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201. Harley MS 4393

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4393
Title:
Explication des actes des apôtres
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2v-157r: Explication des actes des apôtres. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1r: A title inscription: 'Explication des actes des apostres en forme de paraphrase'; added in a 16th-century hand. f. 1v: A summary description of the manuscript; added in the (?) 17t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1531-1543
Extent:
1 volume

202. Harley MS 4400

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4400
Title:
Compilations concerning the nobility, magistrates and antiquities of Metz, including Jehan Praillon's Chronique des comtes, des voués et des échevins de Metz
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains compilations written in French, concerning the nobility, magistrates and antiquities of the city of Metz. It includes the Chronique des comtes, des voués et des échevins de Metz, also known as the Chronique de Metz, which records the history of the city between 960 and 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

203. Harley MS 4406

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4406
Title:
Pierre Choisnet, Le Rosier des guerres, and other texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r-15v: Prayers to the Virgin Mary, beginning: 'Virgo templum trinitatis deus summe bonitatis et misericordie'. ff. 15v-16r: Memoria of St Michael the Archangel, beginning: 'Archangele Christi Michael princeps mlicie celestis'. f. 16v: Prayer to Holy He...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

204. 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.

205. Harley MS 4410

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4410
Title:
Christine de Pizan, Le Livre du corps de policie
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-68v: Christine de Pizan, Le Livre du corps de policie. The first rubric reads, 'Cy commence le livre du corps de policie le quel parle de vertu et de meurs: et est parti le dit livre en trois parties. La premiere partie sadrece aux princes, la seconde aux chevaliers et nobles,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

206. Harley MS 4416

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4416
Title:
The fables of Aesop, and fables of other authors, in French
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing the fables of Aesop, and other fables of various authors. The fables have been copied out in a neat hand, in French, by François Le Moine, a lawyer at the court, and clerk at the palace in Rouen. Each fable is accompanied by a drawing, in pen, probably copied f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1656
Extent:
1 volume

207. 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

208. 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

209. Harley MS 4424

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4424
Title:
Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Chronique, with a continuation until 1471
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Enguerrand de Monstrelet (b. c. 1400, d. 1453)'s Chronique, a chronicle covering the period from 1400 to 1444 (the latter part of the Hundred Years' War), with a continuation by the 'Monstrelet continuator' until the year 1471. Contents: ff. 2r-278r: Enguerrand de Mon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1475-c 1480
Extent:
1 volume

210. 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:

Parchment codex

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