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51. Add MS 62122

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Title:
St Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew; Commentary on the Book of Daniel
Scope & Content:
This is one of the few manuscripts to survive from the Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Rumon at Tavistock (Devon). This manuscript was produced in the 12th century, and contains biblical commentaries by the Church father St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), whose writings were central to the st...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

52. Add MS 74236

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Title:
Missal ('The Sherborne Missal')
Scope & Content:
The Sherborne Missal is the largest, most lavishly decorated late medieval English service book to have survived the Reformation intact. The manuscript was made for the Benedictine abbey of St Mary’s in Sherborne, Dorset. It was probably produced between 1399-1407, since it contains portraits of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1399-1407
Extent:
A parchment codex

53. Add MS 74953

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Add MS 74953
Title:
Richard Rolle: Translation and Commentary on the Psalter with the Lollard Interpolations, Psalms 82-113, southern England; early 15th cent. Middle English. This volume originally formed the second part of Royal MS. 18 D. i, which has been identified as no. 1285 in the 1542 inventory of King Henry VIII’s Upper Library in the Palace of Westminster. See James Carley, The Libraries of Henry VIII (London, 2000), p. 213. Size and layout are identical, the scheme and form of decoration, includi...
Scope & Content:
Richard Rolle, of Hampole, hermit and author: Translation and Commentary on the Psalter by Richard Rolle: early 15th cent: Middle English: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

54. Add MS 81292

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Add MS 81292
Title:
Nova Statuta: Statutes of the Realm from 1 Edward III (1327–1328) to 20 Henry VI (1441–1442); England (London?), 1440s. Middle English. Preceded by an index arranged in alphabetical order (ff. 1-48). See Historical Manuscripts Commission, Report on the Manuscripts of Lord Middleton, preserved at Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire (London, 1911), p. 240. Owned by William Coote of Coningsby, Lincolnshire Justice of the Peace (fl. 1430s–1470s) ('Iste liber constat Willielmo Coote de Conyngesby l...
Scope & Content:
Law OF ENGLAND: Statutes of the Realm from 1 Edward III to 20 Henry VI: 1440s: Middle English.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1440s
Extent:
1 item

55. Add MS 82931

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Add MS 82931
Title:
Liber de Hyda or Liber Abbatiae: a chronicle-cartulary of Hyde Abbey, AD 455-1023, compiled from earlier sources
Scope & Content:
Content: The present manuscript contains copies of twenty-three Anglo-Saxon charters, seven Anglo-Saxon wills, and one set of Anglo-Saxon bounds. Hyde Abbey was founded by Edward the Elder as the New Minster, Winchester in 901, and refounded by King Edgar in 964. The abbey was removed to Hyde,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 39 folios.

56. Add MS 82934

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Add MS 82934
Title:
Theological Tracts; 1st half of the 15th century. Middle English and Latin. This manuscript or its texts mentioned in: The Lay Folks' Catechism, ed. by. Thomas Simmons and Henry Nolloth, Early English Text Society (London, 1901); Richard Lavynham, A litil tretys on the seven deadly sins, ed. by J. P. W. M. van Zutphen (Rome, 1956); Anne Hudson,, 'A New Look at the Lay Folks' Catechism', Viator, 16 (1985), 243-58; 'Dan Jon Gaytryge's Sermon', in Religious Pieces in Prose and Verse, ed. by Ge...
Scope & Content:
Theology: Theological tracts: 1st half of 15th cent.: Middle English and Latin.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

57. Add MS 82935-82943

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Add MS 82935-82943
Title:
The 'Chamberlayne Evidences': documents relating to the Chamberlayne family of Coton, co. Northt. and subsequently of Shirburn, co. Oxon.; last quarter of 15th cent. Latin, French and Middle English. They were copied during the lifetime of Sir Richard (III) Chamberlayne (d.1493/4?), with occasional additions. Add. 82935 is a calendar: 'Here begynneth the kalender of all the euidence[s] that longeth vnto Richard Chamberlayne Esquier of all hys manors.' A second calendar concludes Add. 82943: ...
Scope & Content:
Chamberlayne al. Chamberlain family; of Coton, Northamptonshire and Shirburn, Oxfordshire: The Chamberlayne Evidences: documents rel. to the Chamberlayne family: circa 1475-1499: Lat., Fr., Middle Engl.: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
9 items

58. Add MS 82948

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Add MS 82948
Title:
Fragments of treatises on hunting ('The 'Kerdeston Hunting Book')
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a collection of fragments from hunting treatises, belonging to Sir Thomas Kerdeston of Claxton, Norfolk (b. c. 1395, d. 1446) and his second wife, Phillippa Trussell (b. after 1396, d. 1452). The first folio may originate from another of Kerdeston's manuscripts, as the scrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1420-1430
Extent:

1 volume

59. Add MS 82949

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Add MS 82949
Title:
The 'Kerdeston Hawking Book': a collection of treatises on hawking.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-26v, A dialogue on hawking between Cosmas and Ypocras, incipit, 'Thys boke folwyng treteth of all maner nature of hawkys fyst of all hawkes of the ere and her sekenesse', explicit, 'that othyr flech of fowles is noght holsum bot yif it be bete for the betyng maketh the flech be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1430-1445
Extent:

A parchment codex, 79 folios.

60. Add MS 89074

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Add MS 89074
Title:
Catholicon Anglicum
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains the only known complete copy of the Catholicon Anglicum, a bilingual English-Latin dictionary compiled anonymously at some point during the fifteenth century. Only one other copy of the Catholicon Anglicum is known to survive: Add MS 15562, an imperfect copy missing many...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1483
Extent:
Paper codex

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