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1. Add Ch 6026

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Title:
Grant by Aubrey de Vere and Isabel de Bolebec to Woburn Abbey of tenements in Warndon
Scope & Content:
Grant by Aubrey de Vere (b. c. 1163, d. 1214] and Isabel de Bolebec (b. c.. 1164, d. 1245), for their souls and those of all their ancestors and heirs, to Woburn Abbey [Bedfordshire], of all their tenements in Warndon [Bedfordshire] pertaining to the fee of Bolebec, which Walter de Bolebec held;...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1184-1194
Extent:
1 leaf

2. Add Ch 10594

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Title:
Grant by Richard de Camville and Eustacia Basset, his wife, to Bicester Priory
Scope & Content:
Grant by Richard de Camville (d. 1217) and Eustacia Basset, his wife, for their souls and those of their ancestors and successors, to Bicester Priory [Oxfordshire] and Prior Robert, of a messuage that was once held by Walter of Crockewelle; dated between Richard and Eustacia’s marriage in 1200 a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1200-1217
Extent:

1 leaf

3. Add Ch 10605

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Title:
Grant by Richard de Campville and Eustacia his wife to Bicester Priory of tithes in Bicester, Stratton and Wretchwick
Scope & Content:
Grant by Richard de Campville and Eustacia his wife to Bicester Priory of all their tithes of hay from their lands in Bicester, Stratton and Wretchwick [Oxfordshire]. Endorsed: in a faded 15th-century hand, Bicester [text illegible] / tythes in stratt byr wrase’. Affixed with two seals. First...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of 13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

4. Add Ch 10608

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Title:
Confirmation by Sybilla of Kaversfeld, widow of Hugh Gargate, to Bicester Priory of land in Stratton
Scope & Content:
Confirmation by Sybilla of Caversfield [Oxfordshire], widow of Hugh Gargate, to St Eadburh the Virgin and Bicester Priory [Oxfordshire], for her soul and those of her parents, Hugh, and her ancestors and successors, of a virgate of land in Stratton [Audley, Oxfordshire] with appurtenances, which...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

5. Add Ch 10619

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Title:
Quitclaim by Ela de Audley to Bicester Priory of land in Wrethwick
Scope & Content:
Quitclaim by Ela de Audley (d. 1299), widow of James Audley (d. 1272) and daughter of William Longspée the Younger (d. 1250), to St Eadburh the Virgin and Bicester Priory [Oxfordshire], of all her right in 2 carucates of land in Wretchwick in Bicester parish, which she had by the gift of her fat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1273-1274
Extent:
1 leaf

6. Add Ch 13038

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Title:
Letter of attorney from Ismania, widow of Laurence Berkerolles
Scope & Content:
Grant by Ismania, once the wife of Laurence Berkerolles, to John Forster, John Chount and Walter Deneby, appointing them her attorneys to receive her dowry of all of the lands and tenements that Laurence once held in Gloucestershire and the Welsh March in the same county; given at Ouleknolle, Sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1411
Extent:
1 leaf

7. Add Ch 15584

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Title:
Grant by Matilda, abbess of Barking Abbey, to Henry Lohot, of tenements in Tollesbury
Scope & Content:
Grant by Matilda [illegitimate daughter of Henry II], abbess of Barking Abbey [Essex], at the petition of Geoffrey son of Baldwin, to Henry Lohot, for his service and homage to the abbey, of all the tenements that Geoffrey had in Tollesbury [Essex]. In return, Henry gives the abbey 4 marks of si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1175-1202
Extent:
1 leaf

8. Add Ch 17295

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Title:
Will of Gunnilda atte Denne
Scope & Content:
Will of Gunnilda atte Denne, leaving her body to be buried in the churchyard of St Peter Newdigate [Surrey], and making bequests to that church for her obit mass, to the poor, her family and friends, and appointing executors; dated 12 April 1318. Probate certificate by John, rector of Lanihook,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1318
Extent:
1 leaf

