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1. Cotton MS Cleopatra D VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra D VII
Title:
John of Hildesheim, Historia Trium Regum; Des grantz geanz; Brut Chronicle (Short Version); Lamentation of Our Lady; four minor works by Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of works in Latin, Middle English and Anglo-Norman French. The core of the manuscript (ff. 80-189) dates to the middle of the 14th century, with subsequent additions up to the 3rd quarter of the 15th century. The contents include the Historia Trium Regum, a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 1–23

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B X, ff 1–23
Title:
Benedeit, Voyage of St Brendan; Navigatio sancti Brendani; Vita Longini martyris; De signis quindecim.
Scope & Content:
The 'Voyage of St Brendan' is an Anglo-Norman French poem of the journey of St Brendan commissioned in the 12th century by Adeliza of Louvain (b. c. 1103, d. 1151), bride of King Henry I (r. 1100–1135), from a certain monk named Benedeit. This poem is presented on ff. 1r-11r. It is followed by t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B X

3. Harley MS 1602

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1602
Title:
Collection of medical treatises, alchemical recipes and charms
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is formed of four separate codicological units with materials added to the beginning and the end, when the units appear to have been bound or kept together. Part 1 (ff. 3r-4v) contains a collection alchemical recipes that was written in the 15th century. Part 2 (ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 1605/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1605/1
Title:
Fragments of an anonymous Anglo-Norman metrical translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/2 and Harley MS 1605/3). It contains fragments of an anonymous Anglo-Norman verse translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae. The text is known as the 'Harley Brut' bu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:
c 1250
Extent:

1 volume

5. Sloane MS 809

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 809
Title:
Walter of Bibbesworth, Tretiz de langage
Scope & Content:
Contents: Walter of Bibbesworth ('Biblesworth'), Tretiz de langage, a poem in Anglo-Norman French verse with an English glossary, composed in the mid 13th century as a tool for teaching useful French vocabulary to English landowners. It exists in a long and a short version. This text resembles...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, and French
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:

1 roll

6. Stowe MS 594

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 594
Title:
William Bruges’ Garter Book
Scope & Content:
The first armorial for the Order of the Garter, containing portraits of the knights founder: f. 5v: Saint George, as patron of the order of the Garter, together with another knight, possibly William Bruges. f. 7v: Edward III of England. f. 8r: Henry Duke of Lancaster. f. 8v: Jean de Grailly...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
1430s
Extent:

1 volume