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1. Add Ch 6290

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Title:
Will of Joan Ward, widow, of St Saviour’s Parish, Southwark
Scope & Content:
Probate copy of the will of Joan Ward, widow, of St Saviour’s Parish, Southwark, given on 22 August 1544, proved 20 April 1545. Affixed with a fragmentary seal of William Geoffrey, official of the Archdeacon of Surrey, lozenge, red, a heraldic shield with a saltire (see Birch, Catalogue of Seal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
22 Aug 1544
Extent:
1 leaf

2. Add Ch 67394

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Title:
Testimony by Friar John Bradfield and others of a deathbed statement by William of Lener concerning the divorce of Robert Pilkington of Rovington and Alice of Astley
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Friar John Bradfield, Robert of Hebton, William Brechton of Ekygan and John Fogg of Bradshaw testify that they heard William of Lener on his deathbed say that, when Alice of Hulton lay dying, he heard Richard French of Bolton say that the divorce between Robert of Pilkington of Rovington and Ali...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1447
Extent:
1 leaf

3. Add Ch 77741

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Title:
Letter from Thomas Stickney, abbot of Revesby, to the Cistercian Abbot General
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A letter written by Thomas Stickney (fl. 1504-1532), abbot of Revesby to the Cistercian Abbot General and delivered by Richard Kytheby, abbot of Vaudey from 1508 to 1510. The abbot general at this time was Jacques de Theuley de Pontailler. Stickney writes to him about an unspecified complaint he...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1508-1510
Extent:
1 leaf

4. Add MS 5016

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Title:
Forme of Cury
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Forme of Cury, a treatise on cookery by the chief cook of Richard II’s household, composed c.1390. Opens with an introductory paragraph: ‘[Thys?] forme of cury was compiled of the chef Maister Cokes of kyng Richard the Se[cu]nde kyng of [En]glond aftir the Conquest. the which was acounted þe be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1420s
Extent:

Parchment roll

5. Add MS 5140

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r–359v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, written in two different hands on alternate sheets of parchment and paper. The arms on the lower margin of f. 2r (three Cornish choughs sable, limbed and beaked gules, impaled with those of the See of Canterbury) are those attribute...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1485-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 5890

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Title:
Part of a full transcription of Wycliffe's Bible
Scope & Content:
1 of 13 volumes in Quarto, containing the whole of the Ancient English version of the Old and New Testament, usually ascribed to Wycliffe. Transcribed from a Manuscript at Lincoln College at Oxford (marked Arch.15) under the direction of John Russel, M.A., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in 17...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1721
Extent:
1 volume (349 pages)

7. Add MS 5891

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Title:
Part of a full transcription of Wycliffe's Bible
Scope & Content:
2 of 13 volumes in Quarto, containing the whole of the Ancient English version of the Old and New Testament, usually ascribed to Wycliffe. Transcribed from a Manuscript at Lincoln College at Oxford (marked Arch.15) under the direction of John Russell, M.A., fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1721
Extent:
1 volume (239 folios)

8. Add MS 5892

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Title:
Part of a full transcription of Wycliffe's Bible
Scope & Content:
3 of 13 volumes in Quarto, containing the whole of the Ancient English version of the Old and New Testament, usually ascribed to Wycliffe. Transcribed from a Manuscript at Lincoln College at Oxford (marked Arch.15) under the direction of John Russell, M.A., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1721
Extent:
1 volume (238 folios)

9. Add MS 5893

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Title:
Part of a full transcription of Wycliffe's Bible
Scope & Content:
4 of 13 volumes in Quarto, containing the whole of the Ancient English version of the Old and New Testament, usually ascribed to Wycliffe. Transcribed from a Manuscript at Lincoln College at Oxford (marked Arch.15) under the direction of John Russell, M.A., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1721
Extent:
1 volume (315 folios)

10. Add MS 5894

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Title:
Part of a full transcription of Wycliffe's Bible
Scope & Content:
5 of 13 volumes in Quarto, containing the whole of the Ancient English version of the Old and New Testament, usually ascribed to Wycliffe. Transcribed from a Manuscript at Lincoln College at Oxford (marked Arch.15) under the direction of John Russell, M.A., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1721
Extent:
1 volume (334 folios)

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