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41. Cotton MS Vespasian B XX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XX
Title:
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lives of the Canterbury saints etc; charters and privileges allegedly granted to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r–v: Charter of Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury (between 597-604), granting privileges to the Benedictine monastery of St Peter and St Paul (St Augustine’s, Canterbury). ff. 3r–18v: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin (Canterbury), Historia minor de adventu sancti Augustini, preceded b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

42. Egerton MS 613

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 613
Title:
Prose and Verse Miscellany
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany of verse and prose texts of a religious and didactic character. ff. 71r-74v: booklet with 15th-century medical recipes against gout, pestilence, swellings and other pains. 130 x 90 mm ( text space: 95 x 75 mm) The core parts of the manuscript were compl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex (composite)

43. Egerton MS 745

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 745
Title:
Devotional miscellany, including the Lives of St Denis and Edward the Confessor
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24r: La vie de Saint Eustace; ff. 25r-27v: : Les Dix Commandemens; f. 27v-28r: Laidenge et convoitise; ff. 28v:-30v: Le sermon de Saint Beneoit (Saint Benedict); f. 30v: Les 15 Joies Nostre Dame; f. 31v: Meditations; f. 33r: Les sept vertus; f. 33r Une prière d'un cheva...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 232 folios

44. Egerton MS 881

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 881
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Content: ff. 1r-172r: Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Loris continued by Jean de Meun. Incomplete due to missing folios. Numerous folios are missing: one between ff. 7-8; 8-9; 10-11; two between ff. 12-13; one between ff. 19-20; 22-23; 25-26; three between ff. 42-43; one between ff. 69-70; 83...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 172 folios

45. Egerton MS 945

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 945
Title:
Collection of devotional texts with musical notation
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-11r: Added prayers, chants and collects in Latin, including a series of four prayers to the Virgin, each beginning, '[P]recor te S[anc]ta M[ari]a perpetua virgo' (f. 9r). ff. 12r-15v: Dits des Trois morts et des trois vifs (The Three Living and Three Dead) in Old French, begi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old, Latin, and Occitan
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

46. Egerton MS 2022

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2022
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-194v: Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris, continued by Jean de Meun, beginning: 'Maintes gens dient que songes, na se fables non et mensonges'; ending: 'La flor du biau rosier flori/ Ainsi oi la rose vermeille/ Atant fu iors et ie mesveille'. Colophon: 'Car bien est temps ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex, 194 folios.

47. Harley MS 1-7661

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1-7661
Title:
Harley Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by Robert Harley (d 1724) and Edward Harley (d 1741), 1st and 2nd Earls of Oxford. c 1300-c 1700. 7661 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Arabic, Dutch, English, English, Middle, English, Old, French, French, Old, Georgian, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Irish, Irish, Old, Italian, Latin, Slavic languages, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1300-c 1700
Extent:
7689 items

48. Harley MS 49

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 49
Title:
Roman de Tristan en prose
Scope & Content:
Roman de Tristan en prose (Prose Tristan), imperfect at the beginning, with an index or table of contents (ff. 149r-154v). Incipit: 'Sadoc vient ce part & regardoit contremont & contreval....' The missing first page has been replaced with a flyleaf that had originally been a pastedown. B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

49. Harley MS 200

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 200
Title:
Robert of Avesbury, Chronicles; Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita sancti Edwardi regis
Scope & Content:
Composite volume, with booklets consisting of f. 2 (late 15th century); ff. 4–147 (mid 15th century); and ff. 150–207 (first half of the 13th century), bound together with additions by Symonds D’Ewes. f. 2r: Full page miniature, 185 × 110 mm, in colours and gold of a coronation, with the heir t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century-Late 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

50. Harley MS 205

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 205
Title:
Raymond of Peñafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–2v: Bifolium from the end of a 14th-century list of proverbs in alphabetical order, bound backwards. ff. 3r–67v: Raymond of Peñafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae, with gloss, imperfect. ff. 68r–71v: Fragments from a 12th-century liturgical manuscript with musical notation, including t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

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