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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4404
Title:: Doon de la Roche, les enfances Ogier, letter of Prester John
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-88r: Doon de la Roche, a chanson de geste from the end of the 12th century, relating the story of 'Don L'alemant de la Roche' or Doon of Cologne who married Olive, the daughter of King Pepin. This is the only complete surviving copy, though it is imperfect, with some lines unf...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: A paper codex, 87 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4408
Title:: Les trois fils de rois
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-159v: Les trois fils de rois, an anonymous romance. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 160v: Crossed out letter (upside down) in French; added in the (?) 16th century. Decoration: Large plain initials in red ink. Rubrics in red. Capitals highlighted in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4411
Title:: Le roman de Renard le Contrefait (only the part in prose); excerpts from Les chroniques de Flandre; Les chroniques de Flandre with excerpts of the Grandes chroniques de France; Charles V's response to the schedule sent by Edward III, king of England.
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-44r: Attributed to a former clerk, Le roman de Renard le Contrefait branch II (see: Le Roman de Renard le Contrefait, ed. by Gaston Reynaud and Henri Lemaitre, 2 vols (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1914), I, pp. xiii-xiv and pp. 227-97). It includes only excerpts of the parts in pros...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 184 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4412
Title:: Bible Historiale from Genesis to Job followed by a table of contents.
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-266v: Bible Historiale from Genesis to Job. ff. 267r-272v: Table of contents beginning: 'En ce Livre est contenue la Bible et pour trouver chacun chappitre par feuillets, la table s'ensuit'. Decoration: The outer bifolio in each quire is made of parchment. Watermark of a pot...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Paper and parchment codex, 272 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4413
Title:: Coutumier d'Anjou et du Maine
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-133v: Coutumier d'Anjou et du Maine (Customary of Anjou and Maine), beginning: ‘Rene par la grace de dieu roy de Jherusalem et de Sicile duc d'Anjou per de France duc de Bar et de Lorraine conte de Prouvence de Forcalquier et de Pymont’. René I of Anjou (b. 1408, d. 1480) was d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1462-1480
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4428
Title:: Chronicle of France
Scope & Content:: Chronicle of France from the foundation of Paris down to 1318. Horizontal catchwords. The second volume is Harley MS 4429. Decoration: Three-sided border in colours and gold with rinceaux and floral motifs, a coat of arms sketched in brown ink in the lower margin, and a historiated initial o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4429
Title:: Chronicle of France
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-247r: chronicle of France from 1321 to 1461. f. 247v: ownership inscriptions, 16th century. Horizontal catchwords. The first volume is Harley MS 4428. Decoration: 6 large historiated initials in colours and gold of the kings of France (ff. 1r, 5v, 21v, 39v, 89r, 165v). Lar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4430
Title:: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicholas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens volume 1: books 1-3.
Scope & Content:: Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicholas de Gonesse as Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, volume 1, containing Books I-IV. ff. 1r-32v: A table of rubrics, beginning with the title, 'Cy commencent les rubrices du livre Valerius Max...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4474/1
Title:: Martin le Franc, L'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu, volume 1
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-142v: Martin le Franc (b. c. 1410, d. 1461), L'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu [1447–1448], in 3 books, here entitled: 'Lestrif et debat de Vertu et Fortune'; with a dedication to Philip the Good: 'A treshault, trespuissant, et tresredoubte prince, Phelippe Duc de Bourgogne, de Bra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1450-1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4474/2
Title:: Martin le Franc, L'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu, volume 2
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 143r-302v: Martin le Franc (b. c. 1410, d. 1461), L'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu [1447–1448], in 3 books. The second part of a 2-volume set, the first volume of which is Harley MS 4474/1, ending with the colophon: 'Cy finit lestrif de virtu et fotune fait et compile par tres excel...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1450-1500
Extent:: 1 volume

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