Manuscript on parchment of Chronique de Baudouin d'Avesnes or Trésor des histoires, a chronicle of the world in 633 chapters from Creation up to the time of emperor Tiberius, composed at the court of Hainaut between 1278 and 1281
Manuscript on paper of Frère Laurent, Somme le Roi (The Book of Vices and Virtues). Written presumably for Agnes of Burgundy, Duchess of Bourbon, who died at Moulins-sur-Allier in 1476
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Laurent, Frère.
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of English statutes, many from the reign of Edward I. The volume opens with a table of chapters in the principal statutes, headed "Magna carta," followed by a copy of the Magna Carta as confirmed by Edward I (f...
Description:
In Latin and Middle French.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Edward I, King of England, 1239-1307., Taussig, Anthony., and England. Parliament.
Subject (Topic):
Forestry law and legislation, Feudal law, Law, Manuscripts, Medieval, Mortmain, and Maintenance and champerty
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing Pope John XXI's Thesaurus pauperum (ff. 1-84v). Also contains "Ci commence phisinomie qui ensegne" (in French; ff. 85v-87), De junipero et fructu suo (ff. 87v-88), "Hic sunt virtutes et effica...
Alternative Title:
Thesaurus pauperum; Physionomia, in French; De junipero et fructu suo [and three additional tracts]
Description:
In Latin and Middle French.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, and Therapeutics
