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1. Harley MS 3869

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3869
Title:
John Gower, Confessio amantis, Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, pageant verses, and some short Latin verse; Marian hymns in English and Latin
Scope & Content:
Confessio amantis by John Gower (d. 1408), along with his French Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, and some of his short Latin verse. Also includes (in the hand of another scribe), pageant verses by John Lydgate and Marian hymns in English and Latin. Contents: ff. 2r–4v: John Lydgat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 4000

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4000
Title:
An epistolary discourse in defence of the Protestant religion
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Note suggesting that this work came from the Queen's closet due to the markings E R A F H ('Elizabetha Regina Angliae Franciae Hiberniae') on the original vellum binding that has been pasted onto f. 2r and f. 77v. ff. 3r–4r: An explanation of the contents, written in the same hand as the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1567
Extent:

1 volume

3. Harley MS 4203

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4203
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-181v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; an English translation of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous Men’); featuring Latin rubrics, and a co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 4335

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4335
Title:
Le Livre de Boece de Consolacion (Book I)
Scope & Content:
Le livre de Boece de Consolacion, Book 1, with prologues and table of contents. This is the first volume of a five-volume set (Harley MSS 4335-4339) containing Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio (The Consolation of Philosophy), with an anonymous French verse-prose translation. Each chapter in L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1477
Extent:

1 volume

5. Harley MS 4336

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4336
Title:
Le Livre de Boece de Consolacion (Book II)
Scope & Content:
Contents: This is the second volume of a five-volume set (Harley MSS 4335-4339) containing Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio (The Consolation of Philosophy), with an anonymous French verse-prose translation. Each chapter in Latin (alternating verse and prose) is followed by a commentary in Lati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1477
Extent:

1 volume

6. Harley MS 4337

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4337
Title:
Le Livre de Boece de Consolacion (Book III)
Scope & Content:
Contents: This is the third volume of a five-volume set (Harley MSS 4335-4339) containing Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio (The Consolation of Philosophy), with an anonymous French verse-prose translation. Each chapter in Latin (alternating verse and prose) is followed by a commentary in Latin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1477
Extent:

1 volume

7. Harley MS 4338

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4338
Title:
Le Livre de Boèce de Consolacion (Book IV)
Scope & Content:
Contents: This is the fourth volume of a five-volume set (Harley MSS 4335-4339) containing Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio (The Consolation of Philosophy), with an anonymous French verse-prose translation. Each chapter in Latin (alternating verse and prose) is followed by a commentary in Lati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1477
Extent:

1 volume

8. Harley MS 4339

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4339
Title:
Le Livre de Boece de Consolacion (Book V)
Scope & Content:
Contents: This is the fifth volume of a five-volume set (Harley MSS 4335-4339) containing Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio (The Consolation of Philosophy), with an anonymous French verse-prose translation. Each chapter in Latin (alternating verse and prose) is followed by a commentary in Latin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1477
Extent:

1 volume

9. Harley MS 4374/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4374/1
Title:
Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, book 1
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 first of 6 volumes): ff. 1r-2v: Translator's prologue; ff. 2v-4v: Author's prologue; ff. 4v-80v: Book 1, Religion and miraculous events (continued in Harl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1473-c1480
Extent:

A parchment codex, 80 folios

10. Harley MS 4374/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4374/2
Title:
Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 1, 2 and 3
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 second of 6 volumes): ff. 81r-87v: Book 1, Religion (continuation); ff. 88r-160r: Book 2, Ancient Customs; ff. 161r-168v: Book 3, Human characteristics (c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c1473-c1480
Extent:
A parchment codex, 88 folios

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