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2231. Royal MS 18 D V

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Royal MS 18 D V
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JOHN LYDGATE, Fall of Princes (cf. 18 D. IV). A quire of eight leaves after f. 184 (bk. viii, ch. xiii, l. 176- ch. xxv, 1. 14) and two leaves after f. 210 (bk. ix, ch. xxxiii, 1. i-ch. xxxiv, 1. 217) have been lost and supplied in a 16th cent. hand. The text, as in 18 B. XXXI has a lacuna of se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2232. Royal MS 18 D VI

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Royal MS 18 D VI
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JOHN LYDGATE, Troy Book (cf. 18 D. II, art. 2). The present copy (see Bergen, Description of the MSS., 1906, p. xxiii, and cf. Ward, Cat of Romances, i, p. 79) contains an inferior text, wanting the Envoy and Verba translatoris and with numerous omissions including bk. ii, 3405-3466 and 4713-477...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2233. Royal MS 18 D VII

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Royal MS 18 D VII
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'JEHAN BOCCACE des cas des nobles homes et femmes': the second translation of Laurent de Premierfait (cf. 14 E. V); preceded by the translator's preface and second prologue and Boccaccio's preface. Dedication beg. 'A puissant noble et excellent'. The other prologues and text nearly as in 14 E. V...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2234. Royal MS 18 D VIII

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Royal MS 18 D VIII
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BIBLE in French, i.e. probably a bible historiale moyenne or a grande bible historiale (see above, 17 E. VII): last volume only, containing Maccabees and the New Testament. For the minute differences by which alone this text is distinguished from the latter part of a complete Bible of the 13th c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 item

2235. Royal MS 18 D X

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Royal MS 18 D X
Title:
Bible Historiale, Volume 2
Scope & Content:
The second of two volumes, the first being Royal MS 18 D IX. The fourth volume in the set is Royal MS 15 D I, but it was written previously and altered to include the arms of Edward IV. It is not known whether the third volume ever existed. Contains the second edition of the Bible Historiale, a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1479
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A parchment codex

2236. Royal MS 18 E I

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Royal MS 18 E I
Title:
Jean Froissart, Chroniques, vol. 2
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Includes volume 2 of the 'Chroniques' of Froissart, covering the period 1377-1385. The text of the present manuscript is classified by Kervyn de Lettenhove as the première rédaction, seconde série. Incipit: 'Quant le duc de Bourgongne cut fait ceste chevauchee'. Explicit: 'en la ville de Gand', ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
367 + 9 folios.

2237. Royal MS 18 E II

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Royal MS 18 E II
Title:
Jean Froissart, Chroniques, vol. 4
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Includes volume 4 of the 'Chroniques' of Froissart, covering the period 1389-1400, preceded by a list of contents (ff. 2r-5v). Incipit: 'Cy commence la table de ce quart et darrenier volume que fist et compila sire Jehan Froissard des croniques de France et dangleterre'. Table begins: 'Le premie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1480
Extent:

419 + 7 folios.

2238. Royal MS 18 E III

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Royal MS 18 E III
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Vol. I. ff. 342. A.D. 1479.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1479
Extent:
1 item

2239. Royal MS 18 E III-IV

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Royal MS 18 E III-IV
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'LE LIVRE de Valerius Maximus', &c.: the same work as in 17 F. IV. In two volumes. Colophon, 'Cy fine le ixe liure de. Valerius Maximus commencie a translater par reuerende personne maistre Simon de Hesdin jusques au viie liure et paracheue par noble homme Nycolas de Gonnesse'. Vellum; ff. 342, 329. 18 3/4 in. x 13 1/2 in. A. D. 1479. Gatherings of 8 leaves (in vol. i, xvii6, xxviii6, last 4 ; in vol. ii, iii2, end of table). Double columns of 39 lines. Sec. fol. of vol. i in table 'com...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1479
Extent:
2 items

2240. Royal MS 18 E IV

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Royal MS 18 E IV
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Scope & Content:
Vol. II. ff. 329. A.D. 1479.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1479
Extent:
1 item

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