| Summary: | Description: A Volume compiled for the use of Charles De Croy, Prince and Count of Chimay, godfather to the Emperor Charles V., about the year 1455, andafterwards in the possession of the Duke of Arschot, containing the following articles 1. Lucius Tungrensis, des antiquités des Belges. Comm."Ou temps que Laomedon Roy de Troyes fu occis." fo.1.2. Lucius Tungrensis de antiquitatibus Gallice. Fragmentum 5 foliorum.fo. 78. 3. "Chi comenche la prologue du livre des Rois de Bretaigne q, maintenant on apelle Engletere comenchant a Brutus." fo 83. This is a translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth, made, as appears from a note at the end, at the in stance of the Count of Chimay, by one Wauhlin a citizen of Mons in Hainault, in the Year 1445. It seems to agree in all respects withthe Latin original. 4. "Les merveilles de l'ille de Bretaigne que nous disonsEngleterre." fo. 192. This piece differs from the tract "de mirabilibusBritanniæ" printed in Hearne's App. to Robert of Gloucester, p. 572.Compare also with Cotton MS. Claud. E. VIII. 5. Le Testament de Jean deMeung, en vers. fo. 195. It is less complete than the copy printed byL'Englet du Fresnoy. 6. L'apparition de Maistre Jean de Meung, poeme, parHonoré Bonnor, Prieur de Salon. fo. 200. 7. "Cy après sensuyt ladeclaracion et significance des lunes et des nativitez des persouns, faictespar les anciens philosophes." fo. 219.
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