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4352. Harley MS 4486, ff 69r-146r
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4486, ff 69r-146r
- Title:
- Livre de Sydrac
- Scope & Content:
- Decoration: Large puzzle initial in blue and red with red pen-flourishing, at the beginning of the text (f. 69r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, including foliate motifs (when the page contains several initials, the pen-flourishing joins together to form a continuous border along t...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Old
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 14th century
- Extent:
- 77 folios.
4353. Harley MS 4487
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4487
- Title:
- Aimon de Varennes, Roman de Florimont
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the Roman de Florimont by Aimon de Varennes. Aimon wrote his work at Chatillon d'Azergues in the Forez region near Lyon in 1188. The poem, consisting of over 13000 lines, is in the Lyonnais dialect and relates the adventures of Florimont, the fictitious grandfather of Al...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French and French, Old
- Date Range:
- 1295
- Extent:
-
1 volume
4354. Harley MS 4497
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4497
- Title:
- Jean de Francières, Livre de fauconnerie
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a copy of a treatise on falconry, written by the French author and Knight Hospitaller Jean de Francières (b. c. 1400, d. 1488). The text was composed at Rhodes between 1458 and 1469. It is divided into two parts: the first describes the seven different types of falcon; t...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Middle
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4355. Harley MS 4498
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4498
- Title:
- Metrical chronicle of France; Epistre en forme de complaincte sur la fuycte de clement marot composer par le frere myneur et par luy envoyez au Francoys
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Prologue sur le tiers Volume de la cronique Francoyse. ff. 2v-64r: Metrical chronicle of France in 33 Chapters, beginning 'Sur le propoz facile a decouverer / Icy endtroit prenant heure que ouvrer'. ff. 65r-67v: Epistre en forme de complaincte sur la fuycte de clement m...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4356. Harley MS 4500
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4500
- Title:
- Collection of French historical papers, including extracts from the work of Jehan Le Feron
- Scope & Content:
- This composite manuscript consists of various French historical papers produced by different scribes who were working separately at different moments in the 16th century. Contents: f. 1r: Untranscribed title inscription for the volume with the date 1565. ff. 2r-28r: Treaty of Cateau-Cambré...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French and Latin
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4357. Harley MS 4503
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4503
- Title:
- Jean le Coq (Johannes Gallus), Questiones
- Scope & Content:
- The manuscript includes Jean le Coq's Questiones, a collection of laws of the French Court of Parliament, with a title: 'Sequitur plurima notabilia que vidi pronunciari per arresta in curia parliamenti et alibi'(ff. 3r-151r), with a table of contents (ff. 154r-163v). The front and back flyleav...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 13th century-Early 16th century
- Extent:
- Paper codex
4358. Harley MS 4504
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4504
- Title:
- Baldassare Castiglione, Il Libro del Cortegiano (books 1-2 in French translation)
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-168v: French translation of Books 1 and 2 of Baldassare Castiglione (b. 1478, d. 1529), Il Libro del Cortegiano [The Book of the Courtier]; without title or introduction, and beginning with the original dedication: 'Au reverend et tres illustre Seigneur, Monseigneur Michel de l...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4359. Harley MS 4505
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4505
- Title:
- Collection of Precedents in the Court of the Queen's Bench, from the 12th to the 37th years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Collection of Precedents in the Court of the Queen's Bench, from the 12th to the 37th years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I [1569-1595]; written in French with headings in Latin. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 52r-54v: English commentaries on biblical te...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1569-1595
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4360. Harley MS 4557/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4557/1
- Title:
- Yearbooks of King Henry VI, 1432-1444, volume 1
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the first part of a 2-volume set of the Yearbooks of King Henry VI from Michaelmas Term in the 11th year of his reign until Trinity Term in the 22nd year of his reign (1432-1444). Contents: ff. 2r-237v: Yearbooks of King Henry VI, comprising the 11th, 12th (partially...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and French, Middle
- Date Range:
- c 1444
- Extent:
- 1 volume