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Container Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661

3171. Harley MS 4377

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4377
Title:
Charles Perrault, Jean Chapelain, and Jacques Cassagnes, Devises pour les tapisseries du Roy, où sont représentez les quatre Élémens et les quatre Saisons de l’année
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Devises pour les tapisseries du Roi, où sont représentez les quatre Élémens et les quatre Saisons de l’année (Emblems for tapestries of King Louis XIV of France on the themes of the four elements and the four seasons), by Charles Perrault (b. 1628, d. 1703), Jean Cha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1669
Extent:
1 volume

3172. 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.

3173. Harley MS 4380

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

3174. Harley MS 4381

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.

3175. Harley MS 4382

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.

3176. Harley MS 4385

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4385
Title:
Gilles de Rome, De regimine principum translated by Henri de Gauchy, Le gouvernement des roys et des princes
Scope & Content:
Gilles de Rome, De regimine principum, originally dedicated to his pupil, the future Philip IV of France (r. 1286-1314), in the French translation by Henri de Gauchy (or Ganchy), canon of Liege as Le gouvernement des roys et des princes. Decoration: 1 large miniature with a large decorated ini...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1410-c 1420
Extent:

Parchment codex

3177. Harley MS 4386

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

3178. Harley MS 4387

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

3179. Harley MS 4388

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4388
Title:
Anglo-Norman miscellany, including Les proverbes de Salemon and Chastoiement d’un pere a son fils
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-86v: Sanson de Nantuil, Les proverbes de Salemon, the Latin text of the book of Proverbs, chapter 1 to chapter 19:27 with a translation and commentary in Anglo-Norman verse. The 12,000 octosyllabic couplets were composed by Sanson de Nantuil for Aeliz de Condet between 1136-11...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

3180. Harley MS 4389

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4389
Title:
Roman de Tristan
Scope & Content:
Roman de Tristan in prose. For an edition of the text, see Curtis, Le Roman de Tristan (1985). Opening rubric (in red) now worn into illegibility. Incipit (f. 1; see Roman 1985, I, p. 120): 'En ceste partie dit li contes que tant demora li rois Apollo a la cort li roi Clodovex'. Explicit (f. 61...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1275-1324
Extent:

1 volume

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