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71. Add MS 82935-82943

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 82935-82943
Title:
The 'Chamberlayne Evidences': documents relating to the Chamberlayne family of Coton, co. Northt. and subsequently of Shirburn, co. Oxon.; last quarter of 15th cent. Latin, French and Middle English. They were copied during the lifetime of Sir Richard (III) Chamberlayne (d.1493/4?), with occasional additions. Add. 82935 is a calendar: 'Here begynneth the kalender of all the euidence[s] that longeth vnto Richard Chamberlayne Esquier of all hys manors.' A second calendar concludes Add. 82943: ...
Scope & Content:
Chamberlayne al. Chamberlain family; of Coton, Northamptonshire and Shirburn, Oxfordshire: The Chamberlayne Evidences: documents rel. to the Chamberlayne family: circa 1475-1499: Lat., Fr., Middle Engl.: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
9 items

72. Add MS 82948

Reference (shelfmark):
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

73. Add MS 82949

Reference (shelfmark):
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.

74. Add MS 89074

Reference (shelfmark):
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

75. Add Roll 17253

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Roll 17253
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

76. Add Roll 75855

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Roll 75855
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

77. Additional MS 59678

Reference (shelfmark):
Additional MS 59678
Title:
Le Morte Darthur
Scope & Content:
This is a unique manuscript of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, which was composed in Newgate Prison, London between March 1469 and March 1470. This copy was made shortly before the earliest printed version was published by Caxton in July 1485. The text differs significantly from the printe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1471-c 1483
Extent:
473 + 8 folios

78. 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

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

Reference (shelfmark):
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

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

Reference (shelfmark):
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

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