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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XXV, ff 66–126
Title:: Regula sancti Benedicti, made for use in a nunnery (66r–119v: Boffey no. 218); Here bygyns the manere forto make a nun (120r–124v)
Scope & Content:: Language(s): Middle English (66r–119v); Middle English and Latin (120r–124v) Dated: 1st quarter of the 15th century, with some later additions
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian A XXV, ff 127–179
Title:: Tudor songs and ballads (127r–163v, 178r–179v); sermon preached by John Stubs, Gloucester, 1558 (164r–170r); John Lydgate, Dance of Macabre (172r–177v: Boffey 2590)
Scope & Content:: Description from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music: Christmas and other Carols, without music; Paper, 16th cent. A song which appears to begin with the words, 'God ys the cheffest vnizon'; ascribed in a note at the end to Sir Peter Harfurth (called Hartforth on f. 153), 'c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian B IX
Title:: Liber fundationis ecclesie sancti Bartholomei Londoniarum (1r–40v); The Book of the Foundation of St Bartholomew’s Church, London (41r–77v)
Scope & Content:: Language(s): Latin (1r–40v); Middle English (41r–77v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian B XII
Title:: Verse prologue (3r–4r: Boffey no. 202); William Twiti, The Art of Hunting (5r–9r); Edward, 2nd duke of York (d. 1415), The Master of Game (10r–106r)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian B XVI
Title:: Old Testament history (1r: Boffey 3973, from the South English Legendary); On the death of William de la Pole, duke of Suffolk, 1450 (1v–2r: Boffey 1555); Against the Lollards (2v–3v: Boffey 1926); Factum est in vigilia matutina (3v); Reconciliation of King Henry VI of England (1422–1461, 1470–1471) with the Yorkists, 1458 (4r–v: Boffey 3929); proclamation ‘To alle you I sende gretynge’, 1416 (5r); note on mensuration (5v); William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman, version C (6r–95r: Boffey ...
Scope & Content:: Language(s): Middle English; Latin (3v, 95v) Dated: last quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century; 2nd half of the 15th century (1r–5v, 95v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian B XXII
Title:: Notes on blood-letting (1v–3r); kalendar (4r–9v); Admiralty ordinances (10r–42r); treatise on procedure (42v–63v); documents relating to the admiralty of Thomas Beaufort, Admiral of England, Ireland, Aquitaine and Picardy (1412–1426) (64r–90r); maritime documents (91r–99r)
Scope & Content:: Language(s): Middle English (1v–3r, 35r–v); Latin (4r–9v, 40v–63v, 91r, 92v); French (10r–40r, 93r–99r); Latin and French (64r–90r)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: between 1413-1426
Extent:: 1 item

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