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2221. Egerton MS 2164

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2164
Title:
Survey of the lands of Colchester Abbey
Scope & Content:
Fragment (the first membrane of a parchment roll) of ‘the abstracte or brefe declaracion of all and singuler lordshippis, manners, landes’ belonging to the recently attainted monastery of Colchester, drawn up (c. 1540) by the royal commissioners Richard Pollard and Thomas Moyle after its confisc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1539-1540
Extent:
1 volume

2222. Egerton MS 2323

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2323
Title:
Fragments of Middle Dutch verse: the Nevelingenlied and Van den bere Wisselau
Scope & Content:
Three fragments, dated to the second half of the thirteenth century or first half of the fourteenth century, joined together with a paper booklet during the nineteenth century. The first two fragments are the only witnesses of the otherwise lost Middle Dutch Nevelingenlied, probably translated f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
c 1250 - c 1350
Extent:

4 leaves

2223. Egerton MS 2341/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2341/1
Title:
Instructions for the stained glass windows of Greyfriars Church, Greenwich
Scope & Content:
A roll of instructions for the glaziers creating stained glass windows for Greyfriars Church, Greenwich. The text describes each figure to be depicted, including their physical appearance, dress, attributes, and their heraldry. The figures are Edward the Confessor, Edmund the Martyr, St Aethel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1485-1503
Extent:
1 roll

2224. Egerton MS 2341/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2341/2
Title:
Instructions for the stained glass windows of Greyfriars Church, Greenwich
Scope & Content:
A roll of instructions for the glaziers creating stained glass windows for Greyfriars Church, Greenwich. The text describes each figure to be depicted, including their physical appearance, dress, attributes, and their heraldry. The figures are Eadburga, daughter of St Aethelberht, St Kenelm, Cha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1485-1503
Extent:
1 roll

2225. Egerton MS 2402

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2402
Title:
George Cavendish, The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey, and Metrical Visions
Scope & Content:
The original autograph manuscript of Cavendish's life of Cardinal Wolsey (ff. 4r–93r), and his Metrical Visions (ff. 94r–149r), begun 4 November, probably in 1556, and completed 24 June 1558. The first leaf of the prologue to the Life is missing. f. 152r: A pedigree of the Cavendish family, ad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1556-1558
Extent:
1 volume

2226. Egerton MS 2622

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2622
Title:
Collection of treatises on arithmetic, geometry, horticulture and astronomy, including Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of treatises on arithmetic, geometry, horticulture, and astronomy, including the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', an instructional manual written by Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). Contents: ff. 2r-12v: De ratione temporum, a set of mnemonic verses ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2227. Egerton MS 2642

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2642
Title:
Robert Commaundre's heraldic and historical commonplace book
Scope & Content:
ff. 2r–418v: ‘The Booke of Heraldrye and other thinges togither with the Order of Coronacions’; a commonplace book chiefly of heraldic and historical collections by Robert Commaundre (d. 1613), Rector of Tarporley, Chester, and Chaplain to Sir Henry Sidney (see f. 254r). The book was compiled in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1575-1625
Extent:
1 volume

2228. Egerton MS 2658

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2658
Title:
The Middle English Liber Aureus and Gospel of Nicodemus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of four surviving copies of the Middle English Liber Aureus and Gospel Nicodemus (the others are Manchester, John Rylands Library MS Eng. 895, Stonyhurst College MS xliii, and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 207). The text is a narrative of the Passion and Resurr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2229. Egerton MS 2709

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2709
Title:
Pierre Boutier and Jehan le Verrier, Le Canarien or Conquête et les conquérants des Iles Canaries
Scope & Content:
Contents: Pierre Boutier and Jehan le Verrier Le Canarien, or Conquête et les conquérants des Iles Canaries, a History of the Conquest of the Canary Islands by Gadifer de la Sale and Jehan de Bethencourt in 1402-1404. The authors are described in the text as 'Frere Pierre Boutier of Saint Jou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1405 - 1420
Extent:

Parchment codex

2230. Egerton MS 2726

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2726
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales ('The Haistwell Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-271r: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-11v: The General Prologue. ff. 11v-39v: The Knight's Tale. ff. 39v-40v: The Miller's Prologue. ff. 40v-49r: The Miller's Tale. f. 49r-v: The Reeve's Prologue. ff. 50...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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