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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 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4605
Title:: Christine de Pizan, Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 2r-v: Table of contents to Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie, with a rubric beginning, 'Cy commence la table des rubriches du livre des fais darmes & de chevalerie le quel dit livre est parti en quatre parties' (f. 2r); the main text beginning, 'La premiere partie de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1434
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4657
Title:: Latin and Anglo-Norman devotional miscellany
Scope & Content:: A miscellany including William of Waddington's Le Manuel des Pechiez (c. 1260), and unique copies of a vernacular hymn dedicated to the Virgin Mary, a 13th-century anonymous translation of the Disticha Catonis, and a vernacular poem on the seven mortal sins. ff. 1v-4v: Apocalypsis Golliae, 'A ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: c 1300 - c 1325
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4664
Title:: Breviary of Coldingham Priory
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains 3 separate parts with liturgical texts made for the Benedictine priory of Coldingham: Part I (14th century): ff. 2r-8v: Liturgical lections and antiphons for the feast of Corpus Christi, 'In festivitate corporis Christi ad jesperas [sic] super psalmos' (with added lect...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: c 1250–c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4751
Title:: A bestiary with additions from Gerald of Wales's Topographia Hibernica
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a bestiary from the 'second family' of bestiaries (see James, The Bestiary (1928), pp. 15-16) with additions from Gerald of Wales's (b. c. 1146, d. 1223) Topographia Hibernica (Topography of Ireland) on Irish birds. Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Bestiary, beginning: 'Bestiaru...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4772
Title:: The first part of the ‘Montpellier Bible’, containing the Book of Genesis to the Book of Malachi
Scope & Content:: This is the first of two volumes of one of the nine extant copies of the Languedocian recension of the Latin Vulgate (see Berger, Histoire de la Vulgate (1893), pp. 72-88), containing the Book of Genesis to the Book of Malachi. This Bible is known as the ‘Montpellier Bible', after the location o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4773
Title:: The second part of the 'Montpellier Bible', containing the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation
Scope & Content:: This is the second of two volumes of one of the nine extant copies of the Languedocian recension of the Latin Vulgate (see Berger, Histoire de la Vulgate (1893), pp. 72-88), containing the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation. This Bible is known as the ‘Montpellier Bible', after the locat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4800
Title:: Birgitta of Sweden, Revelations, Books 4-5
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-109v: Birgitta of Sweden, Revelations, a Middle English translation of the Liber Celestis, incomplete, containing Book 4 (lacking chapters 41-66, the beginnings of chapters 7 and 67, the endings of chapters 6 and 40, and a folio with the middle of chapter 89) and Book 5, Chapte...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4804/1
Title:: Prologue on Psalms attributed to St Augustine; Book of Psalms including Gilbert of Poitiers, Commentarius in Psalterium
Scope & Content:: The first volume of two separate volumes with continuous foliation: Harley MS 4804/1 (ff. 1-167v), and Harley MS 4804/2 (ff. 168-336v). The first volume is a book of Psalms containing the commentary on the Psalms written by Gilbert of Poitiers (b. after 1085, d. 1154), copied in Chartres durin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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