New Search Name Barrois, Paul, former owner of various French medieval mss, fl mid 19th century

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1. Add MS 36614

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1. PERCEVAL le Gallois, or the Conte du Graal, a poem left unfinished by Chrestien de Troyes, and continued by various writers; in about 32000 octosyllabic lines. French. f. 4. Begins with the usual prologue " Qui petit seimme petit queut," etc., in 66 lines (see Perceval le Gallois, ed. Ch. Potvin, Soc. des Bibliophiles Belges, Mons, 1865-1872, vol. ii. p. 307); omitting the preliminary " Élucidation de l'histoire du Graal" with which the Mons MS. begins (ib. ii. p. 1). This is followed by the ...
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includes: f. 4 Romances: Perceval le Gallois: 13th cent.: Fr. f. 4 Poetry: Perceval le Gallois, by Chrestien de Troyes: 13th cent. f. 4 Perceval: Perceval le Gallois: 13th cent. f. 4 Grail, The Holy: Perceval le Gallois, or the Conte du Graal: 13th cent. f. 4 Chrestien de Troyes: Perceval le Gallois...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 36615

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Title:
The Chanson of Godfrey of Bouillon ('Le Chevalier au Cygne')
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THE CHANSON of Godfrey of Bouillon, or (as it is more usually called, from its opening branch) Le Chevalier au Cygne. French. In about 55,000 lines of rhyming alexandrines. Without any formal division, but containing the following branches, according to the classification usually adopted (see L. Gau...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Early 14th century
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Parchment codex

3. Add MS 36616

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MISSAL of Franciscan use. The contents are as follows (artt. 1 and 2 being additions in a late 14th-early 15th cont. hand) :- 1. Calendar (Jan. and Feb. wanting). f. 1. Many saints associated with the Low Countries (Gertrude, Servacius, Boniface, Hubert, Willibrord, Cunibert and Lebuin); but also Wenceslaus, Duke of Bohemia (28 Sept.), and Elzear, Baron of Ansouis in Provence and Count of Ariano in Apulia (27 Sept.). Though clearly a Franciscan calendar, none of the special anniversaries denotin...
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Liturgies LATIN: Missal, of Franciscan use: 14th cent. Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Missal: miniature-initials and borders: 14th cent. includes: f. 168 Dukes of Burgundy: Arms: late 15th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 14th century-Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 36618

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" FORI ARAGONUM " and " Observantiae " : charters and laws of Aragon, etc. The references below are to the Saragossa edition, Fori et Observantiae, 1542. 1. " Incipiunt fori Aragonie ": the compilation by Vitalis de Canellas, Bishop of Huesea, promulgated by James l., King of Aragon, with consent of his assembled nobles, etc., at Huesca in Jan. 1247. Latin. In eight books. Preface by the bishop (for this the edition substitutes a royal decree), beg. " Cum de foris Aragonie." The text exhibits co...
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Law of Spain: Fori Aragonum et Observantiae: 14th cent.: Lat. and Span. Art. Illuminations and Drawings SPANISH: Laws of Aragon: initials with figures: 14th cent. includes: f. 2 James I of Spain; of Aragon: Fori Aragoniae, promulgated at Huesca 1247: 14th cent.: Lat. f. 2 Vitalis de Canellas, Bishop...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 36619

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Title:
ORDINANCE of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, for the discipline and equipment of his military levies (gens de guerre de son ordonnance). Dated " en l'abbaye de Saint Maximi[n] lez la cite de Treues le - iour de - lan de grace mil quatrecens soixante et treize." Printed in Gen. Guillaume's Hist. de l'Organisation Militaire sous les Ducs de Bourgogne (Mém. Acad. Belg. tom. xxii., 1848), app. H. The ordinance as there given is stated to have been found in Charles' tent after the battle of Morat...
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Charles the Bold; Duke of Burgundy: Ordinance for military levies: 1473.: Fr. Bookplates: Arms (Carter or Heselden ?). Bindings FRENCH: Crimson velvet, gilt bosses and clasps: 19th cent. Art. Illuminations and Drawings FLEMISH: Ordinances of Charles the Bold : large miniature and initials: circ. 147...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1473
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 36620

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"DEMONSTRANCE pour enseignier ceulz qui ne sceuent le fait des monnoyes selon ce que len est accoustume es monnoyes ": a handbook of information as to the coinage in Flanders, circ. 1476 (see below, art. 6). The principal contents are 1. " Comment len liure et fait compte de fin ar-ent ou de grenaille." f. 4 b. 2. " Lenseignement sur le fait des monnoyes dor." f. 9 b. 3. " Enseignement de contrefaiz flourins de Rin de deux manieres." f. 11 b. 4. Instructions for " quiconques veult trouuer le dro...
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Chrétien François de Lamoignon, Garde des Sceaux de France: Book-plate: 18th cent. Flanders: Handbook on the coinage: circ. 1476.: Fr. Coinage: Handbook on the coinage in Flanders: circ. 1476.: Fr. Bookplates: Lamoignon (Chretien Francois de): 18th cent. includes: f. 82 Recipes: "Pour faire eaue for...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 36621

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" EXTRAIT d'un memoire touchant le gouvernement des Provinces Unies des Pays-Bas, fait par Mr de Bonrepaus à son retour de l'Ambassade de Hollande en 1699 ": an account of the parties in the Netherlands and their probable attitude in case of the death of William Ill., by Francois d'Usson de Bonrepaux, French Ambassador Extraordinary. French. Paper; ff. 10. Early XVIII. cent. Ashburnham-Barrois MS. 553 (sale-cat. 1901, lot 75). 13 1/4 in. x 8 iii.
Scope & Content:
François d' Usson de Bonrepaux, French Ambassador to Holland: Extract of relation by: 1699.: Fr. Netherlands, United Provinces: Extract of relation by the French Ambassador: 1699.: Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Egerton MS 2833

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Egerton MS 2833
Title:
PETRI Comestoris Historia Scholastica. Begins with the usual " prologus epistolaris " to William, Archbishop of Sens (v. Migne, Patrol. Lat. cxcviii. col. 1053). The text agrees in the main with that of Migne, but the concluding part of the Gospel-history is much longer (ff. 215-216, cf. Migne, col. 1644). Ends " scilicet in catacumbis. Explicit liber historiarum." Vellum ; ff. 242, in double columns of 40 lines. XIII. cent. Finely illuminated initials at the beginnings of books, chapter-initial...
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Petrus Comestor, Chancellor of Paris: Historia Scholastica: 13th cent. Bible. Bible Histories: Petri Comestoris Historia Scholastica: 13th cent. Art. Illuminations and Drawings FRENCH: Historia Scholastica initials: 13th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 item