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2281. Royal MS 19 B XVII

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Royal MS 19 B XVII
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'LA LEGENDE DOREE en francois que frere Iehan de Vignay translata de latin en francois' (so colophon): version made circ. 1340 of the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (cf. 10 B. XII, art. 3, &c.). The transiator mentions his previous translation of 'Le mireoir des hy...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1382
Extent:
1 item

2282. Royal MS 19 B XVIII

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Royal MS 19 B XVIII
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'LE LIVRE DEZ FAIZ DARMES et de Cheuallerie', by Christine de Pisan (cf. 15 E. VI, art. 14). The passage relating to alleged English treachery is retained. Table of contents to each part. Preface (f. 4) beg. 'Pource que hardiment est tant neccessaire'; text, 'Chaton le vaillant combatant'. Incom...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2283. Royal MS 19 C I

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Royal MS 19 C I
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Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d'Amor
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Contents: Matfre Ermengaud (or Matfres Ermengau, Eymengau) de Beziers: ff. 1r: Chanson, incipit, 'Dregz de natura comanda don amors pren naysshe men'; ff. 2r-250v: Breviari d'Amor, preceded by a table of rubrics. This encyclopaedic work, explaining how the world is an emanation of love, cons...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Occitan, Old
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 256 folios

2284. Royal MS 19 C II

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Royal MS 19 C II
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1. 'LE LIVRE de vices et de vertus' (so colophon): the moral treatise or series of treatises known as 'Somme le Roy', composed by Frère Laurent, al. Lorens, Friar Preacher, confessor to Philippe III, le Hardi, King of France (d. 1285). It agrees in substance and order with Cotton MS. Cleopatra A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item

2285. Royal MS 19 C III

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Royal MS 19 C III
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'LIBER de quatuor nouissimis' (so colophon): treatise of the four last things, viz. Death, judgement, Hell, and Heaven, in French, being a version of the Latin treatise, doubtfully attributed to Henricus de Langenstein, al. de Hassia [Rector of the University of Vienna, d. 1397, see Fabricius, B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2286. Royal MS 19 C IV

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Royal MS 19 C IV
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Le songe du vergier, attributed to Évrart de Trémaugon
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Le Songe du vergier is a French translation of the Latin tract Somnium viridari compiled in 1376 and attributed to Évrart de Trémaugon, councillor to Charles V and maître des requêtes at the hotel de roi (see Schnerb-Lièvre, 1982, pp. lxxvii-lxxxviii). The manuscript is the presentation copy off...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1378
Extent:

247 folios.

2287. Royal MS 19 C IX

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Royal MS 19 C IX
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'LES CRONIQUIES DANGLETERRE': chronicle of the Brute in French prose to 1333. The text is unfinished, breaking off at the words 'viii autres jours de respit', about three pages short of the point at which most MSS. of the class ending with the battle of Halidon Hill terminate (e.g. Cotton MS. Cl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2288. Royal MS 19 C V

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Royal MS 19 C V
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COMMENTARY ON PSALMS LI-C, in French: mainly a much-expanded version of that of Petrus Lombardus (Migne, Patr. Lat. cxci. 493). In a short account of the MS. given by S. Berger in La Bible française au Moyen Âge, Paris, 1884, p. 391, it is inaccurately described as 'Commentaire de Saint Augustin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 13th century
Extent:
1 item

2289. Royal MS 19 C VI

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Royal MS 19 C VI
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XENOPHON'S Anabasis, translated into French by Claude de Seyssel [Bishop of Marseilles, 1509, d. 1520). In the prologue addressed to Louis XII the translator says that at the king's request he was visiting the royal library at Blois in March last with [Andreas] Joannes Lascaris, now ambassador a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1508-1509
Extent:
1 item

2290. Royal MS 19 C VII

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Royal MS 19 C VII
Title:
Geoffroy de la Tour-Landry, Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour-Landry; Renaut de Louhans, Mélibée et Prudence; Philippe de Mézières, Griseldis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry (The Book of the Knight of the Tower), written by Geoffroy IV de la Tour Landry (b. before 1330, d. between 1402 and 1406), a nobleman of Anjou, for the instruction of his daughters. The volume also contains a number of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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