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2. Add MS 21082
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 21082
- Title:
- Notes and papers of Henry Dodwell (b. 1641, d. 1711).
- Scope & Content:
- f. 1: Two notes by Henry Dodwell about the letter corpus in the manuscript. f. 1v: blank f. 2: Table of content f. 2v: blank ff. 3-59v: Latin correspondence of William Lloyd, bishop of St Asaph (later Worcester) (b. 1627, d. 1717) with Antoine Pagi (b.1624, d. 1699) on Roman consular chronol...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1700
- Extent:
-
1 volume
3. Add MS 23002
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 23002
- 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
4. Add MS 24202
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 24202
- 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
5. Add MS 34360
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 34360
- Title:
- Collection of poems, including works by John Lydgate and Geoffrey Chaucer
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a collection of poems in Middle English, principally written by John Lydgate (b. c. 1370, d. c. 1451) and Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The volume also contains four roundels in Middle French, attributed to William de la Pole (b. 1396, d. 1450), 1st Duke of Su...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and French, Middle
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6. Add MS 35286
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 35286
- Title:
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-238v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect, wanting many leaves. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-7v: The General Prologue, imperfect, wanting two leaves before and after f. 1 (A, ll. 1-153, 234-396). ff. 7v-28r: The Knight's Tale, imperfe...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
7. Add MS 48027/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 48027/1
- Title:
- Drawings and documents on the sentence against and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Scope & Content:
- This volume contains two leaves that were originally part of Add MS 48027, where they followed f. 569 and f. 650, but without modern foliation. The leaves are now mounted separately in this volume and are referred to by the folio numbers they would have been given in the modern foliation of Add ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1587
- Extent:
- 1 volume
8. Arundel MS 140
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 140
- Title:
- Collection of legendary and devotional texts including The Prick of Conscience, Mandeville's Travels and The Seven Sages of Rome; Geoffrey Chaucer, The Tale of Melibee
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript is made up of two distinct structural units joined together. The first part (ff. 1-165) contains a collection of legendary and devotional works in Middle English, including The Prick of Conscience, The Seven Sages of Rome, and Mandeville's Travels. The second part (ff. 166-181)...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
9. Cotton Ch IV 18
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton Ch IV 18
- Title:
- Grant of privileges by King Æthelstan of England to St John’s, Beverley
- Scope & Content:
- Grant of privileges by King Æthelstan of England (r. 924-939) to St John’s, Beverley, in Middle English verse. Dated 925 (for 927 × 939). Spurious (Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 451). Endorsed in a 16th-century hand, ‘Carta ædelstani facta sancto Iohanni beuerl’ 925 sinceroque[?]’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- Mid 14th century
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
10. Cotton Ch IV 38/2
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton Ch IV 38/2
- Title:
- Draft of a speech by Elizabeth I dissolving Parliament
- Scope & Content:
- A draft version of a speech by Queen Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558-1603), dissolving Parliament. The text is written in the queen's hand and features numerous revisions. It is headed '1563, 5th Elizabeth [error for 1567]. A letter in Queen Elizabeth hand to the Commons in Parliament about the...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1567
- Extent:
- 1 leaf