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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Name Foucault, Nicholas Joseph, Marquis de Magny, Councillor of State, 1643-1721 Level [40] File

1. Harley MS 1321

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1321
Title:
Chansons from the cycles of William of Orange and Aimeri de Narbonne
Scope & Content:
Contents: Chansons de Geste from the cycles of William of Orange (Guillaume d'Orange): and Aimeri de Narbonne (Aymeri de Nerbonne) ff. 4r-38v: Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube, Girart de Vienne (Girard de Viane), 5,560 lines, lacking 1 leaf at the beginning that perhaps contained a miniature; ff. 3...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1225-1275
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 2450

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2450
Title:
Breviary, Use of Le Mans
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is one of only six known surviving liturgical manuscripts than can be localised to the diocese of Le Mans (see Davis, 'Canons, Huguenots, Movie Stars, and Missionaries', p. 297, n. 2). It has suffered later damage and excision of several leaves, as well as the excision of some in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 3176

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3176
Title:
Sermons on the Virgin Mary; Arnold of Bonneval, Commentarius in Psalmum CXXXII; excerpts from theological works
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-65r: Sermons on the Virgin Mary for the Marian feasts, with a list of headings (f. 1v). f. 65r: A 4-line verse in praise of the Virgin Mary, beginning: ‘Ne queras nomen cui gratia contulit omen’ (printed in full in Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, III (1808), p. 8). ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Harley MS 3769

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3769
Title:
Wilhelm Horborch, Decisiones Romanae Rotae novae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Decisiones Romanae Rotae novae (New decisions of the Roman Rota), a summary of decisions made by the Roman Rota concerning canon law between 1376 and 1381, written by the German canonist Willhelm Horborch (b. 1320, d. 1384). Contents: ff. 1r-v, 251r-v: frag...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 3983

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3983
Title:
Aimon de Varennes , Florimont; Chronicle of Rheims
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-82v: Aimon (or Aimé) de Varennes, Florimont, incipit: 'Cil qui a cuer de vacelage', explicit: 'Adonc fu retrais par Aymon' with the colophon ending 'Le tiers jour de lassumption acompli sa devotion'. The poem was composed by Aimon de Varennes at Chatillon d'Azergues in the For...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
1323
Extent:
A parchment codex, 114 folios

6. Harley MS 4487

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