Catalogue Des Manuscrits Francais de La Bibliotheque Parker Catalogue Des Manuscrits Francais de La Bibliotheque Parker Catalogue Des Manuscrits Franc
Short description/annotation
Catalogue of the famous collection of French manuscripts at the
Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Main description
The celebrated Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,
contains over sixty manuscripts of importance for medieval French
studies, including chronicles and genealogies, royal statutes,
religious works, sermons, prayers, meditations, commentaries and
glosses, romances, songs and lyrics, letters, treatises on
medicine, law, morality, language, spelling, alchemy, astrology and
geography. Some of these are well known, but others are obscure,
unedited, or new discoveries. This important new reference work, a
Catalogueof the French manuscripts in the library, makes available
detailed information about these sources, with full bibliographical
references.
