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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 D III
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'LA BIBLE HYSTORIAULX (sic) ou les Hystoires Escolastres': the grande bible historiale avec prologues of Berger's classification (La Bible française au Moyen Âge, p. 387), being the Historia Scholastica of Petrus Comestor, modified and translated (1291-1295) by Guyart des Moulins, canon of Aire,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 D IV
Title:: Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant, a French translation of Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni
Scope & Content:: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated into French by Vasco da Lucena (b. c. 1435, d. 1512) as Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant and dedicated to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1433, d. 1477). ff. 1r-10r: Table of rubrics ff. 11r-14r: Translator's prologue, with ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1470s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 D V
Title:
Scope & Content:: HOMILIES and Dialogues of S. Gregory the Great, and alphabet of tales, in French. With table of rubrics. Artt. 2, 3 appear to be taken from one form of the historical collection called Fleur des Histoires. Contents:- 1. 'Les Omelyes de Monseigneur Saint Gregoire sur quarante euuangilles' (so co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 D VI
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'LE LIURE que fist Titus Liuius des excellens fais des Rommains, lequel contient trois decades', viz. libb. i-x, xxi-xxxix, being all that were then known: translated by 'Pierre Bertheure' (al. Bersuire, Petrus Berchorius, cf. 15 C. XVI, art. 2), Prior of S. Eloi at Paris (d. 1362). See Paulin P...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 E II-III
Title:: 15 E. II, III 'DES PROPRIETEZ des Choses': French translation by Jean Corbechon of the Liber de proprietatibus rerum (cf. 12 E. III) of Bartholomaeus Anglicus. In nineteen books. Printed, Lyons, 1482, &c. Cf. also Paulin Paris, Les MSS. François, i, p. 260, ii, pp. 217-222. Two volumes. Vol. i contains books i-xi; the table of rubrics prefixed had been carried further, but the continuation is crased. Vol. ii, books xi-xix, has prefixed to its table a short preface beg. 'Or auons par lay...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1482
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 E V
Title:: Perceforest, Volume 1
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the first volume of Le Roman de Perceforest (Anciennes croniques Dangleterre, faictz et gestes du roy Perceforest, et des chevaliers du Franc Palais), revised by David Aubert (fl. 1458-1479), librarian to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, with his preface (ff. 3-4). The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: Last decade of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 B I-XXVIII
Title:: 16 B. I-XXVIII These MSS., &c., are from the collections of Thomas Hyde, D.D., and are chiefly Oriental.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 28 items

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