Archive Reference (shelfmark): Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 A XII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'LE DYALOGUE ou calamite francoise' by Alain Chartier (cf. 19 A. III, art. 1, &c.), in prose and verse. Printed in Les Œuvres de Maistre Alain Chartier, ed. A. Duchesne, Paris, 1617, under the title of 'L'Esperance ou Consolation des trois vertus ' For a discussion of its date see A. Piaget ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 A XIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: REPORTS of assises and a few pleas of the crown, 20-36 Edw. III arranged for the most part chronologically, but at the end of the 29th year is a short series of crown pleas (f. 89) extending to 41 Edw. III. French. Imperfect at end and one leaf (f. 122) mutilated. The cases (except the crown ple...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 A XIV
Title:
Scope & Content:: STATUTES, 1 Edw. III-10 Hen. VI. In French, and in general agreement with the text of Statutes of the Realm, except where otherwise stated. Preceded by an alphabetical subject-index (f. 1) and (f. 11) by a table of chapters. Contents:- 1, 2. 1 Edw. III, statt. i, ii. ff. 21, 22 b. 3. 'La pat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 A XIX
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'LIVRE de la cite des dames', by Christine de Pisan. Not printed in full, but extracts and an analysis are given by Madlle de Keralio, Coll. des meilleurs Ouvrages composés par des Femmes, 1787, iii, p. 22 (cf. E. M. D. Robineau, Christine de Pisan, sa vie, ses œuvres, 1882, p. 302). An English ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 A XV
Title:
Scope & Content:: MÉMOIRES D'ÉTAT de Nicolas de Neufville , Seigneur de Villeroy, Secrétaire d'État (b. 1542 d. 1617), comprising his account of the affairs in which he was engaged from his appointment as Secrétaire d'État in 1567 to 1589, 'fait a Villeroy le viii jour d'Auril 1589', and (f. 53) a continuation to...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 A XVI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'TRAICTIE fait entre le Roy de France, Dengleterre, et monseigneur larcheduc, par Rhethoricque, le iiiie jour de Juillet, 1499': an ode (17 x 8 lines, rhymes abaabbcc, followed by a ballade in 3 x 11 + 5 lines) on the treaties of peace between Louis XII, Henry VII, and the Archduke Philip, begin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1500
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 A XVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'LA CHASSE du cerf volant, fait par Maistre Jehan Molinet' (d. 1507): a poem (18 x 8 lines, rhymes abaabbcc), descriptive of the expedition of Charles VIII of France into Italy in 1494, &c., with a prologue beg. 'Ia soit ce, treshault et puissant prince, que la froide'. Included, under the t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 A XVIII
Title:: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose (abridged version)
Scope & Content:: Content: Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris continued by Jean de Meun. This manuscript contains an abridged version of the romance. The text is only 14,000 lines long, with omissions noted. For example on f. 5, rubrics marked by paraphs summarise the narrative omitted, e.g., '[P] Oyseuse, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 94 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 A XX
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'LE LIVRE de linformacion des princes' : translated from the Latin tract De administratione principum, of doubtful authorship, compiled in honour of the prince who was afterwards Louis X, copies of which are in 12 B. XVIII and 12 D. XV, art. 2 (see above). The suggestion in the latter MS. of a b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1395
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 A XXI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'ODE ROYALE a leurs serenissimes Majestez de la Grande Bretagne', sc. Charles I and Henrietta Maria, by [Marc Antoine de Gérard, sieur de] Saint Amant; in 30 x 6 lines, preceded by a letter of dedication in which he speaks of the number of 'miserables rimailleurs' who have come to England to dis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1625-1630
Extent:: 1 item

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