9. Add Ch 17741

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Title:
Lease by Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England, to John Wode, of the hundreds of Gallow, Brothercross and North Greenhoe
Scope & Content:
Lease by Elizabeth Woodville (b. c. 1437, d. 1492), Queen of England and wife of Edward IV (r. 1461-1470, 1471-1483), to John Wode, of the hundreds of Gallow, Brothercross and North Greenhoe, Norfolk, for the term of three years. The charter is an indenture, given on 24 November 1467 [7 Edward I...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
24 Nov 1467
Extent:
1 leaf

10. Add Ch 18791

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Title:
Will of Katherine Cook of St Andrew’s parish, Lewes
Scope & Content:
Will of Katherine Cook of St Andrew’s parish, Lewes [Sussex], leaving her body to St Mary’s Chapel in St Michael the Archangel’s Church, Lewes, next to the tomb of her husband John Cooke, leaving money to that and other churches, for her tomb, masses for her soul, and to her daughter Agnes Chamb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1504-1505
Extent:
1 leaf

11. Add Ch 19146

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Title:
Will of Margaret, widow of John de Covert
Scope & Content:
Will of Margaret, widow of John de Covert, knight, leaving her body to be buried in the chapel of St Mary Sullington [Sussex], and leaving money for her burial, obituary mass, and the poor, and making bequests to friends and family, the friars of several towns, Sullington Church, and appointing ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1367
Extent:
1 leaf

12. Add Ch 19573

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Title:
Grant by Adeliza of Louvain, widowed Queen of England, to Reading Abbey, for the maintenance of the lights before the body of Henry I
Scope & Content:
Adeliza of Louvain (b. c. 1103, d. 1151), widowed Queen of England and second wife of Henry I (r. 1100-1135), grants lands and a church in her manor of Stanton, Oxfordshire, to Reading Abbey, for the maintenance of the lights before the body of the King, buried in the abbey. Witnessed by Herman...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1135 and 1151
Extent:
1 leaf

13. Add Ch 19989

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Title:
Chirograph by Agatha La Bernarde, widow of Lord Ralph Fitz Bernard, granting a grove to her daughter Johanna
Scope & Content:
A chirograph of Agatha La Bernarde, widow of Lord Ralph Fitz Bernard, granting her daughter Johanna, a grove (gravam) called 'le sopperes wode'; given at ‘Elunder’ [possibly Ellenden, Kent?], the Sunday after the Translation of St Thomas the Martyr, 7 Edward II [8 July 1313]. Endorsed: in a lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1313
Extent:
1 leaf

14. Add Ch 20394

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Title:
Grant by Matilda de Wateville to Bruern Abbey of land in Colesbourne
Scope & Content:
Grant by Matilda de Wateville to Bruern Abbey [Oxfordshire] of all her land and that of her father in Colesbourne [Gloucestershire], which Helias of Colesbourne had granted them there. Endorsed: in a late 12th-century hand, ‘Calesburn / Matildis de Watervill / de t[er]ra q[uam] Elyas iniam tenu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 12th century
Extent:
1 leaf

15. Add Ch 20559

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Title:
Grant by Hawise, countess of Aumale, to Fulk de Oiri, of land in Hedon
Scope & Content:
Grant by Hawise [d. 1214], countess of Aumale, to Fulk de Oiri of land in Hedon, Yorkshire. Addressed to the bailiff of Hedon and all the people of the same vill; dated to between 1179, when Hawise became countess, and 1214, when she died. Endorsed: in a 13th-century hand, ‘Hedonn’. Affixed wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1179-1214
Extent:
1 leaf

16. Add Ch 20568

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Title:
Quitclaim by Alice de Lacy, mother of the earl of Lincoln, to Holy Trinity Abbey, York
Scope & Content:
Quitclaim by Alice de Lacy [of Saluzzo], mother of the earl of Lincoln [Henry de Lacy, d. 1311], to Holy Trinity Abbey, York, of all her right in the advowson of Leeds Church; given at Rothwell [Yorkshire], 22 November 1310. Endorsed: in a 14th-century hand, 'De eccl[es]ia de Ledes.' Affixed w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
1310
Extent:
1 leaf

