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:
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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