Manuscripts, Medieval -- England
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Medieval Manuscripts created in England.
Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:
MS 169: Composite manuscript containing six medical texts, 1481; 17th century
Item
Identifier: MS 169
Contents
Contains six medical texts, and recipes inserted at a later date. The whole volume is written by the hand of Robert of Sherburn, with the exception of the recipes, written by Francis Cox.ff. 1v-2v: A Tabula to the volume, in the hand of Robert of Sherburn, and an ilustration of a physician and patient (described under 'Scope and Contents-Illumination').Ff. 3r-37r, ff. 41r-44r: 'Expositio cum questionibus super textu Rasis in...
Dates:
1481; 17th century
MS 181: Composite manuscript containing six texts, 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 181
Contents
Contains six texts, possibly written by two hands. The first four texts belong to a group of Latin textbooks largely used in schools during the Middle Ages, collectively known as Auctores octo morales ('Eight moral authors'). Catherine Borland erroneously attributes the second, third and fourth text (Liber Faceti docens mores hominum, Liber parabolarum and Liber...
Dates:
14th century
MS 182: Composite manuscript containing three texts, mid/late 14th-early 15th century
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Identifier: MS 182
Scope and Contents
This manuscript is composed of three sections bound together out of order, in different hands. The different texts are listed below and detailed separately.ff. 1r-2v; 4r-v; 26r-v: Fragments of a commentary on a variety of court cases in French.ff. 3r-v; 5r-24v: A text in Latin headed Flores Dictaminis Petri de Vineis et primo de querimonia Frederici Rubrica ( Flores...
Dates:
mid/late 14th-early 15th century
MS 183: Royal Letter Book, late 14th-early 15th century, c 1335-c 1417 (dates of the original letters)
Item
Identifier: MS 183
Scope and Contents
MS 183, the Royal Letter Book, is an English late medieval manuscript containing contemporary copies of 374 letters, most of which belong to the reigns of Edward III (1327-1377) and Richard II (1377-1397). The manuscript further contains a few copies of letters from the reign of Henry IV (1399-1413) and the copy of a single letter from the reign of Henry V (1413-1422), as well as several letters between other correspondents. The overall date range of the...
Dates:
late 14th-early 15th century; c 1335-c 1417 (dates of the original letters)
MS 184: A brief chronicle based on the Brut in Middle English, 15th century
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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 215: Composite manuscript containing two texts, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 215
Contents
Unbound manuscript containing two texts in two different hands.
ff. 1r-6r: 'Algorismus' by Alexander de Villa Dei, also known as Carmen de Algorismo
ff. 6v-8v: 'Tractatus pro juvenibus informandis' (Latin grammar)
The texts are described separately, under MS 215/ff. 1r-6r and MS 215/ff. 6v-8v.
Dates:
15th century
MS 216: Fragment of Summary of the Decretals of Gregory IX, 13th century
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Identifier: MS 216
Contents
This is a fragment (12 folios) of a summary of the Decretals of Gregory IX, a collection of jurisprudence of Catholic canon law. It was compiled by Spanish Dominican friar Raymond of Penyafort, under the orders of pope Gregory IX. Contains 1 folio of Book I and 11 of Book III (Title xxxiv, De voti redemptione, to Title xli, De celebratione missarum). ...
Dates:
13th century
MS 218: Fragments of the Auchinleck Manuscript containing two texts, 1330s
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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