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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth 395 DA late fourteenth/fifteenth-century manuscript containing the Speculum Vitae, Mirror of St. Edmund, medical recipes and ...
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 293A copy of the C-text of Piers Plowman from the first half of the fifteenth-century (Russell 1997, pp. 12-13) although Sk...
Cambridge, King's College, 13Two fourteenth-century manuscripts bound together and containing William of Palerne and the South English Legendary (Gud...
Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys 2344A copy of the South English Legendary arranged according to the liturgical year. According to Görlach (1974) the un...
Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys 2616A late fourteenth-century manuscript containing Wycliffite material (McKitterick and Beadle 1992, p. 89).
Cambridge, Magdalene College, 17A fifteenth-century copy of Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection written by two scribes.
Cambridge, Selwyn College, 108.L.1An early fifteenth-century manuscript containing part of the New Testament. McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin analyse the Pr...
Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, 74A late fourteenth/early fifteenth-century manuscript containing Wycliffite sermons (Hudson 1983, p. 70, Fletcher 1994, p...
Cambridge, St. John's College, 34An early fifteenth-century copy of the Confessio Amantis.
Cambridge, Trinity College, 1285A fifteenth-century, mainly Latin, manuscript with only one English text, a grammatical treatise, and some macaronic tex...
Cambridge, Trinity College, 323/324A late thirteenth-century verse miscellany containing Latin, English, and French, as well as macaronic texts. The book i...
Cambridge, Trinity College, 376A fifteenth-century manuscript containing Rolle's Perfectio Vite, and various religious texts regarding Christ and the V...
Cambridge, Trinity College, 383A late fourteenth-century copy (Thompson 1998, p. 38) of the Cursor Mundi written by a single scribe.
Cambridge, Trinity College, 655A fourteenth-century copy of Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle along with a prophecy in Latin and a French Brut.
Cambridge, University Library, Dd.3.13A late fourteenth-century copy (Skeat believes it to be c. 1400, 1873, p. xliii) of the C-text of Piers Plowman.
Cambridge, University Library, Dd.vi.29A collection of medical tracts of various dates. Only the hand of ff. 110r-124v has been analysed.
Cambridge, University Library, Ee.iv.35.2A composite manuscript. Part 1, a sixteenth-century manuscript, contains various texts such as The Child and his Stepmot...
Cambridge, University Library, Kk.i.12A fifteenth-century copy of the Brut to the sixth year of Henry V copied in one hand.
Charlottesville, University of Virginia, Hench 10A late-fourteenth century copy of the Prick of Conscience copied by a single scribe c. 1370 (Lewis and McIntosh 1982, p....
Chatsworth, Chatsworth House, Duke of Devonshire's MSA fifteenth-century copy of Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection.
Dublin, Trinity College, 155An early fifteenth-century manuscript (Allen 1927) containing various religious treatises, including Richard Rolle's Ego...
Dublin, Trinity College, 212A late fourteenth-century copy of the C-text of Piers Plowman that contains a contemporary note regarding Stacy de Rokay...
Dublin, Trinity College, 245A fifteenth-century collection of Wycliffite material.
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates MS. 19.2.1A mid-fourteenth-century manuscript (c. 1331-1340) thought to have been produced in London. The manuscript contains over...
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library, Richardson 44A manuscript dated to the second quarter of the fifteenth century containing the Life of St. Katherine written by one sc...
Hereford, Hereford Cathedral Chapter Library, P.1.ixA manuscript of the second half of the fourteenth century (Mynors and Thomson 1993, p. 69) in two parts. Only the second...
Holkham, Holkham Hall, Library of the Earl of Leicester, 668A late fourteenth/fifteenth century manuscript of the Prick of Conscience.
San Marino, CA., Huntington Library, HM 125A late fourteenth/early fifteenth-century copy (Dutschke 1989, p. 156) of the Prick of Conscience.
San Marino, CA., Huntington Library, HM 126A late fourteenth-century copy of Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle.
San Marino, CA., Huntington Library, HM 128An early fifteenth-century manuscript containing the Prick of Conscience, Piers Plowman, B-text, The Siege of Jerusalem ...
San Marino, CA., Huntington Library, HM 266A mid-fifteenth-century manuscript (Dutschke 1989, p. 229) of Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection. The manuscript is now...
San Marino, CA., Huntington Library, HM 502A manuscript from the first half of the fifteenth century (Dutschke 1989, p. 237) containing Wimbledon's sermon Redde Ra...
Leeds, Leeds University Library, Brotherton 500A late fourteenth/early fifteenth-century copy of the Prick of Conscience (Lewis and McIntosh 1982, p. 55 although Humph...
London, British Library, Additional 10036A copy of Titus and Vespasian, Richard Maidstone's paraphrase of the 51st psalm and other miscellaneous devotional texts...
London, British Library, Additional 10052A fifteenth-century manuscript containing the Latin Speculum Religiosorum and the Speculum Christiani.
London, British Library, Additional 11307A fifteenth-century manuscript containing three religious poems relating to Christ and the Virgin (D'Evelyn 1921, p. vii...
