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1881. Royal MS 16 G IV

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Royal MS 16 G IV
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'LE LIVRE des Sains Angeles, compile par frere Francois Eximinez de lordre des freres myneurs a la requeste de messire Pierre dartes chambellan du roy darragon': anonymous translation from the Libro de los Sanctos Angeles of Francisco Ximenez, a Franciscan, afterwards Bishop of Elne and Patriarc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1882. Royal MS 16 G IX

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Royal MS 16 G IX
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XENOPHON, Cyropaedeia, translated into French by Vasco Fernandes de Lucena (cf. 15 D. IV) from the Latin version of Poggio Bracciolini, Preceded by a table of contents. Title (f. 10 b) 'Cy commence le premier livre de listoire Cyrus roy de Perse composee par Xenophon le philozophe et intitulee d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1470-1480
Extent:
1 item

1883. Royal MS 16 G V

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Royal MS 16 G V
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Des cleres et nobles femmes, an anonymous French translation of Boccacio's De mulieribus claris
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This manuscript contains Des cleres et nobles femmes, an anonymous French translation of the poem De mulieribus claris (Concerning Famous Women), begun in 1361 by Giovanni Boccaccio (b. 1313, d. 1375) and revised several times before his death in 1375. The work is a moralizing compilation of bio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c. 1440
Extent:
1 volume

1884. Royal MS 16 G VI

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Royal MS 16 G VI
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Les Grandes chroniques de France
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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
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A parchment codex, 447 folios.

1885. Royal MS 16 G VII

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Royal MS 16 G VII
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Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César; Li Fet des Romains
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This manuscript contains 'Les anciennes hystoires romainnes' (The Ancient History of the Romans). The work consists of two separate texts: the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César (Ancient History until Caesar) and Li Fet des Romains (The Acts of the Romans). The text of the Histoire ancienne compris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

1886. Royal MS 16 G VIII

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Royal MS 16 G VIII
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Caesar, translated by Jan Du Quesne (or Jean Duchesne), Bellum Gallicum (Les commentaires de Cesar)
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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.

1887. Royal MS 17 A I

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Royal MS 17 A I
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Poem on the craft of masonry ('The Regius Manuscript')
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Contents: ff. 1-32: A Middle English poem on the craft of masonry, beginning 'Whoso wol boþe wel rede and loke'; ending 'Say we so alle . pur charyte'; with rubrics in Latin. The latter half of the poem is devoted to conduct when at church and in company, including: a) an account of the Four...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
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Parchment codex

1888. Royal MS 17 A II

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Royal MS 17 A II
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TABLES and maps, in colours, of the tides 'abowte the costes of Frawnce, Flawnders, Bryttaine, Wales, Irelonde, and Spayne', by John Marshall, 'a poore travayler' in the service of Henry VIII and Edward VI; with a dedication to [Henry FitzAlan,] Earl of Arundel (1542-1579), and on f. 2 are his a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1553-1579
Extent:
1 item

1889. Royal MS 17 A III

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Royal MS 17 A III
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TREATISES and collections on medical and astrological subjects, together with a charter of the London Weavers' Company, viz.: 1. Tract on urines, in twelve chapters. Imperf by loss of one leaf at beg. It seems to be the Latin original of an English tract contained in Sloane MSS. 706, ff. 4 b-20...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item

1890. Royal MS 17 A IV

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Royal MS 17 A IV
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'A VEW of the lawes statuts and courses held by the late Quene Elizabeth against Popish Recusants': an address to James I by Thomas Felton on his services since 24 Aug. 1597 in discovering the lands and goods of Recusants, with copies of correspondence of Thomas [Sackville], Baron Buckhurst, Lor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1603
Extent:
1 item

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