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151. Harley MS 4362

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4362
Title:
Collection of surveys of France, royal ordinances, feudal rights, and a chronicle of French kings
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains texts relating to French law, finance, and history that strongly resemble the contents of Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms français 4924, a 15th-century manuscript that was made for a member of the Chambre des Comptes (Chamber of Accounts) in Paris. Harley MS ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1507-c 1515
Extent:
1 volume

152. Harley MS 4371

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4371
Title:
Pierre Le Baud, Chroniques des roys, ducs et princes de Bretaigne
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Chroniques des roys, ducs et princes de Bretaigne (Chronicles of the Kings, Dukes and Princes of Brittany), written by Pierre Le Baud (b. 1458, d. 1505), a French clergyman and historian. The text is dedicated to Anne of Brittany (b. 1477, d. 1514), wife ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century, before 1514
Extent:
1 volume

153. Harley MS 4372

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4372
Title:
Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 1 to 5
Scope & Content:
Contents: Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, a translation of Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, books 1-5 of 9 books. Books 6-9 are now Harley 4373. Simon de Hesdin, Knight Hospitaller of Jerusalem and Master of Theology (d. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c. 1460-1487
Extent:
A parchment codex, 246 folios

154. Harley MS 4373

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4373
Title:
Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 6 to 9
Scope & Content:
Contents: Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, a translation of Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, books 6-9. Simon de Hesdin, Knight Hospitaller of Jerusalem and Master of Theology (d. 1383), according to the rubric on f. 11v, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c. 1460-1487
Extent:
A parchment codex, 153 folios

155. Harley MS 4374

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4374
Title:
Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 1-4
Scope & Content:
Contents: Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, a translation of Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, in 9 books. This copy of the work is now bound in 6 volumes: Harley 4374/1, Harley 4374/2, Harley 4374/3 and Harley 4375/1, Harley...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1473-c 1480
Extent:
1 volume

156. Harley MS 4375

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4375
Title:
Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 5-9
Scope & Content:
Contents: Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, a translation of Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, in 9 books. This copy of the work is now bound in 6 volumes: Harley MS 4374/1, Harley 4374/2, Harley 4374/3 and Harley 4375/1, Harl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1473 to c.1480
Extent:
3 parchment volumes

157. Harley MS 4376

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4376
Title:
Jean de Courcy, Chronique de la Bouquechardière
Scope & Content:
Contents: Jean de Courcy (b. c. 1350, d. 1431), Chronique de la Bouquechardière, in 6 books: ff. 2v-89v: Book I, from Genesis to Ancient Greece; ff. 90r-149v: Book II, the legend of Troy; ff. 150r-206r: Book III, the cities founded by the fleeing Trojans; ff. 206v-270v: Book IV, Babylon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

158. Harley MS 4386

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4386
Title:
Henry Suso, L'Orloge de sapience (translation attributed to Jehan de Souhaube)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-162v: L'Orloge de sapience, a French translation of Henry Suso’s Horologium Sapientiae attributed to Jehan de Souhaube, a Franciscan friar, in 1389. The manuscript contains a later addition: ff. [i]verso-1v, 163r-164r: household notes in French; added to blank leaves in the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

159. Harley MS 4392

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4392
Title:
Octavien de Saint-Gelais, l'Histoire d'Euralius et Lucresse (C.22.b.1.)
Scope & Content:
Harley MS 4392 is a printed book that was transferred to the Department of Printed Books in May 1867. It now has the shelfmark C.22.b.1. The book contains the only printed version on vellum of the French translation of the Historia de duobus amantibus (The Tale of Two Lovers), an epistolary nove...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1493
Extent:
1 volume

160. Harley MS 4399

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4399
Title:
Guillaume de Diguleville, Pèlerinage de la vie humaine
Scope & Content:
Contents: Pèlerinage de la vie humaine (Pilgrimage of the life of man), by Guillaume de Diguleville (or Guilleville, Digulleville, Degulleville, Deguileville), a Cistercian monk of Chaalis, or Chailly, near Senlis. This is a copy of the first recension of the text, in 4 books with a prologue: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1375-1415
Extent:

1 volume

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