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1. Harley MS 4012

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4012
Title:
Collection of religious prose and verse, including The Cleansing of Man's Soul; The Charter of Our Heavenly Heritage; The Mirror of Sinners; The Twelve Degrees of Meekness; Treatise on the Apostles' Creed; Mirror of St Edmund; The Syon Pardon; Lives of St Katherine, St Margaret, and St Anne; 'St Patrick and His Purgatory'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of religious Middle English prose and verse, which may have been made for and commissioned by its first known owner: Anne Wingfield (b. c. 1426, d. 1498) of East Harling, Norfolk, who wrote her (now erased) ownership inscription on a former flyleaf (f. 153r)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1460s-1470s
Extent:
1 volume

2. Lansdowne MS 204

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 204
Title:
John Hardyng, Chronicle (first version)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving copy of the first version of the Chronicle of John Hardyng (b. 1378, d. 1465), a former soldier and spy for King Henry V (r. 1413-1422). It was produced in Lincolnshire or the East Midlands in the middle of the 15th century and was probably commissione...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1440-1450
Extent:

1 volume