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81. 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

82. Add MS 28623

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Title:
Diet expenses for the royal household of Henry VII
Scope & Content:
Records of diet expenses for the royal household of Henry VII (1457–1509), king of England and lord of Ireland. From 30 September 1507 to 1 October 1508. Compiled by Sir John Hussey, Baron Hussey (1465/6–1537), nobleman and alleged rebel, in his role as Comptroller of the Household. f. 1r: Titl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1507-1508
Extent:
1 volume

83. Add MS 28841

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Title:
Cocharelli, Treatise on the Virtues and Vices, and an anonymous prose history of Sicily (fragment)
Scope & Content:
This item comprises 7 parchment leaves from the ‘Cocharelli Codex’, of which only 27 leaves and fragments in three different collections survive. The original codex included two richly-illuminated texts, the first on the vices and virtues and the second on historical events during the time of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1330-1340
Extent:

7 parchment leaves

84. Add MS 29250

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', with incunables printed by Peter Liechenstein and Johann Trechsel
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', written by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The treatise has been bound together with some late 15th-century incunables: Ephemerides sive Almanack perpetuus by the Castilian astronomer and historian Abraham Za...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

85. Add MS 29301

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Title:
Collection of medical treatises and recipes, including John Arderne's Liber receptorum medicinarum and Practica de fistula in ano
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of medical treatises, written in Latin and Middle English. They include two illustrated medical works by John Arderne (b. 1307, d. 1392), a renowned English surgeon who saw active military service during the Hundred Years' War. The first, the Liber receptoru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1420-1430
Extent:

1 volume

86. Add MS 29431

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Title:
State letters, 1472–1538
Scope & Content:
A volume containing five documents. These include two holograph letters, a bill of jewels to be delivered to King Henry VIII, and two copies of letters. ff. 1r–2v: Holograph letter with seal from [Richard Croke, D.D., Greek reader at the King's, afterwards Christ Church College, Oxford] to [Tho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

87. Add MS 29502

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Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle of English kings to Edward III with an armorial
Scope & Content:
Contents: A genealogical chronicle from the reign of Egbert to Edward III and of the Lancastrians to Henry V, with commentary in English and an added armorial. Face: Membrane 1: A diagram of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy surrounded by four armorial shields. Membranes 1-2: A genealogical diagra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 roll

88. Add MS 29504

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Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle of kings of England and Scotland and the dukes of Normandy
Scope & Content:
Contents: A genealogical chronicle with commentary in Latin of the kings of England from 'Aethelstan', described as the father of Aethelbert and Egbert, to Edward II (r. 1307-1327), with added continuations to the coronation of Henry VI (r. 1422-1461). Face of the roll: Membranes 1-4: A gen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century to 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 roll

89. Add MS 30079

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Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle of the kings of England to Henry III
Scope & Content:
Contents: A genealogical chronicle with a commentary in Latin. This is one of the earliest surviving genealogical rolls of its kind, probably produced between 1265 and the death of Henry III in 1272, with a continuation added before 1307. The Latin commentary is related to John of Wallingford'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1265-1272
Extent:

1 roll

90. Add MS 30520 B

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Title:
Two leaves of an English choral-book, having at the head of three of the chants the names of Ludford, Le Roy [? Guillaume le Roy], and T[homas] Ashwell
Scope & Content:
Description from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music: Two leaves — the first greatly mutilated — from an English choral book, containing originally Masses in 4 parts, of which 2 (? treble and 1st tenor) appear to have been written on the left-hand page, and the others (? 2nd ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 item

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