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3191. Harley MS 4408

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

3192. Harley MS 4409

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.

3193. Harley MS 4410

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4410
Title:
Christine de Pizan, Le Livre du corps de policie
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-68v: Christine de Pizan, Le Livre du corps de policie. The first rubric reads, 'Cy commence le livre du corps de policie le quel parle de vertu et de meurs: et est parti le dit livre en trois parties. La premiere partie sadrece aux princes, la seconde aux chevaliers et nobles,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3194. Harley MS 4411

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4411
Title:
Le roman de Renard le Contrefait (only the part in prose); excerpts from Les chroniques de Flandre; Les chroniques de Flandre with excerpts of the Grandes chroniques de France; Charles V's response to the schedule sent by Edward III, king of England.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44r: Attributed to a former clerk, Le roman de Renard le Contrefait branch II (see: Le Roman de Renard le Contrefait, ed. by Gaston Reynaud and Henri Lemaitre, 2 vols (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1914), I, pp. xiii-xiv and pp. 227-97). It includes only excerpts of the parts in pros...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex, 184 folios.

3195. Harley MS 4412

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4412
Title:
Bible Historiale from Genesis to Job followed by a table of contents.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-266v: Bible Historiale from Genesis to Job. ff. 267r-272v: Table of contents beginning: 'En ce Livre est contenue la Bible et pour trouver chacun chappitre par feuillets, la table s'ensuit'. Decoration: The outer bifolio in each quire is made of parchment. Watermark of a pot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Paper and parchment codex, 272 folios.

3196. Harley MS 4413

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4413
Title:
Coutumier d'Anjou et du Maine
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-133v: Coutumier d'Anjou et du Maine (Customary of Anjou and Maine), beginning: ‘Rene par la grace de dieu roy de Jherusalem et de Sicile duc d'Anjou per de France duc de Bar et de Lorraine conte de Prouvence de Forcalquier et de Pymont’. René I of Anjou (b. 1408, d. 1480) was d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1462-1480
Extent:
1 volume

3197. Harley MS 4416

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4416
Title:
The fables of Aesop, and fables of other authors, in French
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing the fables of Aesop, and other fables of various authors. The fables have been copied out in a neat hand, in French, by François Le Moine, a lawyer at the court, and clerk at the palace in Rouen. Each fable is accompanied by a drawing, in pen, probably copied f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1656
Extent:
1 volume

3198. Harley MS 4417

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4417
Title:
Livre de Sydrac; Huon de Méry, Le tournoiement Antechrist
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Livre de Sydrac (Book of Sydrac), an anonymous philosophical work in Old French, written between 1270 and 1300. The text is presented in the form of a dialogue between an ancient Babylonian king named Boctus and Sydrac, a philosopher. The volume also includes Le Torn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3199. 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

3200. Harley MS 4419

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4419
Title:
Lancelot du Lac
Scope & Content:
Contents: Lancelot du Lac, Part I, from the Lancelot-Grail or Prose Vulgate Cycle. Lancelot du Lac, also known as the Lancelot propre, is divided into 3 parts. Part I, beginning 'En la marche de Gaule', relates the birth and childhood of Lancelot and begins the chivalrous exploits of Arthur'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex, 169 folios

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