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2. Add MS 32125, ff 1r-58v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 32125, ff 1r-58v
- Title:
- Wace, Roman de Brut; Description of England
- Scope & Content:
- This part contains 2 texts: ff. 1r-58r, Wace, Roman de Brut in Anglo-Norman verse. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Ky vot oyr e wot saver / De rey en rey e de eir en eir / ke cil furent e dunt vindrent / ke engleterre primes tindrent'. Numerous leaves are missing between ff. 48 and 49, with the loss of line...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and French, Old
- Date Range:
- 1275-1300
- Extent:
- Part of a parchment codex, 58 folios
3. Add MS 32125, ff 59r-245v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 32125, ff 59r-245v
- Title:
- Estoire del Saint Graal (ff. 59r-205v); Robert de Boron, Merlin (ff. 206r-245v).
- Scope & Content:
- This part contains 2 texts: ff. 59r-205v, Estoire del Saint Graal (part of the 'Vulgate' cycle, see Sommers, Arthurian Romances, (1909)), in Old French prose. Rubric in red ('Ici comence...') has been mostly cut away in binding. Incipit of the prologue (f. 59r): 'Cil qui la hautesce e la seign...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and French, Old
- Date Range:
- 1300-1325
- Extent:
- Part of a parchment codex, 145 folios.
4. Add MS 35283
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 35283
- Title:
- Psalter in Latin and Anglo-Norman
- Scope & Content:
- A bilingual Psalter, with canticles and liturgical texts; the Latin text is in the left column with a parallel Anglo-Norman French text in the right column; the translation is related to the Anglo-Norman version in the 'Oxford' Psalter: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 320 (see Short and others, ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 13th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
5. Add MS 47170
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 47170
- Title:
- Genealogical roll chronicle of the kings of England to Edward I, with continuations to Richard II (the 'Egmont Roll')
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: Genealogical roll chronicles with commentary in Anglo-Norman French on the face and in Latin on the dorse. Face of the roll: Membranes 1-9: A genealogical diagram of the kings of England from Aethelwulf I (r. 839-856) to Edward I (r. 1272-1307); the section on Aethelwulf on the fir...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter to 3rd quarter of the 14th century
- Extent:
-
1 roll
6. Add MS 47682
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 47682
- Title:
- Bible (the 'Holkham Bible Picture Book')
- Scope & Content:
- A biblical picture book with explanatory text of varying length, sometimes in rhyming couplets, in Anglo-Norman French, with some English. The material covers Genesis from Creation to Noah (ff. 1-9), the Life of Christ from the Annunciation (preceded by genealogies of Mary and Jesus) to the Asce...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and English
- Date Range:
- c 1327-1335
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex, 42 folios
7. Add MS 49999
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 49999
- Title:
- Book of Hours ('The De Brailes Hours') (formerly known as 'The Dyson Perrins Hours')
- Scope & Content:
- Book of Hours, known as the 'De Brailes Hours' after the Oxford illuminator William de Brailes, who left two signatures in the manuscript (ff. 43r, 47r, see Provenance). The manuscript is one of the earliest known Books of Hours to survive. Its liturgical content is close to the use of Sarum as ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1240
- Extent:
-
Parchment codex
8. Add MS 50000
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 50000
- Title:
- Psalter (the 'Oscott Psalter')
- Scope & Content:
- Psalter in Latin, with a metrical paraphrase of the Psalms in Anglo-Norman French. A leaf excised from this Psalter is now Add. MS 54215 (see Turner, Rediscovered Miniatures (1969)). The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, including the following saints: Milburga (23 February), Oswald (2...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1265-1270
- Extent:
-
Parchment codex.
9. Add MS 70513
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 70513
- Title:
- Collection of metrical saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French ('The Campsey Manuscript')
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the only surviving medieval collection of rhymed saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French. It is known as the 'Campsey Manuscript', after the female Augustinian priory of Campsey, in Suffolk, where it was housed during the 14th century. An added inscription in the manuscript...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