17. Add Ch 21703

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Title:
Grant by Matilda, countess of Clare, to Stephen of Chewat, her clerk, of lands in Dralston
Scope & Content:
Grant by Matilda, countess of Clare, to Stephen of Chewat (Cehetun), her clerk, of whatever is in her fee in Dralston, in woods, plains and within and without the vill; dated to when Robert was recorded as sheriff. Witnesses include Robert son of Sawin [fl. 1170], sheriff of Northamptonshire. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1170
Extent:
1 leaf

18. Add Ch 22566

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Title:
Quitclaim by Isabella, widow of Warin of Bassingburn, to William de Briançon, lord of West Thurrock, of her rights to land in Breckenham and elsewhere
Scope & Content:
Quitclaim by Isabella, widow of Warin of Bassingburn, to William de Briançon [d. 1310], lord of West Thurrock, of all the rights she had in the lands and tenements which William has in Breckenham, Rossworth, and Shadwell in Norfolk, and Teversham in Cambridgeshire, which Warin, her husband, sold...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1287-1310
Extent:
1 leaf

19. Add Ch 23365

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Title:
Inspection and confirmation of a grant to William Aumbesas and Johanna, his wife, of the manor of Carshalton
Scope & Content:
Chirograph inspection and confirmation by Richard of Chissebeth and Henry of Creton of a grant by William of Frenlles to William Aumbesas and Johanna, his wife, of the manor of Carshalton [Surrey]. Affixed with two seals. The first, an imperfect equestrian seal of William, oval, green, with him...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1307
Extent:
1 leaf

20. Add Ch 23674

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Title:
Quitclaim by Gonnora, widow of William Banastre of Wallington, to the Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr, Southwark, of half the rent owed on lands given by her husband
Scope & Content:
Quitclaim by Gonnora, widow of William Banastre of Wallington, Surrey, to the Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr, Southwark, for William’s soul, of half the rent owed by the hospital for the 6 acres of land which William had given them. Should be dated after 1228 according to Birch, Catalogue of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

21. Add Ch 24243

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Title:
Will of Margery, widow of John Todenham, knight
Scope & Content:
Will of Margery, widow of John Todenham, knight, leaving her body to be buried in the chancel of the Austin Friars, Thetford [Norfolk], next to the tomb of her daughter Elizabeth Homgrave, and leaving bequests to that and other churches, and appointing executors, with the signature of Thomas Mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1411-1416
Extent:

1 document

22. Add Ch 26317

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Title:
Will of Joanna Lane, widow of Nicholas Lane of Snape
Scope & Content:
Will of Joanna Lane, widow of Nicholas Lane of Snape, Suffolk. She asks to be buried in the churchyard of Snape Church, and makes bequests to her daughters, her goddaughter, and her goddaughter’s family, and appoints executors. Dated 20 November 1500. Dorse: Probate certificate by Roger Church...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1500-1501
Extent:
1 leaf

23. Add Ch 28479

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Title:
Grant by Isabella de Brus to Hatfield Regis Priory
Scope & Content:
Grant by Isabella de Brus (d. 1252), daughter of Earl David [of Huntingdon], to Hatfield Regis Priory of all the service owed to her by Nicholas Bus and his heirs. The document is undated, but Isabella was granted the manor of Hatfield Regis by Henry III (r. 1216-1272) in 1238. Endorsed: in a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1238 and 1252
Extent:
1 leaf

24. Add Ch 28766

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Title:
Will of Isabella Russell, widow of John Churchhay of Frome
Scope & Content:
Will of Isabella Russell, widow of John Churchhay of Frome, leaving bequests to Langley Priory, Langley Chapel, Merston Church [all Somerset], her friends, relatives, and the chapel of St Katherine; dated 24 February 1361. Endorsed: in a 14th-century hand, ‘Certander’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1361
Extent:
1 leaf

