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1. Add MS 11713

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Add MS 11713
Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle of English Kings to Edward I
Scope & Content:
Contents: A genealogical chronicle of English kings to Edward I, with a commentary in Anglo-Norman French. Membrane 1: A diagram of the Heptarchy (consisting of five kingdoms instead of seven) with a commentary, incipit 'Par ceste figure desus'; Membranes 2-9: A genealogical diagram of the ki...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:
1301-1306
Extent:

1 roll

2. Add MS 61823

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Add MS 61823
Title:
The Book of Margery Kempe
Scope & Content:
This is the unique manuscript witness of the spiritual autobiography of the mystic Margery Kempe [née Brunham] (b. c. 1373, d. in or after 1438) of Bishop's Lynn (now King's Lynn), Norfolk, who dictated it to two scribes or amanuenses in the 1430s. This copy of the text is datable to c. 1445-c. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1445-c 1450
Extent:

1 volume

3. Harley MS 2338

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Harley MS 2338
Title:
The Meditations of the Supper of Our Lord (abridged version); a Merlin prophecy (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-28r: The Meditations of the Supper of Our Lord (abridged version). The manuscript contains later additions: f. 28v: A Merlin prophecy, for the year '1436' or more likely '1536', entitled ‘Prophesia Regis Anglie’; imperfect at the end. The hand is seemingly different from ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1536
Extent:
1 volume