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2991. 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

2992. 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

2993. 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

2994. 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

2995. 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

2996. 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

2997. 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

2998. Harley MS 4427

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

2999. Harley MS 4428

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

3000. Harley MS 4429

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

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