Abbreviations used in the Cromwell Psalter (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Cromwell 5), compiled by Humfrey Wanley. Also included are a partial facsimile of the text and a cipher (f. 31).
Middle English verse, including ballads by Chaucer and Lydgate; 'The Flyting of Montgomerie and Polwart' by Alexander Montgomerie; 'Nebuchadnezzar's Fierie Furnace'; the 'Annals of Oskell'; grammatical exercises in Latin and Greek; Old songs of Durham
Scope & Content:
Miscellany compiling pages from a number of other manuscripts, which vary greatly in size and period. Major sections within the miscellany are f. 1 (verse and prose on the Ten Commandments and Seven Deadly Sins), ff. 2-20 (various ballads and other verse, some by Chaucer and Lydgate), f. 21 (a s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
William Camden, Institutio Graecae Grammatices Compendaria in Usum Regiae Scholae Westmonasteriensis
Scope & Content:
William Camden, Institutio Graecae Grammatices Compendaria in Usum Regiae Scholae Westmonasteriensis, London 1656. Printed, with profuse MS annotations by several hands partly on interleaved sheets.