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1. Add MS 24686, f 136r

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Add MS 24686, f 136r
Title:
Prayer
Scope & Content:
A short prayer in Anglo-Norman French, incipit: 'Deux seez prest a moy cheitive peccheresse e gardeyn de moy touz les jours de ma vie...'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 folio.

2. Add MS 32125, ff 1r-58v

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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

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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 47682

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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

5. Add MS 49999

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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

6. Add MS 50000

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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.

7. Arundel MS 83

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 83
Title:
Psalter and Hours (the 'Howard Psalter') and Psalter (the 'De Lisle Psalter')
Scope & Content:
Contents: The manuscript is composed of at least two formerly independent volumes: ff. 1r-116v: A Psalter and Hours, known as the 'Howard Psalter' (Arundel MS 83 I). ff. 177r-135v: A calendar and the Speculum theologiae, a collection of diagrams attributed to John of Metz, that originally fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1308-c 1340
Extent:

A parchment codex, 135 folios.

8. Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI

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Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI
Title:
Donatus, Ars maior; Interrogationes; a poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon ; De formis qualiter causarum; Croniques de London, covering the years 1259–1343
Scope & Content:
This codex contains: f. 1r: early modern table of contents; ff. 2r-31r: Donatus, Ars maior; ff. 31v-47r: Interrogationes; ff. 47r–48r: poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon; ff. 48r–53r: De formis qualiter causarum; f. 53v: blank; ff. 54r–106v: Croniques de London, co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
mid-10th century-mid-14th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

9. Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI
Title:
Ancrene Riwle; songs and prayers; a leaf from a Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 2 separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): (i) f. 1r-1v: A leaf from a Book of Hours with a miniature of the Annunciation; (ii) ff. 2r-203v: Ancrene Riwle; poems and prayers in Middle English, Anglo-Norman French and Latin.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1200-1420
Extent:

A parchment codex consisting of 2 items.

10. Cotton MS Nero C IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C IV
Title:
‘Winchester Psalter’ or ‘Psalter of Henry of Blois’
Scope & Content:
Contents: Cottonian contents-page, 17th century, in the hand of William Dugdale (1605–1686) (f. 1r); Prefatory cycle comprising 38 full-page miniatures, with captions in Latin and Anglo-Norman French (ff. 2r–39v): Dean, Anglo-Norman Literature (1999), no. 986; Calendar, in Latin (ff. 40r–45v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Parchment codex