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1591. Royal MS 15 C XV

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Royal MS 15 C XV
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CAESAR'S Commentaries with the additions of Aulus Hirtius and others, viz.: 1. 'C. Iulii Cesaris commentariorumbelli Gallici liber primus incipit. Iulius Celsus Constantinus vir clarissimus emendauit': Celsus' inscription precedes in each case libb. i-vii, but Lupicinus' note is absent from the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1592. Royal MS 15 C XVI

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Royal MS 15 C XVI
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OVID moralized, historical romances, Richard de Bury's Philobiblon, &c., in Latin, viz.: 1. 'Tabula super Ouidium de transformatis' Oater title): an index rerum to art. 2 (not that printed in the edition). Beg. 'Abbas a monacho occiditur ueneno li. 9, fa. 2, c.' f. 1. 2. 'Ouidius de transf...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item

1593. Royal MS 15 C XVII

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Royal MS 15 C XVII
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'GAII PLINII SECUNDI incipit hystoriarum mundi elencos librorum omnium xxxvii. liber i.': the Naturalis Historia of the elder Pliny, preceded by the 'Vita Plinii ex catalago (sic) virorum illustrium [Suctonii] Tranquilli' and the prefatory letter to Vespasian. The text is apparently akin to the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 item

1594. Royal MS 15 D I

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Royal MS 15 D I
Title:
Guyart des Moulins, La Bible historiale
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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.

1595. Royal MS 15 D II

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Royal MS 15 D II
Title:
La lumere as lais; Apocalypse ('The Welles Apocalypse')
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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

1596. Royal MS 15 D III

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Royal MS 15 D III
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'LA BIBLE HYSTORIAULX (sic) ou les Hystoires Escolastres': the grande bible historiale avec prologues of Berger's classification (La Bible française au Moyen Âge, p. 387), being the Historia Scholastica of Petrus Comestor, modified and translated (1291-1295) by Guyart des Moulins, canon of Aire,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1597. Royal MS 15 D IV

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Royal MS 15 D IV
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). ff. 1r-10r: Table of rubrics ff. 11r-14r: Translator's prologue, with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1470s
Extent:
1 volume

1598. Royal MS 15 D V

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Royal MS 15 D V
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HOMILIES and Dialogues of S. Gregory the Great, and alphabet of tales, in French. With table of rubrics. Artt. 2, 3 appear to be taken from one form of the historical collection called Fleur des Histoires. Contents:- 1. 'Les Omelyes de Monseigneur Saint Gregoire sur quarante euuangilles' (so co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1599. Royal MS 15 D VI

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Royal MS 15 D VI
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'LE LIURE que fist Titus Liuius des excellens fais des Rommains, lequel contient trois decades', viz. libb. i-x, xxi-xxxix, being all that were then known: translated by 'Pierre Bertheure' (al. Bersuire, Petrus Berchorius, cf. 15 C. XVI, art. 2), Prior of S. Eloi at Paris (d. 1362). See Paulin P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item

1600. Royal MS 15 E I

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Royal MS 15 E I
Title:
William of Tyre, Histoire d'Outremer
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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
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