French Manuscripts in Yale Collections
Beinecke Ms 129
France, XV 3/4
Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica (tr. Guyart des Moulins)
Beinecke ms 215
France, XIVin
St. Augustine, De civitate Dei, Fr. tr. by Raoul de Presles (in 4 vols)
Beinecke ms 226
Flanders, 1476
Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Fr. tr. Jean Duchesne
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 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 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 926
Unknown place, 11 March - 30 May 1563
Ribaut, Jean (c1520-1565). "Whole and true discovery of Terra Florida"
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).
Literary Manuscripts
Charters and Documents
Law French Manuscripts
Beinecke Ms 82.1
France, 16th-17th centuries
Endpapers consist of French legal documents.