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61. Add MS 82934

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Add MS 82934
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

62. Add MS 82935-82943

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Title:
The 'Chamberlayne Evidences': documents relating to the Chamberlayne family of Coton, co. Northt. and subsequently of Shirburn, co. Oxon.; last quarter of 15th cent. Latin, French and Middle English. They were copied during the lifetime of Sir Richard (III) Chamberlayne (d.1493/4?), with occasional additions. Add. 82935 is a calendar: 'Here begynneth the kalender of all the euidence[s] that longeth vnto Richard Chamberlayne Esquier of all hys manors.' A second calendar concludes Add. 82943: ...
Scope & Content:
Chamberlayne al. Chamberlain family; of Coton, Northamptonshire and Shirburn, Oxfordshire: The Chamberlayne Evidences: documents rel. to the Chamberlayne family: circa 1475-1499: Lat., Fr., Middle Engl.: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
9 items

63. Add MS 82948

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Title:
Fragments of treatises on hunting ('The 'Kerdeston Hunting Book')
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a collection of fragments from hunting treatises, belonging to Sir Thomas Kerdeston of Claxton, Norfolk (b. c. 1395, d. 1446) and his second wife, Phillippa Trussell (b. after 1396, d. 1452). The first folio may originate from another of Kerdeston's manuscripts, as the scrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1420-1430
Extent:

1 volume

64. Add MS 82949

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Title:
The 'Kerdeston Hawking Book': a collection of treatises on hawking.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-26v, A dialogue on hawking between Cosmas and Ypocras, incipit, 'Thys boke folwyng treteth of all maner nature of hawkys fyst of all hawkes of the ere and her sekenesse', explicit, 'that othyr flech of fowles is noght holsum bot yif it be bete for the betyng maketh the flech be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1430-1445
Extent:

A parchment codex, 79 folios.

65. Add MS 89788

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Title:
Trilingual dictionary, Psalter, and Hebrew grammar
Scope & Content:
A composite volume containing four discrete parts bound together at Ramsey Abbey in the 13th century. The most notable contents are a Hebrew-Latin-Middle French dictionary (part 2), a Hebrew Psalter with a Latin gloss (part 3), and a Hebrew-Latin grammar (part 4). The dictionary is unique, draws ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
middle of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

66. Add MS 89789

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Title:
The Red Book of Bath
Scope & Content:
The Red Book of Bath (Latin ‘Liber Rubeus Bathoniae’) is an administrative compilation made for the town’s officials. Its texts relate to the regulation of trade and commerce, to law and justice, and to the history of Bath. The manuscript is named after the colour of its medieval binding, which w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1412-1430
Extent:
1 volume

67. Add MS 89790

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Title:
Richard Rolle’s ‘The Form of Living’ and related works
Scope & Content:
A collection of devotional texts in Hiberno-English, made for a noblewoman living in the region of Dublin. This manuscript is important for containing the works of Richard Rolle of Hampole (d. 1349), in a version dedicated uniquely to his disciple Margaret of Kirkby (d. 1391x1394). It also contai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

68. Add MS 89791

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Title:
Middle English sermons
Scope & Content:
A collection of Sunday gospel sermons in Middle English (ff. 1r–120r). Preceded by a prologue beginning ‘As we findin in the laste end of the gospel of Matheu and of Mark’ (f. 1r–v). The author is unnamed but has been identified as the writer of Dives and Pauper, an influential commentary on the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

69. Add MS 89792

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Title:
Arma Christi
Scope & Content:
A collection of devotional texts including Arma Christi, written by Theodericus Werken, a Dutch-born scribe resident in London from c. 1450, and decorated by one or more English artists. ff. 1r–6v: John Lydgate, ‘Kalendar’: ‘Ihesu lord fo þi holy Circumcision / In þe bigynnynge of þe newe yere’ (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1460s
Extent:
1 volume

70. Additional MS 59678

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Additional MS 59678
Title:
Le Morte Darthur
Scope & Content:
This is a unique manuscript of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, which was composed in Newgate Prison, London between March 1469 and March 1470. This copy was made shortly before the earliest printed version was published by Caxton in July 1485. The text differs significantly from the printe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1471-c 1483
Extent:
473 + 8 folios

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