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61. 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

62. 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

63. 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

64. Add MS 33241

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Title:
Encomium Emmae reginae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an account praising Emma (d. 1052), the second consort of both Æthelred II (d. 1016), king of England, and Cnut (d. 1035), king of England, Denmark and Norway. The work was composed by a Flemish monk at Emma's behest. This manuscript also contains an image of the author ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

65. Add MS 34360

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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

66. Add MS 35286

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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

67. Add MS 35294

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Title:
Wardrobe account of Eleanor of Castile
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the wardrobe account, or Liber Garderobe, of Eleanor of Castile, (b. c. 1240, d. 1290), Queen consort to King Edward I (r. 1272-1307). The account was compiled by Queen Eleanor's treasurer, John of Berewyk (fl. 1279-1312), and records a set of her receipts and expenses...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
[29 Sep 1289-30 Dec 1290]
Extent:
1 volume

68. Add MS 37656

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Title:
Wardrobe account of Thomas of Brotherton and Edmund of Woodstock, sons of Edward I and Margaret of France
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the wardrobe account of Thomas of Brotherton (b. 1300, d. 1338), and Edmund of Woodstock (b. 1301, d. 1330), afterwards Earls of Norfolk and Kent. Princes Thomas and Edmund were the fifth and sixth sons of King Edward I (r. 1272-1307), and the oldest by his second marria...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1305
Extent:
1 volume

69. Add MS 38130

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Title:
Vita Sancti Neoti; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from the early 12th century mainly contains a life and sermons concerning the 9th-century Benedictine monk St Neot, and the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by the Benedictine monk Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735). Its script and op...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

70. Add MS 38818, ff 136-190

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Title:
Indices of words and concepts related to works of St Augustine and Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini; a table of chapters of Isidore of Seville, Sententie libri tres
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 136r-185v: Indices of words and concepts related to different works of St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430). It includes also an index for Prosper of Aquitaine (b. c. 390, d. c. 463), Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini (Epigrams on St Augustine's Sentences). Indices on St Augusti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
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