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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4325
Title:: Loys Papon, Pastorelle sur la victoire obtenue contre les Allemands, Reytres, Lansquenets, Souysses et Francoys rebelles a Dieu et au Roy treschretien l'an 1587
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the autograph copy of the Pastorelle sur la victoire obtenue contre les Allemands, Reytres, Lansquenets, Souysses et Francoys rebelles a Dieu et au Roy treschretien l'an 1587 (Pastoral on the victory won against the Germans, the Reytres, the Landsknecht (German military soldie...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1588
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4329
Title:: Martin de Braga (translated by Jean Courtecuisse), Le livre des quatre vertus (De quatuor virtutibus); Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by Laurent de Premierfait), Le livre de vieillesse (De senectute); Le livre de amitié (De amicitia); letter of Bernard of Clairvaux; hymn to the Virgin
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-28v: Martin de Braga (translated by Jean Courtecuisse), Le livre des quatre vertus (De quatuor virtutibus). ff. 30r-129v: Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by Laurent de Premierfait), Le livre de vieillesse (De senectute). ff. 130r-192v: Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1460
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4341
Title:: Eloges des Personnes Illustres de l'ancien Testament pour donner une teinture de l'Histoire Sainte
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-95r: 'Eloges des Personnes Illustres de l'ancien Testament pour donner une teinture de l'Histoire Sainte'; consisting of 46 sections with French poems on and engravings of Old Testament figures, from Adam until Herod; ending with a table (ff. 94r-95r). Decoration: 48 engraved...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4377
Title:: Charles Perrault, Jean Chapelain, and Jacques Cassagnes, Devises pour les tapisseries du Roy, où sont représentez les quatre Élémens et les quatre Saisons de l’année
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Devises pour les tapisseries du Roi, où sont représentez les quatre Élémens et les quatre Saisons de l’année (Emblems for tapestries of King Louis XIV of France on the themes of the four elements and the four seasons), by Charles Perrault (b. 1628, d. 1703), Jean Cha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1669
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4379
Title:: Jean Froissart, Chroniques (the 'Harley Froissart')
Scope & Content:: Jean Froissart, Chroniques, volume IV, Part 1 (the 'Harley Froissart'). The Part 2 is Harley MS 4380. Preceded by a table of contents (ff. 1r-1v). Decoration: 11 large miniatures with large decorated initials and full foliate borders including hybrid figures and birds, in colours and gold (ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1470-1472
Extent:: 184 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4380
Title:: Jean Froissart, Chroniques (the 'Harley Froissart')
Scope & Content:: Jean Froissart, Chroniques, Volume IV, Part 2 (the 'Harley Froissart'). Part 1 is Harley MS 4379. Decoration: 12 large miniatures with large decorated initials and full foliate borders including hybrid figures and birds, in colours and gold (ff. 1r, 10v, 40r, 58v, 84r, 89r, 117r, 134r, 148r, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1470-1472
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4381
Title:: Guyard des Moulins, Bible historiale, volume 1
Scope & Content:: Guyard des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible historiale complete à prologues), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica, with additional books supplied from the French translation of the Bible made at Paris c. 1250; bound in two volumes. The first volume includes Genesis-Psal...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4382
Title:: Guyard des Moulins, Bible historiale, volume 2
Scope & Content:: Guyard des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible historiale complete a prologues), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica with additional books supplied from the French translation of the Bible made at Paris c. 1250; bound in two volumes. For the first volume, see Harley 4381. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4385
Title:: Gilles de Rome, De regimine principum translated by Henri de Gauchy, Le gouvernement des roys et des princes
Scope & Content:: Gilles de Rome, De regimine principum, originally dedicated to his pupil, the future Philip IV of France (r. 1286-1314), in the French translation by Henri de Gauchy (or Ganchy), canon of Liege as Le gouvernement des roys et des princes. Decoration: 1 large miniature with a large decorated ini...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1410-c 1420
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4387
Title:: Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-174v: Guido delle Colonne ['de Columnis' or 'de Columna'], Historia destructionis Troiae (A History of the Destruction of Troy) or Historia troiana, in 35 books with a prologue and epilogue. This Latin prose version, based on the Roman de Troie by Benoit de St Maure, was adap...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1475-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

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