25. Add Ch 47517

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Title:
Grant by Hawise, countess of Gloucester, to Nuneaton Priory, of land at Pimperne
Scope & Content:
Grant by Hawise [de Beaumont, d. 1197], countess of Gloucester, for her soul and those of William, her husband [d. 1183], earl of Gloucester, her children, and all her ancestors and successors, to Nuneaton Priory [Leicestershire], of 100s of land in her manor of Pimperne [Dorset], and leaving he...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1191-1197
Extent:
1 leaf

26. Add Ch 47552

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Title:
Confirmation by Petronilla, countess of Leicester, to Nuneaton Priory, of the donation made by her son Robert, earl of Leicester
Scope & Content:
Confirmation by Petronilla [de Grandmesnil, d. 1212], countess of Leicester, for her soul and those of her parents, her bridegroom [sponsus] Earl Robert [de Beaumont, earl of Leicester, d. 1190], her sons and daughters, and all her ancestors, to Nuneaton Priory, of the donation of her son Robert...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1190-1204
Extent:
1 leaf

27. Add Ch 47584

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Title:
Grant by Isabel, countess of Northampton, to Nuneaton Priory, of land in Groby
Scope & Content:
Grant by Isabel [de Beaumont, d. a. 1188], countess of Northampton, for her parents’ souls and those of her brother Robert [de Beaumont, d. 1190], earl of Leicester, W. de Britollia, and her ancestors and successors, to Nuneaton Priory [Leicestershire], of a bovate of land in Groby [Leicestershi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
1 leaf

28. Add Ch 47615

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Title:
Grant by Amicia de Craft, to Nuneaton Priory, of a moiety of her mill in Sapcote and her body
Scope & Content:
Grant by Amicia de Craft, with the consent of William Basset her son, for her soul and those of her children, her predecessors and successors, to Nuneaton Priory [Leicestershire], of a moiety of her mill in Sapcote [Leicestershire] and her body. Endorsed: in a 13th-century hand, ‘Carta Amicis d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

29. Add Ch 54069

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Title:
Grant by Philip II of Spain and Mary I of England to Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel, of property in the hundreds of Bury and Rotherbridge
Scope & Content:
Grant by Philip II (king of Spain, r. 1556-1598) and Mary I of England (r. 1553-1558), styled 'King and Queen of England, France, Naples, Jerusalem and Ireland', to Henry Fitzalan (b. 1512, d. 1580), 12th Earl of Arundel, of manors, lands and other properties in the hundreds of Bury and Rotherbr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1555
Extent:

1 document

30. Add Ch 60433

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Title:
Will and probate certificate of Margaret Hervy of Ryburgh
Scope & Content:
Will and probate certificate of Margaret Hervy of Ryburgh [Norfolk]. She leaves her body to Ryburgh Church, makes bequests to her children Robert, Thomas and Elizabeth, and appoints Robert Hempton and Elizabeth Hervy as her executors; given 1508. Dorse: probate certificate by the official of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1508
Extent:
1 leaf

31. Add Ch 62464

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Title:
Grant by Philip and Mary to Anne Fortescue, of manors in Gloucestershire
Scope & Content:
Grant by Philip and Mary to Anne Fortescue, widow of Sir Adrian Fortescue and now the wife of Thomas Parry, of the manors of Barton Abbots, Chipping Sodbury, Codrington and Washbourne (Gloucestershire). Given 2 September 1557. Affixed with a fragmentary great seal of Philip and Mary, oval, br...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1557
Extent:
1 document

32. Add Ch 67394

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Title:
Testimony by Friar John Bradfield and others of a deathbed statement by William of Lener concerning the divorce of Robert Pilkington of Rovington and Alice of Astley
Scope & Content:
Friar John Bradfield, Robert of Hebton, William Brechton of Ekygan and John Fogg of Bradshaw testify that they heard William of Lener on his deathbed say that, when Alice of Hulton lay dying, he heard Richard French of Bolton say that the divorce between Robert of Pilkington of Rovington and Ali...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1447
Extent:
1 leaf

