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1. Harley MS 1251

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1251
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('Hours of Eleanor Worcester')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1: Added paper fragment of a printed 15th- or 16th-century book concerning canon law, inscribed on the recto with a book curse in Middle English verse, ‘Thys boke ys one and godes kors ys anoder they that take the ton god gef them the toder’ (DIMEV no. 5660-3), late-15th/16th cent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1430-c 1440
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 1629

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1629
Title:
Prophecies de Merlin
Scope & Content:
Contents: Les Prophecies de Merlin, is a prose compilation of romance material from Arthurian sources, together with original political prophecies relating to Italian events of the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. The text, originating in Venice circa 1276, is primarily a series of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
A parchment codex, 70 folios

3. Harley MS 1717

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1717
Title:
Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Chronique des ducs de Normandie
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Chronique des ducs de Normandie (Chronicles of the Dukes of Normany), which is believed to have been composed by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (fl. 1160-70) while he was in the service of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. The Chronique begins with Creation and ends with th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

4. Harley MS 2897

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2897
Title:
Breviary (the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria')
Scope & Content:
Breviary of the Use of Rome, known as the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria'. The manuscript is composed of two parts: Part 1 (ff. 154r-452v) is the summer portion of the breviary made for John the Fearles and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria, which formed originally a single v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410-c 1440
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 3661

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3661
Title:
The elections of abbesses of Holy Trinity Abbey, Caen
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a guide to the election of abbesses of Holy Trinity Abbey in Caen, France, based upon the procedure followed at Agnès de Thieuville’s election in 1482. The guide is appended with a later account of the appointment of Anne de Montmorency as abbess in 1555, by which time a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1482
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 3983

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3983
Title:
Aimon de Varennes , Florimont; Chronicle of Rheims
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-82v: Aimon (or Aimé) de Varennes, Florimont, incipit: 'Cil qui a cuer de vacelage', explicit: 'Adonc fu retrais par Aymon' with the colophon ending 'Le tiers jour de lassumption acompli sa devotion'. The poem was composed by Aimon de Varennes at Chatillon d'Azergues in the For...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
1323
Extent:
A parchment codex, 114 folios

7. Harley MS 4409

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4409
Title:
Vie de saint Denys et ses compaignons
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Ordinances of the Confraternity of Saint Denis, Rouen, title: 'Ci enssieuvent les bien qui font fais de iour en iour en la confrarie dieu et monseigneur saint Denis de rouen'; incipit: 'Premierement il est ordene' (ff. 1r-2v). 2. Vie de saint Denys et ses compaignon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1420
Extent:
Parchment codex.

8. Harley MS 4418

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4418
Title:
Jean d'Arras, Roman de Mélusine
Scope & Content:
Jean d'Arras, Roman de Mélusine (also known as Melusine ou la noble histoire de Lusignan), a prose romance composed at the request of John, Duke of Berry, in 1392-1393. This manuscript is one of eleven surviving copies of this text; for its edition (as manuscript H) see Vincensini, Jean d'Arras ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1440-c 1450
Extent:
A parchment codex, 251 folios

9. Harley MS 4419

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

10. Harley MS 4487

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:

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