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1. Add MS 5140

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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. Add MS 9832

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a 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. This handwritten copy of the poem ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 10340

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece; Truth; 'General Prologue' of The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains several works by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. 1340s, d. 1400), including his Middle English translation of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae (On the Consolation of Philosophy), the poem Truth, and an excerpt from the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 12044

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-113v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, written in Middle English and arranged in five books, imperfect at the end, lacking three leaves before f. 113 (V, ll. 1541-1750) and one leaf after f. 113 (V, ll. 1826-1869); the text beginning, 'The double sorwe of Troylus to tel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 12524

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women; Gilbert Banester, Tale of Guiscardo and Ghismonda
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an imperfect copy of The Legend of Good Women, a Middle English dream vision by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The volume also contains a copy of The Tale of Guiscardo and Ghismonda, a Middle English verse adaptation of the story from Bocaccio's Decame...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 16165

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece; Edward of Norwich, The Master of the Game; John Lydgate, The Temple of Glas, and other literary works, written by John Shirley
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a compilation of works in Middle English and Latin, written by John Shirley (b. c. 1366, d. 1456). Shirley was secretary to Richard Beauchamp (b. 1382, d. 1439), 13th Earl of Warwick, as well as a translator and scribe who is now best known for his transcriptions of works by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1423-1439
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 17492

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Title:
Anthology of Tudor courtly verse, mostly attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt, with other poems by Henry Howard, Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas Hoccleve (‘The Devonshire Manuscript’)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an anthology of early-modern Tudor courtly verse from the 1530s, which was compiled by three women who attended the royal court: Mary Shelton, Mary Fitzroy and Lady Margaret Douglas. The majority of the verses recorded in the volume are attributed to the English politi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1530s
Extent:

1 volume

8. Add MS 22139

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Title:
John Gower, Confessio amantis, with four minor poems by Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an imperfect copy of the Confessio amantis, a Middle English poem by John Gower (b. c. 1330, d. 1408), together with four minor poems by Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). Contents: ff. 1r-137v: John Gower, Confessio amantis, written in Middle English with Lati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

9. Add MS 23002

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Title:
Collection of scientific treatises, including Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of scientific treatises, including the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', an instructional manual written by Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The manuscript's contents closely resemble another 15th-century treatise collection (now Egerton MS 2622). Conte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 24663

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Title:
Collection of prophecies in prose and verse, attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer, Jean de Roquetaillade, Merlin, Thomas Becket and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-48r: Collection of prophecies in prose and verse attributed variously to Geoffrey Chaucer, Jean de Roquetaillade, Merlin, Thomas Becket and others, written in Middle English, Latin and French. f. 48v is blank.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

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