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2061. Royal MS 17 D XXII

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Royal MS 17 D XXII
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'NATURALL THEOLOGIE, or the book of creatures': anonymous English translation of the 'Theologia Naturalis' of Raymund de Sabunde or Sabonde, in 330 chapters, with prologue. The original author, a native of Barcelona and teacher of philosophy and medicine at Toulouse, died in 1432. The Latin work...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

2062. Royal MS 17 E I

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Royal MS 17 E I
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'LE TRESOR': the encyclopaedic compilation of Brunetto Latino (Dante's tutor, d. 1294). The text is of the earlier recension, not containing the historical chapters relating to Berengarius, &c. (see Chabaille's ed.,Coll. de Documents inédits, 1863, and P. Paris, Les MSS. François, iv, p. 352...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2063. Royal MS 17 E II

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Royal MS 17 E II
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Raoul Lefèvre, Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes
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This manuscript contains a copy of Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes (Collection of the stories of Troy), composed in 1464 by Raoul Lefèvre (fl. 15th century), chaplain to Philip the Good (b. 1396, d. 1467), Duke of Burgundy. At the beginning of the list of contents and in the colophon it is re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1475-c 1483
Extent:

1 volume

2064. Royal MS 17 E III

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Royal MS 17 E III
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Bartholomaeus Anglicus, translated by Jean Corbechon, Livre des proprietez des choses
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Contents: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, translated in 1372 as the Livre des proprietez des choses by Jean Corbechon for Charles V of France. Decoration: 1 large miniature in four compartments, in colours and gold, with a foliate initial in colours and gold, and a partial ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Early 15th century
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Parchment codex

2065. Royal MS 17 E IV

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Royal MS 17 E IV
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Ovide moralisé, a French translation of Ovid''s Metamorphoses
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Contents: ff. 1r-271r: Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, or Ovide moralisé, the second anonymous French translation of this Latin work, with a prologue and a list of contents (ff. 5r-12v); this version of the text is believed to have been used by Caxton for his translation; it is also found...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
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Parchment codex

2066. Royal MS 17 E V

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Royal MS 17 E V
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XENOPHON'S Cyropaedeia: French translation, bound with a similar version of Vegetius De re militari. A notice of the MS. by M. Paul Meyer is in Romania, xxv, p. 420. Contents:- 1. 'Cy commenence (sic) le premier (-vie) liure de listoire Cirus roy de Perse composee par Xenophon le philozophe et...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1470-1480
Extent:
1 item

2067. Royal MS 17 E VI

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Royal MS 17 E VI
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LEGAL ABRIDGEMENT, based on the Year Books for 1 Edw. III-33 Hen. VI [1455], in French. Additions in another hand to 21 Hen. VII [1505-1506]. Arranged under alphabetical headings, Accompt-Withernam,with a table at the beginning. On the fly-leaves are copies or drafts (ff. 2, 2 b) of two letters...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1455
Extent:
1 item

2068. Royal MS 17 E VII vol 1

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Royal MS 17 E VII vol 1
Title:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale
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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.

2069. Royal MS 17 E VII vol 2

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Royal MS 17 E VII vol 2
Title:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale
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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.

2070. Royal MS 17 F I

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Royal MS 17 F I
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Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant, a French translation of Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni
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Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, in a French translation by Vasco da Lucena, Quinte Curse Ruffe des faiz du grant Alexandre and dedicated to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (B. 1433, d. 1477). The manuscript was copied by Jean Duchesne of Lille; another copy by the same scrib...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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