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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4294
Title:: Hugh of Campden, Sidrak and Bokkus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-79v: Sidrak and Bokkus, a Middle English translation by Hugh of Campden of the long rhymed French Sidrac; imperfect at the end; beginning: 'If þat þou vundestonde can / Haþ vij chambrez and no moo' (edited by Burton, Sidrak and Bokkus (1998-1999); see also IMEV 772; NIVEM 772; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4313
Title:: Formulary for legal process in the Court of Arches at London
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-217v: Formula for legal process in the Court of Arches at London ('Formulae Instrumentorum Juris in curia de Arcubus Lonini'), mostly featuring dates from the 1560s-1580s. Largely written in Latin, but also featuring items in English.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1560s-1580s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4324
Title:: Guy du Faur, Les Quatrains and Les Cinquante octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, written by Esther Inglis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Les Quatrains and Les Cinquante octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, two poetic works by Guy de Faur (b. 1529, d. 1584), Seigneur de Pibrac, written by the English calligrapher and artist Esther Inglis (b. 1570/71, d. 1624) in 1614. The manuscript features...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1614
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4325
Title:: Loys Papon, Pastorelle sur la victoire obtenue contre les Allemands, Reytres, Lansquenets, Souysses et Francoys rebelles a Dieu et au Roy treschretien l'an 1587
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the autograph copy of the Pastorelle sur la victoire obtenue contre les Allemands, Reytres, Lansquenets, Souysses et Francoys rebelles a Dieu et au Roy treschretien l'an 1587 (Pastoral on the victory won against the Germans, the Reytres, the Landsknecht (German military soldie...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1588
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4327
Title:: Lorraine Psalter; Little Office of the Virgin Mary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-20v: Preface to the Psalter in French, beginning with the rubric: 'Cilz qui ait cest psaultier de latin translateit en romans prie et requieirt a touz ceulz qui lon vorront transcrire et copier . que il metient ou faicent metre tout devant lou psaultier...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4328
Title:: Life of Christ (books 6-10)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-486v: Life of Christ (books 6-10); this is the second volume of a set (see rubrics ff. 1r, 15v-16r, 16v, 486r). Decoration: 3 large miniatures in the style of the Master of Jacques de Luxembourg with full foliate borders including hybrid figures, heraldic arms and mottos, in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1460-c 1468
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4329
Title:: Martin de Braga (translated by Jean Courtecuisse), Le livre des quatre vertus (De quatuor virtutibus); Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by Laurent de Premierfait), Le livre de vieillesse (De senectute); Le livre de amitié (De amicitia); letter of Bernard of Clairvaux; hymn to the Virgin
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-28v: Martin de Braga (translated by Jean Courtecuisse), Le livre des quatre vertus (De quatuor virtutibus). ff. 30r-129v: Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by Laurent de Premierfait), Le livre de vieillesse (De senectute). ff. 130r-192v: Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1460
Extent:: 1 volume

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 4335
Title:: Le Livre de Boece de Consolacion (Book I)
Scope & Content:: Le livre de Boece de Consolacion, Book 1, with prologues and table of contents. This is the first volume of a five-volume set (Harley MSS 4335-4339) containing Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio (The Consolation of Philosophy), with an anonymous French verse-prose translation. Each chapter in L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1477
Extent:: 1 volume

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