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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4427
Title:: Livy, Ab urbe condita, the first decade only, in a French translation
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-206v: Livy, Ab urbe condita, the first decade only, in a French translation by Pierre Bersuire, the text fragmentary and damaged in parts, especially in the first gatherings and at the end. f. 129 is a paper interleaf. Parts of the text excised (f. 180). Decoration: 4 ha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4431
Title:: Christine de Pizan, Collected works ('The Book of the Queen')
Scope & Content:: The manuscript, known as 'The Book of the Queen', includes Works by Christine de Pizan, assembled for Isabel (Isabeau) of Bavaria, queen consort of Charles VI of France, and produced under the author's supervision. Possibly some passages are in the hand of Christine de Pizan herself. Formerly bo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1410-c 1414
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4431, ff 1r-177v
Title:: Christine de Pizan, Collected works ('The Book of the Queen'), vol. 1
Scope & Content:: The first volume of Works by Christine de Pizan, also known as 'The Book of the Queen', including: 1. List of contents, Table des dictiez en general (ff. 2r-2v). 2. Dedication to the queen Isabel of Bavaria, Prologue adreçant à la royne (ff. 3r-3v). 3. Cent balades (ff. 4r-21r); 4. Virelais ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1410-c 1414
Extent:: 177 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4431, ff 178r-274r
Title:: Christine de Pizan, Collected works ('The Book of the Queen'), vol. 2
Scope & Content:: The second volume of works by Christine de Pizan, also knowns as 'The Book of the Queen', including: 1. Le Livre du chemin de long estude (ff. 178r-219v); 2. Dit de la pastoure (ff. 221r-236v); 3. Épîtres sur le Roman de la rose (ff. 237r-254r); 4. Epistre à Eustace Morel (ff. 255v-257r); 5...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1410-c 1414
Extent:: 220 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4479
Title:: Collection of French state papers
Scope & Content:: This manuscript comprises four parts that were brought together at an unknown point in time, and possibly only bound together in the Harleian Library. The latter is suggested by the fact that the manuscript contains no less than three inscriptions with the acquisition date that Humfrey Wanley, K...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1543-c 1564
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4484
Title:: Collection of Latin inscriptions with translations and poems in French
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8r: 'Inscriptions de la Place des Victories, par Regnier des Marais'; Latin inscriptions , dated 1643-1686, with French translations. ff. 9r-14r: 'De Erasmo'; Latin inscriptions on Erasmus with many written at Paris by Jean-Baptiste de Santeul [Santolius] (b. 1630, d. 1697) a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4485
Title:: Livre de l'ordre de Saint Michel (Rules of the Order of Saint Michel)
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes the statuts of the Order of St Michel, established by Louis XI in 1468, preceded by a table of contents, 'La table des chapitres du livre de lordre du tres crestien Roy de France Loys XIe de lhonneur de Saint Michel' (ff. 1r-7v; f. 8 is blank); incipit (f. 9v): 'Loys par ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1510-c 1520
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4486
Title:: A treatise on alchemy and medicine, and the Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:: Two manuscripts bound together including a treatise on alchemy and medicine (ff. 1r-67r) and the Livre de Sydrac (ff. 69r-146r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1350-1631
Extent:: 148 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4486, ff 1r-67r
Title:: Treatise on alchemy and medicine
Scope & Content:: Copied from the original dedicated to baron de Tracy (see f. 1r), first chapter: Secret compendium ou Memorial final en forme de Recapitulation sur mes precedents devis et chapitres, incipit: 'Preface dicel livre de chapitre premier. Noble de preux chevallier en qui toute bonte gist...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1631
Extent:: 67 folios + 2 unfoliated leaves at the end.

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:: 1 volume

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