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3191. Royal MS 19 A XVIII

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.

3192. Royal MS 19 B XII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B XII
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose; poems including Jean Chapuis, Les Sept Articles de Foi
Scope & Content:
Contents: The Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris continued by Jean de Meun. Jean de Meun's portion begins f. 28v: ' Et si lay je perdue espoir'. ff. 2r-147v: 'Maintes genz dient quen songe/ Na se fables non et mensonge./ Mais on puet tel songe songier/ Qui me sont mie mensongier'. Ending:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 194 folios.

3193. Royal MS 19 B XVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B XVI
Title:
Le Miroir des Dames (an anonymous French translation of Durand de Champagne's Speculum Dominarum)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 15th-century copy of Le Miroir des Dames, an anonymous French translation of the Speculum dominarum, a treatise on queenship written for Jeanne de Navarre (b. 1273, d. 1305), Queen of France and wife of Philip IV (r. 1285-1314), by her confessor, Durand de Champ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1428
Extent:

1 volume

3194. Royal MS 19 C I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 C I
Title:
Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d'Amor
Scope & Content:
Contents: Matfre Ermengaud (or Matfres Ermengau, Eymengau) de Beziers: ff. 1r: Chanson, incipit, 'Dregz de natura comanda don amors pren naysshe men'; ff. 2r-250v: Breviari d'Amor, preceded by a table of rubrics. This encyclopaedic work, explaining how the world is an emanation of love, cons...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Occitan, Old
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 256 folios

3195. Royal MS 19 C VII

Reference (shelfmark):
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

3196. 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

3197. Royal MS 20 A XVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A XVI
Title:
Chansons, in French, set to music for several, but in most cases three voices, in parts.
Scope & Content:
Except where the contrary is stated, the chansons are for three voices and are anonymous. The contra-tenor is sometimes called 'Concordans.' The names of the composers are given only in a few cases, but several are by Josquin des Pres, and one at least (f. 10b) is by Alexander Agricola. Content...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (36 folios)

3198. Royal MS 20 D VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 D VII
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Content: The Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris, continued by Jean de Meun at f. 25r; 'Et si lay je perdu espoir'.. ff. 1r-128r: beginning, 'Maintes gens dient quen songes/ Na se flabes non et menconges/ Mus on puet telz songes songes/ Qui ne sont mie mencongier', ending: 'Ainsi oi la ro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 128 folios.

3199. Seal XXXV 248

Reference (shelfmark):
Seal XXXV 248
Title:
Seal of Carrow Priory
Scope & Content:
An imperfect seal of Carrow Priory, a lozenge, red, with a seated Virgin and Child on the right and a praying prioress on the left, holding a scroll saying ‘mater d mem’; above the scroll a crescent and a star; at the top a hand extending from the heavens in blessing, with the legend, ‘sigillum ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

1 seal

3200. Sloane Ch XXXII 9

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane Ch XXXII 9
Title:
Power of attorney by Alice, once the wife of Richard Penvey of Haverfordwest, to Richard Newton, Robert Turbot and John Couyntre
Scope & Content:
Power of attorney by Alice, once the wife of Richard Penvey of Haverfordwest and executor of Richard’s will, to Richard Newton, apprentice of the law, Robert Turbot and John Couyntre, merchants of Haverfordwest. Since Alice’s seal is unknown, that of Humphrey (1390-1447), duke of Gloucester, is ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1424
Extent:
1 leaf

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