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4281. Harley MS 4379

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.

4282. Harley MS 4418

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

4283. Harley MS 1239

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1239
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; a selection from The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400): Troilus and Criseyde, and a selection from The Canterbury Tales. The latter includes The Knight's Tale, The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Clerk's Tale, and The Franklin's Tale. Con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4284. Harley MS 1650

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1650
Title:
Inventory of Queen Elizabeth I's jewels and plate, 1573-1574
Scope & Content:
Inventory of Queen Elizabeth I’s jewels and plate in the custody of John Astley, courtier (c. 1507-1596), and the Treasurers of her Majesty’s jewels. 13 March, 1574. Each page signed by John Astley. f. 1*r Title-page. ff. 1r-6v ‘Juelles of golde’: list of jewels. ff. 7r-21r ‘Cuppes and Bolles...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1573-1574
Extent:
1 volume

4285. Harley MS 1806

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1806
Title:
Richard Rolle, The Middle English Prose Psalter with Latin Canticles
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-151v: Richard Rolle, the Middle English Prose Psalter, imperfect at the beginning in Psalm 1.1, incipit: 'to hym dey of body and soul.' ff. 152r-170v: Canticles in Middle English with Latin headings including the Old Testament Canticles and Magnificat in Richard Rolle's transl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4286. Harley MS 3115

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3115
Title:
Hilary of Poitiers, De Trinitate, De Synodis and Contra arianos
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes three works by Hilary of Poitiers: ff. 2r-179v: De Trinitate, preceded by a title page: 'In hoc codice continentur Hilarii urbis pictaviorum aquitanicae epi XII adversus arrianos libri de sancta trinitate' (f. 1v); rubric: 'Incipit liber primus sancti hilarii de trinitat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:

1 volume

4287. Harley MS 11

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 11
Title:
Peter Lombard, Gloss on the Psalms (Magna glosatura)
Scope & Content:
Peter Lombard, Gloss on the Psalms (Magna glosatura), ends imperfectly in Psalm 73; preface (ff. 1r-2r) with a rubric damaged at the beginning, incipit: 'sancti revelatione constet esse locutos'; commentary (f. 2r), incipit: 'Beatus, cui omnia optata succedunt'. Added numerous 13th and some ear...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

4288. Harley MS 2342

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2342
Title:
Prayer book ('Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book')
Scope & Content:
Prayer book, known as 'Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book'. The manuscript contains prayers extracted from Richard Taverner's translation from the Latin of Wolfgang Capito's Precationes Christianae ad imitationem psalmorum compositae, printed as An epitome of the Psalmes, or briefe meditacons upon th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1539-1554
Extent:

1 volume

4289. Harley MS 3272

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3272
Title:
Logica vetera and Logica nova, Aristotle, De anima
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is composed of two originally independent volumes: ff. 1r-207v: Logica vetara and Logica nova made of several booklets, written by several scibes at the beginning of the 14th century, and provided with rubricated titles by one contemporary hand. ff. 208r-227v: Aristotle, De ani...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.

4290. Harley MS 6035

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6035
Title:
Journal of Sir Francis Walsingham's office, 1583-1585
Scope & Content:
Journal or memorandum book of Sir Francis Walsingham, principal secretary of state (c. 1532-1590). In the hands of Sir Francis Walsingham, Francis Mylles, Thomas Lake, Robert Beale, and others. f. i: Parchment fragment: ‘A leiger took out of the Secretaries office 1583’. ff. 1r-118v: Daily mem...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1583-1585
Extent:
1 volume

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