Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: French - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5242
Title:: Chansons for three voices
Scope & Content:: Chansons, for 3 voices (with one exception), in parts, with illuminated initials and occasionally an illuminated border in which occur the letters F F {[Françoise de Foix.]} (Françoise, to whom several of the verses are addressed), and a monogram, probably intended for M A M I E. The only compose...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume (48 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5256
Title:: Loys Papon, Discours à Lesdiguières
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is an autograph copy of Discours à Lesdiguières, a poem written by Loys Papon (b. 1539, d. 1499), a French playwright and prior of Marcilly. It features a dedication (ff. 3r-4r) from Papon to a certain 'M de Lesdiguières', who can be identified as François de Bonne, (b. 1543, d. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1597
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5265
Title:: Notes on law lectures; law treatises
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a composite miscellany, consisting of one part (ff. 1-234) with lecture notes in French and English, produced in the 2nd half of the 16th century, and another part (ff. 235-264) with law texts in Latin, produced in the 13th century. Contents: ff. 1r-234v: A collection of no...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5297
Title:: Description of Near East, Middle East, and Asia, in French
Scope & Content:: Description of near East, Asia Minor, Greece and Mediterranean Islands, Asia Minor and Middle East, China, East Indies, Isles de l’archipelago de St Laurens aux Indes, and Tartary. With extracts from published accounts. ff. 1-23 written in two different hands. Text incomplete: Lead words for ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5298
Title:: Form of admission into the Order of the Golden Fleece in Latin, French and Spanish
Scope & Content:: Manuscript form of admission into the Order of the Golden Fleece in three languages, with printed initials (rubricated and painted in gold leaf), ornaments and heraldic devices (ff. 2v, 11v, 17r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5299
Title:: Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (French translation)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-73r: Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (published in its complete form in 1532); French translation by 'Helye Bonnet' of the first five books; dedicated to the ‘Dauphin’. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 2r, 72v, 73r: Inscriptions of numbers (possibly a cyp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1532-c 1540
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5301
Title:: Statuts et armoiries des chevaliers de la Table Ronde de Bourges
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-49v: Statuts et armoiries des chevaliers de la Table Ronde de Bourges (Statutes and Armorial of the Round Table of Bourges). A few ruled leaves have been left blank after f. 15 to enter the names of future members of the Round Table with the date of their admission into the ord...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1486-1533
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5319
Title:: Compilations of French texts with German vocabulary and practice sentences; Arabic book with Qur'an text; The Fifteen Oes
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of three distinct parts, containing a 17th-century compilation of French letters and German vocabulary and practice sentences (ff. 2r-69v); an Arabic book that may have been written in the 15th or 16th century (ff. 70r-109v); and a copy of the Fifteen Oes, date...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, French, German, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1475-1654
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5328
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Bourges
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-19v: Gospel readings. ff. 20r-23v: 'Obsecro te'. ff. 25r-70r: Hours of the Virgin. ff. 71r-73v: Hours of the Cross. ff. 74r-76v: Hours of the Holy Spirit. ff. 77r-89r: Penitential Psalms. ff. 89r-92r: Litany. ff. 93r-123r: Office of the D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1480s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5370
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Angers
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-17v: The life of Christ according to the Four Gospels. ff. 17v-24r: Obsecro te. ff. 24r-30r: O intemerata. ff. 30r-30v: Salve regina. ff. 30v-32r: Short prayers ('antiphons') to the Virgin Mary, beginning: 'Ave regina celo', 'Regina celi letare',...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1450
Extent:: 1 volume

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