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171. Harley MS 4481

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4481
Title:
Histoire de l'Empereur Charles V; Traicté des Comtes de Flandres et d'Arthois
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-401r: Histoire de l'Empereur Charles V, entitled: 'Ce livre contient aucunes actes grands voiaiges et haultes entreprinses faictes par feu dexcellente et noble memore le victorieux prince Charles daustrice en son vivant Empereur des Romains tousiours auguste cincquiesme de ce n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

172. Harley MS 4482

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4482
Title:
Le Roman de Troie
Scope & Content:
Contents: Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Le Roman de Troie, an adaptation of Dares Phrygius, De excidio Troiae historia. The final words are lacking, as the last folio is damaged. f. 188v has later illegible inscriptions. Decoration: 1 historiated initial in colours and gold, with a three-sided f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c. 1300
Extent:
Parchment codex

173. Harley MS 4497

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4497
Title:
Jean de Francières, Livre de fauconnerie
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of a treatise on falconry, written by the French author and Knight Hospitaller Jean de Francières (b. c. 1400, d. 1488). The text was composed at Rhodes between 1458 and 1469. It is divided into two parts: the first describes the seven different types of falcon; t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

174. Harley MS 4557/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4557/1
Title:
Yearbooks of King Henry VI, 1432-1444, volume 1
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the first part of a 2-volume set of the Yearbooks of King Henry VI from Michaelmas Term in the 11th year of his reign until Trinity Term in the 22nd year of his reign (1432-1444). Contents: ff. 2r-237v: Yearbooks of King Henry VI, comprising the 11th, 12th (partially...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1444
Extent:
1 volume

175. Harley MS 4557/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4557/2
Title:
Yearbooks of King Henry VI, 1432-1444, volume 2
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the second part of a 2-volume set of the Yearbooks of King Henry VI from Michaelmas Term in the 11th year of his reign until Trinity Term in the 22nd year of his reign (1432-1444). Contents: ff. 238r-414r: Yearbooks of King Henry VI, comprising the 20th, 21st and 22nd...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1444
Extent:
1 volume

176. Harley MS 4605

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4605
Title:
Christine de Pizan, Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r-v: Table of contents to Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie, with a rubric beginning, 'Cy commence la table des rubriches du livre des fais darmes & de chevalerie le quel dit livre est parti en quatre parties' (f. 2r); the main text beginning, 'La premiere partie de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1434
Extent:

1 volume

177. Harley MS 4763

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4763
Title:
Thomas Beckington, De iure regis Angliae ad Franciscam; poem in praise of Henry V
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-275r: Thomas Beckington, De iure regis Angliae ad Franciscam; treatise including state letters and other documents concerning the right of England to France, and literary works such as an excerpt from the Somnium viridarii, Chapter 186 (ff. 35r-41r); the Bucolicum carmen XII [...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

178. Harley MS 4844/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4844/1
Title:
Sir Thomas Littleton, Littleton's Tenures
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first volume of a set of two volumes with legal texts, together comprising Harley MS 4844. The second volume is Harley MS 4844/2. Contents: ff. 3r-112r: Sir Thomas Littleton [Lyttleton], Littleton's Tenures, divided in three books written in French (ff. 3r-50v), and begi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

179. Harley MS 4844/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4844/2
Title:
Law reports and cases from the reign of Henry VI
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second volume of a set of two volumes with legal texts, together comprising Harley MS 4844. The first volume is Harley MS 4844/1. Contents: ff. 113r-260v: Law reports and cases from the reign of Henry VI, written in French. The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

180. Harley MS 4854

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4854
Title:
Roman de Ponthus et Sidoine
Scope & Content:
Contents: Le Roman de Ponthus (or Pontus) et Sidoine, a prose romance from western France, adapted from the French version of the Anglo-Norman romance, King Horn. The text, beginning, 'Conter veue une noble istoire ou lon pourra apprandre' consists of 47 chapters. It tells the story of Pontus,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1467
Extent:
1 volume

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