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2311. Royal MS 19 E VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 E VI
Title:
Scope & Content:
'LES CRONIQUES DE BURGUES des le commencement du monde par lordre des aages compilees et ordenees en Latin par reuerent pere en dieu Guillaume (sic) euesque de Burgues. Et par le commandement du roy de France Charles le quint translatees en francois par son petit clerconnet frere Jehan Goulein d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1407
Extent:
1 item

2312. Royal MS 20 A I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A I
Title:
Scope & Content:
'LE GESTE de sire Johan Maundeuill dez meruaill de monde' (so heading of table, f. 117b): the well-known fictitious travels of a (fictitious?) Sir John Mandeville, a native of St. Albans, represented as setting out for the East in 1322 and returning in 1356, written in French [by Jean de Bourgog...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2313. Royal MS 20 A II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A II
Title:
Peter of Langtoft's Chronicle, the Lament of Edward II, fragments of Arthurian romances, and a letter attributed to Joanna, Queen of Sicily
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains: ff. 1r-9v, Drawings (see descriptions below) with various inscriptions, distichs and poems; ff. 10 r-v, Verse lament of Edward II; ff. 11r-146v, Peter of Langtoft (Pierre de Langtoft), Chronicle of England; (missing folios from between ff. 146 and 147 have been boun...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1307-c 1327
Extent:

A parchment codex, 169 folios.

2314. Royal MS 20 A III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A III
Title:
Gossuin de Metz, L'image du monde; Prose Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-120: Gossuin de Metz, L'image du monde; ff. 121-236: Prose Brut Chronicle.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

2315. Royal MS 20 A III, ff 1-120

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A III, ff 1-120
Title:
Gossuin de Metz, L'Image du Monde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-120: Gossuin, or Gautier, de Metz (c. 1245), L'Image du monde, a French version of De imagine mundi by Honorius of Autun, divided into two parts (the common division between Parts 2 and 3 of the text is not marked): ff. 1r-50r: Part I, a study of Creation and science from a hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1342
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex

2316. Royal MS 20 A III, ff 121-236

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A III, ff 121-236
Title:
Prose Brut chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: Prose Brut chronicle: ff. 121r-122v: Des Grantz Geants; ff. 122v-236r: Prose Brut (long version to 1333), with two lines lacking at the end; explicit, 'Et après la bataille les Engleis pristrent les espoilles des Escotz...'. The text is very similar to Dublin, Trinity College MS 50...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex

2317. Royal MS 20 A IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A IV
Title:
Martin de Brion, Tresample description de toute la Terre Saincte, prefaced with a dedication to Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
This volume is one of only three known manuscript copies of a historical geography of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, written by Martin de Brion, a relative of Philippe de Chabot (b. 1492, d. 1543), seigneur of Brion and Admiral of France. The work is a description of various sites of interest in th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1540
Extent:
1 volume

2318. Royal MS 20 A IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A IX
Title:
Scope & Content:
STATUTES (to 18 Edw. I), charters of liberties, &c., with added entries relating to co. Norf. In Latin, except where otherwise stated. Contents:- 1. 'Magna carta de libertatibus Anglie': the charter of Henry III, dated 'per manum venerabilis predictis (sic) domini R. episcopi Du[ne]lmensis ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

2319. Royal MS 20 A V

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A V
Title:
Roman d'Alexandre en Prose
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Roman d’Alexandre en Prose (Prose Romance of Alexander), a French adaptation of the Latin Historia de Preliis (interpolated version I2), imperfect at the end. The work details various episodes from the life of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great (b. 356, d. 323 B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

2320. Royal MS 20 A VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A VI
Title:
Scope & Content:
'SOMMAIRE INTERPRETATION de la doctrine prophetique touchant le temps de la desolation et restitution de leiglise de Dieu, par Jehan Constans, ministre de leglise de Montauban, 1567'; followed (f. 7 b) by an 'Appologie ou Esclaircissement des doubtes et responce aux objections', &c., in fort...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1586
Extent:
1 item

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