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1871. Royal MS 16 F IX

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Royal MS 16 F IX
Title:
Histoire de Troie, a French translation of Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Histoire de Troie (History of Troy), an anonymous French prose translation of the Historia destructionis Troiae (History of the destruction of Troy), written by the Italian judge and poet Guido delle Colonne (fl 13th century). This is the first of five Fren...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1872. Royal MS 16 F V

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Royal MS 16 F V
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Scope & Content:
ROMANCE of Sydrac and Boctus in French prose, and a theological tract, viz.: 1. ' Le liure du noble philozoph Sydrac, lequel liure est appelle la fontaine de toutes sciences et de tous bons enseignemens': a short form of this didactic romance (see Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, p. 914) containing o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1873. Royal MS 16 F VI

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Royal MS 16 F VI
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Scope & Content:
Vol. I. ff. 287. Circ. 1470-1480.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1470-1480
Extent:
1 item

1874. Royal MS 16 F VI-VII

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Royal MS 16 F VI-VII
Title:
16 F. VI, VII JEHAN MANSEL, La Fleur des Histores: the 'second volume' only, containing the history of Rome to Constantine the Great and a collection of examples of virtue. For the scheme of the complete work see Paulin Paris, Les MSS. François de la Bibl. du Roi' i, p. 60 and cf. also 18 E. VI. The preface to this volume is chiefly taken from the work called Orose en François (or Le Fait des Rommains, 16 G. VII, f. 219), and the other main sources are:-(a) Livy, first decade.-(b) Leonardo ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1470-1480
Extent:
2 items

1875. Royal MS 16 F VII

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Royal MS 16 F VII
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Scope & Content:
Vol. II. ff. 314. Circ. 1470-1480.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1470-1480
Extent:
1 item

1876. Royal MS 16 F VIII

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Royal MS 16 F VIII
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Scope & Content:
1. 'LE REGIME DE SANTÉ': a treatise on health, in French, in four parts. The first part treats of 'fisique', the second 'de garder chascun membre du corps par soy', the third 'de toutes choses qui conuient vser a lomme pour soy tenir en bonne sante', and the fourth 'de fisonomie'. With introduct...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1877. Royal MS 16 F X

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Royal MS 16 F X
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Scope & Content:
'LIVRE des secretz et ditz des philosophes', containing three tracts, viz.: 1. Anonymous compilation of moral sayings under thirteen headings. The first four are:-(a) 'Inicium sapiencie timor domini';-(b) 'Cy parle de Mesure';- (c) 'De compaignie';-(d) 'Du sage, du traicteur et du fol'. Beg. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1878. Royal MS 16 G I

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Royal MS 16 G I
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Scope & Content:
'LES CRONICQUES de Pise': a French chronicle, or historical romance, of Pisa, down to 1431. Described in Archivio Storico Italiano, tom. vi, 1844, pt. i, pp. xxxixxxviii, without notice of the original Italian as extant. According to Moreni, however, Bibliogr. Toscana, i, p. 174, a chronicle [in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1879. Royal MS 16 G II

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Royal MS 16 G II
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Scope & Content:
ROMANCE of Les Quatre Fils Aimon; more fully described by Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, p. 619. Without title, but 'Les iiii filz Aymont' in a 15th cent. hand is on the fly-leaf. The prose romance (cf. 15 E. VI, art. 6) has here a verse opening in 617 alexandrines, apparently abridged from the long...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1880. Royal MS 16 G III

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Royal MS 16 G III
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Scope & Content:
'VITA CHRISTI' and 'La Vengance de la mort Jhesu Crist'. The same two works occur in Paris MS. fonds fr. 181 (formerly 6844), executed for Louis de Gruthuyse (see Van Praet, Recherches sur Louis de Bruges, p. 119). The style of the preface to art. 2 rather suggests the compiler of 16 G. I, and i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1479
Extent:
1 item

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