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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Language French, Old

51. Harley MS 4001

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4001
Title:
Chroniques abrégées, also known as The 'Manual' of Philip VI of France
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-144v: Chroniques abrégées, also known as The 'Manual' of Philip VI of France, compiled from the Speculum historiale of Vincent of Beauvais and sometimes attributed to a monk of Saint-Denis, beginning: '[L]a cause afait ceste compilacion'. Decoration: Rubrics in red. Marginal ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

52. Harley MS 4333

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4333
Title:
Anthology of Moral and Didactic poems and treatises, including works by Gossouin de Metz and Marie de France
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-70r: Gossouin (Gautier) de Metz, L'image du monde, preceded by a prologue with an introduction ending with a dedication to Count Robert d'Artois (d. 1250) and Jacques de Lorraine, Bishop of Metz (d. 1260); ff. 70r-72v: 'Li Romans de la mort' or De l'unicorne; ff. 73-96r: Mari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
A parchment codex, 117 folios

53. Harley MS 4334

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4334
Title:
Girard de Roussillon, Chanson de geste
Scope & Content:
Contents: Girard or Girart de Roussillon, a chanson de geste, imperfect at the beginning and the end, with a lacuna of at least 3 quires after f. 37 and leaves missing after ff. 24, 30 and 43. There are 3,480 lines remaining out of a total of 10,000. Girard de Roussillon was governor of the D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

54. Harley MS 4354

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4354
Title:
Renclus de Moiliens, Li Romans de Miserere, and Le Roman de Carité
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-1*v, 104r-104v: two fragmentary leaves from a 13th-century theological manuscript, re-used as flyleaves. ff. 1r-55v: Renclus de Moiliens (fl. 12th century), Li Romans de Miserere. ff. 55v-103v: Renclus de Moiliens, Le Roman de Carité. Decoration: 1 large initial in blue wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

55. Harley MS 4361

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.

56. Harley MS 4361, ff 1r-6r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4361, ff 1r-6r
Title:
Table of contents
Scope & Content:
Table of rubrics to the Livre de Sydrac.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
c 1280-c 1300
Extent:
6 folios.

57. Harley MS 4361, ff 7r-97v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4361, ff 7r-97v
Title:
Livre de Sydrac
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
c 1280-c 1300
Extent:
90 folios.

58. Harley MS 4388

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

59. Harley MS 4389

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

60. Harley MS 4390

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

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