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31. Add MS 82948

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Add MS 82948
Title:
Fragments of treatises on hunting ('The 'Kerdeston Hunting Book')
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a collection of fragments from hunting treatises, belonging to Sir Thomas Kerdeston of Claxton, Norfolk (b. c. 1395, d. 1446) and his second wife, Phillippa Trussell (b. after 1396, d. 1452). The first folio may originate from another of Kerdeston's manuscripts, as the scrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1420-1430
Extent:

1 volume

32. Add MS 82949

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Add MS 82949
Title:
The 'Kerdeston Hawking Book': a collection of treatises on hawking.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-26v, A dialogue on hawking between Cosmas and Ypocras, incipit, 'Thys boke folwyng treteth of all maner nature of hawkys fyst of all hawkes of the ere and her sekenesse', explicit, 'that othyr flech of fowles is noght holsum bot yif it be bete for the betyng maketh the flech be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1430-1445
Extent:

A parchment codex, 79 folios.

33. Add MS 89074

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Add MS 89074
Title:
Catholicon Anglicum
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains the only known complete copy of the Catholicon Anglicum, a bilingual English-Latin dictionary compiled anonymously at some point during the fifteenth century. Only one other copy of the Catholicon Anglicum is known to survive: Add MS 15562, an imperfect copy missing many...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1483
Extent:
Paper codex

34. Arundel MS 57

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 57
Title:
Michael of Northgate, Ayenbite of Inwyt
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript contains the only copy of the Middle English text, Ayenbite of Inwyt, together with religious poems and treatises. The first and last quires (ff. 1-12, 97-108) appear to have been added not long after the manuscript was written, possibly as protective flyleaves (see G...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1340
Extent:

A parchment codex consisting of 3 items

35. Arundel MS 57, ff 1r-12v

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Arundel MS 57, ff 1r-12v
Title:
Glossed Aristotle De anima, with added texts in Latin, French and Middle English
Scope & Content:
1. A fragment of Aristotle's De anima with glosses added in the late 13th century (ff. 1r-12v); On the lower half of the pages and in spaces in the Aristotle text have been added: (i) Inscription (see below, item 2), verses (f. 2: Boffey 539.5, 1227, 1961.3, 3238.5) and a list of contents of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1250-1300
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex: 12 folios

36. Arundel MS 57, ff 13r-96v

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Arundel MS 57, ff 13r-96v
Title:
Ayenbite of Inwyt, prayers and treatises in Middle English
Scope & Content:
1. Ayenbite of Inwyt ('Prick of Conscience'), a translation into the Kentish dialect of the French treatise on morality, Somme le roi. This is thought to be an autograph copy by the translator, Michael of Northgate, and is the only surviving example of the text in Middle English. A verse on f. 9...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1340
Extent:
Part of a parchment codex: 84 folios

37. Arundel MS 140

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 140
Title:
Collection of legendary and devotional texts including The Prick of Conscience, Mandeville's Travels and The Seven Sages of Rome; Geoffrey Chaucer, The Tale of Melibee
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is made up of two distinct structural units joined together. The first part (ff. 1-165) contains a collection of legendary and devotional works in Middle English, including The Prick of Conscience, The Seven Sages of Rome, and Mandeville's Travels. The second part (ff. 166-181)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

38. Cotton Ch IV 18

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Cotton Ch IV 18
Title:
Grant of privileges by King Æthelstan of England to St John’s, Beverley
Scope & Content:
Grant of privileges by King Æthelstan of England (r. 924-939) to St John’s, Beverley, in Middle English verse. Dated 925 (for 927 × 939). Spurious (Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 451). Endorsed in a 16th-century hand, ‘Carta ædelstani facta sancto Iohanni beuerl’ 925 sinceroque[?]’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
1 leaf

39. Cotton Ch XVI 71

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch XVI 71
Title:
Settlement of the dispute between the Yorkists and Lancastrians by King Henry VI (r. 1422–61, 1470–71)
Scope & Content:
Henry VI, king of England, specifies the terms of the peace settlement between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, to take effect within two years.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1458
Extent:

Parchment leaf

40. Cotton MS Caligula D V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula D V
Title:
Original documents relating to England and France in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI of England
Scope & Content:
Bound fragments from a volume which originally consisted of 219 leaves, containing documents relating to the transactions between England and France in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI of England. The volume was badly damaged in the Cotton Library fire of 1731 and some of the leaves were lost ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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