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1. Add MS 12044

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Add MS 12044
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-113v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, written in Middle English and arranged in five books, imperfect at the end, lacking three leaves before f. 113 (V, ll. 1541-1750) and one leaf after f. 113 (V, ll. 1826-1869); the text beginning, 'The double sorwe of Troylus to tel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 22556

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Add MS 22556
Title:
?Geoffrey the Grammarian, Promptorium parvulorum
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains an imperfect copy of the Promptorium parvulorum, a fifteenth-century English-Latin dictionary. Several other manuscript copies survive: British Library, Harley MS 221, Harley MS 2274 (fragment) and Add MS 37789 (with the Medulla grammaticae); Cambridge, Emmanuel College,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

3. Add MS 23002

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Add MS 23002
Title:
Collection of scientific treatises, including Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of scientific treatises, including the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', an instructional manual written by Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The manuscript's contents closely resemble another 15th-century treatise collection (now Egerton MS 2622). Conte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 24202

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Add MS 24202
Title:
A Middle English theological anthology with orthodox and reformist writings
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains theological texts in Middle English that were copied in the decades just before or after the year 1400. On the one hand, the collection contains orthodox treatises, such as selections from the late 14th-century Lay Folk’s Catechism by John of Gaytryge ['Gaysteke' or 'Cat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1380-c 1425
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 34360

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Add MS 34360
Title:
Collection of poems, including works by John Lydgate and Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of poems in Middle English, principally written by John Lydgate (b. c. 1370, d. c. 1451) and Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The volume also contains four roundels in Middle French, attributed to William de la Pole (b. 1396, d. 1450), 1st Duke of Su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 35286

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Add MS 35286
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-238v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect, wanting many leaves. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-7v: The General Prologue, imperfect, wanting two leaves before and after f. 1 (A, ll. 1-153, 234-396). ff. 7v-28r: The Knight's Tale, imperfe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 35290

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Add MS 35290
Title:
York Mystery Plays
Scope & Content:
The York Plays, a cycle of religious dramas on biblical subjects staged and performed by craft guilds in the city of York during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This copy contains most of the cycle, and was originally the property of the city council, likely being stored with other civic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century-16th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

8. Add MS 37789

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Add MS 37789
Title:
?Geoffrey the Grammarian, Promptorium parvulorum; Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains an imperfect copy of the Promptorium parvulorum, a fifteenth-century English-Latin dictionary, followed by an imperfect copy of the Medulla grammaticae, an earlier fifteenth-century Latin-English dictionary. Promptorium parvulorum: Several other manuscript copies of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:

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