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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3983
Title:: Aimon de Varennes , Florimont; Chronicle of Rheims
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-82v: Aimon (or Aimé) de Varennes, Florimont, incipit: 'Cil qui a cuer de vacelage', explicit: 'Adonc fu retrais par Aymon' with the colophon ending 'Le tiers jour de lassumption acompli sa devotion'. The poem was composed by Aimon de Varennes at Chatillon d'Azergues in the For...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and French, Old
Date Range:: 1323
Extent:: A parchment codex, 114 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3992
Title:: Jacques de Longuyon, Les Voeux du Paon
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes Les Voeux du Paon composed in 1312 by Jacques de Longuyon for Tibaut de Bar, bishop of Liege; imperfect: following verses are missing: 1-980; 2560-2833; 6967-7080; 7248-8784; incipit: 'Oncles dist gadifer se vostre conseil niere'; explicit: 'Si grant quil li fance et perc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4012
Title:: Collection of religious prose and verse, including The Cleansing of Man's Soul; The Charter of Our Heavenly Heritage; The Mirror of Sinners; The Twelve Degrees of Meekness; Treatise on the Apostles' Creed; Mirror of St Edmund; The Syon Pardon; Lives of St Katherine, St Margaret, and St Anne; 'St Patrick and His Purgatory'
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of religious Middle English prose and verse, which may have been made for and commissioned by its first known owner: Anne Wingfield (b. c. 1426, d. 1498) of East Harling, Norfolk, who wrote her (now erased) ownership inscription on a former flyleaf (f. 153r)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1460s-1470s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4070
Title:: Psalter in Anglo-Norman
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the Book of Psalms in Anglo-Norman verse with the corresponding Latin verses at the beginning of each stanza. Contents: ff. 2r-123v: The Book of Psalms in verse, with a prologue, beginning ‘Ces [ver]s sunt de salu de[l] [ri]che rei ihesu nostre duz Avue’. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4333
Title:: Anthology of Moral and Didactic poems and treatises, including works by Gossouin de Metz and Marie de France
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-70r: Gossouin (Gautier) de Metz, L'image du monde, preceded by a prologue with an introduction ending with a dedication to Count Robert d'Artois (d. 1250) and Jacques de Lorraine, Bishop of Metz (d. 1260); ff. 70r-72v: 'Li Romans de la mort' or De l'unicorne; ff. 73-96r: Mari...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 117 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4334
Title:: Girard de Roussillon, Chanson de geste
Scope & Content:: Contents: Girard or Girart de Roussillon, a chanson de geste, imperfect at the beginning and the end, with a lacuna of at least 3 quires after f. 37 and leaves missing after ff. 24, 30 and 43. There are 3,480 lines remaining out of a total of 10,000. Girard de Roussillon was governor of the D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4372
Title:: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 1 to 5
Scope & Content:: Contents: Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, a translation of Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, books 1-5 of 9 books. Books 6-9 are now Harley 4373. Simon de Hesdin, Knight Hospitaller of Jerusalem and Master of Theology (d. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c. 1460-1487
Extent:: A parchment codex, 246 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4373
Title:: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 6 to 9
Scope & Content:: Contents: Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, a translation of Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, books 6-9. Simon de Hesdin, Knight Hospitaller of Jerusalem and Master of Theology (d. 1383), according to the rubric on f. 11v, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c. 1460-1487
Extent:: A parchment codex, 153 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4399
Title:: Guillaume de Diguleville, Pèlerinage de la vie humaine
Scope & Content:: Contents: Pèlerinage de la vie humaine (Pilgrimage of the life of man), by Guillaume de Diguleville (or Guilleville, Digulleville, Degulleville, Deguileville), a Cistercian monk of Chaalis, or Chailly, near Senlis. This is a copy of the first recension of the text, in 4 books with a prologue: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1375-1415
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4404
Title:: Doon de la Roche, les enfances Ogier, letter of Prester John
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-88r: Doon de la Roche, a chanson de geste from the end of the 12th century, relating the story of 'Don L'alemant de la Roche' or Doon of Cologne who married Olive, the daughter of King Pepin. This is the only complete surviving copy, though it is imperfect, with some lines unf...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: A paper codex, 87 folios

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