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201. 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

202. 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

203. 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

204. 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

205. 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

206. 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

207. 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

208. Harley MS 4855

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4855
Title:
Nova statuta, 1 Edward III to 6 Henry IV
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-171v: Nova statuta, from 1 Edward III (ff. 30-115) to 17 Richard II (ff. 116-171v); beginnning with a list of chapters (ff. 1-29); written in Law French with Latin headings. The manuscript contains later additions: f. [iii]recto (paper pastedown): Note for the binder on a p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1393-c 1404
Extent:
1 volume

209. Harley MS 4867

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4867
Title:
Ovid, Heroides translated in French by Octavien de St. Gelais
Scope & Content:
Contents: Octavien de St. Gelais translated the Heroides in French for Charles VIII between 1490 and 1493. This translation was widely spread. The Heroides is divided in 21 epistles. Here the prologue is missing. Some lines were missing throughout the text but added in the margins. f. 1r: a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
Last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex, 190 folios.

210. Harley MS 4871

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4871
Title:
Statutes of England, 1327-1442
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-223v: The Statutes of England from the 1st year of the reign of King Edward III (1327/8) to the 20th year of the reign of King Henry VI (1441/2); written in French with headings in Latin. Decoration: 1 large puzzle initial in blue and red in a frame of red penwork decoration...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1442
Extent:
1 volume

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