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Manuscripts, French

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Manuscripts entirely or partially in French

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

MS 21: Composite manuscript including three texts, 13th century

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Identifier: MS 21
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains three different texts, all in the same hand.ff. 1r-96v: Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis ('Book of the praises of the Virgin Mary') attributed to Vincent de Beauvais;ff. 97r-118r: part of a breviary with the readings of the Officum Parvum Beatae Mariae Virginis ('Little Office of Our Lady' or 'Hours of the Virgin');ff. 119r-164r: a collection of excerpts from...
Dates: 13th century
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MS 45: Book of Hours (Use of Toul), 16th century

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Identifier: MS 45
Contents Book of Hours, use of Toul. It is of French origin (Toul) and is from the 15th-16th century, but based on external evidence is probably from after 1499. Inserted into the first border there is a coat of arms of Anne of Brittany, Queen of France. She married Charles VIII of France in 1491 and later his successor, Louis XII in 1499. External evidence suggests that the book must have been written for her after her marriage with Louis XII. It is curious, however, that none of the prayers have...
Dates: 16th century

MS 107: Composite manuscript including twenty-four texts, 13th-14th century

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Identifier: MS 107
Contents Contains twenty-four texts, in two different hands. This manuscript was made in England and dates from the 13th-14th century; the texts are various religious tracts in Latin, Old French, and Middle English.Flyleaves: Unidentified Latin text and the start of a Contents list in a 17th-century handff. 1r-28v: De Miseria Condicionis Humane (On the wretchedness of the human condition) by Pope Innocent...
Dates: 13th-14th century

MS 156: Statuta Anglie (List of English Statutes), 14th century

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Identifier: MS 156
Contents This manuscript contains a list of medieval statutes and other laws issued by the Kingdom of England before the development of the English Parliament, and a Registrum Brevium, which is collection of writs used by legal practitioners, especially in the late Middle Ages.ContentsStatutes: start on f. 1r and ends on f. 29v, and contains the following statutes: Magna Carta,...
Dates: 14th century

MS 157: Statuta Anglie [lost during WWII], 14th century

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Identifier: MS 157
Scope and Contents

This manuscript was lost during the Second World War. It was a 14th-century English manuscript in vellum, written in Latin and in French, which contained a list of medieval statutes and other laws issued by the Kingdom of England before the development of the English Parliament. A more detailed description can be found in Catherine Borland's catalogue (1916): MS 157 (external link).

Dates: 14th century

MS 160: Les Ordonnances de la Toison d'Or, late 15th century

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Identifier: MS 160
Contents This manuscript contains the ordinances of the Order of the Golden Fleece, a Roman Catholic order of chivalry founded in Bruges by Philip the Good in 1430. The Order still exists in Spain and Austria. This is a late medieval copy in French of the document that determined the practices and rules of this royal Order.ContentsTable of contents I: the title on f. 1r reads: Sensuit la table de ce present...
Dates: late 15th century

MS 181: Composite manuscript containing six texts, 14th century

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Identifier: MS 181
Contents Contains six texts, possibly written by two hands. The first four texts belong to a group of Latin textbooks largely used in schools during the Middle Ages, collectively known as Auctores octo morales ('Eight moral authors'). Catherine Borland erroneously attributes the second, third and fourth text (Liber Faceti docens mores hominum, Liber parabolarum and Liber...
Dates: 14th century

MS 182: Composite manuscript containing three texts, mid/late 14th-early 15th century

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Identifier: MS 182
Scope and Contents This manuscript is composed of three sections bound together out of order, in different hands. The different texts are listed below and detailed separately.ff. 1r-2v; 4r-v; 26r-v: Fragments of a commentary on a variety of court cases in French.ff. 3r-v; 5r-24v: A text in Latin headed Flores Dictaminis Petri de Vineis et primo de querimonia Frederici Rubrica ( Flores...
Dates: mid/late 14th-early 15th century

MS 183: Royal Letter Book, late 14th-early 15th century, c 1335-c 1417 (dates of the original letters)

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Identifier: MS 183
Scope and Contents MS 183, the Royal Letter Book, is an English late medieval manuscript containing contemporary copies of 374 letters, most of which belong to the reigns of Edward III (1327-1377) and Richard II (1377-1397). The manuscript further contains a few copies of letters from the reign of Henry IV (1399-1413) and the copy of a single letter from the reign of Henry V (1413-1422), as well as several letters between other correspondents. The overall date range of the...
Dates: late 14th-early 15th century; c 1335-c 1417 (dates of the original letters)

MS 187: L’Arbre des Batailles by Honoré Bonet , 15th century

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Identifier: MS 187
Contents This manuscript contains the book L’Arbre des Batailles by Honoré Bonet (c. 1340 – c. 1410), a Benedictine and prior of Salon near Embrun. He studied at the University of Avignon and wrote about philosophy, law, politics, and Heraldry. L’Arbre des Batailles is one of his most important works. It was written around 1382-87 in the form of a scholastic dialogue and deals with war and the laws of war. The work is composed of four...
Dates: 15th century