Manuscripts, French
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Manuscripts entirely or partially in French
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
Book of Hours (Use of Troyes), mid 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 307
Contents
MS 307 is a book of hours (Use of Troyes) from the mid-15th century. It was made in France, for the diocese of Troyes.ff. 1r-12v: A full calendar in French. Alternating gold, blue and red ink for effect.ff. 13r-18r: Sequence of the Four Gospels. Prayer begins on f. 14v with Protector in te sperantium...ff. 18v-21v: ...
Dates:
mid 15th century
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
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
Composite manuscript including four texts, mostly the Decretales Gregorii IX et Innocentii IV, 2nd half of the 13th century
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Identifier: MS 300
Contents
MS 300 contains four texts bound together, in different hands. It includes a copy of the Decretales Gregorii IX (Decretals of Pope Gregory IX) ordered by Pope Gregory IX, and put together by his chaplain and confessor, Raymond of Peñafort, and a copy of the Decretales Innocentii IV (Decretals of Innocent IV). Verses have been added to the volume in blank space during the 13th century, as well as a poem of twenty-one long lines...
Dates:
2nd half of the 13th century
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
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
Fragments of the Prose Chronicle by Guillaume le Breton, late 14th century (c 1380)
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Identifier: MS 211/XXXVII
Scope and Contents
These are two leaves from a vernacular French version of the Prose Chronicle, by Guillaume le Breton. The vernacular translation of this chronicle seems to have been unknown until C. Borland's work on this fragment in the early 20th century. Folio 1 starts with 'Puiz vous fis de Garenne Conte' and ends with 'Qui lavoit demande en part'; folio 2 starts with 'Freres le roi qui at eu', and ends with 'Et s'en revint ainsinc delivres'
Dates:
late 14th century (c 1380)
Kalendar, 16th century
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Identifier: MS 212
Contents
This manuscript contains a calendar of saints, which is a calendar of the liturgical or Christian year (also known as Kalendar) that assigns a feast day for on or more saints in most of the days of the year. This particular calendar seems to follow the English tradition, but it belonged to Dutch and French owners. Most pages contain notes in Middle French written on the lower margin.
Dates:
16th century
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
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