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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4361
Title:: Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:: Livre de Sydrac (ff. 7r-97v), preceded by a table of rubrics (ff. 1r-6r). Decoration: 1 foliate initial 'A'(ntens) in red and blue with partial bar border accomodating a marginal portrait of king Bochus, and a dragon, at the beginning of the text (f. 7r). Descenders or partial bar borders wit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: c 1280-c 1300
Extent:: 97 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4388
Title:: Anglo-Norman miscellany, including Les proverbes de Salemon and Chastoiement d’un pere a son fils
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-86v: Sanson de Nantuil, Les proverbes de Salemon, the Latin text of the book of Proverbs, chapter 1 to chapter 19:27 with a translation and commentary in Anglo-Norman verse. The 12,000 octosyllabic couplets were composed by Sanson de Nantuil for Aeliz de Condet between 1136-11...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4389
Title:: Roman de Tristan
Scope & Content:: Roman de Tristan in prose. For an edition of the text, see Curtis, Le Roman de Tristan (1985). Opening rubric (in red) now worn into illegibility. Incipit (f. 1; see Roman 1985, I, p. 120): 'En ceste partie dit li contes que tant demora li rois Apollo a la cort li roi Clodovex'. Explicit (f. 61...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1275-1324
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4390
Title:: Peter of Peckham, Lumiere as lais
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-82r: Peter of Peckham, Lumiere as lais. Decoration: 7 large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour including leaves extending into the margin (ff. 1r, 7v, 18r, 26r, 51r, 68v, 82r), including a dog (f. 18r), a face (f. 26r), a dragon (f. 68v)....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4397
Title:: M. de Saint Thomas, Le livre de l'imagination; Michault Le Caron, Le Passe-temps; Pierre Chastellain, Le Temps perdu; Pierre de Nesson, Chronicle of the kings of France; Guillaume Fillastre, Complainte sur Isabelle de Bourbon, comtesse de Charolais; Testament de Pierre de Nesson; Traité de conseil
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-167r: M. de Saint Thomas, Le livre de l'imagination (ff. 1r-81v); Michault Le Caron, Le Passe-temps (ff. 84r-95r); Pierre Chastellain, Le Temps perdu (ff. 96r-104r); Pierre de Nesson, Chronicle of the kings of France (ff. 104v-109v); Guillaume Fillastre, Complainte sur Isabelle de Bo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4398
Title:: Coustumes de Bretaigne, with ordinances of Geoffrey, John and other dukes of Brittany
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-65v: Coustumes de Bretaigne, with ordinances of Geoffrey, John and other dukes of Brittany. Decoration: 3 large initials in colours and gold with red and black pen-flourishing (ff. 1r, 58r, 65r). Large plain initials in red or blue. Smaller plain initials in red or blue. Rubr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4401
Title:: Gautier de Coincy, Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame
Scope & Content:: An imperfect copy of Gautier de Coincy's miracles of the Virgin Mary, including his lyrics (with musical notation) dedicated to her. Contents: ff. 1r-189v: Gautier de Coincy, Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame. Four- and three-line staffs with C-clefs and quasi-square neumes: f. 3v: 'Amors, qui b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: c 1250–c 1275
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4417
Title:: Livre de Sydrac; Huon de Méry, Le tournoiement Antechrist
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Livre de Sydrac (Book of Sydrac), an anonymous philosophical work in Old French, written between 1270 and 1300. The text is presented in the form of a dialogue between an ancient Babylonian king named Boctus and Sydrac, a philosopher. The volume also includes Le Torn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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