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41. Harley MS 3988

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3988
Title:
Maniere de Langage; Fatrasie; Dialogues and Reflections; Thomas Sampson of Oxford, Ars dictaminis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23r: Maniere de Langage, a manual of French conversation revised between 1396 and 1415, including a drinking song known as 'On wine' (ff. 5r-5v). 23r-23v: Fatrasie, a brief slanging-match in prose concerning some strayed sheep, written after 1396. ff. 23v-26r: Dialogues and R...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century - 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

42. 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

43. 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

44. 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

45. Harley MS 4397

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

46. Harley MS 4398

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

47. Harley MS 4401

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

48. Harley MS 4417

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

49. Harley MS 4656

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

50. Harley MS 4664, ff 9-125

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:

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