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21. Add MS 5899

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Title:
Part of a full transcription of Wycliffe's Bible
Scope & Content:
10 of 13 volumes in Quarto, containing the whole of the Ancient English version of the Old and New Testament, usually ascribed to Wycliffe. Transcribed from a Manuscript at Lincoln College at Oxford (marked Arch.15) under the direction of John Russell, M.A., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1721
Extent:
1 volume (248 folios)

22. Add MS 5900

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Title:
Part of a full transcription of Wycliffe's Bible
Scope & Content:
11 of 13 volumes in Quarto, containing the whole of the Ancient English version of the Old and New Testament, usually ascribed to Wycliffe. Transcribed from a Manuscript at Lincoln College at Oxford (marked Arch.15) under the direction of John Russell, M.A., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1721
Extent:
1 volume (304 folios)

23. Add MS 5901

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Title:
Part of a full transcription of Wycliffe's Bible
Scope & Content:
12 of 13 volumes in Quarto, containing the whole of the Ancient English version of the Old and New Testament, usually ascribed to Wycliffe. Transcribed from a Manuscript at Lincoln College at Oxford (marked Arch.15) under the direction of John Russell, M.A., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1721
Extent:
1 volume (330 folios)

24. Add MS 5902

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Title:
Part of a full transcription of Wycliffe's Bible
Scope & Content:
13 of 13 volumes in Quarto, containing the whole of the Ancient English version of the Old and New Testament, usually ascribed to Wycliffe. Transcribed from a Manuscript at Lincoln College at Oxford (marked Arch.15) under the direction of John Russell, M.A., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1721
Extent:
1 volume (113 folios)

25. Add MS 9832

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of The Legend of Good Women, written by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The Middle English poem takes the form of a dream vision and tells the stories of ten women from Classical history and mythology. This handwritten copy of the poem ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

26. Add MS 10303

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Title:
The Isle of Ladies
Scope & Content:
This volume contains one of only two surviving manuscripts of The Isle of Ladies, a 15th-century Middle English poem in rhyming couplets. The poem takes the form of a dream vision, in which the dreamer awakens to find himself in a beautiful island inhabited only by women. It also includes a copy...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

27. Add MS 10340

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece; Truth; 'General Prologue' of The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains several works by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. 1340s, d. 1400), including his Middle English translation of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae (On the Consolation of Philosophy), the poem Truth, and an excerpt from the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

28. Add MS 12044

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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

29. Add MS 12524

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women; Gilbert Banester, Tale of Guiscardo and Ghismonda
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an imperfect copy of The Legend of Good Women, a Middle English dream vision by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The volume also contains a copy of The Tale of Guiscardo and Ghismonda, a Middle English verse adaptation of the story from Bocaccio's Decame...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

30. Add MS 14252

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Title:
Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Anglie; ‘Prester John’, Epistola Manueli Comneno Imperatori Graecorum; Hildebert of Lavardin, De Tribus Mortuis a Christo Suscitatis; a prose description of England based on Henry of Huntingdon’s Historia Anglorum; Laws related to the Commune of London; genealogies
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second volume of a collection of legal treatises, of which Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS lat. 155 is the first volume. Add MS 14252 mainly contains law texts related to England and the ‘Commune of London’: a corporation of London citizens which had been r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

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