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41. Add MS 32578

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Title:
Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
From the Catalogue of Additions (1889), pp. 157-58: '1. RICHARD Rolle of Hampole's Prick of Conscience; in English verse. Imperfect ; wanting the first 182 lines of the Prologue. Colophon: "Explicit tractatus qui dicitur stimulus consciencie, Anno Domini millesimo ccccmo quinto, secundum manum ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

42. Add MS 33534

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Title:
Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains a complete copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a fifteenth-century Latin-English dictionary. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 24640, Add MS 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Add MS 62080, Harley MS 1000...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

43. Add MS 36983

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Title:
Collection of poetic and devotional texts in Middle English, including Cursor Mundi, The Pricke of Conscience, The Three Kings of Cologne, and minor poems by Geoffrey Chaucer and John Lydgate
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of poetic and devotional works in Middle English, including the Cursor Mundi, a retelling of the history of Christianity from Creation to Doomsday; The Three Kings of Cologne, a Middle English prose abridgment of John of Hildesheim's Historia Trium Regum; an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

44. Add MS 37049

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Title:
Carthusian miscellany of poems, chronicles, and treatises in Northern English, including an epitome or summary of Mandeville's travels
Scope & Content:
The contents of the manuscript are as follows: (References to 'Boffey' are to: Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (2005)). f. 1r: A fragment, imperfect at the beginning, of a legenda or apocryphal gospel, in Latin on the recto of the first of two vellum lea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1460-1500
Extent:

1 volume

45. Add MS 37074

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Title:
Collection of vocal and instrumental compositions, in score, probably by Reverend Robert Creyghton.
Scope & Content:
ff. 4-6b Series of seven short unnamed pieces for Lute, apparently in the hand of the Rev. Robert Creyghton, D.D., who has signed four with his initials, and added the date 1727 on the first and the last pages. ff. 7-8b. 'Hark! How ye pleasant thunder-tempest sounds'; with a bass for harpsicho...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1727
Extent:
1 volume (101 folios)

46. Add MS 40010

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Title:
Rentals of Fountains Abbey
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of entries from manorial court records and extracts from manorial rentals of the tenants of the Cistercian monastery of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire during the 14th and early 15th centuries. The manuscript's original parchment binding is now housed sep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

47. Add MS 59678

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Title:
Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur
Scope & Content:
Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, which was composed in Newgate Prison, London between March 1469 and March 1470. This unique manuscript copy was made shortly before the earliest printed version was published by Caxton in July 1485. The text differs significantly from the printed edition and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1471-1483
Extent:

A paper codex

48. Add MS 60577

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Title:
The 'Winchester Anthology', a collection of verse and prose, including Francesco Petrarca, Secretum; John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees off Old Philosoffres; the Dicta philosophorum, translated by Anthony Woodville; and excerpts from Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum ecclesiae
Scope & Content:
Miscellany of verse and prose (the 'Winchester Anthology'). For a full list of contents, see Wilson and Fenlon 1981. Principal contents: 1. (ff. 1v-3v): Excerpt from a Latin herbal. Incipit (f. 1v): 'Est enim una herba aput Caldeos vocatur yrnos apud grecos maruluel apud latinos eletropia'. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1487-1574
Extent:

1 parchment and paper codex

49. Add MS 61823

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Title:
The Book of Margery Kempe
Scope & Content:
This is the unique manuscript witness of the spiritual autobiography of the mystic Margery Kempe [née Brunham] (b. c. 1373, d. in or after 1438) of Bishop's Lynn (now King's Lynn), Norfolk, who dictated it to two scribes or amanuenses in the 1430s. This copy of the text is datable to c. 1445-c. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1445-c 1450
Extent:

1 volume

50. Add MS 62080

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Add MS 62080
Title:
Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains an imperfect copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a fifteenth-century Latin-English dictionary. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 24640, Add MS 33534, Add MS 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Harley MS 10...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:

Paper codex

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