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61. Add MS 59678

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Title:
Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur
Scope & Content:
Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, which was composed in Newgate Prison, London between March 1469 and March 1470. This unique manuscript copy was made shortly before the earliest printed version was published by Caxton in July 1485. The text differs significantly from the printed edition and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1471-1483
Extent:

A paper codex

62. Add MS 60577

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Title:
The 'Winchester Anthology', a collection of verse and prose, including Francesco Petrarca, Secretum; John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees off Old Philosoffres; the Dicta philosophorum, translated by Anthony Woodville; and excerpts from Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum ecclesiae
Scope & Content:
Miscellany of verse and prose (the 'Winchester Anthology'). For a full list of contents, see Wilson and Fenlon 1981. Principal contents: 1. (ff. 1v-3v): Excerpt from a Latin herbal. Incipit (f. 1v): 'Est enim una herba aput Caldeos vocatur yrnos apud grecos maruluel apud latinos eletropia'. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1487-1574
Extent:

1 parchment and paper codex

63. Add MS 61823

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Title:
The Book of Margery Kempe
Scope & Content:
This is the unique manuscript witness of the spiritual autobiography of the mystic Margery Kempe [née Brunham] (b. c. 1373, d. in or after 1438) of Bishop's Lynn (now King's Lynn), Norfolk, who dictated it to two scribes or amanuenses in the 1430s. This copy of the text is datable to c. 1445-c. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1445-c 1450
Extent:

1 volume

64. Add MS 62080

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Title:
Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains an imperfect copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a fifteenth-century Latin-English dictionary. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 24640, Add MS 33534, Add MS 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Harley MS 10...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:

Paper codex

65. Add MS 62122

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Title:
St Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew; Commentary on the Book of Daniel
Scope & Content:
This is one of the few manuscripts to survive from the Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Rumon at Tavistock (Devon). This manuscript was produced in the 12th century, and contains biblical commentaries by the Church father St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), whose writings were central to the st...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

66. Add MS 74236

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Title:
Missal ('The Sherborne Missal')
Scope & Content:
The Sherborne Missal is the largest, most lavishly decorated late medieval English service book to have survived the Reformation intact. The manuscript was made for the Benedictine abbey of St Mary’s in Sherborne, Dorset. It was probably produced between 1399-1407, since it contains portraits of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1399-1407
Extent:
A parchment codex

67. Add MS 74953

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Title:
Richard Rolle: Translation and Commentary on the Psalter with the Lollard Interpolations, Psalms 82-113, southern England; early 15th cent. Middle English. This volume originally formed the second part of Royal MS. 18 D. i, which has been identified as no. 1285 in the 1542 inventory of King Henry VIII’s Upper Library in the Palace of Westminster. See James Carley, The Libraries of Henry VIII (London, 2000), p. 213. Size and layout are identical, the scheme and form of decoration, includi...
Scope & Content:
Richard Rolle, of Hampole, hermit and author: Translation and Commentary on the Psalter by Richard Rolle: early 15th cent: Middle English: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

68. Add MS 81292

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Title:
Nova Statuta: Statutes of the Realm from 1 Edward III (1327–1328) to 20 Henry VI (1441–1442); England (London?), 1440s. Middle English. Preceded by an index arranged in alphabetical order (ff. 1-48). See Historical Manuscripts Commission, Report on the Manuscripts of Lord Middleton, preserved at Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire (London, 1911), p. 240. Owned by William Coote of Coningsby, Lincolnshire Justice of the Peace (fl. 1430s–1470s) ('Iste liber constat Willielmo Coote de Conyngesby l...
Scope & Content:
Law OF ENGLAND: Statutes of the Realm from 1 Edward III to 20 Henry VI: 1440s: Middle English.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1440s
Extent:
1 item

69. Add MS 82931

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Title:
Liber de Hyda or Liber Abbatiae: a chronicle-cartulary of Hyde Abbey, AD 455-1023, compiled from earlier sources
Scope & Content:
Content: The present manuscript contains copies of twenty-three Anglo-Saxon charters, seven Anglo-Saxon wills, and one set of Anglo-Saxon bounds. Hyde Abbey was founded by Edward the Elder as the New Minster, Winchester in 901, and refounded by King Edgar in 964. The abbey was removed to Hyde,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 39 folios.

70. Add MS 82934

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Title:
Theological Tracts; 1st half of the 15th century. Middle English and Latin. This manuscript or its texts mentioned in: The Lay Folks' Catechism, ed. by. Thomas Simmons and Henry Nolloth, Early English Text Society (London, 1901); Richard Lavynham, A litil tretys on the seven deadly sins, ed. by J. P. W. M. van Zutphen (Rome, 1956); Anne Hudson,, 'A New Look at the Lay Folks' Catechism', Viator, 16 (1985), 243-58; 'Dan Jon Gaytryge's Sermon', in Religious Pieces in Prose and Verse, ed. by Ge...
Scope & Content:
Theology: Theological tracts: 1st half of 15th cent.: Middle English and Latin.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

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