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  • 1
    Canterbury Tales Fragment
    2nd half 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 63
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Chaucer Geoffrey.
    Extent:1 volume. iv + 2 + iv folios. Dimensions: 272 x 195 mm. A bifolium, leaves 2 and 7 in a quire, if the quire was of 8 leaves. Medium: vellum; paper flyleaves. Binding: quarter-bound in brown morocco, marbled paper-covered boards, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, for the John Rylands Library
    Language:Middle English
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  • 2
    Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and other works
    2nd half 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 113
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Chaucer Geoffrey,Brode John.
    Extent:1 volume. v + 190 + ii folios, foliated 1-197 (modern foliation). Dimensions: 297 x 210 mm. Collation: 1-7 24, 8 22. There is a strip of vellum down the gutter in the middle of each quire. Medium: paper, except f. 5, conjoint with the pastedown, and ff. 196-7, a conjoint pair, of which 197 was formerly a pastedown. Binding: medieval binding of brown leather over wooden boards; six bands; five bosses on each cover, now missing; two clasps, missing
    Language:Middle English
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  • 3
    Barlow Manuscripts
    10th-17th century
    Ref:GB 161 MSS. Barlow 1-55
    Location:Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
    Extent:55 shelfmarks
    Language:Latin, English, Middle English (1100-1500), Italian, Ancient Greek (to 1453), and Russian
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  • 4
    Wycliffe Gospels
    Beginning 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 3
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Unknown.
    Extent:1 volume. xii + 200 + iii folios (including a slip, f. 47), foliated 7-206 (modern foliation). Dimensions: 173 x 120 mm. Collation of ff. 7-206: 1-4 8, 5 8 plus a slip after 8 (f. 47), 6-16 8, 17 6 (ff. 136-41), 18-24 8, 25 10 lacking 10, blank. Medium: vellum. Binding: full black morocco with silver ornaments and two silver clasps, 19th century
    Language:Middle English
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  • 5
    Mirror of the Life of Christ
    Mid 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 98
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of translator: Nicholas Love.
    Extent:1 volume. ii + 140 + ii folios, foliated 1-140 (modern foliation). Dimensions: 300 x 200 mm. Collation: 1 8 lacking 1 and 2, 2-11 8, 12 8 lacking 5 after f. 90, 13-16 8, 17 8 lacking 2 after f. 126, 18 8 (leaf 8 was a pastedown). Quires are signed in the usual late medieval way. Two leaves are missing after, f. 90 and after f. 126. Condition: f. 1r is affected by damp-staining. Medium: vellum; paper flyleaves. Binding: full brown calf, rebacked in brown morocco, ?17th century
    Language:Middle English
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  • 6
    The Romances of Kyng Alisander, c.1350.
    c.1350
    Ref:GB 227 msPR2065.A15
    Location:University of St Andrews Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Unknown.
    Extent:1 volume, 2ff
    Language:English
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  • 7
    Richard Coeur de Lion, c.1350.
    c.1350
    Ref:GB 227 msPR2065.R4
    Location:University of St Andrews Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Unknown.
    Extent:1f
    Language:English
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  • 8
    Brogyntyn manuscripts
    [12 cent, first ½]-[1960s]
    Ref:GB 210 MSBROG
    Location:National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
    Extent:89 volumes
    Language:Arabic English French Greek Hebrew Latin Romance Language Welsh English, Latin, Welsh, French, some Greek, Arabic, Anglo Norman and Hebrew
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  • 9
    Fifteenth-Century Sermons Collection
    1st half 15th century [1432?]
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 109
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Unknown.
    Extent:1 volume. vi + 123 + ii folios, foliated (i-iii), 1-126, (127-8) (modern foliation). A now damaged foliation in the hand of item 4, ff. 1-143, repeats two numbers, 23 or 24 and 27 or 28, and takes account of fourteen of the leaves missing from item 3; it was made when items 1 and 2 were in their present state, when the first leaf of item 3 was out of place and the second leaf missing and when the gap after f. 101 already existed (Ker). Dimensions: 283 x 205 mm. Collation of ff. 4-126 and Norwich ff. 1-8: 1 20 lacking 1 and 16-20 (16-20 were probably blank), 2 nineteen (ff. 18-36), 3 12 lacking 2 and 12 (ff. 54, 37-45), 4 12 lacking 7 and 11 (ff. 46-51; Norwich ff. 5-7; f. 52), 5 12 lacking 2 and 3 after f. 53 and 7-9 after f. 57 (ff. 53, 56-60), 6 12 lacking 7-9 after f. 66, 7 12 lacking 10-12 (ff. 70-4; Norwich ff. 1-4), 8 four (ff. 75-8), 9 14 (ff. 79-92), 10 12 lacking 5-7 after f. 96, 11 16 (ff. 102-17), 12 10 (ff. 118-22; Norwich f. 8; ff. 123-6). Condition: ff. 59-60 are torn, with significant loss of text towards the foredges; generally the manuscript is damp-affected, with some staining and abrasion to the edges of leaves. Medium: paper, except ff. 75-8 which are vellum. Binding: blind-tooled calf binding, 19th century
    Language:Middle English and Latin
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  • 10
    The papers of Samuel Weller Singer relating to the compilation of a dictionary of Old and Middle English
    19th century
    Ref:GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. d. 1346-1347/1-2
    Location:Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
    Name of creator:
    Singer Samuel Weller.
