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881. Stowe Ch 292

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 292
Title:
Confirmation by the bishop of Norwich of the foundation of Flixton Priory
Scope & Content:
Charter of Roger [Skerning], prior of Norwich Cathedral Priory, containing an inspeximus and confirmation by Simon Walton (r. 1257-66), bishop of Norwich, of Margaret of Crek’s grant founding Flixton Priory. The bishop confirms that the nuns will live under the Augustinian Rule, and sets down se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1260
Extent:
1 leaf

882. Stowe MS 39

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 39
Title:
The Abbey of the Holy Ghost; The Desert of Religion
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-9v: The Abbey of the Holy Ghost, written in Middle English prose, beginning, 'My dere syster, I se þat many wuld be in religyon, bot þai may noght...' ff. 10r-31v: The Desert of Religion, written in Middle English verse, beginning, 'David þat prophet was ay. In þe sauter boke ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

883. Yates Thompson MS 1-59

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 1-59
Title:
Yates Thompson Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Illuminated manuscripts collected by Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, French, Old, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
12th century-17th century
Extent:
59 items

884. Yates Thompson MS 47

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 47
Title:
John Lydgate, Lives of St Edmund and St Fremund
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-108r : John Lydgate, Lives of St Edmund and St Fremund. f. ixr: Added English proverb in a 15th-century hand, 'A man without mercie of mercie shall misse / Out hee shall have mercie that mercifull is'. f. 108v: Added English rhyme (?), partially erased, in a 15th-century hand: '... in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
between 1461 and c 1475
Extent:

1 volume

885. Yates Thompson MS 52

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 52
Title:
Wycliffite Psalter and Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Modern note on the removal of a leaf, pastedown. f. 3r: Erased ownership inscription. f. 3v: Ownership inscriptions and summary of the volume’s contents, 15th and 18th century, Latin and English. ff. 4r-9v: Calendar, Latin. ff. 10r-45v: Book of Hours. ff. 46r-163r: Wycliff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

886. Add MS 89788

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89788
Title:
Trilingual dictionary, Psalter, and Hebrew grammar
Scope & Content:
A composite volume containing four discrete parts bound together at Ramsey Abbey in the 13th century. The most notable contents are a Hebrew-Latin-Middle French dictionary (part 2), a Hebrew Psalter with a Latin gloss (part 3), and a Hebrew-Latin grammar (part 4). The dictionary is unique, draws ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
middle of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

887. Add MS 89789

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89789
Title:
The Red Book of Bath
Scope & Content:
The Red Book of Bath (Latin ‘Liber Rubeus Bathoniae’) is an administrative compilation made for the town’s officials. Its texts relate to the regulation of trade and commerce, to law and justice, and to the history of Bath. The manuscript is named after the colour of its medieval binding, which w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1412-1430
Extent:
1 volume

888. Add MS 89790

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89790
Title:
Richard Rolle’s ‘The Form of Living’ and related works
Scope & Content:
A collection of devotional texts in Hiberno-English, made for a noblewoman living in the region of Dublin. This manuscript is important for containing the works of Richard Rolle of Hampole (d. 1349), in a version dedicated uniquely to his disciple Margaret of Kirkby (d. 1391x1394). It also contai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

889. Add MS 89791

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89791
Title:
Middle English sermons
Scope & Content:
A collection of Sunday gospel sermons in Middle English (ff. 1r–120r). Preceded by a prologue beginning ‘As we findin in the laste end of the gospel of Matheu and of Mark’ (f. 1r–v). The author is unnamed but has been identified as the writer of Dives and Pauper, an influential commentary on the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

890. Add MS 89792

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89792
Title:
Arma Christi
Scope & Content:
A collection of devotional texts including Arma Christi, written by Theodericus Werken, a Dutch-born scribe resident in London from c. 1450, and decorated by one or more English artists. ff. 1r–6v: John Lydgate, ‘Kalendar’: ‘Ihesu lord fo þi holy Circumcision / In þe bigynnynge of þe newe yere’ (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1460s
Extent:
1 volume

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