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Leaf from The Canterbury Tales
Leaf 277 from the Tale of Melibee (Melibeus’s tale) from the first printed edition of the Canterbury tales. Consists of 29 lines printed in batarde type on both sides, with one 2-line initial in red at the 18th line down, on recto.
Registrum brevium [Register of Writs], with additional minor legal texts in Latin, Middle English and French. England, circa 1375, with additional items after
1426
England, circa 1375, with additional items after 1426.
Among the shorter legal texts included in the manuscript is a text concerning a "cession yn eyr" [session in eyre] in Middle English.
Among the shorter legal texts included in the manuscript is a text concerning a "cession yn eyr" [session in eyre] in Middle English.
Transcription by Elizabeth Elstob of the Canticle "Audite caeli quae loquor," from the tenth-century Salisbury Psalter
Pen-facsimile. Oxford, 1709.
Bound with Transcription by Elizabeth Elstob of a letter from Charles II to Paul Testard, Minister at Blois, dated Beauvais, 15 March 1650. Oxford, 1709.
Bound with Transcription by Elizabeth Elstob of a letter from Charles II to Paul Testard, Minister at Blois, dated Beauvais, 15 March 1650. Oxford, 1709.
An English-Saxon homily on the birth-day of St. Gregory: anciently used in the English-Saxon church. Giving an account of the conversion of the English from paganism to Christianity. Translated into modern English, with notes, &c. By Eliz. Elstob.
London: printed by W. Bowyer
A Testimonie of Antiquitie, Shewing the Auncient Fayth in the Church of England Touching the Sacrament of the Body and Bloude of the Lord Here Publikely Preached, and also Receaued in the Saxons Tyme, aboue 600. Yeares Agoe.
with manuscript annotations
Chronica regum Britanniae [History of the Kings of Britain].
England, circa 1240-1260 CE. 1 roll: 326 x 22 cm. (5 membranes: 68, 59. 5, 56, 75. 5, and 73 cm. long; first membrane only shown). Covers from Severus to Uther Pendragon.
Leaf from a Latin glossary with Old English glosses, covering the words interkalares to istingum.
Worcester (?), West Midlands, England, circa 990 - 1010. Recto of leaf shown.
Barclay His Argenis. Or, the Loves of Polyarchus & Argenis. Faithfully translated out of Latin into English. by Kingsmill Long Esquire.
Two Old English leaves (MS Pryce C2, Items 1 and 2) were removed from the original binding of this volume.
Fragment of “Sermo in natale unius confessoris.”
Worcester (?), England, circa 1050-1099, with 13th-century annotations by the Tremulous Hand of Worcester.
Fragment of “The Legend of the Holy Cross before Christ.”
Worcester (?), England, circa 1000-1050, with 13th-century annotations by the Tremulous Hand of Worcester.