Anglo-French Finding Aid

This finding aid was composed by Elizabeth Hebbard in 2017 and reflects known holdings up to that date.  If you have addition or corrections, please send them to Raymond Clemens.

Loc. Font Place of copy Date of copy Title French contents Notes Type of document Orbis Digital copy
YUAG 1954.17.1.1-4 France XV 2 Livy. Des faites
des Romains Ab Urbe Condita Historiarum romanorum		   4 vols. literary no catalogue illuminations only
BRBL GEN MSS 1005 Southern France   Panat Family
Papers, 1200-1905		 Over a dozen
medieval documents on parchment (1200-1400), as well as some late paper
copies of other medieval documents		     orbis no images
BRBL GEN MSS 838 France   [several]   finding aid   orbis no images
BRBL GEN MSS 938 France   Manuscripts
removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Julian Marshall’s Annals of tennis,
1492-1891		       orbis no images
BRBL GEN MSS FILE 477 France 1346 (July 30) Bond between
Louis de Chastillon, comte de Blois, and Jehan de Chambort, 1346 July 30.		 [entirety]   charter or
document		 orbis no images
BRBL GEN MSS FILE 479 France 1519 (December 13) Lettre
d’état du duc Anthoine : concernantes les franchises des tabillions et
la juridiction des nobles, gens d’église, et autres		 [entirety]   charter or
document		 orbis no images
BRBL GEN MSS FILE 480 France 1544 (May 6) Confirmation by
Francis I, King of France (1494-1547) of seizin for Jean de Turin		 [entirety]   charter or
document		 orbis no images
BRBL GEN MSS FILE 481 Vauluysant 1554 (April 1) Letter to the
provosts of the merchants and échevins of Paris from Anne, duc de Montmorency
(1493-1567)		 [entirety]   charter or
document		 orbis no images
BRBL GEN MSS FILE 482 France 1554 Deed for the
barony and estate of Couppel		 Manuscript
document, on paper, in a single cursive hand, signed by Queen Catherine of
France and others, containing the deed of sale for the barony and estate of
Couppel to Jehan de Semys.		   charter or
document		 orbis no images
BRBL GEN MSS FILE 483 Fontainebleau 1556 (August 27) Letter to the
comte du Lude from Anne, duc de Montmorency (1493-1567)		 [entirety]   charter or
document		 orbis no images
BRBL GEN MSS FILE 484 Nancy 1563 (February 25) Letter to
Catherine de Médicis from Charles, duc de Lorraine (1543-1608)		 [entirety]   charter or
document		 orbis no images
BRBL GEN MSS FILE 485 Ranou 1580s (August 2) Letter to M. de
la Porte Laval from Philippe Emmanuel de Mercoeur, duc de Lorraine
(1558-1602)		 [entirety]   charter or
document		 orbis no images
BRBL Beinecke MS 3.16 France XVI Legal document Involving
Nicolas Hubert, maestre Claude Hesines, Jehan Cousin and his sheep		 fragment charter or
document		 Beinecke catalogue no images
BRBL Beinecke MS 3.33 France XVI commentary on
Legal text		 entirety fragment literary Beinecke catalogue no images
BRBL Beinecke MS 3.53 France XVI Legal document     charter or
document		 Beinecke catalogue digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 16 Flanders XV 2 Hours, use of
Rome		 calendar;
ff.183r-194v Suffrages (headings in French)		   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 17 France XV 2 Hours, use of
Paris		 calendar;
ff.131r-134v Fifteen Joys of the Virgin; ff.135r-137v Seven Requests		   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis no images
BRBL Beinecke MS 38 France XIV/XV Boethius Fr. tr.
