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032-002045828 Language French, Middle Place France

1. Harley MS 1745

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1745
Title:
A French student book
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44r: A French student book.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 4408

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4408
Title:
Les trois fils de rois
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-159v: Les trois fils de rois, an anonymous romance. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 160v: Crossed out letter (upside down) in French; added in the (?) 16th century. Decoration: Large plain initials in red ink. Rubrics in red. Capitals highlighted in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. 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

4. 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

5. Harley MS 1008

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1008
Title:
A miscellany of theological, moral, devotional, hagiographic, prophetic and mantic texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany of seven parts (ff. 1-8; 9-[26a]; 27-44; 45-56; 57-80; 81; 82-130) containing theological, moral, devotional, hagiographic, prophetic and mantic texts. The different parts probably were all produced in England and France in the second half of the 15th ce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. 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

7. Harley MS 2745

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2745
Title:
Pseudo-Ovid, De vetula; (Pseudo)-Ovid, poems; Walter of Châtillon, Alexandreis; florilegia of Classical and French authors; Pseudo-Seneca, Proverbia; Ovid, Metamorphoses (florilegium); Aesop, Fabulae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-31r: Pseudo-Ovid, De vetula; the second part, which should follow the first part on ff. 153r-160v. ff. 31v-46v: (Pseudo-)Ovid, Collection of poems (De nuce, De somno, De cuculo, De pulice, De anulo, De medicamine aurium, De philomena, De lupo, De mirabilibus mundi, De medicam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. 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

9. Harley MS 4474/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4474/1
Title:
Martin le Franc, L'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu, volume 1
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-142v: Martin le Franc (b. c. 1410, d. 1461), L'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu [1447–1448], in 3 books, here entitled: 'Lestrif et debat de Vertu et Fortune'; with a dedication to Philip the Good: 'A treshault, trespuissant, et tresredoubte prince, Phelippe Duc de Bourgogne, de Bra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1450-1500
Extent:
1 volume

10. 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