Romances. Document genre.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Poetic or prosaic literary forms derived from medieval narratives of love, legendary or heroic adventures, and chivalry. Extends to narratives about important religious figures, or fantastic or supernatural events.
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
13th-century manuscript, produced in France, containing the 'Perceval' of Chrétien de Troyes, with the First and Second Continuations and the Continuation of Manessier.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.5
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in France containing the 'Perceval' of Chrétien de Troyes, with the First and Second Continuations and the Continuation of Manessier. The manuscript is the work of one scribe and is written in two columns of 40 lines.The place of production of the manuscript has been attributed by Hilka (1932), Micha (1939) and Roach (1949) to the eastern part of France based on the language. Nixon reports that more recent scholarship has localised the manuscript to the border...
Dates:
13th century.
Description and transcription, 19th century, of a manuscript of the German translation of the romance of 'Pontus and Sidonia', 1465, in the Landesbibliothek Gotha.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.14
Scope and Contents
The volume contains a 19th-century description and transcription of manuscript Chart. A 590, held in the Forschungsbibliothek Gotha. Chart. A 590 contains the German translation of the French romance 'Pontus and Sidonia', and according to a scribal colophon was written in 1465 by Nicolaus Huber, presbyter in Brixen. The German translation has been attributed to Eleanor of Austria (1433-1480), daughter of King James I of Scotland and wife of Sigismund, Archduke of Austria. The...
Dates:
1465, 19th century, probably early 1820s.
Late 13th-century manuscript produced in France, possibly in the Lorraine region, containing the prose romance of Tristan.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.3
Scope and Contents
Late 13th-century manuscript produced France, possibly the Lorraine region, containing the prose romance of Tristan. Borland has attributed the manuscript to the early 14th century. Meyer and Vinaver both assigned it to the 13th century. Johnson suggests that the manuscript was possibly written from dictation by a scribe accustomed to the forms of Old French prevalent in Lorraine. The work is written in triple columns of 60 lines each, except where lais or chansons are introduced. ...
Dates:
Late 13th century.
Microfilm of 13th century manuscript, 'Perceval' of Chrétien de Troyes.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.225
Dates:
13th century.
Microfilm of 13th century manuscript, 'Perceval' of Chrétien de Troyes.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.808
Dates:
13th century.
Microfilm of 13th century manuscript, the prose romance of Tristan.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.85
Dates:
Late 13th century.
Microfilm of ‘Clariodus’, a verse romance in five books.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.455
Dates:
16th century.
Microfilm of collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.549
Dates:
[Circa 1480.]
Microfilm of manuscripts of ‘The betrothed’ and ‘Chronicles of the Canongate’ by Sir Walter Scott, from the Pforzheimer Library.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.875
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, [1825, or before], of ‘The betrothed’ by Sir Walter Scott (MS.23047);
Manuscript, [before 1829], of the ‘Chronicles of the Canongate’, 1st and 2nd series, by Sir Walter Scott (MS.23048).
Dates:
[1825, or before; before 1829.]
Microfilm of romance of the lovers Pamphilia and Deiphebo.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.846
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Microfilm of the correspondence and literary manuscripts of Margaret Oliphant (Adam Matthew, 1999).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1209-1234
Scope and Contents
The content descriptions for each microfilm are taken from the catalogue descriptions of the original items and as such there may be variations between the contents of the microfilms and the descriptions provided.
The dates are taken from the accession records for the original documents and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.
Dates:
?19th century-[?1921].