Renaut de Louhans		 [entirety]   literary orbis no images
BRBL Beinecke MS 60 England XIV 1 Registrum
brevium; Novae narrationes		 ff.145r-204v    Novae narrationes.   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 82 France XIIImed Bible paper boards
composed of fragments of French legal documents of the 16th and 17th
centuries		 binding waste charter or
document		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 86 Malmesbury,
England		 XIV Brut Chronicle
(in Anglo-Norman) etc.		 [entirety]   literary orbis no images
BRBL Beinecke MS 88 England XVmed Carta de
foresta, etc.		 ff.39r-46r
Assissa fforeste (text begins in Latin and is continued in French)		   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 91 Italy XV 2 Mellon
chansonnier		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 106 France XV 3/4 Hours, use of
Paris		 calendar;
ff.145r-149v Fifteen Joys of the Virgin; ff.150r-152r Seven Requests		   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis no images
BRBL Beinecke MS 107 France XV 2 Hours, use of
Rome		 ff.1r-2v prayers
with some headings in French; ff.3r-8v calendar in French; ff.882-91v Fifteen
Joys of the Virgin; ff.91v-94r Seven Requests		   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 108 France XVIin Hours, use of
Rome		 calendar;
ff.63v-64v Prayers to the Virgin; f.64r Oraison a la glorieuse vierge		   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis B&W images
BRBL Beinecke MS 121 France XVex Livre du roy
Modus, etc.		 [entirety]:
ff.1-58 Livre du roy Modus; ff.59r-v Jacques de Breze, La chasse		   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 129 France XV 3/4 Petrus Comestor,
Historia Scholastica, Fr. tr. Guyart des Moulins		 [entirety] 2 vols literary orbis digital copy v.1
BRBL Beinecke MS 162 France 1502 Arthelouche de
Alagona, etc.		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 204 France XV 3/4 Frere Laurent,
Somme le roi		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 215 France XVin St. Augustine,
De civitate Dei, Fr. tr. by Raoul de Presles		 [entirety] 4 vols literary orbis illuminations only
BRBL Beinecke MS 216 France XV r Raoul LeFevre,
Le Recueil des histoires de Troies		 [entirety]   literary orbis no images
BRBL Beinecke MS 217 France XV 2 Hours calendar;
Fifteen Joys; Seven Requests		   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 226 Flanders 1476 Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Fr. tr. Jean Duchesne		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 227 France 1357 Arthurian
Romances		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 229 France XIIIex Arthurian
Romances		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 230 Flanders c.1485 Honore Bonet,
L’Arbre des batailles		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 285 France XIV/XV Les dits moraulx
des philosophes		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 314 France 1557 Devotions (in
Lat. and Fr.)		     devotional or
liturgical		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 318 France XVmed Christine de
Pizan, Jacques le Grand		 [entirety]: La
cite des dames; Le livre de bonnes moeurs		   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 340   XV-XIX ???? ???   charter or
document		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 351 France c.1525 Pigafetta,
Antonio (c.1480-c.1534), Journal of Magellan’s Voyage		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 395 England XIII/XIV Anglo-Norman
Poetry		 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-Normanverse
by Raoul d’Arundel; Guillaume le Clerc, Bestiaire; Le Voyage du chevalier
Owen au purgatoire de St Patrice; Wace, Roman de Brut		   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 400 Paris XV 1/4 De Levis Hours full calendar in
French		   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 405 England XIVmed Brut Chronicle
(in Anglo-Norman) etc.		 Brut Chronicle,
as well as notes on the verso of the flyleaf in French		   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 406 France c.1400 Guillaume de
Deguilleville; Willem van Ruysbroeck, etc.		 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.		   literary orbis digital images
BRBL Beinecke MS 411 France XVIin Hours, use of
Rome		 calendar;
ff.66v-72r Old Testamen prophecy; f.72v Pater Noster; ff.75r-81r 7 mortal
sins		   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 418 France XV 3/4 Roman de la Rose [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 425 France XV 3/4 Missal (in Fr.) [entirety]   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 427 France XV 3/4 Christine de
Pizan, Le Livre des trois vertus		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 435 Lyons XV/XVI Hours, use of
Rome		 full calendar in
French		   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 436 France XV 4/4 Vanderbilt Hours calendar in
French		   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 464 France XVIII Prieres de la
Messe		 [entirety]   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis no images
BRBL Beinecke MS
483.2		 France XV Hours rubrics
partially in French		   devotional or
liturgical		 Beinecke catalogue digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 492 England XIVin Pierre de
Peckham, Edmund Rich, etc.		 Pierre de
Peckham, La lumiere as Lais; St. Edmund Rich, abp. of Canterbury, Speculum
amicicie in Fr. translation		   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 498 France XVIex Devotions [entirety]   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis no images
BRBL Beinecke MS 505 N. France XV 2/4 Hours, use of
Amiens		 calendar; ff.
