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211. Cotton MS Vitellius F VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius F VII
Title:
Ancrene Riwle; Purgatory, Hell and Heaven; The Utility of Temptations; Le Pasturel Gregoire; prayers and meditations in Anglo-Norman French
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early Anglo-Norman French translation of the Ancrene Riwle (also known as Ancrene Wisse), an anonymous monastic rule (or manual) for anchoresses, originally composed in Middle English for three sisters who chose to enter the contemplative life. 17 surviving medieval...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

212. Cotton Roll I 11

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Roll I 11
Title:
Copy of a lease of Elizabeth I to John Wyngard of waste ground outside the Palace of Westminster
Scope & Content:
m. 1-3: Copy of a lease from Queen Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558-1603) to John Wyngard, groom of the Wardrobe, of waste ground outside the Palace of Westminster for a term of 30 years. Given at Westminster, 10 October 1588. m. 4: Notes on the later descent of the land down to 1614.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 roll

213. Cotton Roll IV 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Roll IV 6
Title:
Grants relating to the foundation of Gloucester College, Oxford
Scope & Content:
Recto: 1. Grant of John Giffard, lord of Bremesfield, to the Priory of St John and Benedict, Oxford, of all the land and tenements he holds in Stockwell Street in the suburb of Oxford, which he had by the enfeoffment of William de Haunle, prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Knights ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
1 roll

214. Cotton Roll XIV 12

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Roll XIV 12
Title:
Universal roll chronicle
Scope & Content:
This manuscript may also be referred to as Cotton Charter XIV 12. Order as Cotton Roll XIV 12. Contents: A Universal Roll Chronicle consisting of excerpts from historical texts, genealogical and other diagrams, tables and commentaries. Face of the roll: Membrane 1: A text on the Four Ages ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 roll

215. Cotton Roll XVI 22

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Roll XVI 22
Title:
Case in the Court of the Exchequer for a process of pardon for alienating property in Yorkshire
Scope & Content:
Draft of a case in the Court of the Exchequer for a process of pardon of alienation of the manor of Brampton, a messuage, and lands in Yorkshire, conveyed by Hugh Childers to Dame Isabella Foster, widow of Sir John Foster, knight. Trinity term 1633.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1633
Extent:
1 roll

216. Egerton Ch 434

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton Ch 434
Title:
Grant by Alexandria, daughter of Ralph fitz Bernard to Stixwould Priory
Scope & Content:
Grant by Alexandria daughter of Ralph fitz Bernard, with the consent of Robert de Herierbi and her son William, to Stixwould Priory [Lincolnshire], of all her dowry after her husband Robert and her son William are dead. When Alexandria dies, the priory will receive her body as if she were a memb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
1 leaf

217. Egerton MS 2622

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2622
Title:
Collection of treatises on arithmetic, geometry, horticulture and astronomy, including Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of treatises on arithmetic, geometry, horticulture, and astronomy, including the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', an instructional manual written by Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). Contents: ff. 2r-12v: De ratione temporum, a set of mnemonic verses ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

218. Egerton MS 2658

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2658
Title:
The Middle English Liber Aureus and Gospel of Nicodemus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of four surviving copies of the Middle English Liber Aureus and Gospel Nicodemus (the others are Manchester, John Rylands Library MS Eng. 895, Stonyhurst College MS xliii, and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 207). The text is a narrative of the Passion and Resurr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

219. Egerton MS 2726

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2726
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales ('The Haistwell Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-271r: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-11v: The General Prologue. ff. 11v-39v: The Knight's Tale. ff. 39v-40v: The Miller's Prologue. ff. 40v-49r: The Miller's Tale. f. 49r-v: The Reeve's Prologue. ff. 50...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

220. Egerton MS 2863

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2863
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales ('The Norton MS')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. ii verso: a note in a 19th or early 20th-century hand, stating that the book formerly belonged to the Priory of Southwick in Hampshire, that it was given by Richard Norton Esquire to his brother John Chichely Esquire, and that the medieval scholar John Urry (b. 1666, d. 1715) made...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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