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1811. Royal MS 20 A I

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Royal MS 20 A I
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'LE GESTE de sire Johan Maundeuill dez meruaill de monde' (so heading of table, f. 117b): the well-known fictitious travels of a (fictitious?) Sir John Mandeville, a native of St. Albans, represented as setting out for the East in 1322 and returning in 1356, written in French [by Jean de Bourgog...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1812. Royal MS 20 A III, ff 1-120

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Royal MS 20 A III, ff 1-120
Title:
Gossuin de Metz, L'Image du Monde
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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

1813. Royal MS 20 A III, ff 121-236

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Royal MS 20 A III, ff 121-236
Title:
Prose Brut chronicle
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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

1814. Royal MS 20 A IX

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Royal MS 20 A IX
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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

1815. Royal MS 20 A VI

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Royal MS 20 A VI
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'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

1816. Royal MS 20 A VII

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Royal MS 20 A VII
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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

1817. Royal MS 20 A VIII

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Royal MS 20 A VIII
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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

1818. Royal MS 20 A X

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Royal MS 20 A X
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'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

1819. Royal MS 20 A XI

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Royal MS 20 A XI
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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

1820. Royal MS 20 A XII

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Royal MS 20 A XII
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Scope & Content:
'LIVRE DE SENECQUE des quatre vertus cardinales': French translation of the Formula Honestae Vitae, or De quattuor virtutibus of Pseudo-Seneca (S. Martin of Braga, see 8 A. XXI, art. 26, &c.), with dedication to Jean, Duc de Berry. The evidence as to the date and authorship of the translatio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item

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