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1. Add MS 35283-35298

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Belonged to the collection of MSS. formed by Bertram Ashburnham, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (ob. 1878), being comprised in the particular section known as the "Appendix" (see the Catalogue of the MSS. at Ashburnham Place, Appendix). They were purchased at a sale of a portion of the "Appendix" at the auctionrooms of Messrs. Sotheby, 1 May, 1899.
Scope & Content:
The volumes were purchased at a sale of a portion of the "Appendix" at the auctionrooms of Messrs. Sotheby, 1 May, 1899.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-17th century
Extent:
16 items

2. Add MS 35283

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Title:
Psalter in Latin and Anglo-Norman
Scope & Content:
A bilingual Psalter, with canticles and liturgical texts; the Latin text is in the left column with a parallel Anglo-Norman French text in the right column; the translation is related to the Anglo-Norman version in the 'Oxford' Psalter: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 320 (see Short and others, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Add MS 35287

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Title:
William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman (B version, Boffey 1459)
Scope & Content:
THE VISION of William concerning Piers the Plowman, together with Dowell, Dobet and Dobest. The "B" text: see Skeat's ed., Early English Text Society, 1869. Beg. "In a somer seson; whanne softe was the sonne / I shoop me in [to, interl.] shroudes; as I a sheep were." Dowell is headed: "Passus oc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:
1 item

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Title:
Wardrobe account of Eleanor of Castile
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the wardrobe account, or Liber Garderobe, of Eleanor of Castile, (b. c. 1240, d. 1290), Queen consort to King Edward I (r. 1272-1307). The account was compiled by Queen Eleanor's treasurer, John of Berewyk (fl. 1279-1312), and records a set of her receipts and expenses...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
[29 Sep 1289-30 Dec 1290]
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Chanson d'Aspremont
Scope & Content:
Contents: Chanson d’Aspremont, verses 24-376 and 395-540. Aspremont is the second of three chansons de geste of the Charlemagne cycle from the late 12th century, narrating Charlemagne's early expedition across the Alps to Aspremont in Italy to retake land in Calabria from the Saracen king, Ag...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Add MS 35297

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"A DAY-BOOKE of some speciall passages and mercyes both personall and nationall, particular and generall, since these troubles in the kingdome began, Anno Domini 1640." A journal of the Civil War, 1642-49; by John Syms, incumbent of Sheepstor, co. Devon, 3 May 1623-14 Nov. 1643, expelled then by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-238v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect, wanting many leaves. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-7v: The General Prologue, imperfect, wanting two leaves before and after f. 1 (A, ll. 1-153, 234-396). ff. 7v-28r: The Knight's Tale, imperfe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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THE ROMANCE of Partonopeus de Blois, translated from the French into English verse. Nearly 12,000 lines, beginning "Hoo so luste olde stories to rede He shalle fynde withowten drede Meruellys and wonders mony and fele Off myrthe ioye dyssese and wele." f. 2. A leaf is lost after f. 19, contain...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

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"JORNALE GARDEROBE de receptis et exitibus eiusdem," 7 Apr. 31 [Edw. I., 1303]-26 Apr. [33 Edw. l., 1305]: daily receipts and expenses of the Wardrobe, in parallel columns. The balance left over each day is carefully noted; this amounted to twopence only on 3 Dec. 1303 (f. 17 b). At the foot of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Apr 1303-26 Apr 1305
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 35284

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Scope & Content:
PSALTER, with Canticles and Litany, in the later Wycliffite version. Imperfect at beginning and end, wanting also two leaves after f. 4 (Pss. 1. and li.) and one leaf after f 44 (part of Pss. lxxxviii. and lxxxix.). Begins (Ps. xlv. 1): "Oure god pou art refuyt and vertu." The Litany ends "We sy...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item