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101. Harley MS 3912

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3912
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris, including calendar, French (ff. 1r-12v). f. 188r: A pastedown with a faded French inscription, 16th century. ff. 93v, 103v, 153v, 188v are blank. Decoration: 7 full-page miniatures with large decorated initials and full foliate borders, in colours and gold, for ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

102. Harley MS 3994

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3994
Title:
Statutes of England; a register of the English chancery
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-6v: Lists of chapters for major English statutes included in this manuscript. ff. 7r-11r: Magna Carta. ff. 11v-13r: Carta de Foresta. ff. 13r-13v: 'Confirmacio duarum Cartarum'. ff. 13v-14v: Sentencia Cartarum. ff. 14v-15v: Assisa Foresta. ff. 15v-18v: Statuta Glouc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1300-c 1325
Extent:
1 volume

103. 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

104. Harley MS 4004

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4004
Title:
Collection of English law cases; indentures of John Estrete; formulary of English Civil Law
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were produced separately and written by different hands. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-107v: Collection of English law cases; written in Law French in the last quarter of the 15th century or 1st quarter of the 16th century. Part 2: ff. 108...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

105. Harley MS 4148

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4148
Title:
Lez droix et lez establissemenz de Normendie
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-243r: Lez droix et lez establissemenz de Normendie (A treatise on the rights and laws of Normandy in verse). Decoration: 3 large puzzle initials in blue and gold with extensions in the same colours (ff. 1r, 5r, 11r). Smaller initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue. Ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

106. Harley MS 4166

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4166
Title:
Collection of tracts on geomancy, onomancy and onomeirancy; a tract on ars memoriae; instructions for making fires and candles
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains a collection of seven parts that were written separately in the 14th and 15h century. The first part (ff. 1r-51v) contains two untitled geomantic works that were copied in the 15th century. The second part (ff. 52r-70v) contains another geomantic work that ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume

107. 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

108. Harley MS 4327

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4327
Title:
Lorraine Psalter; Little Office of the Virgin Mary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-20v: Preface to the Psalter in French, beginning with the rubric: 'Cilz qui ait cest psaultier de latin translateit en romans prie et requieirt a touz ceulz qui lon vorront transcrire et copier . que il metient ou faicent metre tout devant lou psaultier...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

109. 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

110. 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

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