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'... la Controversie de noblesse plaidoyee entre Publius Cornelius Scipion et Gayus Flaminius . . . composee par . . . Surse de Pistoye [et traduite par jean de Mièlot]', and ' . . . vng debat entre trois cheualereux Princes [Alexandre, Hanibal, et Scipion] . . . ', being two treatises which are probably identical with a printed book which Graesse has described under the word 'Surse', and a few ballads.

Manuscripts, [13 cent.]-[1922], from the library of Francis William Bourdillon, containing a wealth of romance literature, in particular manuscript and printed editions of the Roman de la Rose. The collection contains original manuscripts, transcripts, translations and notes and includes romances, poetry, 'chansons de geste', biographies, chronicles, medieval manuscripts, commonplace books, public records, songs, hymns, sermons, prayers, inscriptions, terriers, and recipes.

A transcript [? by John Josias Conybeare] of 'Chanson de Roland' from MS. Digby (Bodl.) 23.

'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'.

A chronicle of events in the reign of Edward III, covering the years 1326-80, being apparently a continuation of Ralph Higden's 'Polychronicon'.

Notes by F. W. Bourdillon on a manuscript version of the 'Chronique de Turpin', with a transcript of some of the text.

An illuminated text of Marcus Tullius Cicero's 'De Amicitia' translated by 'Laurent de premier fait', who is said by Paulin Paris to have made the translation before 1410 for Louis, duc de Bourbon.

Mary Pearson's book of cookery and household recipes, with printed copies of a number of maps of the counties of England and Wales, some of them made by Emanuel Bowen and R.W. Seale, 1755.

Notes by F. Bernard Bourdillon on the main characteristics of the dialects of medieval France, with an explanatory map.

Material relating to 'Florez & Blancheflor', 'Florence & Clariet', and 'Quatre Filz Aymon'.

Notes on the history and antiquities of Eastbourne by F. W. Bourdillon together with printed reports of papers read at meetings of the Eastbourne Natural History Society, 1871 and 1876.

'Extracts faithfully made from a Manuscript . . . in . . . Worcester College Oxon, containing A Life of Edward the Black Prince in French Verse written by (or compiled from materials furnished by) Chandos Herald his cotemporary [sic]. J.J.C. [? John Josias Conybeare; D.N.B. xii, 61] faciebat An: 1812'.

Historical notes, 1798-1812, relating to events in Great Britain and other European countries, America, and Asia; etc.

Extracts by F. W. Bourdillon from a manuscript belonging to the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle which contains lives of the apostles and saints, etc., including a rhymed life of St. Alexis and a life of St. Katherine of Alexandria.

Extracts, made by Sarah Edmunda Bourdillon, circa 1831, from the works of Italian poets, particularly Dante.

An address by F. W. Bourdillon on 'Form in poetic art'.

Two incomplete chronicles, 'Tote listoire de France' ('Chronique Saintongeaise') and 'Lestoire sicu li bons empereires Karlemaines en ala en espagnie . . . ', the latter being a version of the chronicle, ascribed to Turpin, of the expedition of Charlemagne to Spain.

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

A transcript of Georges Chastellain's account of the feats and adventures of Duc Phelippe de Bourgoingne, etc.

An incomplete transcript by _ Fauriel of 'Le Roman de Gérard de Roussillon'.