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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 B II
Title:
Scope & Content:: LEGENDARY LIVES of saints translated from the Latin into French, as follows:- 1. 'De lassumpcion nostre dame selon les dis de Ysidore'. Beg. 'Apres lascencion de nostre seigneur Ihesu Crist, la benoite vierge Marie mere de dieu fut xii ans ou enuiron en ce monde'; ends 'laquelle vit et regne pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 B IV
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Scope & Content:: 'LE LIVRE DORE des meditacions de la vie nostre seigneur Ihesucrist selon Bonneauanture': translation of the Meditationes Vitae Christi commonly attributed to Bonaventura (but see above, 7 A. I, art. 5, &c.). The translation, dedicated to Henry V, is by Jehan Galopes dit le Galoys, dean of t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1422
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 B IX
Title:
Scope & Content:: TWO TREATISES also occurring together in 16 F. VIII, see above, viz.:- 1. Le Regime de Sante [by Aldobrandinus of Siena For the various attributions of the work see 16 F. VIII, art. 1, with which this MS. closely agrees. Prologue beg. 'Diieu qui par sa grant puissance'. The colophon (except for...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 B V
Title:
Scope & Content:: NEW TESTAMENT in French, bound with hymns and miscellaneous tracts in Latin and French. Contents:- 1. The New Testament in French, of the version made at Paris circ. 1250 (see 1 A. XX). Berger classes it (La Bible franç. au Moyen, Âge, p. 215) as part of a Bible historiale moyenne (cf. 19 D. II...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 B VI
Title:: Philippe de Mézières, Epistre au Roi Richart
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Epistre au Roi Richart (Letter to King Richard), written by Philippe de Mézières (b. c. 1327, d. 1405), a crusader, former tutor to Charles VI of France (r. 1380-1422), and counsellor to Charles V (r. 1364-1380), the King's father. By 1395, he had retired to the Cele...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1395
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 B VII
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Scope & Content:: 'TRAICTE des differences du compas aymante, et de certains poinctz notables dicelluy concernantz le faict des nauigations jusques a present incognus, tresutille et necessaire a tous pillottes et mariniers. Compost par Jan Rotz, natif de Dieppe, en lan 1542'; with dedicatory letter to the King [H...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1542
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 B VIII
Title:
Scope & Content:: LANCELOT DU LAC: the third part only of the prose romance (corresponding to Sommer, Vulgate Text of the Arthurian Romances, vol. v, 1912), see Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, p. 349, and cf. 19 C. XIII, above. The last pages of the text are somewhat condensed, and it ends abruptly at Sommer's p. 381....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 B X
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'MAUNDEVYLE': the French text of the travels (cf. 20 A. I). The present MS. seems closely akin to Harley MS. 4383, see G. F. Warner, Buke of John Maundeuill (Roxburghe Club, 1889), introd., p. ix, and is therefore used in the Roxburghe edition to supply that part of the French text (from p. 103,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 B XI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'VIRGESSES, les Establissemenz de Cheualerie': the translation of Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari, made in 1284 by Jean de Meun for Jean de Brienne, comte d'Eu (see below, 20 B. XV). Imperfect, wanting three chapters at the end. For other MSS. see P. Meyer in Romania, xxv, 1896, p. 402....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

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