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

2281. Royal MS 19 C II

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Royal MS 19 C II
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1. 'LE LIVRE de vices et de vertus' (so colophon): the moral treatise or series of treatises known as 'Somme le Roy', composed by Frère Laurent, al. Lorens, Friar Preacher, confessor to Philippe III, le Hardi, King of France (d. 1285). It agrees in substance and order with Cotton MS. Cleopatra A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item

2282. Royal MS 19 C III

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Royal MS 19 C III
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'LIBER de quatuor nouissimis' (so colophon): treatise of the four last things, viz. Death, judgement, Hell, and Heaven, in French, being a version of the Latin treatise, doubtfully attributed to Henricus de Langenstein, al. de Hassia [Rector of the University of Vienna, d. 1397, see Fabricius, B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2283. Royal MS 19 C IV

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Royal MS 19 C IV
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Le songe du vergier, attributed to Évrart de Trémaugon
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Le Songe du vergier is a French translation of the Latin tract Somnium viridari compiled in 1376 and attributed to Évrart de Trémaugon, councillor to Charles V and maître des requêtes at the hotel de roi (see Schnerb-Lièvre, 1982, pp. lxxvii-lxxxviii). The manuscript is the presentation copy off...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1378
Extent:

247 folios.

2284. Royal MS 19 C IX

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Royal MS 19 C IX
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'LES CRONIQUIES DANGLETERRE': chronicle of the Brute in French prose to 1333. The text is unfinished, breaking off at the words 'viii autres jours de respit', about three pages short of the point at which most MSS. of the class ending with the battle of Halidon Hill terminate (e.g. Cotton MS. Cl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2285. Royal MS 19 C V

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Royal MS 19 C V
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COMMENTARY ON PSALMS LI-C, in French: mainly a much-expanded version of that of Petrus Lombardus (Migne, Patr. Lat. cxci. 493). In a short account of the MS. given by S. Berger in La Bible française au Moyen Âge, Paris, 1884, p. 391, it is inaccurately described as 'Commentaire de Saint Augustin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 13th century
Extent:
1 item

2286. Royal MS 19 C VI

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Royal MS 19 C VI
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XENOPHON'S Anabasis, translated into French by Claude de Seyssel [Bishop of Marseilles, 1509, d. 1520). In the prologue addressed to Louis XII the translator says that at the king's request he was visiting the royal library at Blois in March last with [Andreas] Joannes Lascaris, now ambassador a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1508-1509
Extent:
1 item

2287. Royal MS 19 C VII

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Royal MS 19 C VII
Title:
Geoffroy de la Tour-Landry, Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour-Landry; Renaut de Louhans, Mélibée et Prudence; Philippe de Mézières, Griseldis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry (The Book of the Knight of the Tower), written by Geoffroy IV de la Tour Landry (b. before 1330, d. between 1402 and 1406), a nobleman of Anjou, for the instruction of his daughters. The volume also contains a number of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2288. Royal MS 19 C VIII

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Royal MS 19 C VIII
Title:
Hugues de Lannoy (?), Imaginacion de vraye noblesse, with the preface by Quentin Poulet
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The manuscript contains the Enseignement de la vraye noblesse attributed to Hugues de Lannoy with the title changed to the Imaginacion de vraye noblesse and prefaced with a dedication to Henry VII by Quentin Poulet, royal librarian and the scribe of this manuscript. ff. 1r-2v: Quentin Poulet, P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1496
Extent:

Parchment codex

2289. Royal MS 19 C X

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Royal MS 19 C X
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'TRESORS the work of Brunetto Latini, see above, 17 E. I. The MS., which is not mentioned in the list in Chabaille's edition, is akin to, but not derived from, Paris MS. Bibl. Nat., fonds fr. 1109 (formerly 7363), and contains the chapters on Berengarius and his successors, but not the interpola...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

2290. Royal MS 19 C XI

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Royal MS 19 C XI
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MORAL TREATISES and poems, mostly French translations from Latin works. Contents:- 1. The Moralized Game of Chess in French, translated by Jean de Vignay from the 'De ludo Scaccorum' (see 12 B. XXIII, 12 E. I, art. 9) of Jacobus de Cessolis, preceded by a prologue dedicating the work to 'Jehan ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

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