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Annual Report of Dunbar and District Cottage Hospital , 1943
Item
Identifier: LHB18/2/30
Fragment of letter in English, partly erased, undated
Part
Identifier: MS 183/f. 58r
Scope and Contents
Fragment of letter in English, partly erased.
Dates:
undated
Fragments of three English religious poems, early 15th century
part
Identifier: MS 114/ ff. i and ii
Contents
Folios from an earlier manuscript containing English poems have been used for the fly-leaves. The portions that can be read have been copied in full by Catherine Borland, see Appendix IV, pp. 334-5 of her catalogue.
Dates:
early 15th century
Life of Adam and Eve, 1330s
part
Identifier: MS 218/ll. 1-352
Contents
These two leaves are from the version of the Middle English Life of Adam and Eve that appears in the Auchinleck manuscript. This is a unique version of this Apocryphal text.In these fragments, the text begins with the line Iiȝtbern þat angel briȝt, which is the first line of the poem. It ends with the line þat may on min errand gon, which is line 352.Both leaves should...
Dates:
1330s
MS 91: Meditationes Vitae Christi by Pseudo-Bonaventure, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 91
Contents
This manuscript is an anonymous prose translation of an early 14th century devotional text, Meditationes Vitae Christi. This work was traditionally attributed to St Bonaventure, but it has since been shown to have been composed by a Franciscan friar in Tuscany in the 14th century. The original text, from which the 15th century English translation derives, was a very popular Franciscan devotional text. Hundreds of manuscript copies exist of the Latin original,...
Dates:
15th century
MS 93: Collection of didactic, pastoral, and meditative devotional treatises, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 93
Contents
This manuscript dates from the first half of the 15th century, and is a collection of didactic, pastoral, and meditative devotional treatises, as well as some fragments of works by late 14th-century English theologian, John Wycliffe. Generally, devotional texts were an important element of medieval piety, as they provided guidance for individuals to deepen their faith through study, meditation and prayer. This volume is perhaps best described as a medieval instructional manual....
Dates:
15th century
MS 184: A brief chronicle based on the Brut in Middle English, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 184
Contents
The Brut Chronicle (also known as the Prose Chronicle) is a collection of medieval histories of England. It was originally an Anglo-Norman text, but was translated into Latin and also Middle English during the medieval period. The Brut presents a mythical history of England, describing for instance the settlement of England by a son of Aeneas from Troy. The original Anglo-Norman version of the chronicle ends in 1272, but there...
Dates:
15th century
MS 185: Brut Chronicle, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 185
Contents
MS 185 is an extended version of the Brut Chronicle. The original was an Anglo-Norman chronicle that ended its account in 1272. This Anglo-Norman version was translated into Latin and Middle English during the middle ages, and many manuscripts continued the account beyond 1272. MS 185 is one such extended version, to 1419.The text begins on f. 1r with Here begynneth a bok which is called Brute, the cronyculis of...
Dates:
15th century
MS 202: The Regiment of Princes, by Thomas Hoccleve, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 202
Contents
Thomas Hoccleve was a English poet and goverment clerk in the Office of the Privy Seal in the first quarter of the 15th century. Hoccleve was author of several other works, but that contained in MS 202 is his 'Regiment of Princes', dedicated to Prince Henry, the future king Henry V. Given that the poem is dedicated to Henry V as 'Prince', and from some internal evidence in the poem, it is possible to date the composition of Hoccleve's original 'Regiment of Princes' to c. 1410-1413. MS 202 is...
Dates:
15th century
MS 218: Fragments of the Auchinleck Manuscript containing two texts, 1330s
Item
Identifier: MS 218
Contents
These fragments consist of four leaves of the famous Auchinleck Manuscript, held by the National Library of Scotland. This manuscript was written in the 1330s in London and contains a collection on Middle English works believed to provide unique insight into the 14th century, not least because some of the Middle English texts within it do not appear elsewhere. These fragments were separated from the main manuscript, and seem to have been used for covers for books.Two of the...
Dates:
1330s