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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4375/1
Title:: Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 5-7
Scope & Content:: Contents: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (the fourth of 6 volumes): ff. 1r-44v: Book 5, Humanity and Clemency; ff. 45r-76v: Book 6, Loyalty; ff. 77r-84v: Book 7, Happiness (continues in Harley 4375/2)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1473 to c. 1480
Extent:: A parchment codex, 84 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4375/2
Title:: Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 7-8
Scope & Content:: Contents: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (the fifth of 6 volumes): ff. 85r-122r: Book 7, Happiness (continued from Harley 4375/1); on f. 102v a rubric states Nicolas de Gonesse's translation begins here...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1473 to c. 1480
Extent:: A parchment codex, 94 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4375/3
Title:: Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 8 and 9
Scope & Content:: Contents: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (the sixth of 6 volumes): ff. 173r-178v: Book 8 (continued from Harley 4375/2); ff. 179r-264v: Book 9, Vices. This copy of the work is now bound in 6 volumes; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1473 to c. 1480
Extent:: A parchment codex, 94 folios

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

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

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

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

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.

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