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1. Add MS 24066

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Add MS 24066
Title:
Ranulf of Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regum Angliae; Leges Edwardi Confessoris, Statutes of England; various legal texts
Scope & Content:
This English manuscript contains a number of legal texts from the 12th and the 14th centuries. It includes, among other texts, the Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regum Angliae (The Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Realm of England Commonly called Glanvill) and the earliest copy o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1190-14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Add MS 70513

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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