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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 4425
Title:: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:: The text of the Roman de la Rose was begun around 1220, possibly by Guillaume de Lorris, and continued by Jean de Meun between 1269 and 1278. The text of this manuscript was copied from a printed edition published at Lyon, probably around 1487 (see Kren and McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissan...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and French, Old
Date Range:: c 1490-c 1500
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4427
Title:: Livy, Ab urbe condita, the first decade only, in a French translation
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-206v: Livy, Ab urbe condita, the first decade only, in a French translation by Pierre Bersuire, the text fragmentary and damaged in parts, especially in the first gatherings and at the end. f. 129 is a paper interleaf. Parts of the text excised (f. 180). Decoration: 4 ha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4428
Title:: Chronicle of France
Scope & Content:: Chronicle of France from the foundation of Paris down to 1318. Horizontal catchwords. The second volume is Harley MS 4429. Decoration: Three-sided border in colours and gold with rinceaux and floral motifs, a coat of arms sketched in brown ink in the lower margin, and a historiated initial o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4429
Title:: Chronicle of France
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-247r: chronicle of France from 1321 to 1461. f. 247v: ownership inscriptions, 16th century. Horizontal catchwords. The first volume is Harley MS 4428. Decoration: 6 large historiated initials in colours and gold of the kings of France (ff. 1r, 5v, 21v, 39v, 89r, 165v). Lar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4430
Title:: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicholas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens volume 1: books 1-3.
Scope & Content:: Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicholas de Gonesse as Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, volume 1, containing Books I-IV. ff. 1r-32v: A table of rubrics, beginning with the title, 'Cy commencent les rubrices du livre Valerius Max...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4431
Title:: Christine de Pizan, Collected works ('The Book of the Queen')
Scope & Content:: The manuscript, known as 'The Book of the Queen', includes Works by Christine de Pizan, assembled for Isabel (Isabeau) of Bavaria, queen consort of Charles VI of France, and produced under the author's supervision. Possibly some passages are in the hand of Christine de Pizan herself. Formerly bo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1410-c 1414
Extent:: Parchment codex

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4479
Title:: Collection of French state papers
Scope & Content:: This manuscript comprises four parts that were brought together at an unknown point in time, and possibly only bound together in the Harleian Library. The latter is suggested by the fact that the manuscript contains no less than three inscriptions with the acquisition date that Humfrey Wanley, K...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1543-c 1564
Extent:: 1 volume

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