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13061. Royal MS 20 B XX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 B XX
Title:
Le livre et la vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre
Scope & Content:
The Vraye histoire du bon roy Alexandre, incipit (rubric):'Comment nostre seigneur donna congnoissance a Alixandre de trier le bien du mal'; (text): 'Puis que le premier pere duman lignage'; with a table of contents (ff. 1r-2v). The French text of the Vraye histoire is based on the Latin Histori...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1420-c 1425
Extent:

Parchment codex

13062. Royal MS 20 D I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 D I
Title:
Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César, second redaction
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the earliest surviving copy of the second redaction of the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César, probably produced in the 14th century. This version focuses on Troy, eliminating the biblical histories and the history of Alexander and integrates portions of the prose translati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1330-c 1340
Extent:

363 folios.

13063. Royal MS 20 D IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 D IV
Title:
Lancelot du Lac
Scope & Content:
The present manuscript contains part of the prose cycle known as Lancelot du Lac, or the Prose Lancelot, beginning two-thirds of the way through the second part at 'Mout fu rice la cours ke li rois tint a celle pentecouste' (f. 1r) and ending half way through the third part, the Agravain, at 'Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1300-1380
Extent:

A parchment codex

13064. Royal MS 20 D VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 D VI
Title:
A French legendary, comprising 57 saints' lives in prose, including some attributed to Wauchier de Denain
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a legendarium (legendary), or collection of saints' lives, a term which derives its name from the Latin word legenda 'things to be read'. The text is written in prose and represents one of over 30 French prose legendaries to survive from the 13th and 14th centuries. The text...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

13065. Royal MS 20 E IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 E IX
Title:
Jean Rotz, Boke of Idrography (The 'Rotz Atlas')
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains the Boke of Idrography (also known as the Rotz Atlas) by Jean Rotz, hydrographer and navigtor of Dieppe, who probably took part in the expedition from Dieppe to Sumatra under the command of Jean Parmentier in 1529–30, and in 1539 travelled to Guinea and Brazil. The atlas ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1535-1542
Extent:
32 folios.

13066. RSPA 86

Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 86
Title:
The second part of a Ḥanafī legal text book
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1700-1792
Extent:
ff. iv+195+iv

13067. RSPA 93

Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 93
Title:
Miscellany of Muhammadan Law
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1700-1792
Extent:
ff. iv+106+iv

13068. RSPA 102

Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 102
Title:
1 copy of al-Khulāṣah al-Alfiyyah by Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Persian
Date Range:
1717
Extent:
ff. iii+97+iii

13069. RSPA 213

Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 213
Title:
1 copy of Zarātusht nāmah by Kay Kāʼus ibn Kay Khusraw ibn Dārā
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1700-1799
Extent:
ff. i+55

13070. RSPA 214

Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 214
Title:
Kitāb-i Dādar ibn Dādhūkht
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1775-1864
Extent:
ff. ii+21+iv

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