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241. Harley MS 6916

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6916
Title:
Collection of poems by Charles d'Orléans and his circle
Scope & Content:
A near complete copy of Charles d'Orléans' personal manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms français 25458) (Poetry of Charles D’Orléans, ed. by Fox and Arn (2010), p. 827). Contents: ff. 1r-205r: A collection of poems consisting of ballades, chansons, complaintes, caroles an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

242. Harley MS 7403

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7403
Title:
Religious poems and prose in Old Provençal
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-27r: The Gospel of Nicodemus [Evangelium Nicodemi] in Old Provençal verse; incomplete at the beginning: ‘Veias qui es parlar ab tu / Ieu regardiei e vi ihesu'. ff. 27r-34v: The Fifteen Signs before Doomsday [Quindecim Signa ante Judicium] in Old Provençal verse; beginning: ‘S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle, Latin, and Provençal, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

243. Harley MS 7546

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7546
Title:
Pierre Michault, La Danse aux avengles
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-40v: Pierre Michault, La Danse aux avengles, imperfect; the manuscript is missing the first part of the text, which is supplied on f. [iii]recto-[iii]verso]. This satirical work, written in 1466, partly in prose and partly in verse, consists of a dialogue between L'acteur (the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

244. Harley MS 7555

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7555
Title:
List of Parliamentary summons; assizes from the reign of King Edward III; grant and charters relating to the chapel and college of St Mary in the Fields, Norwich
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of parts that were written at different times. Part 1 (ff. 1-32) was written in the 16th century. Part 2 (ff. 33r-64v) was written in the middle or 2nd half of the 14th century. Part 3 (ff. 66r-72r) was written in 1546. Part 4 (ff. 74r-77v) was written in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1350-1546
Extent:
1 volume

245. Harley MS 7584

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7584
Title:
Law texts from the 28th to 38th years of the reign of King Edward III
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-29v: Law texts in French from the reign of King Edward III, from the years 1354-1365, with the added (? 17th-century) title: ‘entitled ‘Annales les Reg. Edwardi 28-38’. Decoration: Large (3-line) red initials and red or yellow initials in blue frames.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1354-1365
Extent:
1 volume

246. Harley Roll O 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Roll O 1
Title:
A universal roll chronicle of popes, emperors, kings of France and kings of England to Henry V
Scope & Content:
Membranes 1-9: A universal chronicle in four columns with a history of popes until Urban VI prolonged to Sixtus IV, a history of emperors (Roman and medieval) until Ludwig of Bavaria prolonged to Frederick III, a genealogy of the kings of France until Charles VI (a version of the ‘A tous nobles’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 roll

247. Royal MS 13 A XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A XIV
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, and other texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of texts, principally in Latin, written in Ireland between the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century, and which formerly belonged to the Dominican convent at Limerick. They include a copy of the Topographia Hiberniae (Topography of Ireland), an a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

248. Royal MS 14 E II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 E II
Title:
Jean de Courcy, Le chemin de Vaillance; Christine de Pisan, L'epistre Othea; Alain Chartier, Le breviaire des nobles and other texts in French
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-294v: Jean de Courcy, Le chemin de Vaillance, beginning: 'La glorieuse trinite Trois persones en vnite', ending: 'Pardonnez moy car ie songoye'. ff. 295r-331v: Christine de Pisan, L'Epistre Othea, beginning: 'Othea, deesse deprudence, Quy les bons adresse en vaillance'. ff. 3...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1473-1483
Extent:

1 volume

249. Royal MS 15 D IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 D IV
Title:
Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant, a French translation of Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni
Scope & Content:
Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated into French by Vasco da Lucena (b. c. 1435, d. 1512) as Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant and dedicated to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1433, d. 1477). ff. 1r-10r: Table of rubrics ff. 11r-14r: Translator's prologue, with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1470s
Extent:
1 volume

250. Royal MS 15 E I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 E I
Title:
William of Tyre, Histoire d'Outremer
Scope & Content:
Contents: Histoire d'Outremer, or Livre d’Eracles, a history of the Crusades in French, based on Guillelmus, Archbishop of Tyre (b. 1130, d. c.1190), Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum, with a continuation to 1231. Decoration: 18 large miniatures in colours and gold with full...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c. 1479-c. 1480
Extent:

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