41. Add MS 5415 A
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42. Add MS 8091
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- Title:
- Gospel of St John with glosses
- Scope & Content:
- This early 12th-century manuscript contains the Gospel of John with marginal and interlinear Glossa ordinaria. The Gloss is a commentary on the Bible that was compiled under the auspices of the French theologian Anselm of Laon (d. 1117) in the late 11th or early 12th century. Since the size of t...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
43. Add MS 9832
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- Add MS 9832
- 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
44. Add MS 10037
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- Add MS 10037
- Title:
- Jane Segar, The Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains The Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills, written and illuminated by Jane Segar, sister of the Elizabethan herald and officer of arms Sir William Segar (b. c. 1554, d. 1633) and the courtier and painter Francis Segar (b. 1563, d. 1615). Jane presented the volume to Eliza...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1589
- Extent:
- 1 volume
45. Add MS 10303
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- Add MS 10303
- Title:
- The Isle of Ladies
- Scope & Content:
- This volume contains one of only two surviving manuscripts of The Isle of Ladies, a 15th-century Middle English poem in rhyming couplets. The poem takes the form of a dream vision, in which the dreamer awakens to find himself in a beautiful island inhabited only by women. It also includes a copy...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
46. Add MS 10340
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- Add MS 10340
- 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
47. Add MS 11283
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- Add MS 11283
- Title:
- Bestiary
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript is the earliest extant manuscript of a type of bestiaries known as 'Clark's Second-Family' that brings in new materials by following a system of classification into beasts, birds and reptiles. This taxonomy is supported by illustrations. Contents: ff. 1r-41r: A Bestiary, begin...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
48. Add MS 11943
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- Add MS 11943
- Title:
- Macrobius, Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-49r: Macrobius (b. c 370, d. c 435), Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis (Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-3r), beginning: 'Cum in Africam venissem A Manlio consule ad quartam legionem tribunus ut scitis militum'. Book 1 (ff. 3v-29v...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
49. Add MS 11983
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- Add MS 11983
- Title:
- Seneca the Younger, De Clementia, Apocolocyntosis or Ludus de Morte Claudii, Proverbia, De Beneficiis; Publilius Syrus, Proverbia Senecae Secundum Ordinem Alphabeti; Ausonius, Versus de Duodecim Caesarum, Tetrasticha; Epitaphium Senecae; anonymous verses in praise of England; Marbod of Rennes, De Ornamentis Verborum; Hermes Trismegistus, Asclepius
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript from c. 1100 contains a collection of works by and related to Seneca the Younger (b. 4 BC, d. 65AD), together with those by Ausonius (b. c. 310, d. 395) and Marbod of Rennes (b. c. 1035, d. 1123). Contents: ff. 4r-21v: Seneca, De Clementia (On Mercy), beginning: ‘Scribere de cl...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1075-c 1125
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
50. Add MS 12524
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- Add MS 12524
- 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
51. Add MS 15418
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- Add MS 15418
- Title:
- Hildegard von Bingen, Liber divinorum operum
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the Liber divinorum operum (Book of Divine Works) by Hildegard von Bingen (b. c. 1098, d. 1179), a German Benedictine abbess, polymath and medieval mystic. Hildegard originally composed the work between 1163 and 1173. It is arranged in three parts and provides details of...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- Late 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
52. Add MS 16165
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- Add MS 16165
- 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
53. Add MS 17392
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- Add MS 17392
- Title:
- Psalter with gloss in Latin
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-229v: Psalter, with interlinear and marginal glosses embedding extracts from the Parva glossatura (The Small Gloss) of Anselm of Laon (b. 1050, d. 1117) and his school; followed by Canticles (ff. 152r-229v), beginning of Psalms: 'Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum'; ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
54. Add MS 21082
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- Add MS 21082
- Title:
- Notes and papers of Henry Dodwell (b. 1641, d. 1711).
- Scope & Content:
- f. 1: Two notes by Henry Dodwell about the letter corpus in the manuscript. f. 1v: blank f. 2: Table of content f. 2v: blank ff. 3-59v: Latin correspondence of William Lloyd, bishop of St Asaph (later Worcester) (b. 1627, d. 1717) with Antoine Pagi (b.1624, d. 1699) on Roman consular chronol...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1700
- Extent:
-
1 volume
55. Add MS 22285
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- Add MS 22285
- Title:
- The Martyrology of Syon Abbey
- Scope & Content:
- A collection of texts used by the nuns and brothers of Syon Abbey, including liturgical guides, obituaries, historical notices, a calendar, and a martyrology. For an edition and translation of the manuscript, see Gejrot, ed. The Martiloge of Syon Abbey (2015); for a list of book donors to Syon...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle, Latin, and Portuguese
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
56. Add MS 23002
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- Add MS 23002
- 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
57. Add MS 23938
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- Add MS 23938
- Title:
- Receipts and expenses of the expedition to bring Queen Margaret of Anjou to England
- Scope & Content:
- This account records the expedition to bring Queen Margaret of Anjou (b. 1430, d. 1482) to England for her marriage to King Henry VI (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471). The account was compiled by two royal clerks, John Breknoke and John Everdon, covering the period between 17 July 1444 and 16 October 14...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 17 July 1444-16 October 1445
- Extent:
- 1 volume
58. Add MS 24066
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- Add MS 24066
- Title:
- Ranulf of Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regum Angliae; Leges Edwardi Confessoris, Statutes of England; various legal texts
- Scope & Content:
- This English manuscript contains a number of legal texts from the 12th and the 14th centuries. It includes, among other texts, the Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regum Angliae (The Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Realm of England Commonly called Glanvill) and the earliest copy o...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1190-14th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
59. Add MS 24202
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- Add MS 24202
- Title:
- A Middle English theological anthology with orthodox and reformist writings
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains theological texts in Middle English that were copied in the decades just before or after the year 1400. On the one hand, the collection contains orthodox treatises, such as selections from the late 14th-century Lay Folk’s Catechism by John of Gaytryge ['Gaysteke' or 'Cat...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1380-c 1425
- Extent:
- 1 volume
60. Add MS 24663
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- Add MS 24663
- 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