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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5016
Title:: Forme of Cury
Scope & Content:: Forme of Cury, a treatise on cookery by the chief cook of Richard II’s household, composed c.1390. Opens with an introductory paragraph: ‘[Thys?] forme of cury was compiled of the chef Maister Cokes of kyng Richard the Se[cu]nde kyng of [En]glond aftir the Conquest. the which was acounted þe be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1420s
Extent:: Parchment roll

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5111/1
Title:: The Golden Canon Tables (TM 7151)
Scope & Content:: The Canon Tables formed part of Add MS 5111 as ff. 10-11 of the same manuscript but are now housed in a separate volume. f. 10r Eusebius: Letter to Carpinianus on the Use of Biblical Canons (CPG 3465), only the end of the text is preserved. f. 10v. Canon Tables with fragment of Canon 1 ff. 11...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 6th-7th century
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5111/2
Title:: Portrait of the Evangelist Matthew
Scope & Content:: Portrait of the Evangelist Matthew. Originally Add MS 5111, f. 12. Housed in a separate volume.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5112/1
Title:: Portrait of St Luke the Evangelist
Scope & Content:: Portrait of St Luke the Evangelist. Originally Add MS 5112, f. 3. Housed in a separate volume.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5112/2
Title:: Portrait of St John the Evangelist
Scope & Content:: Portrait of St John the Evangelist. Originally Add MS 5112, f. 134. Housed in a separate volume.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5114
Title:: Pistis Sophia (The Askew Codex)
Scope & Content:: Pistis Sophia means 'faithful wisdom'. 23 quires; the first quire has 12 leaves; the last 8; 8 leaves are missing. Scribes: Two unnamed scribes copied the text; the first scribe copied folios 1 to 29; the second scribe was responsible for copying from folio 30 to the end. The first scribe numb...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Coptic
Date Range:: 301-699
Extent:: 178 folios (356 pages)

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5209
Title:: Thomas Maynarde, Account of a voyage of Sir Francis Drake
Scope & Content:: Account of the 1595 voyage to Puerto Rico made by Sir Francis Drake (1540–1596), pirate, sea captain, and explorer. Written by Thomas Maynarde. f. 1r: Title page, ‘Sir Fr: Drake his Voyage. 1595. By Tho: Maynarde’. ff. 2r-37r: Account of the 1595 voyage, beginning ‘It appears by the attempts a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5266
Title:: Drawings of birds with inscriptions in Hans Sloane's and Thomas Browne's hand
Scope & Content:: Drawings of birds executed in a variety of techniques and by different draughtsmen. The only exceptions are items 82, 91 and 93, which are prints of birds. The drawings are executed on paper and pasted onto the folios of the manuscript. Many drawings bear inscriptions in Hans Sloane's and / or S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:: Late 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (164 items)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5463
Title:: The Four Gospels (the 'Codex Beneventanus')
Scope & Content:: The name 'Codex Beneventanus' has long been attached to this manuscript, mainly because of the connection to that region in the colophon of the scribe, Lupus. There are also marginal annotations (ff. 5v, 88v, 222r, 229r), as well as liturgical notes (marking the pericopes for the masses) in lead...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 739-760
Extent:: A parchment codex

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