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31. 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

32. 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

33. 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

34. Harley MS 4867

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4867
Title:
Ovid, Heroides translated in French by Octavien de St. Gelais
Scope & Content:
Contents: Octavien de St. Gelais translated the Heroides in French for Charles VIII between 1490 and 1493. This translation was widely spread. The Heroides is divided in 21 epistles. Here the prologue is missing. Some lines were missing throughout the text but added in the margins. f. 1r: a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
Last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex, 190 folios.

35. Harley MS 6205

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6205
Title:
François Desmoulins de Rochefort, Les Commentaires de la guerre gallique (Book I)
Scope & Content:
Les Commentaires de la guerre gallique (Commentaries on the Gallic War) was written by François Desmoulins de Rochefort (d. 1526), a Franciscan friar, almoner and preceptor to Francis I of France. Composed as a dialogue between Julius Caesar and the king of France, on the responsibilities of an ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1519
Extent:

1 volume

36. Harley MS 7403

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7403
Title:
Religious poems and prose in Old Provençal
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-27r: The Gospel of Nicodemus [Evangelium Nicodemi] in Old Provençal verse; incomplete at the beginning: ‘Veias qui es parlar ab tu / Ieu regardiei e vi ihesu'. ff. 27r-34v: The Fifteen Signs before Doomsday [Quindecim Signa ante Judicium] in Old Provençal verse; beginning: ‘S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle, Latin, and Provençal, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

37. Harley Roll O 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Roll O 1
Title:
A universal roll chronicle of popes, emperors, kings of France and kings of England to Henry V
Scope & Content:
Membranes 1-9: A universal chronicle in four columns with a history of popes until Urban VI prolonged to Sixtus IV, a history of emperors (Roman and medieval) until Ludwig of Bavaria prolonged to Frederick III, a genealogy of the kings of France until Charles VI (a version of the ‘A tous nobles’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 roll

38. Royal MS 13 A XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A XIV
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, and other texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of texts, principally in Latin, written in Ireland between the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century, and which formerly belonged to the Dominican convent at Limerick. They include a copy of the Topographia Hiberniae (Topography of Ireland), an a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

39. Royal MS 15 E I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 E I
Title:
William of Tyre, Histoire d'Outremer
Scope & Content:
Contents: Histoire d'Outremer, or Livre d’Eracles, a history of the Crusades in French, based on Guillelmus, Archbishop of Tyre (b. 1130, d. c.1190), Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum, with a continuation to 1231. Decoration: 18 large miniatures in colours and gold with full...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c. 1479-c. 1480
Extent:

Parchment codex

40. Royal MS 16 F IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 F IX
Title:
Histoire de Troie, a French translation of Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Histoire de Troie (History of Troy), an anonymous French prose translation of the Historia destructionis Troiae (History of the destruction of Troy), written by the Italian judge and poet Guido delle Colonne (fl 13th century). This is the first of five Fren...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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