Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: French, Old - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5139
Title:: Petrus Hispanus, Thesaurus Pauperum, in an anonymous Italian translation; alchemical and medical recipes; fragment of the Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an anonymous Italian translation of the Thesaurus pauperum (Treasury of the poor), a comprehensive medical manual of diseases and remedies by Petrus Hispanus (or Peter of Spain), traditionally identified with the Portuguese scholar and ecclesiastic Peter Juliani (b. c. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Italian
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5228
Title:: Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:: Medical miscellany (imperfect), composed of eight independent units: First unit (ff. 2r-36v) includes: 1. Gerardus de Montepessulano (Gerard of Cremona?), Summa de modo medendi. Second unit (ff. 37r-67v) includes: 2. De anathomia (ff. 37r-38v); 3. Modus medendi (ff. 38v-44v); 4. Copho?, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1160-1250
Extent:: 140 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5228, ff 76r-93r
Title:: Collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:: The fourth unit includes a collection of medical recipes (c. 103 recipes) in Latin and Old French. Incipit: '[A]ccipe raphanum et scinde per rotulas et po/ne in aceto', second recipe: incipit: 'Pur guttanire prenez limazuus ? sis fendez si me/tez sel de desure'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Early 13th century
Extent:: 18 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6508
Title:: Wace, Roman de Brut
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-100r: Wace, Roman de Brut. Decoration: Two puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours (ff. 1r, 8v). Initials with penwork decoration in red and brown at the top of the page, one with a human head in profile (f. 82v). Decorated catchwords (e.g. f....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6669
Title:: La comence le plé de la couronne (a legal treatise on duties of the seneschal)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-9r: La comence le plé de la couronne (a legal treatise on duties of the seneschal). Decoration: 1 puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours (f. 1r). Smaller initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: Last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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