Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4431, ff 1r-177v
Title:: Christine de Pizan, Collected works ('The Book of the Queen'), vol. 1
Scope & Content:: The first volume of Works by Christine de Pizan, also known as 'The Book of the Queen', including: 1. List of contents, Table des dictiez en general (ff. 2r-2v). 2. Dedication to the queen Isabel of Bavaria, Prologue adreçant à la royne (ff. 3r-3v). 3. Cent balades (ff. 4r-21r); 4. Virelais ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1410-c 1414
Extent:: 177 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4431, ff 178r-274r
Title:: Christine de Pizan, Collected works ('The Book of the Queen'), vol. 2
Scope & Content:: The second volume of works by Christine de Pizan, also knowns as 'The Book of the Queen', including: 1. Le Livre du chemin de long estude (ff. 178r-219v); 2. Dit de la pastoure (ff. 221r-236v); 3. Épîtres sur le Roman de la rose (ff. 237r-254r); 4. Epistre à Eustace Morel (ff. 255v-257r); 5...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1410-c 1414
Extent:: 220 folios.

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4474/2
Title:: Martin le Franc, L'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu, volume 2
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 143r-302v: Martin le Franc (b. c. 1410, d. 1461), L'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu [1447–1448], in 3 books. The second part of a 2-volume set, the first volume of which is Harley MS 4474/1, ending with the colophon: 'Cy finit lestrif de virtu et fotune fait et compile par tres excel...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1450-1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4479
Title:: Collection of French state papers
Scope & Content:: This manuscript comprises four parts that were brought together at an unknown point in time, and possibly only bound together in the Harleian Library. The latter is suggested by the fact that the manuscript contains no less than three inscriptions with the acquisition date that Humfrey Wanley, K...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1543-c 1564
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4481
Title:: Histoire de l'Empereur Charles V; Traicté des Comtes de Flandres et d'Arthois
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-401r: Histoire de l'Empereur Charles V, entitled: 'Ce livre contient aucunes actes grands voiaiges et haultes entreprinses faictes par feu dexcellente et noble memore le victorieux prince Charles daustrice en son vivant Empereur des Romains tousiours auguste cincquiesme de ce n...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1550
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4482
Title:: Le Roman de Troie
Scope & Content:: Contents: Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Le Roman de Troie, an adaptation of Dares Phrygius, De excidio Troiae historia. The final words are lacking, as the last folio is damaged. f. 188v has later illegible inscriptions. Decoration: 1 historiated initial in colours and gold, with a three-sided f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c. 1300
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4484
Title:: Collection of Latin inscriptions with translations and poems in French
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8r: 'Inscriptions de la Place des Victories, par Regnier des Marais'; Latin inscriptions , dated 1643-1686, with French translations. ff. 9r-14r: 'De Erasmo'; Latin inscriptions on Erasmus with many written at Paris by Jean-Baptiste de Santeul [Santolius] (b. 1630, d. 1697) a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4485
Title:: Livre de l'ordre de Saint Michel (Rules of the Order of Saint Michel)
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes the statuts of the Order of St Michel, established by Louis XI in 1468, preceded by a table of contents, 'La table des chapitres du livre de lordre du tres crestien Roy de France Loys XIe de lhonneur de Saint Michel' (ff. 1r-7v; f. 8 is blank); incipit (f. 9v): 'Loys par ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1510-c 1520
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4486
Title:: A treatise on alchemy and medicine, and the Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:: Two manuscripts bound together including a treatise on alchemy and medicine (ff. 1r-67r) and the Livre de Sydrac (ff. 69r-146r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1350-1631
Extent:: 148 folios.

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