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French Manuscripts in Yale Collections

Beinecke Ms 129

France, XV 3/4

 

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

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Beinecke ms 162

France, 1502

 

Artelouche de Alagona, etc.

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Beinecke Ms 204

France, XV 3/4

 

Frère Laurent, Somme le Roi

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Beinecke ms 215

France, XIVin

 

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

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Beinecke Ms 216

France, 15th century

 

Raoul LeFevre, Le Recueil des histoires de Troies

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Beinecke ms 226

Flanders, 1476

 

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

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Beinecke ms 227

France, 1357

 

Arthurian romances.

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Beinecke Ms 229

France, XIII

 

Arthurian romances.

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Beinecke ms 230

Flanders, c.1485

 

Honore Bonet, L'Arbre des batailles

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Beinecke ms 318

France, XVmed

 

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

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Beinecke ms 351

France, c.1525

 

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

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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

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Beinecke ms 405

England, XIVmed

 

Brut Chronicle (in Anglo-Norman) etc.

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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.

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Beinecke ms 427

France, XV 3/4

 

Christine de Pizan, Le Livre des trois vertus

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Beinecke ms 492

England, XIVin

 

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

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Beinecke ms 590

England, XIIex + XIIIin

 

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

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Beinecke Ms 703

Northern France, early XIV

 

Jean de Meun, Le Testament.

Raoul de Houdenc, Le Songe d'enfer.

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Beinecke Ms 887

France, XV (?)

 

Fragment (single leaf) of a translation of Boccacio.

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Beinecke ms 925

France, 1225-1275

 

Chevalier au baril

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Beinecke Ms 926

Unknown place, 11 March - 30 May 1563

 

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

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Beinecke Ms 1042

Paris, ca. 1530

 

Harangues et oraisons des anciens (in 2 vols)

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Beinecke Ms 1123

France, c. 1420

 

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

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Beinecke Library, Marston Ms 274

France, XV

 

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

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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).

 

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Yale University Art Gallery 1954.17.1.1-4

France, XV 2

 

Des faites des Romains (4 vols)

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Beinecke ms 418

France, XV 3/4

 

Roman de la Rose

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Literary Manuscripts

Literary Manuscripts

Charters and Documents

Law French Manuscripts

Devotional and Liturgical Books

 

Charters and Documents

 

Law French Manuscripts

 

Beinecke Ms 82.1

France, 16th-17th centuries

 

Endpapers consist of French legal documents.

 

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