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1781. Royal MS 19 B XVII

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Royal MS 19 B XVII
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'LA LEGENDE DOREE en francois que frere Iehan de Vignay translata de latin en francois' (so colophon): version made circ. 1340 of the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (cf. 10 B. XII, art. 3, &c.). The transiator mentions his previous translation of 'Le mireoir des hy...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1382
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1 item

1782. Royal MS 19 B XVIII

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Royal MS 19 B XVIII
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'LE LIVRE DEZ FAIZ DARMES et de Cheuallerie', by Christine de Pisan (cf. 15 E. VI, art. 14). The passage relating to alleged English treachery is retained. Table of contents to each part. Preface (f. 4) beg. 'Pource que hardiment est tant neccessaire'; text, 'Chaton le vaillant combatant'. Incom...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
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1 item

1783. Royal MS 19 C II

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Royal MS 19 C II
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1. 'LE LIVRE de vices et de vertus' (so colophon): the moral treatise or series of treatises known as 'Somme le Roy', composed by Frère Laurent, al. Lorens, Friar Preacher, confessor to Philippe III, le Hardi, King of France (d. 1285). It agrees in substance and order with Cotton MS. Cleopatra A...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
Late 14th century
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1 item

1784. Royal MS 19 C III

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Royal MS 19 C III
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'LIBER de quatuor nouissimis' (so colophon): treatise of the four last things, viz. Death, judgement, Hell, and Heaven, in French, being a version of the Latin treatise, doubtfully attributed to Henricus de Langenstein, al. de Hassia [Rector of the University of Vienna, d. 1397, see Fabricius, B...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
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1 item

1785. Royal MS 19 C IX

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Royal MS 19 C IX
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'LES CRONIQUIES DANGLETERRE': chronicle of the Brute in French prose to 1333. The text is unfinished, breaking off at the words 'viii autres jours de respit', about three pages short of the point at which most MSS. of the class ending with the battle of Halidon Hill terminate (e.g. Cotton MS. Cl...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
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1 item

1786. Royal MS 19 C V

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Royal MS 19 C V
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COMMENTARY ON PSALMS LI-C, in French: mainly a much-expanded version of that of Petrus Lombardus (Migne, Patr. Lat. cxci. 493). In a short account of the MS. given by S. Berger in La Bible française au Moyen Âge, Paris, 1884, p. 391, it is inaccurately described as 'Commentaire de Saint Augustin...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
Early 13th century
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1 item

1787. Royal MS 19 C VI

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Royal MS 19 C VI
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XENOPHON'S Anabasis, translated into French by Claude de Seyssel [Bishop of Marseilles, 1509, d. 1520). In the prologue addressed to Louis XII the translator says that at the king's request he was visiting the royal library at Blois in March last with [Andreas] Joannes Lascaris, now ambassador a...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1508-1509
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1 item

1788. Royal MS 19 C X

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Royal MS 19 C X
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'TRESORS the work of Brunetto Latini, see above, 17 E. I. The MS., which is not mentioned in the list in Chabaille's edition, is akin to, but not derived from, Paris MS. Bibl. Nat., fonds fr. 1109 (formerly 7363), and contains the chapters on Berengarius and his successors, but not the interpola...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14th century
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1 item

1789. Royal MS 19 C XI

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Royal MS 19 C XI
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MORAL TREATISES and poems, mostly French translations from Latin works. Contents:- 1. The Moralized Game of Chess in French, translated by Jean de Vignay from the 'De ludo Scaccorum' (see 12 B. XXIII, 12 E. I, art. 9) of Jacobus de Cessolis, preceded by a prologue dedicating the work to 'Jehan ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1790. Royal MS 19 C XII

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Royal MS 19 C XII
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ESTOIRE DEL SAINT GRAAL: the prose romance purporting to be from a Latin original translated by Robert de Borron; cf. 14 E. III, art. 1, and Sommer's Arthurian Romances, vol. i. Imperfect at the end, wanting four or five leaves. No original title, but space is left for a long rubric (or a miniat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
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1 item

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