    Extent:2 shelfmarks
    Language:English
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  • 11
    William Paton Ker et al letters
    13th May 1887
    Ref:GB 96 AL194
    Location:Senate House Library Archives, University of London
    Name of creator:
    Jones John Viriamu (1856-1901) university administrator and physicist,Ker William Paton (1855-1923)...
    Extent:(1) 7" x 4.5"; (2) 10.25" x 8"; (3) 10" x 8"3 items (8 leaves)
    Language:English
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  • 12
    Papers of A.S. Napier
    late 19th-early 20th century
    Ref:GB 481 ZP
    Location:English Faculty Library, University of Oxford
    Name of creator:
    Napier AS.
    Extent:18 boxes
    Language:English, Middle English (1100-1500), Old English (ca.450-1100), and German
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  • 13
    Transcript of an Early Version of Wyclif's New Testament
    Mid 19th Century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 902
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Lea Wilson.
    Extent:325 x 208 mm. 1 volume (246 + xxiv folios);
    Language:English
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  • 14
    Wycliffe Old Testament
    Beginning 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 89
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of author unknown.
    Extent:1 volume. i + 90 + i folios, foliated 1-90 (modern foliation). Dimensions: 140 x 100 mm. Collation: 1 8, 2 2 (ff. 9-10), 3-12 8. Medium: vellum. Binding: bound by Douglas Cockerell in blind-tooled chestnut morocco over oak boards, single clasp, dated 1901
    Language:Middle English
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  • 15
    Later Version Wycliffe Bible
    1st half 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 91
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Unknown.
    Extent:1 volume. 272 folios, foliated 1-272 (modern foliation). Dimensions: 380 x 270 mm. Collation: 1 8 plus one leaf after 8, 2-19 8, 20-21 6 (ff. 154-65), 22-34 8, 35 4 lacking 4, blank. Condition: some damage caused by dampness, mainly in the middle of the volume. Medium: vellum. Binding: wooden boards, bevelled on the inside, 'earlier probably than the crimson velvet which covers them' (Ker); a hole in the middle of each piece of velvet reveals a blurred coloured armorial on the board, framed by a gilt leather centrepiece surround; bosses on each corner; 2 clasps
    Language:Middle English
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  • 16
    Joseph Green Collection of Medieval Religious Manuscripts
    Beginning 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MSS 412-413
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Collector: Joseph Joshua Green.
    Extent:2 items
    Language:Middle English
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  • 17
    Ashburnham Wycliffe Collection
    Late 14th to 15th centuries
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MSS 75-87, 92
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Collector: Bertram Ashburnham 4th Earl of Ashburnham 1797-1878.
    Extent:14 items
    Language:Middle English
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  • 18
    Later Version Wycliffe Psalms
    2nd half 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 88
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Unknown.
    Extent:1 volume. vii + 74 + iii folios, foliated (i-vii), 1-74. Dimensions: 170 x 113 mm. Collation: 1-8 8, 9 two (9 8 lacking 2-7?), 10 8. Medium: vellum; paper flyleaves. Binding: 18th-century black morocco, tooled in gilt on the spine with the armorial of David Garrick
    Language:Middle English
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  • 19
    Ross Papers
    20th century
    Ref:GB 103 ROSS
    Location:University College London Archives
    Name of creator:
    Stefanyjia Ross Elizabeth (1906-1972) Philologist.
    Extent:9 boxes
    Language:English
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  • 20
    Brogyntyn manuscripts
    The Pricke of Conscience, &c.,
    [15 cent., first ½].
    Ref:GB 210 Brogyntyn MS II.6 [RESTRICTED ACCESS]
    Location:National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
    Extent:ii, 108 ff. (twentieth-century pencil foliation; nineteenth-century pencil foliation, 1-105 (omitting f. 40), in bottom left hand corners of leaves; ff. i-ii, 107-108 are paper flyleaves supplied when rebinding in nineteenth century) : Parchment ; 210 x 150 mm. (written space c. 190-200 mm. high). Half bound in brown calf, [19 cent.], in the same style as Brogyntyn MS II.1; 'MORAL POETRY 15. CENTY.' and 'PORKINGTON MS. No.' (in gold on spine); '20' (paper label on spine)
    Language:Middle English, Latin
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