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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

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

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

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

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