33. Add Ch 70581

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Title:
Will of Margaret Canon, granting to John Lye and Thomas Russell of Hythe all of her lands and tenements in Hythe
Scope & Content:
Will of Margaret Canon, granting to John Lye and Thomas Russell of Hythe all of her lands and tenements in Hythe, Kent, once held by her feoffees John Chilton, John Prylle and Robert Combe; given 12 October 1424. Endorsed: in a 15th-century hand, ‘Test[amentum] Marg[eret]ie / Canon sup[er] / el...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1424
Extent:
1 leaf

34. Add Ch 74042

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Title:
Indenture between Isabel, wife of Henry of Torbok, and John Dunville and several others, cancelling a debt
Scope & Content:
John Dunville, Mayow Dunville, John de Holford, Edward Mascy, John le Mascy of Wymyncham on one part and Isabel, who was the wife of Henry of Torbok, cancelling of a bond owed by Isabel; given Friday after the feast of St Valentine [17 February] 1396. Endorsed: in a faded 14th-century hand, ‘de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1396
Extent:
1 leaf

35. Add Ch 76067

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Title:
Grant by Isabella de Boville to Sir William de Ulchot and Elizabeth, her daughter, of a mill in Glosthorpe
Scope & Content:
Grant by Isabella de Boville, widow, to Sir William de Ulchot, knight, and Elizabeth, her daughter, of a mill in Glosthorpe (Norfolk) called the Londmilne. Endorsed: in a 13th-century hand, 'molendinum in Glosthorp / vocatur londmilne'. Affixed with an imperfect seal, lozenge, red, with a figu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1230-1240
Extent:
1 leaf

36. Add Ch 76275

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Title:
Will of Johanna, wife of John Godfrey of South Creake
Scope & Content:
Will of Johanna, wife of John Godfrey of South Creake, Norfolk. Joan leaves her body to be buried in the cemetery of South Creake church and makes bequests of 40d to the church’s altar, 6s 13d for repairs to the church, 1d for the church’s processions, 2 marks for church’s lights, and the rest o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1368
Extent:
1 leaf

37. Add Ch 77153

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Title:
Will of Isabella Storke
Scope & Content:
Will of Isabella Storke, wife of William Denton, squire, of the diocese of Ely. Isabella leaves her body to be buried in the chancel of Babraham, Cambridgeshire, and she leaves to William, her husband, all her possessions and a messuage in Soper Lane, the parish of St Pancras, London. She asks t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
25 Mar 1496
Extent:
1 leaf

38. Add Ch 77735

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Title:
Inspeximus by Henry III of a grant of Aethelred the Unready to Wherwell Abbey
Scope & Content:
Inspection and confirmation by King Henry III of England (r. 1216-1272) of a charter of King Aethelred the Unready (r. 978-1016) for Abbess Heanflaed and Wherwell Abbey (Hampshire), issued before 23 April 1002; given at Westminster, 26 October 1260. The preamble states that the original is now...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1260
Extent:
1 leaf

39. Add MS 4899

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Title:
Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a selection of the Sermones (Sermons) by Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090, d. 1153), abbot of Clairvaux and one of the leading theologians of the 12th century. The manuscript was produced in England in the 12th century and belonged to the Carthusian abbey of Witham in the 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

40. Add MS 5141

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Title:
Portrait and Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises a single leaf, which seems to have once belonged to a larger volume. The recto features a full-length portrait of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, holding a penner and a rosary, alongside his arms (Party per pale argent and Gules a bend counter-changed), an English da...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

41. Add MS 5415 A

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Title:
The Queen Mary Atlas
Scope & Content:
This portolan or atlas consists of three tables and nine large ornamented maps, executed by the Portuguese cartographer Diogo Homem (b. 1521, d. 1576) between 1555 and 1559. The manuscript is thought to have been made for King Philip II of Spain (r. 1556–98), possibly as a gift from Queen Mary I...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1555-1559
Extent:

1 volume

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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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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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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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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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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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

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