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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 613, ff 31r-58v
Title:: Guillaume le Clerc, Le Bestiaire divin
Scope & Content:: Verse in Middle French: Guillaume le Clerc, Le Bestiaire divin: 'Qui bien comence et ben define'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: Late 13th century
Extent:: 28 parchment leaves

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 613, ff 59r-64r
Title:: Les Quatre Titres d'une Nonne
Scope & Content:: Verse in Anglo-Norman: 'Dame . amie . fille . sorur' (Les Quatre Titres d'une Nonne).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: Six parchment leaves

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 613, ff 64r-70v
Title:: Conduct of Life
Scope & Content:: Verse in Middle English: 'Ich æm elder þen ich wes' (Conduct of Life) (incomplete).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: Seven parchment leaves

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 613, ff 71r-74v
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Twenty-three medical recipes in Middle English, with headings.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: Four parchment leaves

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 654
Title:: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae; Pseudo-Seneca, Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam; Epitaphium Senecae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Epistolae (Epistles) of the Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. 4 BC, d. 65). It also includes the apocryphal Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam (Seneca's Epistles to St Paul and the Epistles of St Paul to Seneca), ttributed to Seneca, as well as...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 675
Title:: Collection of sermons in Middle Dutch
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of sermons, principally by the Burgundian abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090, d. 1153), as well as Nicholas of Clairvaux (fl. 1145/6-1176/8), Guerric of Igny (b. c. 1070/80, d. 1157) and Fulgentius of Ruspe (b. 462/467, d. 527/533), translated from the orig...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1461
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 745
Title:: Devotional miscellany, including the Lives of St Denis and Edward the Confessor
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-24r: La vie de Saint Eustace; ff. 25r-27v: : Les Dix Commandemens; f. 27v-28r: Laidenge et convoitise; ff. 28v:-30v: Le sermon de Saint Beneoit (Saint Benedict); f. 30v: Les 15 Joies Nostre Dame; f. 31v: Meditations; f. 33r: Les sept vertus; f. 33r Une prière d'un cheva...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and French, Old
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 232 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 747
Title:: A collection of medical texts including Tractatus de herbis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-106v: Tractatus de herbis, here attributed to Bartholomæus Mini de Senis; ff. 106v-109r: Images of plants; ff. 109v-111r: An added text on forecasting (fragment) with a lunar calendar (f. 111r) in Gothic cursive of the mid-14th century; ff. 112r-124v: Antidotarium Nicolai; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c1280-1350
Extent:: A parchment codex, 147 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 821
Title:: A collection of astrological, brontomantic, onomantic and oneiromantic treatises; astronomic and computistic texts; herbal remedies, charms and magical amulets.
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century scientific manuscript from Southern France contains a large number of prognostic treatises that are based on the principles of astrology, brontomancy (divination by thunder), onomancy (divination by names), and oneiromancy (dream divination), alongside computistical and astrono...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 857
Title:: Roman Gradual
Scope & Content:: This Roman Gradual was written in the 11th or 12th century in Northern France. It may have been written for a church in Noyon, since it contains a hymn for St Eligius (Eloy), bishop of Noyon-Tournai (f. 56v). Contents: ff. 1r-56v: A Roman Gradual (with the Temporale and Sanctorale combined) wi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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