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1. Add MS 5140

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 5140
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r–359v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, written in two different hands on alternate sheets of parchment and paper. The arms on the lower margin of f. 2r (three Cornish choughs sable, limbed and beaked gules, impaled with those of the See of Canterbury) are those attribute...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1485-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 629

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 629
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-4r: A table of contents with an introduction, beginning: 'This booke was compilid by Iohn lidgate monke of Bury at the excitacion and steryng of oure worshipful Prince kyng herry the fifthe. in the honour glorie and worshippe of the birthe of the most glorious maide wife and m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Harley MS 4789

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4789
Title:
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-286v: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa; imperfect at the end. Decoration: Historiated initial with author portrait (damaged or erased) in colours and gold combined with a full foliate bar border (f. 1r). Large initial...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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