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21. 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

22. 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

23. Add MS 35290

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Title:
York Mystery Plays
Scope & Content:
The York Plays, a cycle of religious dramas on biblical subjects staged and performed by craft guilds in the city of York during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This copy contains most of the cycle, and was originally the property of the city council, likely being stored with other civic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century-16th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

24. Add MS 36983

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Title:
Collection of poetic and devotional texts in Middle English, including Cursor Mundi, The Pricke of Conscience, The Three Kings of Cologne, and minor poems by Geoffrey Chaucer and John Lydgate
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of poetic and devotional works in Middle English, including the Cursor Mundi, a retelling of the history of Christianity from Creation to Doomsday; The Three Kings of Cologne, a Middle English prose abridgment of John of Hildesheim's Historia Trium Regum; an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

25. Add MS 37049

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Title:
Carthusian miscellany of poems, chronicles, and treatises in Northern English, including an epitome or summary of Mandeville's travels
Scope & Content:
The contents of the manuscript are as follows: (References to 'Boffey' are to: Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (2005)). f. 1r: A fragment, imperfect at the beginning, of a legenda or apocryphal gospel, in Latin on the recto of the first of two vellum lea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1460-1500
Extent:

1 volume

26. Add MS 40010

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Title:
Rentals of Fountains Abbey
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of entries from manorial court records and extracts from manorial rentals of the tenants of the Cistercian monastery of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire during the 14th and early 15th centuries. The manuscript's original parchment binding is now housed sep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

27. Add MS 59678

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

A paper codex

28. Add MS 60577

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Title:
The 'Winchester Anthology', a collection of verse and prose, including Francesco Petrarca, Secretum; John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees off Old Philosoffres; the Dicta philosophorum, translated by Anthony Woodville; and excerpts from Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum ecclesiae
Scope & Content:
Miscellany of verse and prose (the 'Winchester Anthology'). For a full list of contents, see Wilson and Fenlon 1981. Principal contents: 1. (ff. 1v-3v): Excerpt from a Latin herbal. Incipit (f. 1v): 'Est enim una herba aput Caldeos vocatur yrnos apud grecos maruluel apud latinos eletropia'. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1487-1574
Extent:

1 parchment and paper codex

29. Add MS 61823

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Title:
The Book of Margery Kempe
Scope & Content:
This is the unique manuscript witness of the spiritual autobiography of the mystic Margery Kempe [née Brunham] (b. c. 1373, d. in or after 1438) of Bishop's Lynn (now King's Lynn), Norfolk, who dictated it to two scribes or amanuenses in the 1430s. This copy of the text is datable to c. 1445-c. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1445-c 1450
Extent:

1 volume

30. Add MS 82931

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Title:
Liber de Hyda or Liber Abbatiae: a chronicle-cartulary of Hyde Abbey, AD 455-1023, compiled from earlier sources
Scope & Content:
Content: The present manuscript contains copies of twenty-three Anglo-Saxon charters, seven Anglo-Saxon wills, and one set of Anglo-Saxon bounds. Hyde Abbey was founded by Edward the Elder as the New Minster, Winchester in 901, and refounded by King Edgar in 964. The abbey was removed to Hyde,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 39 folios.

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