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1. Egerton MS 613

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 613
Title:
Prose and Verse Miscellany
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany of verse and prose texts of a religious and didactic character. ff. 71r-74v: booklet with 15th-century medical recipes against gout, pestilence, swellings and other pains. 130 x 90 mm ( text space: 95 x 75 mm) The core parts of the manuscript were compl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex (composite)

2. Egerton MS 657

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 657
Title:
Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
From the List of Additions (1843), p. 26 (1838): 'POEM intitled the Pricke of Conscience, by Richard Rolle of Hampole; imperfect at the beginning and end. On vellum, xivth cent. Quarto.'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Egerton MS 848

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 848
Title:
Collection of astronomical and astrological material, including a calendar, tables of lunar and solar eclipses, and treatises on the zodiac and planetary signs
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 3r: A set of notes on the altitudes of the sun and moon, written in Middle English. ff. 3v-15r: An astronomical calendar. f. 15v: A set of tables for solar eclipses, between the years 1491 and 1506, and lunar eclipses, between the years 1490 and 1505. f. 16r-v: A lunar calend...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1490
Extent:
1 volume

4. Egerton MS 2622

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2622
Title:
Collection of treatises on arithmetic, geometry, horticulture and astronomy, including Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of treatises on arithmetic, geometry, horticulture, and astronomy, including the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', an instructional manual written by Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). Contents: ff. 2r-12v: De ratione temporum, a set of mnemonic verses ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Egerton MS 2658

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2658
Title:
The Middle English Liber Aureus and Gospel of Nicodemus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of four surviving copies of the Middle English Liber Aureus and Gospel Nicodemus (the others are Manchester, John Rylands Library MS Eng. 895, Stonyhurst College MS xliii, and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 207). The text is a narrative of the Passion and Resurr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Egerton MS 2726

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2726
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales ('The Haistwell Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-271r: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-11v: The General Prologue. ff. 11v-39v: The Knight's Tale. ff. 39v-40v: The Miller's Prologue. ff. 40v-49r: The Miller's Tale. f. 49r-v: The Reeve's Prologue. ff. 50...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Egerton MS 2863

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2863
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales ('The Norton MS')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. ii verso: a note in a 19th or early 20th-century hand, stating that the book formerly belonged to the Priory of Southwick in Hampshire, that it was given by Richard Norton Esquire to his brother John Chichely Esquire, and that the medieval scholar John Urry (b. 1666, d. 1715) made...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Egerton MS 2864

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2864
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; John Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes; Chronicle of the Saints and Kings of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-292r: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, beginning, 'Incipit Liber Galstid Chaucer de gestis peregrinor[um] versus Cantuariam', with extensive glossing and marginal headings in Latin and Middle English. Over 50 of the glosses also appear in Add MS 5140. The Tales are arra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Egerton MS 2880

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2880
Title:
The New Testament in Scots, translated by Murdoch Nisbet
Scope & Content:
Written during the first quarter of the 16th century, the volume contains the first translation of the New Testament into Scots, undertaken by Murdoch Nisbet (d. 1559), a Lollard and notary in the diocese of Glasgow. Contents: ff. 4r-6v: Martin Luther, Prologue to the New Testament, translate...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Scots
Date Range:
1515-1525
Extent:

1 volume

10. Egerton MS 3245

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3245
Title:
Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
From the Catalogue of Additions (1970), pp. 358-60: PRICK OF CONSCIENCE and other religious pieces, in verse and prose; late 14th cent. English (some of the rubricated passages Latin). The manuscript is discussed and f. 193 reproduced in Brit. Mus. Quart., xiv, 1939-1940, pp. 87-88 and pl. xxx;...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item