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81. Royal MS 19 D II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 D II
Title:
Guyard des Moulins, Bible historiale ('The Bible of John the Good')
Scope & Content:
Guyard des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible historiale complétée moyenne according to Berger 1884), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica. Preface incipit: 'Pour ce que li deables'. The manuscript's content follows the general arrangement of the text of the Bible historia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1350-1356
Extent:

526 folios.

82. Royal MS 19 D III, ff 1r-288v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 D III, ff 1r-288v
Title:
Bible Historiale, Volume 1, with prefaces and additional material
Scope & Content:
A summary of the contents: Translator's prologue: rubric: 'Cy com[m]ence le prologue du translateur qui translate et mist de latin en francois la bible hystorial selons les hystoires scolastiques.'; incipit : 'Pource que le dyable...' (f. 1r); explicit: 'Et en lan de grace mil CC xxIIII et XVII...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1411
Extent:

The first volume of a parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

83. Royal MS 19 D III, ff 289r-604v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 D III, ff 289r-604v
Title:
Bible historiale, Volume 2, with additional material including Saints' lives
Scope & Content:
A summary of the contents: Proverbs to Maccabees (ff. 289r-450v): rubric: ‘Cy com[m]ence la seconde partie principale de la bible qui parle de sapience...’ (f. 289r); L'histoire de Jehan Hyrcan: rubric: 'Cy com[m]ence lystoire Iehan Hyrcan..'; incipit; 'Apres la mort Symon frere Iudas...'; ex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1411
Extent:

The second volume of a parchment codex bound in 2 volumes

84. Royal MS 19 D III, ff v-xi

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 D III, ff v-xi
Title:
Binding and flyleaves for volume 2 of the Bible Historiale, ff. 289r-604v
Scope & Content:
This section corresponds to the binding and flyleaves for volume 2 of the Bible Historiale.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1411
Extent:
4 folios of flyleaves and binding

85. Royal MS 20 B XX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 B XX
Title:
Le livre et la vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre
Scope & Content:
The Vraye histoire du bon roy Alexandre, incipit (rubric):'Comment nostre seigneur donna congnoissance a Alixandre de trier le bien du mal'; (text): 'Puis que le premier pere duman lignage'; with a table of contents (ff. 1r-2v). The French text of the Vraye histoire is based on the Latin Histori...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1420-c 1425
Extent:

Parchment codex

86. Royal MS 20 D I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 D I
Title:
Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César, second redaction
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the earliest surviving copy of the second redaction of the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César, probably produced in the 14th century. This version focuses on Troy, eliminating the biblical histories and the history of Alexander and integrates portions of the prose translati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1330-c 1340
Extent:

363 folios.

87. Royal MS 20 D IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 D IV
Title:
Lancelot du Lac
Scope & Content:
The present manuscript contains part of the prose cycle known as Lancelot du Lac, or the Prose Lancelot, beginning two-thirds of the way through the second part at 'Mout fu rice la cours ke li rois tint a celle pentecouste' (f. 1r) and ending half way through the third part, the Agravain, at 'Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1300-1380
Extent:

A parchment codex