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191. Royal MS 14 E IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 E IV
Title:
Jehan de Wavrin, Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes the third volume of the Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre (also known as the Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre) of Jean (Jehan) de Wavrin, preceded by a list of contents (ff. 1r-9v). The text of the chronicle begins with the coronation of Richard II and ends...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1470-c 1480
Extent:
329 folios.

192. Royal MS 15 A I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A I
Title:
Jane Lumley, translation of Isocrates, Archidamus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Archidamus, one of the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley. The manuscript is a presentation copy, probably intended as a New Year's gift fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

193. Royal MS 15 A X/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A X/1
Title:
Fragment of the mortuary roll of Ralph 'the Simple', Abbot of Thorney
Scope & Content:
Three joined leaves containing a part of the mortuary roll of Ralph 'the Simple' (d. c. 1216), Abbot of the Benedictine abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Botolph, Thorney, Cambridgeshire. Originally prior of Freiston Priory, Ralph took up his abbacy in 1199 after the deposition of Robert I...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1216
Extent:
1 roll

194. Royal MS 15 D I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 D I
Title:
Guyart des Moulins, La Bible historiale
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes volume 4 (Tobit to Acts of the Apostles) of the second edition of the Bible historiale (the so-called petite Bible historiale), a French adaptation of Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica by Guyart des Moulins (c. 1291-1295). The volume supplemented the set that includes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1470-c 1479
Extent:

439 folios.

195. Royal MS 15 D II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 D II
Title:
La lumere as lais; Apocalypse ('The Welles Apocalypse')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-103v: Peter d’Abernon of Fetcham (Peter of Peckham), La lumere as lais, written in Anglo-Norman French, beginning, 'Ore comence le romaunz, Ke nest pas a fous ne as enfaunz', and ending, 'Amen, amen, par seinte charite Nous ayde dieus ke meint en trinite. Explicit Lucidare.' ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1310
Extent:

1 volume

196. Royal MS 15 E I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 E I
Title:
William of Tyre, Histoire d'Outremer
Scope & Content:
Contents: Histoire d'Outremer, or Livre d’Eracles, a history of the Crusades in French, based on Guillelmus, Archbishop of Tyre (b. 1130, d. c.1190), Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum, with a continuation to 1231. Decoration: 18 large miniatures in colours and gold with full...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c. 1479-c. 1480
Extent:

Parchment codex

197. Royal MS 15 E IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 E IV
Title:
Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, vol. 1
Scope & Content:
The first volume of the Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne (Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre)by Jean de Wavrin, Seigneur de Forestel, contains a chronicle of British history from its mythical origins up to the reign of Edward II. This copy has been bound in two s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1471-1483
Extent:

A parchment codex bound as 2 separate volumes

198. Royal MS 15 E IV, ff 1r-174v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 E IV, ff 1r-174v
Title:
Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, volume I, ff. 1-174
Scope & Content:
The first volume of the Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne by Jean de Wavrin, seigneur de Forestel, contains a chronicle of British history from its mythical origins up to the reign of Edward II. It has been bound in two separate parts. Part 1 contains a table of r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1471-1483
Extent:

The first part of a parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

199. Royal MS 15 E IV, ff 175r-350v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 E IV, ff 175r-350v
Title:
Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, volume I, ff 175r-350v
Scope & Content:
The first volume of the Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne by Jean de Wavrin, Seigneur de Forestel, contains a chronicle of British history from its mythical origins up to the reign of Edward II. It has been bound in two separate parts. Part II (ff. 175-350) contin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1471-1483
Extent:

The second part of a parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

200. Royal MS 15 E IV, ff ix-xviii

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 E IV, ff ix-xviii
Title:
Binding and flyleaves for part 2 of Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre, volume 1, ff 175r-350v
Scope & Content:
This section corresponds to the binding and flyleaves for part 2.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1471-1757
Extent:

7 flyleaves and manuscript binding.

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