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41. Add MS 29503

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Add MS 29503
Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle of English kings to Henry IV
Scope & Content:
Contents: A genealogical chronicle from Lud to the children of Henry IV, with a commentary in Middle English. Membranes 1-6: A genealogical diagram of the kings of England on the left with a commentary on the right. The commentary begins, 'Here fordwith all the kynges that reigned in Ynglond s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 roll

42. Add MS 32578

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Title:
Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
From the Catalogue of Additions (1889), pp. 157-58: '1. RICHARD Rolle of Hampole's Prick of Conscience; in English verse. Imperfect ; wanting the first 182 lines of the Prologue. Colophon: "Explicit tractatus qui dicitur stimulus consciencie, Anno Domini millesimo ccccmo quinto, secundum manum ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

43. Add MS 33534

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Title:
Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains a complete 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 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Add MS 62080, Harley MS 1000...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

44. Add MS 34360

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Title:
Collection of poems, including works by John Lydgate and Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of poems in Middle English, principally written by John Lydgate (b. c. 1370, d. c. 1451) and Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The volume also contains four roundels in Middle French, attributed to William de la Pole (b. 1396, d. 1450), 1st Duke of Su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

45. Add MS 35286

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-238v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect, wanting many leaves. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-7v: The General Prologue, imperfect, wanting two leaves before and after f. 1 (A, ll. 1-153, 234-396). ff. 7v-28r: The Knight's Tale, imperfe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

46. Add MS 35290

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Add MS 35290
Title:
York Mystery Plays
Scope & Content:
The York Plays, a cycle of religious dramas on biblical subjects staged and performed by craft guilds in the city of York during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This copy contains most of the cycle, and was originally the property of the city council, likely being stored with other civic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century-16th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

47. Add MS 36983

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Add MS 36983
Title:
Collection of poetic and devotional texts in Middle English, including Cursor Mundi, The Pricke of Conscience, The Three Kings of Cologne, and minor poems by Geoffrey Chaucer and John Lydgate
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of poetic and devotional works in Middle English, including the Cursor Mundi, a retelling of the history of Christianity from Creation to Doomsday; The Three Kings of Cologne, a Middle English prose abridgment of John of Hildesheim's Historia Trium Regum; an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

48. Add MS 37049

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Add MS 37049
Title:
Carthusian miscellany of poems, chronicles, and treatises in Northern English, including an epitome or summary of Mandeville's travels
Scope & Content:
The contents of the manuscript are as follows: (References to 'Boffey' are to: Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (2005)). f. 1r: A fragment, imperfect at the beginning, of a legenda or apocryphal gospel, in Latin on the recto of the first of two vellum lea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1460-1500
Extent:

1 volume

49. Add MS 37074

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Add MS 37074
Title:
Collection of vocal and instrumental compositions, in score, probably by Reverend Robert Creyghton.
Scope & Content:
ff. 4-6b Series of seven short unnamed pieces for Lute, apparently in the hand of the Rev. Robert Creyghton, D.D., who has signed four with his initials, and added the date 1727 on the first and the last pages. ff. 7-8b. 'Hark! How ye pleasant thunder-tempest sounds'; with a bass for harpsicho...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1727
Extent:
1 volume (101 folios)

50. Add MS 37789

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Add MS 37789
Title:
?Geoffrey the Grammarian, Promptorium parvulorum; Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains an imperfect copy of the Promptorium parvulorum, a fifteenth-century English-Latin dictionary, followed by an imperfect copy of the Medulla grammaticae, an earlier fifteenth-century Latin-English dictionary. Promptorium parvulorum: Several other manuscript copies of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:

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