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2311. Royal MS 20 A III, ff 1-120

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A III, ff 1-120
Title:
Gossuin de Metz, L'Image du Monde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-120: Gossuin, or Gautier, de Metz (c. 1245), L'Image du monde, a French version of De imagine mundi by Honorius of Autun, divided into two parts (the common division between Parts 2 and 3 of the text is not marked): ff. 1r-50r: Part I, a study of Creation and science from a hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1342
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex

2312. Royal MS 20 A III, ff 121-236

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A III, ff 121-236
Title:
Prose Brut chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: Prose Brut chronicle: ff. 121r-122v: Des Grantz Geants; ff. 122v-236r: Prose Brut (long version to 1333), with two lines lacking at the end; explicit, 'Et après la bataille les Engleis pristrent les espoilles des Escotz...'. The text is very similar to Dublin, Trinity College MS 50...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex

2313. Royal MS 20 A IV

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

2314. Royal MS 20 A IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A IX
Title:
Scope & Content:
STATUTES (to 18 Edw. I), charters of liberties, &c., with added entries relating to co. Norf. In Latin, except where otherwise stated. Contents:- 1. 'Magna carta de libertatibus Anglie': the charter of Henry III, dated 'per manum venerabilis predictis (sic) domini R. episcopi Du[ne]lmensis ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

2315. Royal MS 20 A V

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A V
Title:
Roman d'Alexandre en Prose
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Roman d’Alexandre en Prose (Prose Romance of Alexander), a French adaptation of the Latin Historia de Preliis (interpolated version I2), imperfect at the end. The work details various episodes from the life of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great (b. 356, d. 323 B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

2316. Royal MS 20 A VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A VI
Title:
Scope & Content:
'SOMMAIRE INTERPRETATION de la doctrine prophetique touchant le temps de la desolation et restitution de leiglise de Dieu, par Jehan Constans, ministre de leglise de Montauban, 1567'; followed (f. 7 b) by an 'Appologie ou Esclaircissement des doubtes et responce aux objections', &c., in fort...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1586
Extent:
1 item

2317. Royal MS 20 A VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A VII
Title:
Scope & Content:
STATUTES of Richard II (incomplete), bound with the legal treatise known as Britton. Contents:- 1. Statutes of Richard II, imperfect at end and by loss of a quire in the middle. The contents are 1-9 (part) and 12 (part)-17 (part) Ric. II, coinciding generally with the Tower-Roll text printed in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

2318. Royal MS 20 A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A VIII
Title:
Scope & Content:
STATUTES (4 to 20 Edw. I) and law-treatises, including part of the treatise called Britton. In Latin, except where otherwise noted. Contents:- 1. The Second Statute of Westminster, 13 Edw. I [after Easter, 1285]; in Latin, except clause xxxiv which is in French, clause xlix being here omitted (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

2319. Royal MS 20 A X

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A X
Title:
Scope & Content:
'LES DEUX premiers livres des Odes d'Horace' translated into French prose by Pierre de Ferron, 'gentilhomme françois de la Prouince de Guienne', with a dedicatory letter, dated 20 Oct. 1619, 'de France et de nostre maison de Ferron (ou de Beaupuy pres Thonneinx [? Tonneins, Lot-et-Garonne] en la...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1619
Extent:
1 item

2320. Royal MS 20 A XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A XI
Title:
Scope & Content:
HISTORICAL POEMS in French, &c., viz.:- 1. Chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft (see 20 A. II) to the year 1307. Without title, but a 16th-17th cent. hand heads it 'Cronicon Angliae Gallico metro manuscriptum'. The MS. is B of Wright's edition, and has a lacuna of 65 lines after 1. 6 of p. 150 o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 item

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