138r-141v Fifteen Joyrs of the Virgin; ff. 142r-144v Seven Requests to the
Lord		   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis B&W images
BRBL Beinecke MS 507 England XIV Notebook of
grammar and logic		 ff.63v-64r
French word list with Latin or English equivalents, followed by a proverb and
other notes		   literary orbis no images
BRBL Beinecke MS 514 N. France XV 2 Hours,
undetermined use		 calendar and
rubrics in French		   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS
525.3		 N. France XV Hours calendar   devotional or
liturgical		 Beinecke catalogue digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 543 N. France XV 2 Jacques Milet,
Histoire de la destruction de Troye la grant		 [entirety]   literary orbis no images
BRBL Beinecke MS 545 NW France
(Rouen?)		 XV Hours, use of
Rome		 rubrics in
French or Latin; prayers in French		   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis no images
BRBL Beinecke MS 548 France XVIIin Michel Vanier,
Treatise on modest in women		 [entirety]   literary orbis no images
BRBL Beinecke MS 550 N. France XV 2 Hours, use of
Paris		 calendar and
prayers [15 joys? get incipits from my photos]		 binding waste devotional or
liturgical		 orbis no images
BRBL Beinecke MS 568 France XVIImed Recueil de
plusieurs cartes marines		 [entirety]   charter or
document		 orbis no images
BRBL Beinecke MS 576 France 15 3/4 Hours calendar   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis B&W images
BRBL Beinecke MS 577 France XV 3/4 Hours calendar   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 590 England XIIex + XIIIin Geoffrey of
Monmouth; French moralistic poetry		 ff. 115-122
French moralistic poetry; ff. 123-129 Le roman de romans		   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 591 England XIV Roman de Gui de
Warewic		 [entirety]   literary orbis no images
BRBL Beinecke MS 592 Rouen 1462 Roman de la Rose [entirety]   literary orbis B&W images
BRBL Beinecke MS 593 England XV Roman de Brut in
Anglo-Norman; English poem on geography, etc.		 ff. ?? Roman de
Brut		   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 613 France c.1325 Jacques de
Longuyon, Voeux du paon.		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 617 England c.1480 List of English
knights with their blazons		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 631 France late 15th Hours. ?   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 638 France
(Clermont-Ferrand?)		 XV/XVI Processionale
(par aestivalis) for the Collegiate Church of St. Genesius at
Clermont-Ferrand		 ???   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 639 Southern Low
Countries		 c.1470-1480 Indulgences to
be obtained in the pilgrimage churches of Rome		 [entirety]   charter or
document		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 648 Burgundy or the
Imperial Court		 not before 1497 Facket (or
Faucquet), Jean (fl. 1488-1497). Commonplace book: holograph		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 659 France XVI 1 Berault Stuart,
Traité sur l’art de la guerre		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 662 France (Loire
valley)		 XV 3/4 Hours, use of
Paris		 calendar   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 664 Paris 1500 Hours, use of
Paris		 ff.3-14r
calendar; f.78 Fifteen joys of the Virgin		   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 667 Arles? 1504 Artelouchde de
Alagona, Fauconnerie		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 685 Aquitaine 1254-1469 Sixty-Five
Documents from Aquitaine		 almost all in
Old Occitan, 2 in Old French, some in Latin		   charter or
document		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 703 N. France XIV Jean de Meun, Le
Testament; Raoul de Houdenc, Le Songe d’Enfer		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS
712.27		 Gournay-en-Bray 13 May in 1416 Letters patent
of receipt signed by Robin le Grant for Henri le Cat.		 [entirety]   charter or
document		 Beinecke catalogue digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 720   1600-1700 Miscellany introduction to
