Archive Reference (shelfmark): Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X / Digitised Content Platform: BL legacy Universal Viewer (unavailable) - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 C III
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). Contents: ff. 1r-11r: Table of Contents. The incipit gives the date o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c. 1485-1490
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 C V
Title:: Des cleres et nobles femmes, an anonymous French translation of Boccacio's De mulieribus claris
Scope & Content:: Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris is a moralizing compilation of biographical sketches of famous women begun in 1361 and revised several times before his death in 1375. The work was very popular, as attested by the number of translations and including this anonymous French translation, Des cleres...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1410
Extent:: A parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 D II
Title:: Le Roman de Tristan en prose
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the second part of Le Roman de Tristan en prose, attributed to Hélie de Borron (fl. 13th century), and written in Middle French prose. Contents: ff. 2r-315r: Le Roman de Tristan en prose, written in Middle French, imperfect at the beginning, lacking the fir...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 D XI
Title:: Cycle of Guillaume d'Orange
Scope & Content:: A collection of chansons de geste known as the Grand cycle de Guillaume d'Orange about the deeds of the legendary French hero William of Orange and his extended family. The Grand cycle comprises both the Cycle de Guillaume and the Cycle de Narbonne. These include tales of Guillaume's ancestors, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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