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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4341
Title:: Eloges des Personnes Illustres de l'ancien Testament pour donner une teinture de l'Histoire Sainte
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-95r: 'Eloges des Personnes Illustres de l'ancien Testament pour donner une teinture de l'Histoire Sainte'; consisting of 46 sections with French poems on and engravings of Old Testament figures, from Adam until Herod; ending with a table (ff. 94r-95r). Decoration: 48 engraved...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4362
Title:: Collection of surveys of France, royal ordinances, feudal rights, and a chronicle of French kings
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains texts relating to French law, finance, and history that strongly resemble the contents of Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms français 4924, a 15th-century manuscript that was made for a member of the Chambre des Comptes (Chamber of Accounts) in Paris. Harley MS ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1507-c 1515
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4386
Title:: Henry Suso, L'Orloge de sapience (translation attributed to Jehan de Souhaube)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-162v: L'Orloge de sapience, a French translation of Henry Suso’s Horologium Sapientiae attributed to Jehan de Souhaube, a Franciscan friar, in 1389. The manuscript contains a later addition: ff. [i]verso-1v, 163r-164r: household notes in French; added to blank leaves in the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4387
Title:: Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-174v: Guido delle Colonne ['de Columnis' or 'de Columna'], Historia destructionis Troiae (A History of the Destruction of Troy) or Historia troiana, in 35 books with a prologue and epilogue. This Latin prose version, based on the Roman de Troie by Benoit de St Maure, was adap...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1475-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4398
Title:: Coustumes de Bretaigne, with ordinances of Geoffrey, John and other dukes of Brittany
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-65v: Coustumes de Bretaigne, with ordinances of Geoffrey, John and other dukes of Brittany. Decoration: 3 large initials in colours and gold with red and black pen-flourishing (ff. 1r, 58r, 65r). Large plain initials in red or blue. Smaller plain initials in red or blue. Rubr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4406
Title:: Pierre Choisnet, Le Rosier des guerres, and other texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r-15v: Prayers to the Virgin Mary, beginning: 'Virgo templum trinitatis deus summe bonitatis et misericordie'. ff. 15v-16r: Memoria of St Michael the Archangel, beginning: 'Archangele Christi Michael princeps mlicie celestis'. f. 16v: Prayer to Holy He...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4408
Title:: Les trois fils de rois
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-159v: Les trois fils de rois, an anonymous romance. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 160v: Crossed out letter (upside down) in French; added in the (?) 16th century. Decoration: Large plain initials in red ink. Rubrics in red. Capitals highlighted in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4424
Title:: Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Chronique, with a continuation until 1471
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Enguerrand de Monstrelet (b. c. 1400, d. 1453)'s Chronique, a chronicle covering the period from 1400 to 1444 (the latter part of the Hundred Years' War), with a continuation by the 'Monstrelet continuator' until the year 1471. Contents: ff. 2r-278r: Enguerrand de Mon...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1475-c 1480
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4474/1
Title:: Martin le Franc, L'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu, volume 1
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-142v: Martin le Franc (b. c. 1410, d. 1461), L'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu [1447–1448], in 3 books, here entitled: 'Lestrif et debat de Vertu et Fortune'; with a dedication to Philip the Good: 'A treshault, trespuissant, et tresredoubte prince, Phelippe Duc de Bourgogne, de Bra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1450-1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4474/2
Title:: Martin le Franc, L'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu, volume 2
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 143r-302v: Martin le Franc (b. c. 1410, d. 1461), L'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu [1447–1448], in 3 books. The second part of a 2-volume set, the first volume of which is Harley MS 4474/1, ending with the colophon: 'Cy finit lestrif de virtu et fotune fait et compile par tres excel...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1450-1500
Extent:: 1 volume

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