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1. Harley MS 2940

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2940
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:
This illuminated Book of Hours is one of only two known surviving products of the collaboration of the workshops of the Boucicaut Hours master (active c. 1390-1430) and of the Rohan master (active c. 1410-1440), who were the leading illuminators in 15th-century Paris. The other Book of Hours tha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1420
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 4328

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4328
Title:
Life of Christ (books 6-10)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-486v: Life of Christ (books 6-10); this is the second volume of a set (see rubrics ff. 1r, 15v-16r, 16v, 486r). Decoration: 3 large miniatures in the style of the Master of Jacques de Luxembourg with full foliate borders including hybrid figures, heraldic arms and mottos, in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1460-c 1468
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 4362

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4362
Title:
Collection of surveys of France, royal ordinances, feudal rights, and a chronicle of French kings
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains texts relating to French law, finance, and history that strongly resemble the contents of Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms français 4924, a 15th-century manuscript that was made for a member of the Chambre des Comptes (Chamber of Accounts) in Paris. Harley MS ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1507-c 1515
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 4371

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4371
Title:
Pierre Le Baud, Chroniques des roys, ducs et princes de Bretaigne
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Chroniques des roys, ducs et princes de Bretaigne (Chronicles of the Kings, Dukes and Princes of Brittany), written by Pierre Le Baud (b. 1458, d. 1505), a French clergyman and historian. The text is dedicated to Anne of Brittany (b. 1477, d. 1514), wife ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century, before 1514
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 4386

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

6. Harley MS 4392

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

7. Harley MS 5762

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5762
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-9v: Calendar, including SS Amand of Maastricht, Anthony of Bourges, Aubert, Aventin of Chartres, Blanchart, Boniface of Mayence, Brice of Tours, Clair of Vexin, Desiderius of Langres, Eloy of Noyon, Eleutherius of Tournai, Fara of Meaux, Fiacre of Meaux, Fortunat of Poitiers, F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1460
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 6294

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6294
Title:
Gisalbertus de Bergamo, Commentarius in Disticha Catonis, with an alphabetical index
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-180r: Gisalbertus de Bergamo, Commentarius in Disticha Catonis (Commentary on Cato's Distichs), introduced by a letter by Albericus de Rosate. ff. 181r-188v: an alphabetical index to the work. f. 180v is blank. Decoration: Foliate initials in colours and gold combined wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume