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51. Add MS 22285

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Title:
The Martyrology of Syon Abbey
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts used by the nuns and brothers of Syon Abbey, including liturgical guides, obituaries, historical notices, a calendar, and a martyrology. For an edition and translation of the manuscript, see Gejrot, ed. The Martiloge of Syon Abbey (2015); for a list of book donors to Syon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Latin, and Portuguese
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

52. Add MS 23002

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Title:
Collection of scientific treatises, including Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of scientific treatises, including the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', an instructional manual written by Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The manuscript's contents closely resemble another 15th-century treatise collection (now Egerton MS 2622). Conte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

53. Add MS 23938

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Title:
Receipts and expenses of the expedition to bring Queen Margaret of Anjou to England
Scope & Content:
This account records the expedition to bring Queen Margaret of Anjou (b. 1430, d. 1482) to England for her marriage to King Henry VI (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471). The account was compiled by two royal clerks, John Breknoke and John Everdon, covering the period between 17 July 1444 and 16 October 14...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17 July 1444-16 October 1445
Extent:
1 volume

54. Add MS 24066

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Title:
Ranulf of Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regum Angliae; Leges Edwardi Confessoris, Statutes of England; various legal texts
Scope & Content:
This English manuscript contains a number of legal texts from the 12th and the 14th centuries. It includes, among other texts, the Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regum Angliae (The Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Realm of England Commonly called Glanvill) and the earliest copy o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1190-14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

55. Add MS 24202

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Title:
A Middle English theological anthology with orthodox and reformist writings
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains theological texts in Middle English that were copied in the decades just before or after the year 1400. On the one hand, the collection contains orthodox treatises, such as selections from the late 14th-century Lay Folk’s Catechism by John of Gaytryge ['Gaysteke' or 'Cat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1380-c 1425
Extent:
1 volume

56. Add MS 24663

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Title:
Collection of prophecies in prose and verse, attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer, Jean de Roquetaillade, Merlin, Thomas Becket and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-48r: Collection of prophecies in prose and verse attributed variously to Geoffrey Chaucer, Jean de Roquetaillade, Merlin, Thomas Becket and others, written in Middle English, Latin and French. f. 48v is blank.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

57. Add MS 25718

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-88v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, fragmentary, including portions of ten of the Tales, arranged as follows: ff. 1r-24v: The Knight's Tale, comprising A, ll. 1394-1524, 1584-1706, 1829-1950 and 2011-3108. ff. 24v-30v: The Miller's Prologue and Tale, comprising A,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

58. Add MS 27329

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Title:
Henry Daniel, De Re Herbaria and De Arboribus; Anonymous, De Pestilentia Libellus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript primarily contains the work of Henry Daniel (b. c. 1315-1320, d. after 1385), a scholar, gardener and healer. During his life, Daniel studied medicine, cultivated a large garden at Stepney in London (in which he claims to have had 242 different plants), and, at a later age, joine...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:

A parchment codex

59. Add MS 28504

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Title:
John Skelton, The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng; rule-book for the Esquire Youths, a society of bell-ringers
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an attempted facsimile of an early printed edition of The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng, by the English poet John Skelton (b. c. 1463, d. 1529). The satirical poem concerns the eponymous Elynour, the owner of a pub in southern England. It is written in a style known as 'Ske...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

60. Add MS 28617

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a fragmentary copy of The Legend of Good Women, written by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The Middle English poem takes the form of a dream vision and tells the stories of ten women from Classical history and mythology. Other copies of the po...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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