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Reference (shelfmark):: 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.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 F III
Title:
Scope & Content:: S. AUGUSTINE, De Civitate Dei, libb. i-x, in French; the same translation as in 14 D. I (q. v.). Bound in two volumes. Vellum; ff. 241, 336. 19 in. x 13 1/4 in. A. D. 1473-1483. Gatherings apparently of 8 leaves, but without catchwords. Double columns. See. fol. ' et sur toutes'. Executed, doub...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1473-1483
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 F IV
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'LE LIVRE de Valerius Maximus translate de latin en francois par religieuse personne maistre Simon de Hesdin maistre en theologie et frere de saint Jehan de Iherusalem': the translation and amplification of Valerius Maximus, De dictis et factis memorabilibus, begun for Charles V of France by Sim...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 F V
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'LISTOIRE de tres hault, tres excellent et tres victoriex prince Godefroy, Duc de Buillon, en son temps roy de lhsrusalem': a history of Godfrey of Bouillon and his successors Baldwin I and II, Kings of Jerusalem. The anonymous compiler takes his matter, paraphrased and abridged, almost exclusiv...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 F VI-VII
Title:: 17 F. VI, VII 'LA FORTERESSE de la Foy': French version by Pierre Richart, dit l'Oiselet, curd of Margnes (dioc. Arras), of the Fortalitium Fidei, a Latin work (printed, Strassburg, 1473?, &c.) generally attributed (see Sbaralea, Suppl. Wadding Scriptt. Ord. Min., p. 10) to Alphonso de Spina, a Franciscan converted from judaism (Bishop of Thermopylae, 1491), writing (see vol. i, ff. 120, col. i, 1. 4 from foot, 163, col. ii, last 1. but one) at Valladolid in 1458-1460. Neither author no...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 A I-IV
Title:: 18. A. I-IV STATUTES of the Order of the Garter, as altered and finally ordained by Edward VI, 17 March, 1553. For a history of the several drafts which preceded this ordinance see E. M. Thompson in Archaeologia, liv, 1895, p. 1173. Though issued under the seal of the Order, they were never carried into effect and, the King dying 6 July of the same year, they were abrogated on 27 Sept. by Queen Mary and the laws, &c., promulgated by Henry VIII retained. Printed by J. Anstis, Register of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1553
Extent:: 4 items

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