Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: French / Digitised Content Platform: BL legacy Digitised Manuscripts (unavailable) - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978
Title:: Collection of poems including fables and musical, calendrical, and medical texts
Scope & Content:: A miscellany or 'manual' including poems, fables, musical, and medical texts, several of which are unique to this collection, such as the song 'Sumer is icumen in', the Song of Lewes, several poems by Marie de France and Goliardic verses. The collection was possibly compiled between 1261 and 126...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978, ff 2r-15r
Title:: Musical miscellany
Scope & Content:: 1. Musical miscellany. Written in square notation on a five-line red stave; the notation sometimes denoting rhythm and at times corrected by a later hand. The text includes: Four monophonic Latin songs (ff. 2r-8v): ‘Samson dux fortissime’ (ff. 2r-4v); ‘Regina clemencie Maria vocata’ (ff. 4v-6r);...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 14 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, f 156r (item 2)
Title:: La vie nostre dame seinte marie, incipit: 'Sachez que nostre dame fui de xii annzet vi mois...'
Scope & Content:: La vie nostre dame seinte marie, incipit: 'Sachez que nostre dame fui de xii annzet vi mois...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1/2 column

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1319
Title:: Jean Creton, Histoire rimée de Richard II (La Prinse et mort du roy Richart)
Scope & Content:: La Prinse et mort du roy Richart (ff. 1r-78v). Added descriptions of the miniatures written in 1767 by Dr Thomas Percy (ff. 79r-80v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1401-1767
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1319, ff 1r-78v
Title:: Jean Creton, Histoire rimée de Richard II (La Prinse et mort du roy Richart)
Scope & Content:: La Prinse et mort du roy Richart (Book of the Capture and Death of King Richard II) also known as La Prinse et mort du roy Richart (the Capture and Death of king Richard), the Account of the Fall of Richard II, or the Chronicle of Jean Creton), composed by Jean Creton (fl. 1386–1420), historian ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1401-c 1405
Extent:: 78 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3749
Title:: John Norden, Survey of the Honor of Windsor
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a survey of the Honor of Windsor that was made by the cartographer John Norden (b. c. 1547, d. 1625) for King James I in 1607. The manuscript contains 17 maps that are the result of a survey conducted on foot by Norden. The maps in this volume show communication routes, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1607
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4324
Title:: Guy du Faur, Les Quatrains and Les Cinquante octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, written by Esther Inglis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Les Quatrains and Les Cinquante octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, two poetic works by Guy de Faur (b. 1529, d. 1584), Seigneur de Pibrac, written by the English calligrapher and artist Esther Inglis (b. 1570/71, d. 1624) in 1614. The manuscript features...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1614
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 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

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

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