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31. Add MS 23198

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Title:
Treatise on Geometry and Masonry
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an anonymous treatise in Middle English prose recounting the history of geometry, which it equates with masonry, through the Bible down to King Æthelstan, ending with nine articles and nine points setting out regulations for masons. It is considered one of the oldest sur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

32. Add MS 24202

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Title:
A Middle English theological anthology with orthodox and reformist writings
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains theological texts in Middle English that were copied in the decades just before or after the year 1400. On the one hand, the collection contains orthodox treatises, such as selections from the late 14th-century Lay Folk’s Catechism by John of Gaytryge ['Gaysteke' or 'Cat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1380-c 1425
Extent:
1 volume

33. Add MS 24640

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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. It is missing the prologue and entries at beginning, and entries at the end. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 33534, Add...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

34. Add MS 24663

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Title:
Collection of prophecies in prose and verse, attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer, Jean de Roquetaillade, Merlin, Thomas Becket and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-48r: Collection of prophecies in prose and verse attributed variously to Geoffrey Chaucer, Jean de Roquetaillade, Merlin, Thomas Becket and others, written in Middle English, Latin and French. f. 48v is blank.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

35. Add MS 25031

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Title:
Miscellaneous tracts in Latin. Mostly medical treatises, but also containing a collection of motets.
Scope & Content:
At the beginning are fly-leaves containing portions of hymns to the Virgin, with music. Description from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music: ff. 1-4b. Motets, written in England, in long lines with large initials. Imperfect. Square and diamond-shaped notes on a stave of 5 re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-14th century
Extent:
1 volume

36. Add MS 25718

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-88v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, fragmentary, including portions of ten of the Tales, arranged as follows: ff. 1r-24v: The Knight's Tale, comprising A, ll. 1394-1524, 1584-1706, 1829-1950 and 2011-3108. ff. 24v-30v: The Miller's Prologue and Tale, comprising A,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

37. Add MS 28617

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a fragmentary 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. Other copies of the po...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

38. Add MS 29250

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', with incunables printed by Peter Liechenstein and Johann Trechsel
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', written by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The treatise has been bound together with some late 15th-century incunables: Ephemerides sive Almanack perpetuus by the Castilian astronomer and historian Abraham Za...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

39. Add MS 29301

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Title:
Collection of medical treatises and recipes, including John Arderne's Liber receptorum medicinarum and Practica de fistula in ano
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of medical treatises, written in Latin and Middle English. They include two illustrated medical works by John Arderne (b. 1307, d. 1392), a renowned English surgeon who saw active military service during the Hundred Years' War. The first, the Liber receptoru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1420-1430
Extent:

1 volume

40. Add MS 29502

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Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle of English kings to Edward III with an armorial
Scope & Content:
Contents: A genealogical chronicle from the reign of Egbert to Edward III and of the Lancastrians to Henry V, with commentary in English and an added armorial. Face: Membrane 1: A diagram of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy surrounded by four armorial shields. Membranes 1-2: A genealogical diagra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 roll

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