Pierre Gringoire, Pageants for the Reception of Queen Mary of France in Paris
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Contents: ff. 3r-15v: Pierre Gringoire, Pageants for the Reception of Queen Mary of France (1514–15) in Paris, 6 November 1514; the pageants took place after the marriage of Mary Tudor (1496-1533) to Louis XII of France. Poem on Anne of Brittany, queen of France (d. 1514) on an added paper le...
This manuscript contains the Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne, a eulogistic French poem in honour of Anne of Brittany (b. 1477, d. 1514), Queen of France, followed by a prose description of her funeral in 1514. The work has been attributed to Pierre Choque (b. c. 1450, d. 1530), herald ...
Johannes Opicii (Opicius), Poems in commemoration of King Henry VII of England (1485–1509) (3r–24r); list of manuscripts in the privy closet at Whitehall (25r)
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Language(s): Latin; English (25r) Dated: last quarter of the 15th century; 1st quarter of the 17th century (25r)
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Bede, De temporum ratione; lists of Carolingian rulers, Popes and Byzantine emperors; lunar calendar; fragment of a computistical table. Tables of Greek and Roman Numerals; Notes by John Joscelyn; William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum.
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This codex contains: ff. 1r-102r: Bede, De temporum ratione, copied in France (possibly in Saint Denis) in the 9th century.In the early 11th century the manuscript was in England, where interlinear and marginal glosses in Latin and three glosses in Old English were added (ff. 33r, 39v). This m...