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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661

4321. Harley MS 4401

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4401
Title:
Gautier de Coincy, Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame
Scope & Content:
An imperfect copy of Gautier de Coincy's miracles of the Virgin Mary, including his lyrics (with musical notation) dedicated to her. Contents: ff. 1r-189v: Gautier de Coincy, Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame. Four- and three-line staffs with C-clefs and quasi-square neumes: f. 3v: 'Amors, qui b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
c 1250–c 1275
Extent:

1 volume

4322. Harley MS 4404

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

4323. 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

4324. 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

4325. Harley MS 4409

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4409
Title:
Vie de saint Denys et ses compaignons
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Ordinances of the Confraternity of Saint Denis, Rouen, title: 'Ci enssieuvent les bien qui font fais de iour en iour en la confrarie dieu et monseigneur saint Denis de rouen'; incipit: 'Premierement il est ordene' (ff. 1r-2v). 2. Vie de saint Denys et ses compaignon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1420
Extent:
Parchment codex.

4326. 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

4327. Harley MS 4411

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4411
Title:
Le roman de Renard le Contrefait (only the part in prose); excerpts from Les chroniques de Flandre; Les chroniques de Flandre with excerpts of the Grandes chroniques de France; Charles V's response to the schedule sent by Edward III, king of England.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44r: Attributed to a former clerk, Le roman de Renard le Contrefait branch II (see: Le Roman de Renard le Contrefait, ed. by Gaston Reynaud and Henri Lemaitre, 2 vols (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1914), I, pp. xiii-xiv and pp. 227-97). It includes only excerpts of the parts in pros...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex, 184 folios.

4328. Harley MS 4412

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4412
Title:
Bible Historiale from Genesis to Job followed by a table of contents.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-266v: Bible Historiale from Genesis to Job. ff. 267r-272v: Table of contents beginning: 'En ce Livre est contenue la Bible et pour trouver chacun chappitre par feuillets, la table s'ensuit'. Decoration: The outer bifolio in each quire is made of parchment. Watermark of a pot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Paper and parchment codex, 272 folios.

4329. 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

4330. 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

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