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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2948
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar, Paris use (St Genevieve in red; 3 January), composite, alternately in red and blue with important feasts in gold. ff. 13r-16v: Added prayers with a title 'L'exercise ordinaire du Crestien. Quand on se leve le matin' (17th century). ff. 17r-20v: The Seven Joys of the Virgi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1460-c 1480
Extent:: 1 volume

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.

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 1664
Title:: Psalter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk
Scope & Content:: Volume of 26 psalms and prayers in Latin, with French rubric. Formerly owned by Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (c. 1484–1545), magnate, courtier and soldier, whose signature appears on f. 22v. ff. 1r-4v: Rubric, ‘de la Louenge, Vertu, et Efficace des Pseames’. French. ff. 5r-9r: Psalms....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7009
Title:: Miscellaneous papers addressed to Prince Henry, 1610-1612
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous petitions, proposals and projects addressed to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594–1612). Volume 3 of Harley MSS 7007-7009. ff. 1r-2v: Brief list of the yearly pensions paid by Prince Henry. With notes of some occasional expenses. 1610-1612. ff. 3r-4v: Record of several petiti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1610-1612
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 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

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 4381
Title:: Guyard des Moulins, Bible historiale, volume 1
Scope & Content:: Guyard des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible historiale complete à prologues), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica, with additional books supplied from the French translation of the Bible made at Paris c. 1250; bound in two volumes. The first volume includes Genesis-Psal...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4382
Title:: Guyard des Moulins, Bible historiale, volume 2
Scope & Content:: Guyard des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible historiale complete a prologues), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica with additional books supplied from the French translation of the Bible made at Paris c. 1250; bound in two volumes. For the first volume, see Harley 4381. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: Parchment codex.

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