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921. Egerton MS 1894

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1894
Title:
Egerton Genesis Picture Book
Scope & Content:
Cycle of 149 illustrations of Genesis, from Creation to the latter part of the history of Joseph; full-page drawings arranged in one to four compartments on each page, executed in ink, and either with colour washes or unfinished, with (ff. 1r-9v) short captions in Ango-Norman French, based on Pe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 20 folios

922. Egerton MS 2006

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2006
Title:
The Booke of Gostlye Grace
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the two extant copies of The Booke of Gostlye Grace.The work is a Middle English translation of an abridged version of the Liber Specialis Gratiae, a large collection of the revelations of Mechtild of Hackeborn (b. 1240/1, d. 1298). Mechtild was a nun of the Bened...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

923. Egerton MS 2020

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2020
Title:
Illustrated Herbal ('The Carrara Herbal')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a fourteenth-century Italian translation made by Jacopo Filippo, possibly from a Latin translation, of a treatise orginally written in Arabic by Serapion the Younger (Ibn Sarabi, probably in the 12th century). This Italian translation of the 'Carrara Herbal', known as th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1390-1404
Extent:

Parchment codex

924. Egerton MS 2022

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2022
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-194v: Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris, continued by Jean de Meun, beginning: 'Maintes gens dient que songes, na se fables non et mensonges'; ending: 'La flor du biau rosier flori/ Ainsi oi la rose vermeille/ Atant fu iors et ie mesveille'. Colophon: 'Car bien est temps ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex, 194 folios.

925. Egerton MS 2046

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2046
Title:
A collection of dances and other tunes arranged for lute
Scope & Content:
ff. 4-15, 52b. Collection of dances and other tunes for 2 Lutes, the part for the 2nd lute consisting, in nos. 8-14, of a mere ground bass. 1. 'The pauecheo.' First part wanting. '[Robert ?] Johnsone.' f. 4. 2. 'Lauecheogallyerde.' 'Johnsone.' ff. 4, 4b. 3. 'The flatt pauion' (sc. pavan). 4. Gal...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

926. Egerton MS 2204

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2204
Title:
Bede the Venerable, In Lucae Evangelium Expositio
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript originates from the Benedictine abbey of St Mary in Reading. It contains the commentary on the Gospel of Luke by Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), an English Benedictine monk, theologian, and historian. This is one of the more than a hundred manuscripts that survi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

927. Egerton MS 2482

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2482
Title:
Inquisition post mortem of Anne Montagu, duchess of Exeter
Scope & Content:
Inquisition post mortem of Anne Montagu, duchess of Exeter. These were inquiries into the property of tenants-in-chief (people who held land directly from the Crown). Royal officials would summon jurors to testify to what property the deceased held, what rent they owed, and who was the heir, in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1458
Extent:
1 roll

928. Egerton MS 2516

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2516
Title:
Selected works by Cicero and Apuleius
Scope & Content:
ff.1r: "Codex XXXVI Ex Bibliotheca Willelmi Henr[ici] Black Londinin Anno 1827. Emptus ab [....?] 18/11/26" f1v: Table of content ff. 2r-29: Marcus Tullius Cicero: De officiis libri I-III. ff. 30r-69v: Marcus Tullius Cicero: De oratore ff. 70r-77v: Marcus Tullius Cicero: De amicitia ff. 78r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 item

929. Egerton MS 2614

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2614
Title:
The Diary of Margaret Hoby
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Diary of Margaret Hoby (b. 1571, d. 1633), Lady Hoby, an Elizabethan noblewoman from Yorkshire. Hoby was the only child of Arthur Dakins (b. c. 1517, d. 1592), of Linton, and received a Puritan upbringing, in the household of Katherine Hastings (b. c. 1538, d. 1620),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1599-21 Jul 1605
Extent:
1 volume

930. Egerton MS 2627

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2627
Title:
Claudianus Claudius, Carmina Majora, Carmina Minora, De Raptu Proserpine
Scope & Content:
This is a 12th-century collection of works by the Alexandrian poet Claudianus Claudius (d. after 404), including De Raptu Proserpinae (The Rape of Proserpine), De Bello Gildonico (On the Gildonic War), and his poems on the marriage of the Emperor Honorius, for whom he was a court poet, and the c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

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