Early Books at the Beinecke Library

Beinecke Ms 129

France, XV 3/4

Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica (tr. Guyart des Moulins)

Beinecke ms 162

France, 1502

Artelouche de Alagona, etc.

Beinecke Ms 204

France, XV 3/4

Frère Laurent, Somme le Roi

Beinecke ms 215

France, XIVin

St. Augustine, De civitate Dei, Fr. tr. by Raoul de Presles (in 4 vols)

Beinecke Ms 216

France, 15th century

Raoul LeFevre, Le Recueil des histoires de Troies

Beinecke ms 226

Flanders, 1476

Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Fr. tr. Jean Duchesne

Beinecke ms 227

France, 1357

Arthurian romances.

Beinecke Ms 229

France, XIII

Arthurian romances.

Beinecke ms 230

Flanders, c.1485

Honore Bonet, L'Arbre des batailles

Beinecke ms 318

France, XVmed

Christine de Pizan, La Cite des dames; Jacques le Grand, Le Livre de bonnes moeurs

Beinecke ms 351

France, c.1525

Pigafetta, Antonio (c.1480-c.1534), Journal of Magellan's Voyage

Beinecke ms 395

England, XIII/XIV

Herman de Valenciennes, Bible and L'assomption de Notre Dame; Petrus Alphonsus, Disciplina clericalis; poem on Genesis, lacking first folio; Robert de Ho, Les Enseignements; extract from Partenopeus de Blois; Vie de St Eustache; Letter of Prester John to Emperor Manuel Commenus, tr. into Anglo-Norman verse by Raoul d'Arundel; Guillaume le Clerc, Bestiaire; Le Voyage du chevalier Owen au purgatoire de St Patrice; Wace, Roman de Brut

Beinecke ms 405

England, XIVmed

Brut Chronicle (in Anglo-Norman) etc.

Beinecke ms 406

France, c.1400

Guillaume de Deguilleville, Le Pelerinage de la vie humaine; Willem van Ruysbroeck, Itinerarium; Summary of Aethicus Ister, Cosmographia III 31-39; Jean Cahpius, Les sept articles de la foi (attributed to Jean de Meun); f. 92 poem added in s. xv hand contrasting the life of a servant and a rich man.

Beinecke ms 427

France, XV 3/4

Christine de Pizan, Le Livre des trois vertus

Beinecke ms 492

England, XIVin

Pierre de Peckham, La lumiere as Lais; St. Edmund Rich, abp. of Canterbury, Speculum amicicie in Fr. translation

Beinecke ms 590

England, XIIex + XIIIin

ff. 115-122 French moralistic poetry; ff. 123-129 Le roman des romans

Beinecke Ms 703

Northern France, early XIV

Jean de Meun, Le Testament.

Raoul de Houdenc, Le Songe d'enfer.

Beinecke Ms 887

France, XV (?)

Fragment (single leaf) of a translation of Boccacio.

Beinecke ms 925

France, 1225-1275

Chevalier au baril

Beinecke Ms 926

Unknown place, 11 March - 30 May 1563

Ribaut, Jean (c1520-1565). "Whole and true discovery of Terra Florida"

Beinecke Ms 1042

Paris, ca. 1530

Harangues et oraisons des anciens (in 2 vols)

Beinecke Ms 1123

France, c. 1420

Jacobus de Voragine, Legende dorée (tr. Jean de Vignay)

Beinecke Library, Marston Ms 274

France, XV

Leonardo Bruni, De bello punico, translated into French by Jean Lebegue.

Beinecke Library, Osborn a56

England, [ca. 1300-1349]

Treatises in Anglo-Norman: Walter of Bibbesworth, Le Tretiz; Nicholas Bozon, Les proverbes des bons enseignements; Hue de Tabarie, Ordre de la chevalerie; Le Mariage des ix filles au diable (here a translation from the Latin attributed to St. Maurice, Bishop of Paris).

Yale University Art Gallery 1954.17.1.1-4

France, XV 2

Des faites des Romains (4 vols)

Beinecke ms 418

France, XV 3/4

Roman de la Rose

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Beinecke Ms 82.1

France, 16th-17th centuries

Endpapers consist of French legal documents.

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Beinecke ms whatever

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Beinecke ms 82

France, XIIImed

Bible.

paper boards composed of fragments of French legal documents of the 16th and 17th centuries

Beinecke Ms 16

Flanders, XV 2

Hours, use of Rome. Calendar in French, as well as headings in the Suffrages (ff. 183r-194v)

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