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11. Harley MS 4474/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4474/2
Title:
Martin le Franc, L'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu, volume 2
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 143r-302v: Martin le Franc (b. c. 1410, d. 1461), L'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu [1447–1448], in 3 books. The second part of a 2-volume set, the first volume of which is Harley MS 4474/1, ending with the colophon: 'Cy finit lestrif de virtu et fotune fait et compile par tres excel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1450-1500
Extent:
1 volume

12. Harley MS 4481

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4481
Title:
Histoire de l'Empereur Charles V; Traicté des Comtes de Flandres et d'Arthois
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-401r: Histoire de l'Empereur Charles V, entitled: 'Ce livre contient aucunes actes grands voiaiges et haultes entreprinses faictes par feu dexcellente et noble memore le victorieux prince Charles daustrice en son vivant Empereur des Romains tousiours auguste cincquiesme de ce n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

13. Harley MS 5217

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5217
Title:
Mirrors for Princes attributed to Olivier de la Marche and Jean de Villiers, dedicated to Philip the Good
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-17r: Olivier de la Marche (b. c. 1425, d. 1502), military advice for a prince ('je me suis delibere de mettre par escript quelle chose cest dun gage de bataille comment le prince et le iuge si doibt conduire selon raison et bonne equite'), dedicated to Philip the Good (r. 1419...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

14. Harley MS 5440

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5440
Title:
Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium sive super ludum scaccorum, translated into French by Jean de Vignay
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-82v: Jacobus de Cessolis [Jacopo da Cessole] (b. c. 1250, d. 1322), Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium sive super ludum scaccorum; a translation in French out of Latin by Jean de Vignay (b. c. 1285, d. 1348), beginning: ‘A Tres noble et excellent prince Jehan de fran...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

15. 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

16. Royal MS 19 B IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B IV
Title:
Les Dits Moraulx des Philosophes, a French translation of Guillaume de Tignonville's Dicta moralia antiquorum philosophorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Les Dits Moraulx des Philosophes (The Moral Sayings of the Philosophers), a French translation of the Latin Dicta moralia antiquorum philosophorum by Guillaume de Tignonville, or Thignonville (d. 1414), Councillor to King Charles VI of France and Prevost of Par...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume