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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4374/3
Title:: Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 3 and 4
Scope & Content:: Contents: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (the third of 6 volumes): ff. 169r-210v: Book 3, Human character (continued); ff. 211r-252r: Book 4, Moderation. This copy of the work is now bound in 6 volume...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1473 to c1480
Extent:: A parchment codex, 85 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4375/1
Title:: Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 5-7
Scope & Content:: Contents: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (the fourth of 6 volumes): ff. 1r-44v: Book 5, Humanity and Clemency; ff. 45r-76v: Book 6, Loyalty; ff. 77r-84v: Book 7, Happiness (continues in Harley 4375/2)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1473 to c. 1480
Extent:: A parchment codex, 84 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4375/2
Title:: Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 7-8
Scope & Content:: Contents: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (the fifth of 6 volumes): ff. 85r-122r: Book 7, Happiness (continued from Harley 4375/1); on f. 102v a rubric states Nicolas de Gonesse's translation begins here...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1473 to c. 1480
Extent:: A parchment codex, 94 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4375/3
Title:: Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 8 and 9
Scope & Content:: Contents: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (the sixth of 6 volumes): ff. 173r-178v: Book 8 (continued from Harley 4375/2); ff. 179r-264v: Book 9, Vices. This copy of the work is now bound in 6 volumes; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1473 to c. 1480
Extent:: A parchment codex, 94 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4376
Title:: Jean de Courcy, Chronique de la Bouquechardière
Scope & Content:: Contents: Jean de Courcy (b. c. 1350, d. 1431), Chronique de la Bouquechardière, in 6 books: ff. 2v-89v: Book I, from Genesis to Ancient Greece; ff. 90r-149v: Book II, the legend of Troy; ff. 150r-206r: Book III, the cities founded by the fleeing Trojans; ff. 206v-270v: Book IV, Babylon...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4400
Title:: Compilations concerning the nobility, magistrates and antiquities of Metz, including Jehan Praillon's Chronique des comtes, des voués et des échevins de Metz
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains compilations written in French, concerning the nobility, magistrates and antiquities of the city of Metz. It includes the Chronique des comtes, des voués et des échevins de Metz, also known as the Chronique de Metz, which records the history of the city between 960 and 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4698
Title:: Jewels received by Elizabeth I, 1572–1586
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–32v: A descriptive account of jewels received by Queen Elizabeth at New Year and delivered to Mrs Katherine Howard, one of the gentlewomen of her privy chamber, for the 14th–28th years of her reign (1572–1586). Marginal notes record gifts Elizabeth made of these jewels, and if she lost the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1572-1586
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4718
Title:: An inventory of the rarities of King Charles I in the Privy Gallery at Whitehall
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-85v: An inventory of the rarities of King Charles I (b. 1600, d. 1649) in the Privy Gallery at Whitehall, in the King’s new erected Cabinet Room, beginning: ‘By the King’s Especial command his Pictures & rarities which he had kept at St James’ in the Cabbenett Room were tra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1625-1649
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4760
Title:: A Treatise of the true Causes of the Prævarication of Churches Liberties of England
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*verso: A title inscription: ‘A Treatise of the true Causes of the Prævarication of Churches Liberties of England’; followed by two initials ‘S [?] G’ (perhaps the treatise’s author). ff. 1r-48v: A treatise in five chapters on King Henry VIII’s marriages, jurisdiction over the C...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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