This manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together as follows: ff. 1-38: Martinus Polonus, Chronicle; musical staves with neums (38v) (4th quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 15th century); ff. 39–106v John Lydgate (?), The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man (2nd quarter of the 15th...
John Lydgate (?), The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man
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Contents: The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man (Boffey 4265, imperfect), a verse translation of Guillaume de Deguileville, Le Pelerinage de la vie Humaine, attributed to John Lydgate (for discussion of Lydgate's authorship, see Walls (1977) and Green 'Lydgate and Deguileville' (1978)). The text ...
Chronicle of Dunstable Priory, AM1–AD 1297 (5r–89v); cartulary of Dunstable Priory (89v–115r)
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Language(s): Latin (5r–89v); Anglo-Norman French (79r–v); Latin and Anglo-Norman French (89v–115r); Middle English (113r) Dated: 1st quarter of the 13th century to last quarter of the 13th century (5r–89v); 1st quarter of the 14th century to 3rd quarter of the 15th century (89v–115r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Calendar of Saints; computistical tables; lunar calendar with prognostics; solar and lunar tables; instructions for determining the dates of liturgical feasts from the Temporal cycle; Benedictional; sequence of prayers on the Litany; a memoria for St Ursinus of Bourges; Odo of Cluny, Collationes (imperfect)
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This composite manuscript contains four sections that were separately produced at different periods of time. The first section (ff. 2-11), containing a Calendar of Saints, computistical tables, and lunar and solar tables, was produced at Canterbury in the 1st quarter of the 13th century, but cer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 16th century
Sequence of prayers on the Litany; a memoria for St Ursinus of Bourges
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Contents: ff. 143r-151v: Middle English prayers: to male martyr-saints (f. 143r); confessors (f. 143v); St John the Baptist (f. 144r); the Apostles (f. 144v); Christ (f. 145r); the Holy Ghost (f. 145v); the Trinity (f. 146r); the Virgin Mary (f. 146v); St Michael the Archangel (f. 147r); the Gu...
Documents relating to Anglo-French relations, temp. Henry V (1415–1422) (1r–135r); Gaspar de Perusio, Gaspar of Bergamo and others, Sermones, orationes et epistole (135v–196v: imperfect)