Register of Richard, duke of Gloucester (1461–85: King Richard III of England, 1483–85)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin and Middle English; Anglo-Norman French (145r–159v, 220r–221r) Dated: 2nd half of the 15th century; 2nd half of the 16th century (165v–166v, 224v, 244r–v, 252v, 253v–254r, 303r, 304r, 306r–312v, 313v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-2nd half of the 16th century
An Abstracte or Memoriall of such courses as haue beene used in militarye affayres bothe at lande and sea for defence and offence
Scope & Content:
Language(s): English, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, Middle English Dated: last quarter of the 16th century to 1st half of the 17th century; 15th century (ff. 85, 139–140, 212, 337v–340r); 14th century (ff. 199–201, 203, 207, 209–211, 216, 236–259, 287–291)
Contents: ff. 1r-307r: South English Legendary; with original marginal annotations in Latin; and added chapter numbers by a different 15th-century hand. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. [iii]recto: A title inscription: ‘Tractatus Festialis, in rithomo anglicano’; added in t...
John of Wallingford, Collectanea, including the following: f. 34r: a list of the kings of England to Henry III (1216–1272); ff. 35v–41r: a kalendar; f. 42v: a drawing of John of Wallingford, by Matthew Paris (d. 1259); ff. 49v–50r: Wallingford's chronicle; ff. 50v–53r: a map of Britain, now...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 15th century
Ecclesiastical lists (1r–15r); Prerogatiua quarundam ecclesiarum Rome (15v–20v); Ordo stationum pro peregrinantibus in urbe Romana (21r–v); chronicle of English history, AM 1–AD 1453 (22v–26v); verses on the kings of England (27r–31v: Boffey 444)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin (1r–26v); Middle English (27r–31v)
Horticultural, scientific and medical miscellany, including Godefridus, Epitome in Palladii opus agriculture (61v–73v); Nicholas Bollard, De plantatione arborum (74r–77r); and Ps.-Aristotle, Physiognomia iii (126v–131r: T/K 495, 595, 945, excerpts)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Middle English, Latin, Anglo-Norman French