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An incomplete manuscript of 'Li Livres des Estoires dou Comencement dou monde', belonging to the 'Premiere Redaction', but not followed by the 'Faits des Romaine'.

A group of eleven parchment bifolia written in the same hand, and which form about one fourth part of a manuscript of the second half of the fourteenth century, containing a version of the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine (ca. 1230-ca. 1298), archbishop of Genoa.

A late 15th century manuscript containing part of the romance of Lancelot du Lac, which agrees closely with the 1513 Paris edition, vol. i, f. cxlv, vo-vol. ii, f. xxi, vo and corresponds as to substance with H. O. Sommer's edition of Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, pt ii (Washington, Carnegie Institution, 1911), pp. 5-222, though differing widely in text from the latter. When complete, the text must have begun, like Harley MS 6341 (see H. L. D. Ward, Catalogue of Romances, vol. i, 1883, p. 355), with the departure of Lancelot and 'Gallehoz' [Gallehault] from King Arthur's court (Paris ed., i, f. cxliiii; Sommer's ed., ii, p. 1). The given title of the manuscript is taken from the colophon ('Cy fine Gallehoz') but the death of Gallehault occurs on p. 254. The contents of the manuscript, including the inappropriate colophon, are practically identical with those of the first part (ff. 1-142b) of Harley MS 6341 (late 15 cent., paper), for description of which see Ward, op. cit., p. 355.

'L'histoire ou Romans de Jourdain de Blaues', being an abridged prose version of the thirteenth century 'chanson de geste' of Jourdain de Blaues.

A manuscript containing four folios from a fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript relating to scriptural and other eastern genealogies; the emblazoned pedigree of Thomas Williams by Griffith Hughes, 1638; and fragments of pedigree tables of the Salusbury, Grosvenor, Davenport, Egerton and other families.

Alexandreis, in Latin verse, by Gaultier de Lisle (or de Chatillon).

'Chronicles d'Engleterre', ending at the battle of Halidon Hill, 1332, a prose version of 'Evangile de Nichodemus', with an addition giving an account of Tiberius, Volusien, and Veronica, and a 'First Redaction' version of 'Romanz del ymage deu monde'.

Hymns and prayers to the Virgin Mary.

A fragment of a Book of Hours, containing the Office of the Dead (imperfect), 'commemoratio animarum', and a rubric and prayer before the Psalter of St Jerome.