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11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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