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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 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

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

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 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 4972
Title:: Apocalypse, Prophecy of the Tiburtine Sibyl
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-43r: Apocalypse in French prose, with prologue of Gilbert de la Porrée (a folio is missing between ff. 31 and 32); ff. 43r-47v: Prophétie de la sibylle Tiburtine (Prophecy of the Tenth or Tiburtine Sibyl); the last folio of this text is now in Bodley MS Douce 308. The text ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1275-1325
Extent:: A parchment codex, 47 folios

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