Layamon’s Brut, The Owl and the Nightingale, religious and historical texts in Middle-English and Anglo-Norman French
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Contents: ff. 3r-194v: Layamon’s Brut (Boffey, no. 295), the most complete surviving copy of this work, composed in alliterative verse by Layamon, a priest at Areley Kings in Worcestershire, at the beginning of the 13th century. A second copy, much abbreviated, is found in Cotton MS Otho C XII...
This manuscript contains one of only two non-fragmentary surviving manuscripts of the poem Heliand, an account of the life of Jesus in Old Saxon epic verse. It ends imperfectly, in the middle of the account of the journey to Emmaus. The volume includes: f. 1: part of a memorandum dated 1371-72 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, Latin, and Saxon, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century - the 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Records (primarily originals) concerning England, France and Flanders, Henry III–Henry IV (1216–1413), including the declaration of King Richard II of England (1377–99) for quelling the insurrection led by Wat Tyler, 1381 (f. 137)
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This volume was marked on the back Calig. E. XIII. but it appears to be a great part of Calig. D. III. which was supposed to have been lost. Codex et chartaceus et membran. in folio, constans foliis 160. 1. A charter of Henry III. confirmed by some of his subjects; by which he engages to assis...
Records (all originals) concerning England and France, temp. Henry IV (1399–1413)
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Fragments of divers papers relating to the affairs of the English dominions in France; chiefly in French, and of the time of Henry IV. K. of England. This MS. consisted originally of 150 leaves, of which only 70 are now left, and these so much burnt and defaced as hardly to be of any use.
Original documents relating to England and France in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI of England
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Bound fragments from a volume which originally consisted of 219 leaves, containing documents relating to the transactions between England and France in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI of England. The volume was badly damaged in the Cotton Library fire of 1731 and some of the leaves were lost ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 17th century