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61. Add MS 89788

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Title:
Trilingual dictionary, Psalter, and Hebrew grammar
Scope & Content:
A composite volume containing four discrete parts bound together at Ramsey Abbey in the 13th century. The most notable contents are a Hebrew-Latin-Middle French dictionary (part 2), a Hebrew Psalter with a Latin gloss (part 3), and a Hebrew-Latin grammar (part 4). The dictionary is unique, draws ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
middle of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

62. Add MS 89789

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Title:
The Red Book of Bath
Scope & Content:
The Red Book of Bath (Latin ‘Liber Rubeus Bathoniae’) is an administrative compilation made for the town’s officials. Its texts relate to the regulation of trade and commerce, to law and justice, and to the history of Bath. The manuscript is named after the colour of its medieval binding, which w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1412-1430
Extent:
1 volume

63. Add MS 89790

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Title:
Richard Rolle’s ‘The Form of Living’ and related works
Scope & Content:
A collection of devotional texts in Hiberno-English, made for a noblewoman living in the region of Dublin. This manuscript is important for containing the works of Richard Rolle of Hampole (d. 1349), in a version dedicated uniquely to his disciple Margaret of Kirkby (d. 1391x1394). It also contai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

64. Add MS 89791

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Title:
Middle English sermons
Scope & Content:
A collection of Sunday gospel sermons in Middle English (ff. 1r–120r). Preceded by a prologue beginning ‘As we findin in the laste end of the gospel of Matheu and of Mark’ (f. 1r–v). The author is unnamed but has been identified as the writer of Dives and Pauper, an influential commentary on the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

65. Add MS 89792

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Title:
Arma Christi
Scope & Content:
A collection of devotional texts including Arma Christi, written by Theodericus Werken, a Dutch-born scribe resident in London from c. 1450, and decorated by one or more English artists. ff. 1r–6v: John Lydgate, ‘Kalendar’: ‘Ihesu lord fo þi holy Circumcision / In þe bigynnynge of þe newe yere’ (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1460s
Extent:
1 volume

66. Add Roll 75855

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Title:
Household expenses of Philippa of Hainault, queen of England
Scope & Content:
This roll contains a fragmentary account of the household expenses of Queen Philippa of Hainault (b. c. 1314, d. 1369), wife of King Edward III (r. 1327-1377). This roll is a loose middle membrane from a larger roll, now lost. Records payments made by the queen’s household between 20 November ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
1 roll

67. Additional MS 59678

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Additional MS 59678
Title:
Le Morte Darthur
Scope & Content:
This is a unique manuscript of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, which was composed in Newgate Prison, London between March 1469 and March 1470. This copy was made shortly before the earliest printed version was published by Caxton in July 1485. The text differs significantly from the printe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1471-c 1483
Extent:
473 + 8 folios

68. Cotton MS

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Cotton MS
Title:
Cotton Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
The Cotton Manuscripts contains a variety of material, much of it relating to the history, literature and culture of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 17th century. It is particularly rich in: (a) manuscripts written in Old English; (b) monastic cartularies; (c) saints’ Liv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Arabic, Cipher, Coast Miwok, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, Dutch, Middle, English, English, Middle, English, Old, Flemish, French, French, Old, German, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Inuit, Irish, Irish, Middle, Italian, Javanese, Latin, Low German, Occitan, Old, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Saxon, Old, Scots, Scots, Spanish, Temne, and Welsh
Date Range:
5th century-19th century
Extent:
1,429 manuscripts

69. Egerton MS 613

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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)

70. Egerton MS 657

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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

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