E III-IV
Title:: 'LE LIVRE de Valerius Maximus', &c.: the same work as in 17 F. IV. In two volumes. Colophon, 'Cy fine le ixe liure de. Valerius Maximus commencie a translater par reuerende personne maistre Simon de Hesdin jusques au viie liure et paracheue par noble homme Nycolas de Gonnesse'. Vellum; ff. 342, 329. 18 3/4 in. x 13 1/2 in. A. D. 1479. Gatherings of 8 leaves (in vol. i, xvii6, xxviii6, last 4 ; in vol. ii, iii2, end of table). Double columns of 39 lines. Sec. fol. of vol. i in table 'com...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1479
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 E V
Title:: Histoire tripartite or Chronique de Baudouin d'Avennes
Scope & Content:: Contents: The Histoire tripartite or Chronique de Baudouin d'Avennes, a compilation of ancient history also known as Le trésor des histoires or Le trésor de sapience, consisting of: ff. 1r-19r: Table of Chapters; f. 20r: Prologue; ff. 21r-390r: Histoire tripartite in 368 chapters, up to the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1473 to 1479
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 E VI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'LA FLEUR DES HYSTOIRES', vols. ii and iii. The recension of this large historical collection by Jean Mansel to which the present volume belongs is not that contained in 16 F. VI, VII and the Paris MSS. Bib]. Nat., londs fr. 302-304, &c., but the earlier (?) recension contained in Paris MSS....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1460
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 A I
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'L'HIMNE de la Paix au tres-auguste et serenissime Roy d'Angleterre, d'Escosse et d' Irlande' [James I]: anonymous poem in 1438 lines (rhyming Alexandrines) in honour of Peace, with eulogies of James and a prophecy, partly put in the mouth of Queen Elizabeth, of his reign and the succession of P...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1604-1612
Extent:: 1 item

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