some legal texts (summaries) are given in French–see photos for some
examples of ff nos.		   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 757 ReiMS XV 1 Prayer book,
Latin and French		 ff.104r-106v
Vision in French of a canon named Ernault, to whom the Virgin appeared and
recommended the reciting of the prayers that follow; ff.145r-153v Mariale		   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 776 France XV2 l’Abuze en
court; Georges Chastellain, Le Temple de Boccace		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS
804.3		 France c. 1450 Collection of
medieval and renaissance manuscript leaves, documents and printed leaves.		 Folder 3:
“legal document in French, giving rights to seigneurs” [not what it
actually looks like; in a bookhand…]		 fragment charter or
document		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 818 N. France XVI Rule of the
Third Order of St. Francis		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 841 Eastern France XIV/XV Miracle Plays of
St. Nicholas		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 875 France XVII Petrarch,
Trionfi, Fr. tr.		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 879 Southern Low
Countries		 XV 2 Instructions for
a nun and the Passion according to St. John		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS
887.7		 France? XV 12 MS fragments
in Latin and French		 Folder 7: French
translation of Boccacio		 fragment literary Beinecke catalogue digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 894 France XV 2 Jacques Legrand,
Livre de bonnes moeurs; Les peines d’enfer		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 905 N. France XVmed Jacques Legrand,
Livre de bonnes meurs		 [entirety] originally bound
with Ms 894		 literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 918 NE France    Tales of
Alexander the Macedonian		 [entirety] fragment literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 923 France c.1290-1300 Folding calendar [entirety]   ??? Beinecke catalogue digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 925 France 1225-1275 Chevalier au
baril		 [entirety] fragment literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 926 ? 11 March - 30 May
1563		 Ribaut, Jean
(c1520-1565).  “Whole and
true discovery of Terra Florida”		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 1024 Germany 1300-1450 Sacro Bosco,
Joannes de (fl. 1230), Algorismus, etc.		 not foliated;
some passages in French 		   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 1029 France and
Flanders		 c.1595 Fribois, Noêl
de. (fl. 1400-1468), French aphorisMS, library catalogue		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 1042 Paris c.1530 Harangues et
oraisons des anciens		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 1053 Netherlands 1400-1500 Hours. In Latin,
French, and Dutch.		 ????   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 1084   c.1598 Hieronymus
Valentinus de Cantoral, Confessio fidei exhibita…		 in Latin,
Italian, French, and Spanish		   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 1106 N. France c.1410 Tresor de
sapience		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 1123 France c.1420 Jacobus de
Voragine, Legenda aurea (tr. Jean de Vignay)		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 1132 France 1250-1260 Roman de Troie [entirety] fragment literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Beinecke MS 1152 Chimay Janaury of 1388 Pope Gregory,
Moralia in Job in Middle French		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Marston MS 22 Oxford XIIImed Books of Hours,
Sarum use		 ff.112r-115r
devotional texts in Fr.		   devotional or
liturgical		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Marston MS 96 France XVI 1/4 Ovid, Heroides Latin text with
facing page French tr.		   literary orbis no images
BRBL Marston MS 145 France XVmed Henry Suso,
Horologium sapientiae		 [entirety]   literary orbis no images
BRBL Marston MS 180 France 1410-1413 Historical roll
