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MS. Fr. a. 2 (P)

Author:

John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy and Count of Flanders

Title:

Instructions to his commissioners going to Calais to negotiate an extension of the commercial agreement between Flanders and England

Language:

French

Origin:

France

Date:

2 Feb. 1415/16

Provenance:

Chambre des Comptes, Lille; Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), MS. 34921, his sale, Sotheby's 27 April 1903 and 5 following days, lot 544, bought by Maggs, for £4 4s.; Maggs Bros.

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Bodleian Quarterly Record, 7, 1932, 41-45

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MS. Fr. c. 18 (P)

Author:

Title:

Agreement concerning the manner of conducting negotiations for a commercial agreement

Language:

French

Origin:

France Calais

Date:

1404/5

Provenance:

Chambre des Comptes, Lille; Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), MS. 35387; Maggs Bros., 1935

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MS. Fr. c. 25

Author:

Title:

Chronicles of the Dukes of Normandy from the time of Pepin to the accession of Henry III

Language:

French

Origin:

France

Date:

15th cent.

Provenance:

Sir John Savile the elder; Sir Henry Savile; Sir John Savile the younger, his sale, Sotheby's 6 Feb. 1861, lot 29, bought by Powis for £79; Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), MS. 25028; Sotheby's 1 Dec. 1947, lot 102

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MS. Fr. c. 30

Author:

Antoine de la Sale

Title:

Extract from Le Petit Jehan de Saintré; Chronicles, etc.

Language:

French

Origin:

North France

Date:

15th cent., second half

Provenance:

Entries concern the family of St. Pol; Baron Pichon sale, lot 2722; given by Miss K. Chesney, 1962

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O. Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1, Oxford, 1966 (repr. with corrections, 1969), no. 756

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MS. Fr. c. 50

Author:

Title:

Leaf of a Nova Statuta, with the end of 9 Henry V and start of 1 Henry VI

Language:

French, with Latin titles

Origin:

England

Date:

15th cent., second half

Provenance:

Mrs. E. H. Ludlam; bequeathed to her niece, Cicely, Lady Mayhew; given to the Bodleian, December 1996

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MS. Fr. d. 10

Author:

Title:

Fragment, containing extracts from the Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris, for the years 1414-29

Language:

French

Origin:

France

Date:

15th cent., second half

Provenance:

George Neudigate, with his signature and rebus composed of a letter 'N' and a drawing of a gate, late 17th cent.(?); Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (1636-1715), in the sale of his heirs at Sotheby's, 1 July 1861, part of lot 119, bought by Bell for 13s/-; bought from the bookseller John Gray Bell of Manchester by W. D. Mackray in 1863 for 6s/-; Blackwell's bookshop, bought by A. B. Emden (for 21s/-?), and given by him to the Bodleian, 1921

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Leopold Delisle, 'Un nouveau manuscrit du journal d'un bourgeois de Paris (1405-1449)', Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, 53, 1892, 684-5 [a copy is bound in with the MS.]

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MS. Fr. d. 16

Author:

Thomas of Britain

Title:

Tristan, fragments

Language:

French

Origin:

England/France

Date:

12th cent., second half

Provenance:

M. L. Canonici, his sale, Sotheby's 25 June 1836, lot 260, bought by ?? (not legible in microfilm copy of auctioneer's annotated catalogue) for £8; Walter Sneyd; Sotheby's, 23 April 1934, lot 133

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O. Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 3, Oxford, 1973, no. 344

Thomas of Britain, Tristan, S. Gregory (ed.), New York/London, 1991 (edition & translation)

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MS. Fr. d. 18, fols. 40, 41, 43

Author:

Title:

Guardbook, including a few medieval fragments

Language:

French

Origin:

France

Date:

13th - 14th centuries

Provenance:

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(cf. Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts, no. 47201, for post-medieval items)

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MS. Fr. d. 19

Author:

Title:

Le livre de Baudoyn conte de Flandres et de Ferrant fils au roy de Portugal

Language:

French

Origin:

France

Date:

15th cent.

Provenance:

'Ce liure est a d... s[...]e de Saubonne ...'; Kraus, 1937

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MS. Fr. e. 22

Author:

William Giffard

Title:

Apocalypse with commentary in Anglo-Norman rhyming verse

Language:

French

Origin:

England

Date:

Late 14th cent.

Provenance:

'Adam Henkin' (?), 17th cent.; John Atridge, South Weald, Essex, early 18th cent.; Sir John Fox, 1946

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O. Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 3, Oxford, 1973, no. 703, pl. LXXI

Olwen Rhys, An Anglo-Norman Rhymed Apocalypse with Commentary from the Giffard MS. Formerly in the Possession of Sir John Fox and now in the Bodleian (Anglo-Norman Text Society, 6), 1946

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MS. Fr. e. 23

Author:

Title:

Grand Coutumier: Les drois et les etablissemens de Normandie

Language:

French

Origin:

France

Date:

Early 14th cent.

Provenance:

'Wylliam Smyth' 16th cent.; Hale library, Alderley; Christie's 18 June 1946, lot 263; Maggs, 1948

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MS. Fr. e. 32

Author:

Title:

La Chevalerie Vivien, and Aliscans

Language:

French

Origin:

France

Date:

Late 12th cent. or c. 1200

Provenance:

Thomas Arnold, St. Augustine's, Canterbury ('Liber fratris T. Arnold. de Libris Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis'; see A. B. Emden, Donors of Books to St. Augustine's Abbey Canterbury, Oxford, 1968, 5), with 15th-cent. pressmark '.Cum.h.' (M. R. James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover, Cambridge, 1903, 374, no. 1533); Savile, sale, Sotheby's 6 Feb. 1861, lot 16, bought by Powis for £150; Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), MS. 25074; Sotheby's, 30 Nov. 1971, lot 495

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Duncan McMillan, 'La Chevalierie Vivien dans le MS. dit "de Savile": notes prolégoméniques', in Études de langue et de littérature du Moyen Age: offertes à Félix Lecoy par ses collègues, ses élèves et ses amis (Paris, 1973), 357-75.

Ian Short, 'An early French epic manuscript: Oxford, Bodleian Library, French e. 32', in The Medieval Alexander legend and romance epic: essays in honour of David J.A. Ross ed. Peter Noble, Lucie Polak, and Claire Isoz (Millwood, NY, 1982), 173-91

D. McMillan, 'Un manuscrit hors série: le cas du Manuscrit S de la Chevalerie Vivien-Aliscans (Bodléienne, French e. 32)', in Symposium in honorem prof. M. de Riquier (Barcelona, 1986), 161-207.