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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 62122

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Title:
St Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew; Commentary on the Book of Daniel
Scope & Content:
This is one of the few manuscripts to survive from the Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Rumon at Tavistock (Devon). This manuscript was produced in the 12th century, and contains biblical commentaries by the Church father St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), whose writings were central to the st...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

13. Add MS 74236

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Title:
Missal ('The Sherborne Missal')
Scope & Content:
The Sherborne Missal is the largest, most lavishly decorated late medieval English service book to have survived the Reformation intact. The manuscript was made for the Benedictine abbey of St Mary’s in Sherborne, Dorset. It was probably produced between 1399-1407, since it contains portraits of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1399-1407
Extent:
A parchment codex

14. Add MS 89788

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Title:
Trilingual dictionary, Psalter, and Hebrew grammar
Scope & Content:
A composite volume containing four discrete parts bound together at Ramsey Abbey in the 13th century. The most notable contents are a Hebrew-Latin-Middle French dictionary (part 2), a Hebrew Psalter with a Latin gloss (part 3), and a Hebrew-Latin grammar (part 4). The dictionary is unique, draws ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
middle of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

15. Add MS 89789

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Title:
The Red Book of Bath
Scope & Content:
The Red Book of Bath (Latin ‘Liber Rubeus Bathoniae’) is an administrative compilation made for the town’s officials. Its texts relate to the regulation of trade and commerce, to law and justice, and to the history of Bath. The manuscript is named after the colour of its medieval binding, which w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1412-1430
Extent:
1 volume

16. Add MS 89790

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Title:
Richard Rolle’s ‘The Form of Living’ and related works
Scope & Content:
A collection of devotional texts in Hiberno-English, made for a noblewoman living in the region of Dublin. This manuscript is important for containing the works of Richard Rolle of Hampole (d. 1349), in a version dedicated uniquely to his disciple Margaret of Kirkby (d. 1391x1394). It also contai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

17. Add MS 89791

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Title:
Middle English sermons
Scope & Content:
A collection of Sunday gospel sermons in Middle English (ff. 1r–120r). Preceded by a prologue beginning ‘As we findin in the laste end of the gospel of Matheu and of Mark’ (f. 1r–v). The author is unnamed but has been identified as the writer of Dives and Pauper, an influential commentary on the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

18. Add MS 89792

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Title:
Arma Christi
Scope & Content:
A collection of devotional texts including Arma Christi, written by Theodericus Werken, a Dutch-born scribe resident in London from c. 1450, and decorated by one or more English artists. ff. 1r–6v: John Lydgate, ‘Kalendar’: ‘Ihesu lord fo þi holy Circumcision / In þe bigynnynge of þe newe yere’ (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1460s
Extent:
1 volume

19. 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

20. Add Roll 75855

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Title:
Household expenses of Philippa of Hainault, queen of England
Scope & Content:
This roll contains a fragmentary account of the household expenses of Queen Philippa of Hainault (b. c. 1314, d. 1369), wife of King Edward III (r. 1327-1377). This roll is a loose middle membrane from a larger roll, now lost. Records payments made by the queen’s household between 20 November ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
1 roll

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