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1741. Royal MS 18 D IV

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Royal MS 18 D IV
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JOHN LYDGATE, Fall of Princes (cf. 18 B. XXXI). In nine books. Imperfect, wanting one leaf after f. 32 (bk. i, ch. xiv, ll. 337-504), six after f. 41 (bk. i, ch. xxiii in ed. printed by J. Wayland [1558 ?] or xxii in ed. 1554, beg. 'After this Pirrhus' to bk. ii, ch. ii, l. 126), two quires (pre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1446-1470
Extent:
1 item

1742. Royal MS 18 D IX-X

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Royal MS 18 D IX-X
Title:
Bible Historiale, Volumes 1 and 2
Scope & Content:
These two volumes (Royal 18 D. IX and Royal 18 D. X) contain part of the second edition of the Bible Historiale, a French adaptation by Guyart des Moulins (c. 1291-95) of Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica. The fourth volume is Royal MS 15 D I, but it was written previously and altered to inc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1479
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Two parchment volumes

1743. Royal MS 18 D V

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Royal MS 18 D V
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JOHN LYDGATE, Fall of Princes (cf. 18 D. IV). A quire of eight leaves after f. 184 (bk. viii, ch. xiii, l. 176- ch. xxv, 1. 14) and two leaves after f. 210 (bk. ix, ch. xxxiii, 1. i-ch. xxxiv, 1. 217) have been lost and supplied in a 16th cent. hand. The text, as in 18 B. XXXI has a lacuna of se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1744. Royal MS 18 D VI

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Royal MS 18 D VI
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JOHN LYDGATE, Troy Book (cf. 18 D. II, art. 2). The present copy (see Bergen, Description of the MSS., 1906, p. xxiii, and cf. Ward, Cat of Romances, i, p. 79) contains an inferior text, wanting the Envoy and Verba translatoris and with numerous omissions including bk. ii, 3405-3466 and 4713-477...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1745. Royal MS 18 D VII

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Royal MS 18 D VII
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'JEHAN BOCCACE des cas des nobles homes et femmes': the second translation of Laurent de Premierfait (cf. 14 E. V); preceded by the translator's preface and second prologue and Boccaccio's preface. Dedication beg. 'A puissant noble et excellent'. The other prologues and text nearly as in 14 E. V...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1746. Royal MS 18 D VIII

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Royal MS 18 D VIII
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BIBLE in French, i.e. probably a bible historiale moyenne or a grande bible historiale (see above, 17 E. VII): last volume only, containing Maccabees and the New Testament. For the minute differences by which alone this text is distinguished from the latter part of a complete Bible of the 13th c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 item

1747. Royal MS 18 E III

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Royal MS 18 E III
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Vol. I. ff. 342. A.D. 1479.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1479
Extent:
1 item

1748. Royal MS 18 E III-IV

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Royal MS 18 E III-IV
Title:
'LE LIVRE de Valerius Maximus', &c.: the same work as in 17 F. IV. In two volumes. Colophon, 'Cy fine le ixe liure de. Valerius Maximus commencie a translater par reuerende personne maistre Simon de Hesdin jusques au viie liure et paracheue par noble homme Nycolas de Gonnesse'. Vellum; ff. 342, 329. 18 3/4 in. x 13 1/2 in. A. D. 1479. Gatherings of 8 leaves (in vol. i, xvii6, xxviii6, last 4 ; in vol. ii, iii2, end of table). Double columns of 39 lines. Sec. fol. of vol. i in table 'com...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1479
Extent:
2 items

1749. Royal MS 18 E IV

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Royal MS 18 E IV
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Vol. II. ff. 329. A.D. 1479.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1479
Extent:
1 item

1750. Royal MS 18 E VI

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Royal MS 18 E VI
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'LA FLEUR DES HYSTOIRES', vols. ii and iii. The recension of this large historical collection by Jean Mansel to which the present volume belongs is not that contained in 16 F. VI, VII and the Paris MSS. Bib]. Nat., londs fr. 302-304, &c., but the earlier (?) recension contained in Paris MSS....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1460
Extent:
1 item

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