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2291. Royal MS 19 C XII

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Royal MS 19 C XII
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Scope & Content:
ESTOIRE DEL SAINT GRAAL: the prose romance purporting to be from a Latin original translated by Robert de Borron; cf. 14 E. III, art. 1, and Sommer's Arthurian Romances, vol. i. Imperfect at the end, wanting four or five leaves. No original title, but space is left for a long rubric (or a miniat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 item

2292. Royal MS 19 C XIII

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Royal MS 19 C XIII
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Scope & Content:
LANCELOT DU LAC: the prose romance, including the Quest of the Saint Graal and the Morte Arthur, which are here, as commonly, attributed to Walter Map (see Ward, Catalogue of Romances, i, p. 345). The text is divided by the scribe into five sections, viz. (i) Equivalent to the text of Sommer's A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 item

2293. Royal MS 19 D I

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Royal MS 19 D I
Title:
Roman d'Alexandre en prose and other texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes eight works forming a compendium of the wonders of the East combined with crusading texts: ff. 1r-46r: Roman d'Alexandre en prose, entitled here La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, an anonymous translation into French of Leo of Naples, Historia de proeliis; rubric: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1333-c 1340
Extent:

1 volume

2294. Royal MS 19 D II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 D II
Title:
Guyard des Moulins, Bible historiale ('The Bible of John the Good')
Scope & Content:
Guyard des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible historiale complétée moyenne according to Berger 1884), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica. Preface incipit: 'Pour ce que li deables'. The manuscript's content follows the general arrangement of the text of the Bible historia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1350-1356
Extent:

526 folios.

2295. Royal MS 19 D III

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Royal MS 19 D III
Title:
Bible Historiale, Volumes 1 and 2, in the expanded early version (Grande Bible historiale complétée) and additional texts
Scope & Content:
The Bible historiale complétée, Guyart des Moulins' expanded translation of Peter of Comestor's Historia Scolastica with prologues, is copied here together with several books from the Bible du xiiie siècle (the Paralipomena of Jeremiah and Ezra/Nehemiah) and other texts (lives of Julian the Apos...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1411
Extent:

A parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

2296. Royal MS 19 D III, ff 1r-288v

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Royal MS 19 D III, ff 1r-288v
Title:
Bible Historiale, Volume 1, with prefaces and additional material
Scope & Content:
A summary of the contents: Translator's prologue: rubric: 'Cy com[m]ence le prologue du translateur qui translate et mist de latin en francois la bible hystorial selons les hystoires scolastiques.'; incipit : 'Pource que le dyable...' (f. 1r); explicit: 'Et en lan de grace mil CC xxIIII et XVII...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1411
Extent:

The first volume of a parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

2297. Royal MS 19 D III, ff 289r-604v

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Royal MS 19 D III, ff 289r-604v
Title:
Bible historiale, Volume 2, with additional material including Saints' lives
Scope & Content:
A summary of the contents: Proverbs to Maccabees (ff. 289r-450v): rubric: ‘Cy com[m]ence la seconde partie principale de la bible qui parle de sapience...’ (f. 289r); L'histoire de Jehan Hyrcan: rubric: 'Cy com[m]ence lystoire Iehan Hyrcan..'; incipit; 'Apres la mort Symon frere Iudas...'; ex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1411
Extent:

The second volume of a parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

2298. Royal MS 19 D III, ff v-xi

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 D III, ff v-xi
Title:
Binding and flyleaves for volume 2 of the Bible Historiale, ff. 289r-604v
Scope & Content:
This section corresponds to the binding and flyleaves for volume 2 of the Bible Historiale.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1411
Extent:
4 folios of flyleaves and binding

2299. Royal MS 19 D IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 D IV
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. I. ff. 300.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 item

2300. Royal MS 19 D IV-V

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Royal MS 19 D IV-V
Title:
19 D. IV, V THE SAME WORK, but in the less amplified form called by Berger 'petite bible historiale', though in certain respects (e.g. by inclusion of Baruch) it approximates to the type of bible moyenne (Berger, La Bible française au Moyen Âge, pp. 213, 393). In two volumes. The rubric at the end of Comestor's prefatory letter (f. 3) states that the author has 'escript le texte de la bible premierement de grosse lettre, et puis apres en ord[r]e les hystoires de plus delie lettre un poi, et...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
2 items

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