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371. Egerton MS 2726

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2726
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales ('The Haistwell Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-271r: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-11v: The General Prologue. ff. 11v-39v: The Knight's Tale. ff. 39v-40v: The Miller's Prologue. ff. 40v-49r: The Miller's Tale. f. 49r-v: The Reeve's Prologue. ff. 50...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

372. Egerton MS 2863

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2863
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales ('The Norton MS')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. ii verso: a note in a 19th or early 20th-century hand, stating that the book formerly belonged to the Priory of Southwick in Hampshire, that it was given by Richard Norton Esquire to his brother John Chichely Esquire, and that the medieval scholar John Urry (b. 1666, d. 1715) made...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

373. Egerton MS 2864

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2864
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; John Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes; Chronicle of the Saints and Kings of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-292r: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, beginning, 'Incipit Liber Galstid Chaucer de gestis peregrinor[um] versus Cantuariam', with extensive glossing and marginal headings in Latin and Middle English. Over 50 of the glosses also appear in Add MS 5140. The Tales are arra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

374. Egerton MS 2880

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2880
Title:
The New Testament in Scots, translated by Murdoch Nisbet
Scope & Content:
Written during the first quarter of the 16th century, the volume contains the first translation of the New Testament into Scots, undertaken by Murdoch Nisbet (d. 1559), a Lollard and notary in the diocese of Glasgow. Contents: ff. 4r-6v: Martin Luther, Prologue to the New Testament, translate...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Scots
Date Range:
1515-1525
Extent:

1 volume

375. Egerton MS 3245

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3245
Title:
Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
From the Catalogue of Additions (1970), pp. 358-60: PRICK OF CONSCIENCE and other religious pieces, in verse and prose; late 14th cent. English (some of the rubricated passages Latin). The manuscript is discussed and f. 193 reproduced in Brit. Mus. Quart., xiv, 1939-1940, pp. 87-88 and pl. xxx;...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item

376. Egerton MS 3874

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3874
Title:
Detached leaf, possibly from an artist's patternbook
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises a single detached leaf believed to have formed part of an artist's patternbook. The recto of the leaf features two drawings, one depicting a swan wearing a crown around its neck attached to a ringed chain, the other depicting four cranes attacking a frog. The verso ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of 15th century
Extent:

1 leaf

377. Egerton MS 3883

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3883
Title:
Book of Hours with verses by John Lydgate and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar, with 16th-century additions, including the feasts of St Thomas of Canterbury, which had previously been erased; ff, 13r-19v: Odes of St Bridget with the rubric, 'Oratio devota ad Christum'; f. 19v: A note on the age of the Virgin Mary at the time of her death (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex, 179 folios

378. Egerton Roll 2210

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton Roll 2210
Title:
Roll of expenses of John Harecourt, receiver in Staffordshire of Anne Neville, duchess of Buckingham
Scope & Content:
A roll of expenses sent to Anne [Neville, d. 1480], duchess of Buckingham, countess of Hereford, Northampton and Stafford, incurred by John Harecourt, esquire, her receiver in Staffordshire, covering several years down to Michaelmas 1447. The expenses relate to travel costs, rent for property he...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1467
Extent:
1 roll

379. Harley Ch 43 A 14

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 43 A 14
Title:
Birth amulet with prayers and invocations to Sts Cyricus and Julitta
Scope & Content:
An amulet in roll form, thought to have been used as a birth girdle. Headed with a diagram of a cross, followed by a text in Middle English invoking the protection of the Cross on the wearer, with specific reference to childbirth. This is followed by prayers in Latin, invoking Sts Cyricus and J...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 roll

380. Harley Ch 45 A 37

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 45 A 37
Title:
Record of the testimony of Margery, wife of Walter Dun, of the descent of lands in Porton
Scope & Content:
Record of the testimony of Margery, wife of Walter Dun, of the descent of lands in Porton, Wiltshire, over multiple generations, from Renaud of Ramsbury down to Walter and Margery. If Robert, Margery’s heir, has no heirs of his own, it shall revert back to the heirs of Renaud.Followed by certifi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1376
Extent:
1 leaf

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