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311. Royal MS 16 D XVIII, ff 60r-127v

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Royal MS 16 D XVIII, ff 60r-127v
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Scope & Content:
II. Achilles Tatius, Leucippe et Clitophon (TLG 0532.001), with marginal glosses by Henri Estienne, notes by Isaac Casaubon and variants from two Vatican and Florence manuscripts by Patrick Young. The text is of Vilborg's group α.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:

68 folios

312. Royal MS 16 D XVIII, ff 128r-149v

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Royal MS 16 D XVIII, ff 128r-149v
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III. [Eustathius Antiochenus], Commentarius in hexaemeron (TLG 4117.022; PG 18.708; CPG 3393). Imperfect, inc. αἱ λοιπαὶ καταβοῶσι (736D). Marginal notes, partly in Latin and in the hand of Patrick Young, including an attribution to Eustathius.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:

22 folios

313. Royal MS 16 F II

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Royal MS 16 F II
Title:
Charles d'Orleans, Poetry; Pseudo-Heloise, Epistles; 'Les demands d'amours'; 'Le livre dit grace entiere'.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-136v: Charles d'Orleans, Poetry (a selection of 166 poems, many of them written during his captivity in England from 1415 to 1440). ff. 137r-187v: Pseudo-Heloise, 'Les epistres de labesse Heloys du Paraclit, laquelle abaye maistre Abaielart fonda aincois quil mourust', a prose...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1483; 1492-1500
Extent:

1 volume

314. Royal MS 16 G VI

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Royal MS 16 G VI
Title:
Les Grandes chroniques de France
Scope & Content:
The present manuscript contains a revised edition of the Grandes Chroniques de France that was commissioned by the future John II as Duke of Normandy (1332-1350), before his assumption of the throne. The text of the chronicle extends to the death of Louis IX (1270). The volume is prefixed by two...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1332-1350
Extent:

A parchment codex, 447 folios.

315. Royal MS 16 G VIII

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Royal MS 16 G VIII
Title:
Caesar, translated by Jan Du Quesne (or Jean Duchesne), Bellum Gallicum (Les commentaires de Cesar)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes the earliest surviving copy of the French translation of Caesar's Bellum Gallicum by Jan Du Quesne (or Duchesne) of Lille, addressed to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, that perhaps can be identified as the Duke's presentation copy. Another manuscript of the Commentair...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1473-1476
Extent:

338 folios.

316. Royal MS 17 D VI

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Royal MS 17 D VI
Title:
Thomas Hoccleve, The Regement of Princes, with other poems
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes five works by Thomas Hoccleve (b. c. 1367, d. 1426): 1. The Regement of Princes, incipit: 'Musyng up on the restles besynesse The which this troubly world hath ay on honde'. Includes marginal notes in Latin providing the sources of the text. Printed from this manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

150 + 8 folios.

317. Royal MS 17 E VII vol 1

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Royal MS 17 E VII vol 1
Title:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale
Scope & Content:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible historiale complétée moyenne according to Berger 1884), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica with additional books supplied from the French translation of the Bible made at Paris c. 1250; bound in two volumes. The first volume ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1356-1357
Extent:
264 folios.

318. Royal MS 17 E VII vol 2

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Royal MS 17 E VII vol 2
Title:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale
Scope & Content:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible historiale complétée moyenne according to Berger 1884), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica with additional books supplied from the French translation of the Bible made at Paris c. 1250; bound in two volumes. The first volume ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1357
Extent:
342 folios.

319. Royal MS 17 F II

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Royal MS 17 F II
Title:
La Grande histoire César (Les faits des Romains, with additional texts)
Scope & Content:
The Grande histoire César is a revision of the Faits des Romains which was probably made specifically for Edward IV (see colophon below), but the presence of the drawn arms of Louis of Gruuthuse in the Royal volume (f. 9r) suggests Gruuthuse’s role in its production. The manuscript includes: A ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1479
Extent:

359 folios.

320. Royal MS 18 A XLV

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Royal MS 18 A XLV
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Scope & Content:
THE MASQVE OF QVEENES. Celebrated from the House of Fame, By the most absolute in all State and Titles, Anne, Queene of Great Britayne, &c. with her honorable Ladyes. At White Hall. Feb. 2, 1609. Written by Benjamin Jonson ''; with a dedicatory address to Prince Henry. Autograph. Printed in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1609
Extent:
1 item