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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Place France

111. Harley MS 4154

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4154
Title:
Collection of theological sayings
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1r-68v: Theological compendium, consisting of theological sayings, beginning with: 'Credendum est esse unum aliquid quod est quicquid alius est'; ending with: 'Singula de nobis anni prædantur euntes'. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r (upper margin): 'Anselmi, Sola sap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

112. Harley MS 4341

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4341
Title:
Eloges des Personnes Illustres de l'ancien Testament pour donner une teinture de l'Histoire Sainte
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-95r: 'Eloges des Personnes Illustres de l'ancien Testament pour donner une teinture de l'Histoire Sainte'; consisting of 46 sections with French poems on and engravings of Old Testament figures, from Adam until Herod; ending with a table (ff. 94r-95r). Decoration: 48 engraved...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

113. Harley MS 4362

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4362
Title:
Collection of surveys of France, royal ordinances, feudal rights, and a chronicle of French kings
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains texts relating to French law, finance, and history that strongly resemble the contents of Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms français 4924, a 15th-century manuscript that was made for a member of the Chambre des Comptes (Chamber of Accounts) in Paris. Harley MS ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1507-c 1515
Extent:
1 volume

114. 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

115. 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

116. Harley MS 4398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4398
Title:
Coustumes de Bretaigne, with ordinances of Geoffrey, John and other dukes of Brittany
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-65v: Coustumes de Bretaigne, with ordinances of Geoffrey, John and other dukes of Brittany. Decoration: 3 large initials in colours and gold with red and black pen-flourishing (ff. 1r, 58r, 65r). Large plain initials in red or blue. Smaller plain initials in red or blue. Rubr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

117. Harley MS 4406

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4406
Title:
Pierre Choisnet, Le Rosier des guerres, and other texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r-15v: Prayers to the Virgin Mary, beginning: 'Virgo templum trinitatis deus summe bonitatis et misericordie'. ff. 15v-16r: Memoria of St Michael the Archangel, beginning: 'Archangele Christi Michael princeps mlicie celestis'. f. 16v: Prayer to Holy He...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

118. 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

119. Harley MS 4424

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

120. Harley MS 4474/1

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

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