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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 C X
Title:: Vita Statii and Statius' Thebais
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a brief biographical notice of Statius and Statius' Thebais. Decoration: gold initials (oxidized to green) of varying sizes and rubrics throughout. Syntactic marks or glosses using a system of dots and dashes have been used.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of 10th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 A XVI
Title:: Almanac, including a calendar and astronomical information
Scope & Content:: An almanac, including an astronomical calendar in pictorial form, for 1420, with miscellaneous additions. A similar almanac, dated 1412, is now Harley MS 2332. Contents: f. 1v: Added 15th-century meteorological notes from Christmas to Twelfth Night, in a year in which Christmas fell on Sunda...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1420
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 B XXVIII
Title:: Book of expenses of Princess Mary, with an inventory of her jewels; catalogue of printed books in the Royal Library
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a record of the household expenses of Princess Mary, later Mary I (r. 1553-1558), Queen of England, for the period 1536-1544. The accounts feature marginal notes and corrections written in Mary's hand, and her signature inscribed at the end of each month for the first ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1536-1581
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D III
Title:: The Burghley Atlas
Scope & Content:: An atlas of England and Wales, made by Christopher Saxton (1542x4–1610/11), map maker, under the patronage of Thomas Seckford (1515/16–1587), lawyer and administrator. Owned by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520/21-1598), royal minister, whose notes and annotations are found throughout. It ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1574-1592
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 E V
Title:: Histoire tripartite or Chronique de Baudouin d'Avennes
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1473 to 1479
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 A IX
Title:: Gossuin de Metz, L'Image du monde
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1464
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 A XVIII
Title:: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose (abridged version)
Scope & Content:: 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, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 94 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 B XII
Title:: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose; poems including Jean Chapuis, Les Sept Articles de Foi
Scope & Content:: 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:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 194 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 B XVI
Title:: Le Miroir des Dames (an anonymous French translation of Durand de Champagne's Speculum Dominarum)
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1428
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 C I
Title:: Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d'Amor
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Occitan, Old
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 256 folios

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