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1. Egerton MS 2341/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2341/1
Title:
Instructions for the stained glass windows of Greyfriars Church, Greenwich
Scope & Content:
A roll of instructions for the glaziers creating stained glass windows for Greyfriars Church, Greenwich. The text describes each figure to be depicted, including their physical appearance, dress, attributes, and their heraldry. The figures are Edward the Confessor, Edmund the Martyr, St Aethel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1485-1503
Extent:
1 roll

2. Egerton MS 2341/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2341/2
Title:
Instructions for the stained glass windows of Greyfriars Church, Greenwich
Scope & Content:
A roll of instructions for the glaziers creating stained glass windows for Greyfriars Church, Greenwich. The text describes each figure to be depicted, including their physical appearance, dress, attributes, and their heraldry. The figures are Eadburga, daughter of St Aethelberht, St Kenelm, Cha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1485-1503
Extent:
1 roll

3. Egerton MS 2622

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2622
Title:
Collection of treatises on arithmetic, geometry, horticulture and astronomy, including Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of treatises on arithmetic, geometry, horticulture, and astronomy, including the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', an instructional manual written by Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). Contents: ff. 2r-12v: De ratione temporum, a set of mnemonic verses ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Egerton MS 2658

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2658
Title:
The Middle English Liber Aureus and Gospel of Nicodemus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of four surviving copies of the Middle English Liber Aureus and Gospel Nicodemus (the others are Manchester, John Rylands Library MS Eng. 895, Stonyhurst College MS xliii, and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 207). The text is a narrative of the Passion and Resurr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Egerton MS 2726

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2726
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales ('The Haistwell Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-271r: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-11v: The General Prologue. ff. 11v-39v: The Knight's Tale. ff. 39v-40v: The Miller's Prologue. ff. 40v-49r: The Miller's Tale. f. 49r-v: The Reeve's Prologue. ff. 50...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Egerton MS 2863

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2863
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales ('The Norton MS')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. ii verso: a note in a 19th or early 20th-century hand, stating that the book formerly belonged to the Priory of Southwick in Hampshire, that it was given by Richard Norton Esquire to his brother John Chichely Esquire, and that the medieval scholar John Urry (b. 1666, d. 1715) made...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Egerton MS 2864

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2864
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; John Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes; Chronicle of the Saints and Kings of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-292r: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, beginning, 'Incipit Liber Galstid Chaucer de gestis peregrinor[um] versus Cantuariam', with extensive glossing and marginal headings in Latin and Middle English. Over 50 of the glosses also appear in Add MS 5140. The Tales are arra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 15th century
Extent:
1 volume