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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.

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 E V
Title:: Benvenuto da Imola, Romuléon, translated by Jean Miélot
Scope & Content:: Romuléon of Benvenuto da Imola (Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola), compiled around 1361-1364, at the request of Gomez Albornoz, governor of the city of Bologna, in the French translation by Jean Miélot, canon of Lille, and secretary to Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, composed in 1463 ('Et fut ledi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1480
Extent:: 418 folios.

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.

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 A XVII
Title:: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose; Thomas de Bailleul, la Bataille d'Annezin
Scope & Content:: The Roman de la Rose was begun by Guillaume de Lorris between 1225 and 1245 and was continued between 1269-1278 by Jean de Meun. It is around 20,000 octosyllabic lines of French verse narrating the dream of a young lover, in which his long quest for the object of his desire ends when he breaches...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c1340-1350
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 B III
Title:: Treatise on the love of God
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-89v: Treatise on the love of God for guiding life: ‘Vos volez qe ie vous enueasse chose qi confortait vostre alme. mes ieo faz le contraire Car ieo vous en voi mez grevaunces. … [89v] sanz mesesez sanz fin ou cil vos amaint qui est sanz comencement et sanz fin. Qui vivit et regnat per inf...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

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