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842. Lansdowne MS 851
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Lansdowne MS 851
- Title:
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a copy of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, made shortly after his death, traditionally assigned to the year 1400. Contents: ff. 2r-12r: The General Prologue. ff. 12r-38v: The Knight's Tale. ff. 38v-39v: The Miller's Prologue. ff. 39v-47v: The Miller's Tale. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1410
- Extent:
-
1 volume
843. LFC Ch XIV 25
- Reference (shelfmark):
- LFC Ch XIV 25
- Title:
- Chirograph of an agreement between Syon Abbey and Spalding Priory
- Scope & Content:
- Chirograph of an agreement between Elizabeth, prioress of Syon Abbey [Middlesex], and Thomas, prior of Spalding Priory [Lincolnshire], brokered by Margaret [Beaufort] (b. 1443, d. 1509), mother of Henry VII. Since Edward IV’s reign, Spalding owed Syon £10 a year but this went unpaid until the su...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 1490
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
844. Royal Appendix MS 58
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal Appendix MS 58
- Title:
- Collection of English vocal compositions, predominantly by anonymous authors.
- Scope & Content:
- Vocal compositions: one part only (except in no. 27), chiefly tenor. Unless the contrary is stated, they are anonymous. 1. 'A[h], the syghes that come fro my hert.' By W. Cornish. f. 1. 2. 'Though that she cannot Redresse.' f. 3b. 3. 'Colle to me the Rysshes greene.' f. 4. 4. 'Down bery down': a...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- Early 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume (60 folios)
845. Royal Appendix MS 74-76
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal Appendix MS 74-76
- Title:
- Collection of miscellaneous compositions, of Anthems, Hymns, Services, and Madrigals, including a prayer for King Edward VI, mostly in parts, predominantly anonymous, yet named composers include Tallis.
- Scope & Content:
- 1547-1548. before the first Booke of the Common Prayer, 1549. In many cases the versions of the Psalms followed closely resemble those in the Prymer of 1544. Collection of partially scored, and complete compositions, of sacred music, largely of English origin, composed, for instruments, and voi...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and English, Middle
- Date Range:
- c 1547-1548
- Extent:
- 3 volumes (53, 36, 52 folios)
846. Royal MS 1 C IX
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 1 C IX
- Title:
- Glossed Wycliffite Bible, in the later version (from Genesis to Job)
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the books of the Bible from Genesis to Job, in the later version of the Middle English translation produced by the followers of John Wycliffe (b. c. 1320s, d. 1384). Accompanying marginal glosses appear throughout the book, written in the same hand as the main text. Th...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
847. Royal MS 7 C IV
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 7 C IV
- Title:
- Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum, with Old English glosses; Pauca de vitiis and peccatis (imperfect) with Old English glosses
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the Liber scintillarum (Book of Sparks): a florilegium of extracts from the Bible and the Church Fathers written around 700 by a Benedictine monk of the abbey of Ligugé, Defensor of Ligugé. It also includes Old English interlinear glosses. The quires containing the Liber...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
848. Royal MS 13 A XIV
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 13 A XIV
- Title:
- Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, and other texts
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a collection of texts, principally in Latin, written in Ireland between the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century, and which formerly belonged to the Dominican convent at Limerick. They include a copy of the Topographia Hiberniae (Topography of Ireland), an a...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle, French, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
849. Royal MS 15 D II
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 15 D II
- Title:
- La lumere as lais; Apocalypse ('The Welles Apocalypse')
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-103v: Peter d’Abernon of Fetcham (Peter of Peckham), La lumere as lais, written in Anglo-Norman French, beginning, 'Ore comence le romaunz, Ke nest pas a fous ne as enfaunz', and ending, 'Amen, amen, par seinte charite Nous ayde dieus ke meint en trinite. Explicit Lucidare.' ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and English, Middle
- Date Range:
- c 1310
- Extent:
-
1 volume
850. Royal MS 17 A I
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 17 A I
- Title:
- Poem on the craft of masonry ('The Regius Manuscript')
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1-32: A Middle English poem on the craft of masonry, beginning 'Whoso wol boþe wel rede and loke'; ending 'Say we so alle . pur charyte'; with rubrics in Latin. The latter half of the poem is devoted to conduct when at church and in company, including: a) an account of the Four...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Extent:
-
Parchment codex