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11. Add MS 22285

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Title:
The Martyrology of Syon Abbey
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts used by the nuns and brothers of Syon Abbey, including liturgical guides, obituaries, historical notices, a calendar, and a martyrology. For an edition and translation of the manuscript, see Gejrot, ed. The Martiloge of Syon Abbey (2015); for a list of book donors to Syon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Latin, and Portuguese
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

12. Add MS 23002

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Title:
Collection of scientific treatises, including Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of scientific treatises, including the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', an instructional manual written by Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The manuscript's contents closely resemble another 15th-century treatise collection (now Egerton MS 2622). Conte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

13. Add MS 24202

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Title:
A Middle English theological anthology with orthodox and reformist writings
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains theological texts in Middle English that were copied in the decades just before or after the year 1400. On the one hand, the collection contains orthodox treatises, such as selections from the late 14th-century Lay Folk’s Catechism by John of Gaytryge ['Gaysteke' or 'Cat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1380-c 1425
Extent:
1 volume

14. Add MS 24663

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Title:
Collection of prophecies in prose and verse, attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer, Jean de Roquetaillade, Merlin, Thomas Becket and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-48r: Collection of prophecies in prose and verse attributed variously to Geoffrey Chaucer, Jean de Roquetaillade, Merlin, Thomas Becket and others, written in Middle English, Latin and French. f. 48v is blank.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

15. Add MS 25718

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-88v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, fragmentary, including portions of ten of the Tales, arranged as follows: ff. 1r-24v: The Knight's Tale, comprising A, ll. 1394-1524, 1584-1706, 1829-1950 and 2011-3108. ff. 24v-30v: The Miller's Prologue and Tale, comprising A,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

16. Add MS 28617

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a fragmentary copy of The Legend of Good Women, written by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The Middle English poem takes the form of a dream vision and tells the stories of ten women from Classical history and mythology. Other copies of the po...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

17. Add MS 29250

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', with incunables printed by Peter Liechenstein and Johann Trechsel
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', written by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The treatise has been bound together with some late 15th-century incunables: Ephemerides sive Almanack perpetuus by the Castilian astronomer and historian Abraham Za...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

18. 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

19. 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

20. Add Roll 17253

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Title:
Will of Margaret Paston
Scope & Content:
Will of Margaret Paston (1422-84), widow, wife of John Paston senior and daughter and heir of John Mautby. She leaves her body to be buried in the aisle of Mautby Church, Norfolk, before the image of the Virgin Mary and beside the bodies of her ancestors, and gives 20s to the church. She makes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1482
Extent:
1 roll

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