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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4419
Title:: Lancelot du Lac
Scope & Content:: Contents: Lancelot du Lac, Part I, from the Lancelot-Grail or Prose Vulgate Cycle. Lancelot du Lac, also known as the Lancelot propre, is divided into 3 parts. Part I, beginning 'En la marche de Gaule', relates the birth and childhood of Lancelot and begins the chivalrous exploits of Arthur'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and French, Old
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 169 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4425
Title:: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:: The text of the Roman de la Rose was begun around 1220, possibly by Guillaume de Lorris, and continued by Jean de Meun between 1269 and 1278. The text of this manuscript was copied from a printed edition published at Lyon, probably around 1487 (see Kren and McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissan...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and French, Old
Date Range:: c 1490-c 1500
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4486
Title:: A treatise on alchemy and medicine, and the Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:: Two manuscripts bound together including a treatise on alchemy and medicine (ff. 1r-67r) and the Livre de Sydrac (ff. 69r-146r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1350-1631
Extent:: 148 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4486, ff 69r-146r
Title:: Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:: Decoration: Large puzzle initial in blue and red with red pen-flourishing, at the beginning of the text (f. 69r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, including foliate motifs (when the page contains several initials, the pen-flourishing joins together to form a continuous border along t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 77 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4487
Title:: Aimon de Varennes, Roman de Florimont
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Roman de Florimont by Aimon de Varennes. Aimon wrote his work at Chatillon d'Azergues in the Forez region near Lyon in 1188. The poem, consisting of over 13000 lines, is in the Lyonnais dialect and relates the adventures of Florimont, the fictitious grandfather of Al...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and French, Old
Date Range:: 1295
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4656
Title:: De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae,also known as Bracton
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-100v: De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae, attributed to Henry Bracton. Decoration: Small initials in red. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4664, ff 9-125
Title:: Breviary
Scope & Content:: ff. 9r-124r: Breviary (the 'Coldingham Breviary'), including the Temporale, with many additional instructions added in the margins. f. 125v: An instruction, written in Old French, about reading a sundial or astrolabe. Decoration: One full-page miniature on f. 125v: a Benedictine monk (pres...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c 1270 - c 1280
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4664

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4878
Title:: Philippe de Vitry, Chronique de la création du monde (until 1327); Le chapel des trois fleurs de lis (in verse)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-58r: Philippe de Vitry, Chronique de la création du monde (until 1327); Le chapel des trois fleurs de lis (in verse). Decoration: Small miniature in colours and gold of Jacques de Vitry writing while a crowned lady presents the model of a church to a knight on a horse, with a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: Last quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4939
Title:: Appian, Histoire des guerres des romains
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-95r: Appian, Histoire des guerres des romains. Decoration: 1 full-page miniature with full foliate borders, in colours and gold (f. 1r) made around 1450 in Burgundy; 1 armorial full-page miniature, in colours and gold (f. 6v). 2 full-page miniatures with large decorated initi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1450-1517
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4979
Title:: Roman d'Alexandre in prose
Scope & Content:: Contents: This copy of the Roman d'Alexandre in prose is one of the three extant manuscripts of the 2nd recension, known as 'Redaction II'. The other two manuscripts are Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, MS 78.C.I and Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 11040. Incipit (prologue): 'La terre de machido...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1300
Extent:: A parchment codex, 87 folios

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