chronicle		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Marston MS 228 N. France XIII/XIV Tancredus
Bononiensis, Ordo iudicarius		 [entirety]   literary orbis no images
BRBL Marston MS 260 France XIV 1 Sydrach, La
fontaine de toutes sciences		 [entirety] very tight binding literary orbis no images
BRBL Marston MS 274 France XV 2 Leonardo Bruni,
De belo punico, Fr. tr. Jean Lebeque		 [entirety]   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Marston MS 280 France XV 2 Chroniques
depuis le commencement du monde		 [entirety]   literary orbis no images
BRBL Marston MS 282 S. France 1448 Ars dictandi semi-limp vellum
case made from 19c French document with only dorse visible		 binding waste charter or
document		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Mellon MS 19 London June and July 1480 Alchemical
Miscellany		 Arnold of
Villanova, Rosarius; Anonymous, Alchemy; Albertus Magnus, Compositum de
compositis; Ramon Lull, Clavicula (expanded and tr. into French)		   literary orbis no images
BRBL Mellon MS 26 France c.1510 Alchemical
Miscellany		 ????   literary orbis no images
BRBL Mellon Ms 100 France c.1680 Nicolas Flamel,
Treatise…		 [entirety]   literary no catalogue digital copy
BRBL Osborn a1 Flanders 4th quart. 13c Psalter, in
Latin, with calendar and canticles		 Old French
chanson on endpapers		 also contians
Middle English carol		 devotional or
liturgical		 orbis no images
BRBL Osborn a12 France XV Prayers (in
Latin prose and French verse)		 four leaves
(9-12) torn from a volume; usual Latin prayers, with two French prayers in
verse: the first “Oreson de la Croix” (Croix en toy voy mon dieu
pendu); the second “A la vierge Marie,” (Oraigne qui fustes haulte
mise) – from typed page in the folder		 fragment devotional or
liturgical		 orbis no images
BRBL Osborn a22 Oxford,
England 		 1589 John Smyth of
Nibley (1567-1640), Commentary on John Seton’s Dialectica…		 f. 63 texts of
the Lord’s Prayer in Italian and French		   literary orbis no images
BRBL Osborn a37   1336 Processus in
causa…		 Docs. on
parchment of a process brought before Parliament in a property dispute
between Queen Isabella de France and the Priory of Coventry (Law French)		   charter or
document		 orbis digital copy
BRBL Osborn a54 France 1250-1300 Britonis,
Thomas, Sermones de communi sanctorum		 incipits of many
of the MS’s 99 sermons accompanied by Anglo-Norman proverbs.		   literary orbis no images
BRBL Osborn b54 England 1666-1681 A collection of
witt and learning		 ????   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Osborn a56 England c.1300-1349 Treatises in
Anglo-Norman verse		 ff.1-27v Walter
of Bibbesworth, Le tretiz; ff.28-40v Nicholas Bozon, Les proverbes de bons
enseignements (Liber de proverbiis sapientie); ff.42-53v Hue de Tabarie,
Ordre de la chevalerie; ff.54-67 Le mariage des ix filles du diable (trans.
attrib. to St Maurice, bishop of Paris)		   literary orbis no images
BRBL Osborn a57 England XIV Statuta vetera ????   legal orbis digital copy
BRBL Osborn a58 England c.1450 Natura brevium
and other works		   law French law French orbis digital copy
BRBL Osborn fa1 England c. 1400 John Gower,
Confessio Amantis (Middle English poem), Minor Latin and French poeMS.		 end of MS
contains Latin and French poeMS		   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Osborn fa14   1573-76 Letters to Sir
Philip Sidney		 various
(1573-1576)		   literary orbis digital copy
BRBL Osborn fa19 England late XVI William Peeris
(fl. 1520), Metrical Chronicle of the Percy Family		 ff. 28r-32r De
Treugis inter Reges Angliae et Scotiae; ff. 32-33r Memorandum de obsidibus
Scotiae in quorum custodia sunt.		   charter or
document		 orbis no images
BRBL Osborn fa21 England c. 1559 Account of the
French court in the reign of Francis II and Mary Queen of Scots		   on paper charter or
document		 orbis no images
BRBL Osborn fa25 Cheshire,
England		         charter or
document		 orbis no images
BRBL Osborn fb244   c. 1680 Account of the
Dutch Wars		 [entirety]   literary orbis no images