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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 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

5. 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

6. Harley MS 4374/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4374/3
Title:
Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 3 and 4
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 third of 6 volumes): ff. 169r-210v: Book 3, Human character (continued); ff. 211r-252r: Book 4, Moderation. This copy of the work is now bound in 6 volume...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1473 to c1480
Extent:

A parchment codex, 85 folios

7. Harley MS 4375/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4375/1
Title:
Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 5-7
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 fourth of 6 volumes): ff. 1r-44v: Book 5, Humanity and Clemency; ff. 45r-76v: Book 6, Loyalty; ff. 77r-84v: Book 7, Happiness (continues in Harley 4375/2)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1473 to c. 1480
Extent:
A parchment codex, 84 folios

8. Harley MS 4375/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4375/2
Title:
Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 7-8
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 fifth of 6 volumes): ff. 85r-122r: Book 7, Happiness (continued from Harley 4375/1); on f. 102v a rubric states Nicolas de Gonesse's translation begins here...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1473 to c. 1480
Extent:
A parchment codex, 94 folios

9. Harley MS 4375/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4375/3
Title:
Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 8 and 9
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 sixth of 6 volumes): ff. 173r-178v: Book 8 (continued from Harley 4375/2); ff. 179r-264v: Book 9, Vices. This copy of the work is now bound in 6 volumes; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1473 to c. 1480
Extent:
A parchment codex, 94 folios

10. Harley MS 4376

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4376
Title:
Jean de Courcy, Chronique de la Bouquechardière
Scope & Content:
Contents: Jean de Courcy (b. c. 1350, d. 1431), Chronique de la Bouquechardière, in 6 books: ff. 2v-89v: Book I, from Genesis to Ancient Greece; ff. 90r-149v: Book II, the legend of Troy; ff. 150r-206r: Book III, the cities founded by the fleeing Trojans; ff. 206v-270v: Book IV, Babylon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

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