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1. Cotton MS Nero A XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A XIV
Title:
Ancrene Riwle (Ancrene Wisse); On god ureisun of ure lefdi and other prayers
Scope & Content:
Contents: (in Middle English): ff. 1r–120v: Ancrene Riwle (Ancrene Wisse) (Boffey 734.5, 3568); ff. 120v–131r: On god ureisun of ure lefdi (ff. 120v-123v; Boffey 631) and other prayers; (in Latin): ff. 131r-v: Apostles’ Creed. f. 131v: A verse beginning ‘O quam iocundum quam dulce for...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

2. Harley MS 630

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 630
Title:
Gilte Legend
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-365r: Gilte Legend; according to the medieval foliation and content list, the manuscript lacks the first 5 folios, which include the life of St Andrew and part of the life of St Nicholas; ending with the explicit: 'Here endeth the Boke of the life of Seintes called in latyn leg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 2254

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2254
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Prickynge of Love and Of Mixed Life
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Prickynge of Love, an English translation, perhaps made by the Augustinian canon and mystic Walter Hilton, of the late 13th-century Stimulus Amoris by the Franciscan friar James of Milan. The translation survives in 16 manuscripts. Other copies can be found in Harley...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 4775

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4775
Title:
Gilte Legende (Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the so-called Gilte Legende. This is a complete Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea: a Latin collection of almost 200 saints' lives compiled by the French Dominican chronicler Jacobus de Voragine [Jean de Vignay] (b. c. 1230, d. 1298), and completed aro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Royal MS 17 C XXXVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 C XXXVIII
Title:
Travels of Sir John Mandeville in Middle English
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. The text is based on a Middle English translation known as the 'defective version' because it is thought to have been translated from a manuscript in Anglo-Norman French that was lacking the second gathering, omi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume