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11. Egerton MS 274

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 274
Title:
Musical miscellany in French and Latin
Scope & Content:
A musical miscellany the main part of which was copied in France in the second half of the thirteenth century, with many 14th- and 15th-century additions near the end, the music written both in square notes and Gothic neumes. Alison Stones connects its historiated initials with artistic activity...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
13th century - 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

12. 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

13. Harley MS 4336

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4336
Title:
Le Livre de Boece de Consolacion (Book II)
Scope & Content:
Contents: This is the second 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 Latin (alternating verse and prose) is followed by a commentary in Lati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1477
Extent:

1 volume

14. Harley MS 4337

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4337
Title:
Le Livre de Boece de Consolacion (Book III)
Scope & Content:
Contents: This is the third 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 Latin (alternating verse and prose) is followed by a commentary in Latin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1477
Extent:

1 volume

15. Harley MS 4338

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4338
Title:
Le Livre de Boèce de Consolacion (Book IV)
Scope & Content:
Contents: This is the fourth 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 Latin (alternating verse and prose) is followed by a commentary in Lati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1477
Extent:

1 volume

16. Harley MS 4339

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4339
Title:
Le Livre de Boece de Consolacion (Book V)
Scope & Content:
Contents: This is the fifth 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 Latin (alternating verse and prose) is followed by a commentary in Latin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1477
Extent:

1 volume

17. 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.

18. 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

19. 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

20. Royal MS 20 D VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 D VI
Title:
A French legendary, comprising 57 saints' lives in prose, including some attributed to Wauchier de Denain
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a legendarium (legendary), or collection of saints' lives, a term which derives its name from the Latin word legenda 'things to be read'. The text is written in prose and represents one of over 30 French prose legendaries to survive from the 13th and 14th centuries. The text...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume