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1. Add Ch 26607

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GRANT of arms by William Camden, Clarenceux, to Robert Wakeman, D.D. of Beerferris, co. Devon, 1616. On the dors are lines in Camden's hand from Chaucer's "Nun's Tale" in reference to the Wakeman crest.
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Robert Wakeman, DD, of Beerferris: Grant to, of arms: 1616. Geoffrey Chaucer: Lines from his " Nun's Tale " on a crest: 1616. William Camden, antiquary; Clarenceux King of Arms: Lines from Chaucer's ' Nun's Tale: 1616. William Camden, antiquary; Clarenceux King of Arms: Grant of arms: 1616.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1616
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 5140

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes
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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

3. Add MS 9832

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women
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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

4. 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

5. Add MS 12044

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
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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

6. Add MS 12524

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women; Gilbert Banester, Tale of Guiscardo and Ghismonda
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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

7. 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
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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

8. Add MS 17492

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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’)
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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

9. Add MS 18632

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THE STORIE of Thebes; a poem by John Lydgate, monk of St. Edmundsbury, f. 1; "De Regimine Principum;" a poem by Thomas Occleve, compiled from the "Secretum Secretorum," attributed to Aristotle, the treatise "De Regimine Principum" of Egidius de Colonna, and the "Liber moralis de ludo Scaccorum" of Jacobus de Cessolis, f. 30. The colophon is "Explicit Hoccleve in Aristotele et Egidio de Regimine Principum et Jacobo de Ciceles, scilicet Chesse." Vellum; finely written in the XVth cent.; given ...
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Lionel Plantagenet, Earl of Ulster; afterwards Duke of Clarence: Household accounts of his wife Elizabeth de Burgh, Countess of Ulster: 1356-1359. Geoffrey Chaucer: Entries of payments for: 1356-1359. Monastery of Amesbury; Wiltshire: Possessed in: 1508. includes: f. 1 Romances: The Story of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 22139

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Title:
John Gower, Confessio amantis, with four minor poems by Geoffrey Chaucer
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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

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