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1. Add MS 12044

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Add MS 12044
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

2. Add MS 82948

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Add MS 82948
Title:
Fragments of treatises on hunting ('The 'Kerdeston Hunting Book')
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a collection of fragments from hunting treatises, belonging to Sir Thomas Kerdeston of Claxton, Norfolk (b. c. 1395, d. 1446) and his second wife, Phillippa Trussell (b. after 1396, d. 1452). The first folio may originate from another of Kerdeston's manuscripts, as the scrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1420-1430
Extent:

1 volume

3. Harley MS 3819

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3819
Title:
Statutes of England; Registrum Brevium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Lists of chapters of statutes. ff. 5r-10v: Magna Carta. ff. 10v-13v: Statuta de Foresta. ff. 13v-17r: Statuta de Merton. ff. 17r-25r: Statuta de Marleberg. ff. 25r-41r: Statuta Prima Westmonasterii. ff. 41r-45r: Statuta Gloucesterie. ff. 45r-74v: Statuta Secun...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 7402

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7402
Title:
Astronomical tables, including Toldean tables; Pseudo-Robert Grosseteste, Ars Kalendarii; Pseudo-Mā Shā' Allāh ibn Athari, De Practica Astrolabii
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-7v: Astronomical calendar, includes entries for Alphege (19 April: 'Sancti Alphegi episcopi'), Botulph (17 June), Etheldreda (23 June), Sexburgis (6 July) and 'Withburga' (7 July; Ely). f. 8r: Astronomical table, entitled: 'Tabula ad inveniendum ferias inicialis in annis arab...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Lansdowne MS 431

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Lansdowne MS 431
Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Contents: A psalter with a calendar; ends imperfectly and is lacking Psalm 101 (there is a stub between ff. 75 and 76). Decoration: 12 large 'KL' initials in the calendar in gold with penwork decoration in green, blue, and red, with the occupations of the months and zodiac symbols in colou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

6. Stowe Ch 37

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 37
Title:
Will of Æthelstan Ætheling (d. 1014)
Scope & Content:
Will of Æthelstan Ætheling; dated 1014, probably 25 June (Sawyer, no. 1503). Endorsed in a contemporary hand, ‘¶ ÆÐELSTANES CǷYDE ÆÐELINCGES ÷ \OF OLINGEBVRNE into cristes cerce/ [added subsequently in smaller capitals]’; in a 12th-century hand, ‘Elstan etheling filius eðelreð regis dedit eccle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1014
Extent:

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