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31. Harley MS 2750

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2750
Title:
Publius Terentius Afer, Vita Terentii, Opera (Life and Works), with interlinear and marginal glosses
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-94r: Publius Terentius Afer, Vita Terentii, Opera (Life and Works), with interlinear and marginal glosses. f. 94v: various scribbles and notes including an annotation which is one of the earliest French vernacular songs with music in a late-11th-century hand. Decoration: Ini...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

32. Harley MS 3353

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3353
Title:
Composite miscellany relating to medicine, alchemy and mathematics
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum (ff. 2r-38v); 2. Marbod of Rennes, Liber lapidum seu de gemmis (ff. 39r-54v); 3. Pseudo-Ovidius (Thierry, abbot of St. Trond?), De mirabilibus mundi, hexameter verse (ff. 54v-57v); 4. Johannes Philosophus, Summa chiromantiae (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-Mid 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

33. Harley MS 3353, ff 160r-177v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3353, ff 160r-177v
Title:
Chronicle relating to the year 1291
Scope & Content:
A chronicle relating to the year 1291 and possibly referring to the death of Jeanne of Chatillon, Countess of Blois and Chartres; incipit: 'En lan de grace mil cc quatre vins et onze le rendi devant la commision saint pol'. Decoration: Initials and paraphs in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
18 folios.

34. Harley MS 3776

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3776
Title:
The ‘Codex ruber’ or ‘Waltham Abbey miscellany’, part 1
Scope & Content:
The first surviving fragment of a collection of miscellaneous religious and historical tracts. The medieval numeration of the contents indicates that the folios were formerly in a different order, with ff. 25–62 coming after ff. 94–117. Four other 14th-century manuscripts, which may or may not b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1345-1360s
Extent:

Parchment codex

35. 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.

36. 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.

37. 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.

38. 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

39. 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

40. Harley MS 4425

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:

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