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2351. Royal MS 20 C I

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Royal MS 20 C I
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Scope & Content:
'LES FAIS des des (sic) Rommains comipilez ensemble de Saluste, de Suetoine et de Lucan': see above, 17 F. II. There is no table of chapters. Prologue beg. 'Chascun homme a qui dieu'. The continuation after the death of Caesar, absent in most MSS. and represented by a different continuation in 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2352. Royal MS 20 C II

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Royal MS 20 C II
Title:
Cleriadus et Meliadice; Historia Apollonii regis Tyri
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of two French romances: Cleriadus et Meliadice, and the Historia Apollonii regis Tyri (History of Apollonius of Tyre), translated in French as La cronique et historie des merveilleuses aventures de Appolin roy de Thir. Contents: ff. 1r-209v: Cleriadus et Meliadi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2353. Royal MS 20 C III

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Royal MS 20 C III
Title:
Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant, a French translation of Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni
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Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated into French by Vasco da Lucena (b. c. 1435, d. 1512) as Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant and dedicated to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1433, d. 1477). Contents: ff. 1r-11r: Table of Contents. The incipit gives the date o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c. 1485-1490
Extent:

1 volume

2354. Royal MS 20 C IV

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Royal MS 20 C IV
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'LE LIVRE de Iehan Bocace des cas des nobles hommes et femmes translate de latin en francois par Laurens de Premierfait clerc du diocese de Troyes; et fut complie ceste translacion le xxve. iour dauril .milcccc. et .ix. et est assauer. le lundi apres pasques closes' (so colophon, but the dates d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2355. Royal MS 20 C IX

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Royal MS 20 C IX
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JEAN CHARTIER, 'La cronicque du temps de treschrestien roy Charles de France .viie. de ce nom' [1422- 1461]. For another copy see below, 20 E. VI. The author, who was a brother of Alain Chartier, the poet, and of Guillaume Chartier Bishop of Paris, names himself in the preface as 'Iehan Charetie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2356. Royal MS 20 C V

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Royal MS 20 C V
Title:
Des cleres et nobles femmes, an anonymous French translation of Boccacio's De mulieribus claris
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Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris is a moralizing compilation of biographical sketches of famous women begun in 1361 and revised several times before his death in 1375. The work was very popular, as attested by the number of translations and including this anonymous French translation, Des cleres...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1410
Extent:

A parchment codex.

2357. Royal MS 20 C VI

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Royal MS 20 C VI
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LANCELOT DU LAC: the concluding part of the prose romance, including also the Quest of the Saint-Graal and the Morte Arthur. Attributed, as often, to Walter Map. See Ward, Catalogue of Romances, i, p. 350, and cf. 19 B. VII, 19 C. XIII, &c. The text is collated in H. O. Sommer's Vulgate Text...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1283
Extent:
1 item

2358. Royal MS 20 C VII

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Royal MS 20 C VII
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CHRONIQUES DE FRANCE ou de Saint Denis: the portion (corresponding to vols. v, vi of Paulin Paris' edition) from the accession of Philip III, 1270, to the coronation of Charles VI, 1380. For the earlier portion see above, 16 G. VI, but the two volumes do not belong to one another. Without title ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item

2359. Royal MS 20 C VIII

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Royal MS 20 C VIII
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'LARBRE DES BATAILLES', by Honoré Bonet (al. Bonnet), Prior of Salon [Selonnet, Basses-Alpes, afterwards Abbot of L'Île-Barbe], see 15 E. VI, art. 10. The present MS., however, differs from 15 E. VI, Add. MS. 22768, and most of the later copies and editions in two important respects. It includes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2360. 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.

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