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41. Royal MS 15 E IV, ff 1r-174v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 E IV, ff 1r-174v
Title:
Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, volume I, ff. 1-174
Scope & Content:
The first volume of the Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne by Jean de Wavrin, seigneur de Forestel, contains a chronicle of British history from its mythical origins up to the reign of Edward II. It has been bound in two separate parts. Part 1 contains a table of r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1471-1483
Extent:

The first part of a parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

42. Royal MS 15 E IV, ff 175r-350v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 E IV, ff 175r-350v
Title:
Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, volume I, ff 175r-350v
Scope & Content:
The first volume of the Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne by Jean de Wavrin, Seigneur de Forestel, contains a chronicle of British history from its mythical origins up to the reign of Edward II. It has been bound in two separate parts. Part II (ff. 175-350) contin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1471-1483
Extent:

The second part of a parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

43. Royal MS 15 E IV, ff ix-xviii

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 E IV, ff ix-xviii
Title:
Binding and flyleaves for part 2 of Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre, volume 1, ff 175r-350v
Scope & Content:
This section corresponds to the binding and flyleaves for part 2.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1471-1757
Extent:

7 flyleaves and manuscript binding.

44. Royal MS 15 E VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 E VI
Title:
Poems and Romances (the ''Talbot Shrewsbury book'')
Scope & Content:
A collection of fifteen romances, chivalric treatises, instructional texts, chronicles and statutes compiled as a gift to Margaret of Anjou, on her betrothal to Henry VI, from the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, who escorted her to England for the marriage in 1444. The contents are as follows: f. 1v: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1444-1445
Extent:
1 volume

45. Royal MS 17 D VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 D VI
Title:
Thomas Hoccleve, The Regement of Princes, with other poems
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes five works by Thomas Hoccleve (b. c. 1367, d. 1426): 1. The Regement of Princes, incipit: 'Musyng up on the restles besynesse The which this troubly world hath ay on honde'. Includes marginal notes in Latin providing the sources of the text. Printed from this manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

150 + 8 folios.

46. Royal MS 17 E VII vol 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 E VII vol 1
Title:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale
Scope & Content:
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.

47. Royal MS 17 E VII vol 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 E VII vol 2
Title:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale
Scope & Content:
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.

48. Royal MS 18 D II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II
Title:
John Lydgate, Troy Book and Siege of Thebes, with verses by William Cornish, John Skelton, William Peeris and others
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: Added table of contents, 17th century (f. 1r). 1. John Lydgate, Testament (ff. 1v-5r); 2. John Lydgate, Troy Book (ff. 6r-146r); 3. John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes (ff. 147v-162r); 4. William Cornish, A Treatise between Information and Truth (ff. 163r-164r); 5. John ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1457-c 1530
Extent:

213 + 5 folios.

49. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 1v-5r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 1v-5r
Title:
John Lydgate, Testament
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate, Testament, incipit: 'The testamente of John Lydgate, monke of Berry [Bury St Edmunds Abbey] whiche he made hymselfe by his lyre dayes'; without the prologue; explicit: 'Thus endethe testamente of John Lydgate monke of Bery on whose sowle Ihesu haue mercy. Et sic est finis. sit laus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1516-1527
Extent:
5 folios.

50. Royal MS 18 D II, ff 6r-146r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 18 D II, ff 6r-146r
Title:
John Lydgate, Troy Book
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate, Troy Book, a verse paraphrase in five books of the prose Historia Troiana of Guido delle Colonne. Incipit: 'O mighty Mars, that with thy sterne lyght In armes hast the powere and the myght'; explicit: 'This litele boke lowly I betake Yt to supporte, and þus an ende I make.' Followe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1457-1460
Extent:
140 folios.