Histoire tripartite or Chronique de Baudouin d'Avennes
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Contents: The Histoire tripartite or Chronique de Baudouin d'Avennes, a compilation of ancient history also known as Le trésor des histoires or Le trésor de sapience, consisting of: ff. 1r-19r: Table of Chapters; f. 20r: Prologue; ff. 21r-390r: Histoire tripartite in 368 chapters, up to the...
Contents: Gossuin (Gautier) de Metz (c. 1245), L'Image du monde, a French version of De imagine mundi by Honorius of Autun. ff. 1r-3v: Table of chapters; ff. 4r-4v: Prologue, This manuscript contains a unique prologue linking it to Caxton's printed editions and stating 'ce p[rese]nt volume ap...
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose (abridged version)
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Content: Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris continued by Jean de Meun. This manuscript contains an abridged version of the romance. The text is only 14,000 lines long, with omissions noted. For example on f. 5, rubrics marked by paraphs summarise the narrative omitted, e.g., '[P] Oyseuse, ...
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose; poems including Jean Chapuis, Les Sept Articles de Foi
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Contents: The Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris continued by Jean de Meun. Jean de Meun's portion begins f. 28v: ' Et si lay je perdue espoir'. ff. 2r-147v: 'Maintes genz dient quen songe/ Na se fables non et mensonge./ Mais on puet tel songe songier/ Qui me sont mie mensongier'. Ending:...
Le Miroir des Dames (an anonymous French translation of Durand de Champagne's Speculum Dominarum)
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This manuscript contains an early 15th-century copy of Le Miroir des Dames, an anonymous French translation of the Speculum dominarum, a treatise on queenship written for Jeanne de Navarre (b. 1273, d. 1305), Queen of France and wife of Philip IV (r. 1285-1314), by her confessor, Durand de Champ...
Contents: Matfre Ermengaud (or Matfres Ermengau, Eymengau) de Beziers: ff. 1r: Chanson, incipit, 'Dregz de natura comanda don amors pren naysshe men'; ff. 2r-250v: Breviari d'Amor, preceded by a table of rubrics. This encyclopaedic work, explaining how the world is an emanation of love, cons...
Geoffroy de la Tour-Landry, Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour-Landry; Renaut de Louhans, Mélibée et Prudence; Philippe de Mézières, Griseldis
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This manuscript contains a copy of Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry (The Book of the Knight of the Tower), written by Geoffroy IV de la Tour Landry (b. before 1330, d. between 1402 and 1406), a nobleman of Anjou, for the instruction of his daughters. The volume also contains a number of ...
Chansons, in French, set to music for several, but in most cases three voices, in parts.
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Except where the contrary is stated, the chansons are for three voices and are anonymous. The contra-tenor is sometimes called 'Concordans.' The names of the composers are given only in a few cases, but several are by Josquin des Pres, and one at least (f. 10b) is by Alexander Agricola. Content...
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
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Content: The Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris, continued by Jean de Meun at f. 25r; 'Et si lay je perdu espoir'.. ff. 1r-128r: beginning, 'Maintes gens dient quen songes/ Na se flabes non et menconges/ Mus on puet telz songes songes/ Qui ne sont mie mencongier', ending: 'Ainsi oi la ro...
