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621. Sloane MS 1686

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1686
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-295v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect at the beginning. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-13r: The General Prologue, beginning imperfectly. ff. 13r-49v: The Knight's Tale. ff. 49v-51r: The Miller's Prologue. ff. 51r-61v: The Miller...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

622. Sloane MS 1754

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1754
Title:
Scientific, medical and alchemical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Content: Scientific miscellany including alchemical texts and pigment recipes in Anglo-Norman French and a medical recipe in Latin, French and Middle English (see V. Derrien and Tony Hunt, 'L'Alchimie Anglo-Normande',(2009): 1. 'Medicina quam faciebat sibi Ypocras [Hippocrates] et posuit ei n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 214 folios

623. Sloane MS 2275

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2275
Title:
Compilation of devotional texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains: ff. 1r-52r: Richard Rolle, Melos amoris. Begins: 'Amor utique audacem'. Ends: 'carissimam cun[c]tis commendo. Amen'. ff. 52v-61v: Richard Rolle, Liber de amore Dei contra amatores mundi. Begins: 'Quoniam mundanorum insania'. Ends: 'commendo siue fine. Amen'. ff. 62r-6...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century-Early 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

624. Sloane MS 2401

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2401
Title:
Aldobrandino of Siena, Le Régime du corps; Le livre Ypocrae; medical charms and recipes
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of Le Régime du corps, a handbook for health composed by Aldobrandino of Siena (d. 1296/1299), an Italian physician. Three other copies of Le Régime du corps also contain roughly 140 historiated initials with comparable subject matter: Cambridge, Uni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

625. Sloane MS 2463

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2463
Title:
Collection of medical texts, including treatises on anatomy, surgery and gynaecology
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-52v: A treatise on anatomy with a prologue beginning, 'Galyene that was lanterne of ffysiciens and of srgens seyth in the sevententhe book de utilitate p[ar]ticulari.'. ff. 51v-151v: 'The book of operations' (see colophon on f. 151v), a book on surgery and other treatments, p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

626. Sloane MS 4100/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 4100/1
Title:
Volvelle, with a set of instructions concerning its use
Scope & Content:
A single parchment leaf featuring a circular volvelle on the recto, decorated in colours and gold, the verso originally blank. The volvelle is comprised of several moveable parts arranged in concentric circles and fastened with a central pivot upon a base sheet marked with the hours of the day...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

627. Stowe Ch 292

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 292
Title:
Confirmation by the bishop of Norwich of the foundation of Flixton Priory
Scope & Content:
Charter of Roger [Skerning], prior of Norwich Cathedral Priory, containing an inspeximus and confirmation by Simon Walton (r. 1257-66), bishop of Norwich, of Margaret of Crek’s grant founding Flixton Priory. The bishop confirms that the nuns will live under the Augustinian Rule, and sets down se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1260
Extent:
1 leaf

628. Stowe MS 39

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 39
Title:
The Abbey of the Holy Ghost; The Desert of Religion
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-9v: The Abbey of the Holy Ghost, written in Middle English prose, beginning, 'My dere syster, I se þat many wuld be in religyon, bot þai may noght...' ff. 10r-31v: The Desert of Religion, written in Middle English verse, beginning, 'David þat prophet was ay. In þe sauter boke ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

629. Yates Thompson MS 47

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 47
Title:
John Lydgate, Lives of St Edmund and St Fremund
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-108r : John Lydgate, Lives of St Edmund and St Fremund. f. ixr: Added English proverb in a 15th-century hand, 'A man without mercie of mercie shall misse / Out hee shall have mercie that mercifull is'. f. 108v: Added English rhyme (?), partially erased, in a 15th-century hand: '... in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
between 1461 and c 1475
Extent:

1 volume

630. Yates Thompson MS 52

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 52
Title:
Wycliffite Psalter and Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Modern note on the removal of a leaf, pastedown. f. 3r: Erased ownership inscription. f. 3v: Ownership inscriptions and summary of the volume’s contents, 15th and 18th century, Latin and English. ff. 4r-9v: Calendar, Latin. ff. 10r-45v: Book of Hours. ff. 46r-163r: Wycliff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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