'LE LIVRE de Valerius Maximus', &c.: the same work as in 17 F. IV. In two volumes. Colophon, 'Cy fine le ixe liure de. Valerius Maximus commencie a translater par reuerende personne maistre Simon de Hesdin jusques au viie liure et paracheue par noble homme Nycolas de Gonnesse'. Vellum; ff. 342, 329. 18 3/4 in. x 13 1/2 in. A. D. 1479. Gatherings of 8 leaves (in vol. i, xvii6, xxviii6, last 4 ; in vol. ii, iii2, end of table). Double columns of 39 lines. Sec. fol. of vol. i in table 'com...
Histoire tripartite or Chronique de Baudouin d'Avennes
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Contents: The Histoire tripartite or Chronique de Baudouin d'Avennes, a compilation of ancient history also known as Le trésor des histoires or Le trésor de sapience, consisting of: ff. 1r-19r: Table of Chapters; f. 20r: Prologue; ff. 21r-390r: Histoire tripartite in 368 chapters, up to the...
'LA FLEUR DES HYSTOIRES', vols. ii and iii. The recension of this large historical collection by Jean Mansel to which the present volume belongs is not that contained in 16 F. VI, VII and the Paris MSS. Bib]. Nat., londs fr. 302-304, &c., but the earlier (?) recension contained in Paris MSS....
'L'HIMNE de la Paix au tres-auguste et serenissime Roy d'Angleterre, d'Escosse et d' Irlande' [James I]: anonymous poem in 1438 lines (rhyming Alexandrines) in honour of Peace, with eulogies of James and a prophecy, partly put in the mouth of Queen Elizabeth, of his reign and the succession of P...
'LE LIVRE DE LAPOCALIPSE': the French version of, and commentary on, the Apocalypse which are best known as occurring in a group of East Anglian and French illuminated MSS. of the 13th century, but which appear also in many other MSS. of later date (see L. Delisle and P. Meyer, L'Apocalypse en f...
FRENCH POEMS, viz.:- 1. La Belle Dame sans Merci, by Alain Chartier (d. circ. 1430-1440). Without title or author's name. Printed in his collected works (ed. Duchesne, 1617, p. 502). Twelve stanzas (ll. 129-176, 657-704) are missing by the loss of a pair of leaves after f. 3 and f. 13. f. 1. B...
FRENCH POEMS, viz.:- 1. Le 'liure de Boece de consolacion et.de confort': Boethius de consolatione philosophiae translated (both prosae and metra) into French verse in 1336 by the Dominican 'Frere Renaut de Louens' [of Louhans Saône-et-Loire]. Other copies are in Egerton MS. 2633 and a Paris MS...
Contents: Gossuin (Gautier) de Metz (c. 1245), L'Image du monde, a French version of De imagine mundi by Honorius of Autun. ff. 1r-3v: Table of chapters; ff. 4r-4v: Prologue, This manuscript contains a unique prologue linking it to Caxton's printed editions and stating 'ce p[rese]nt volume ap...