London, British Library, Additional 11748A fifteenth-century manuscript including Hilton's Treatise of a Contemplative Life, a chapter from pseudo-Bonaventura's ...
London, British Library, Additional 12056A fifteenth-century manuscript in two parts containing Lanfranc's Science of Cirurgie and other medical texts.
London, British Library, Additional 21202An illuminated fifteenth-century copy of the Speculum Christiani.
London, British Library, Additional 22283A late fourteenth-century, heavily illuminated manuscript, whose production is closely associated with Oxford, Bodleian ...
London, British Library, Additional 34779An early fifteenth-century copy of Piers Plowman (C-text) (Russell and Kane 1997, p. 10). The remainder of the original ...
London, British Library, Additional 36791An early fifteenth-century copy (c. 1425) of the Speculum Sacerdotale: a series of addresses to parish priests on the fe...
London, British Library, Additional 36983A mid fifteenth-century manuscript containing devotional texts such as Cursor Mundi, the Prick of Conscience, the Abbey ...
London, British Library, Additional 37787A well preserved early fifteenth-century (c. 1400, Owst 1926, p. 249; Baugh, 1956, pp. 13-17) manuscript with its origin...
London, British Library, Additional 38666A mid fifteenth-century copy of the Stanzaic Life of Christ (Foster 1926, p. xi); Dialogue between a Clerk and a Husband...
London, British Library, Additional 46919A collection of treatises, poems, and sermons in Anglo-Norman, Latin and English copied by William Herebert in c. 1300-1...
London, British Library, Additional 4698A fifteenth-century manuscript containing treatises on various medical subjects including Agnus Castus. Written in one m...
London, British Library, Additional 59678A late fifteenth-century copy (1480-1483, Hellinga 1981, p. 134) of Malory's Morte d'Arthur thought to have been written...
London, British Library, Arundel 272A fifteenth-century miscellaneous collection of medical texts including Agnus Castus.
London, British Library, Arundel 286An early fifteenth-century anthology (first quarter of the fifteenth century, Barratt 1983, p. 9) containing devotional ...
London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A.xiAn early fifteenth-century manuscript, dated by Doyle to c. 1410-30 (Kane and Donaldson 1975, p. 5, n. 37) in three dist...
London, British Library, Cotton Claudius A.iiA mid-fourteenth-century manuscript (c. 1425-50) with a variety of texts most suited for use by a parish priest includin...
London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra, D.ixMiscellaneous collection of 'booklets' with the majority of texts in Latin but with some macaronic French/Latin texts an...
London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius D.vii/IA late fourteenth-century/early fifteenth-century manuscript of Trevisa's Polychronicon in two volumes. This manuscript,...
London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian, B.xviA late-fourteenth/early fifteenth-century (Russell 1997) manuscript containing the C-text of Piers Plowman. The manuscri...
London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius D.iiiA late thirteenth-century manuscript (Guddat-Figge suggests a date of c. 1275, 1976, p. 180) now in very poor state due ...
London, British Library, Egerton 1993An early to mid fourteenth-century copy of the South English Legendary written by one scribe in three books (Görlac...
London, British Library, Egerton 2810A late fourteenth-century copy of the South English Legendary (Görlach 1974, p. 91). The main text has a Gloucester...
London, British Library, Egerton 2891An early fourteenth-century copy of the South English Legendary. The text is written in one hand with a scribal dialect ...
London, British Library, Egerton 826A late fourteenth/early fifteenth-century manuscript containing the Paternoster, Ave, Creed etc.
London, British Library, Harley 1205A late fourteenth-century copy of the Prick of Conscience (Lewis and McIntosh 1982, p. 63).
London, British Library, Harley 201Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle until the seventh year of King Stephen. The text, apparently written by two scribes is ...
London, British Library, Harley 210Heavily illuminated manuscript containing prayers in Latin and English as well as a hymn, psalm and litany.
London, British Library, Harley 2253An early fourteenth-century (c. 1330-1340) manuscript containing a majority of French texts, some Latin texts and a good...
London, British Library, Harley 2281An early fifteenth century copy of the Prick of Conscience.
London, British Library, Harley 2376A manuscript containing the C-text of Piers Plowman dated to the first half of the fifteenth century (Russell 1997, p. 9).
London, British Library, Harley 2398A manuscript containing religious tracts inluding the Memoriale Credencium, work by a follower of John Wyclif, and the F...
London, British Library, Harley 2403A late fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's Festial with an explanation of the Apostle's Creed in English.
London, British Library, Harley 2417A copy of Mirk's Festial from the first half of the fifteenth century. The other part of this manuscript is now London, ...
London, British Library, Harley 3810/IAn early fifteenth-century collection of miscellaneous items, secular and religious, including Sir Orfeo and Richard Mai...
London, British Library, Harley 4733A mid fifteenth-century manuscript (c. 1460) containing texts of a moralizing nature (Guddat-Figge 1976, p. 207, n. 1).
London, British Library, Harley 6571A manuscript in one hand located to the Herefordshire/Monmouthshire border containing a treatise regarding sin, particul...
London, British Library, Harley 7322The manuscript contains Latin theological and moral texts which are interspersed with English and some French verses. On...
London, British Library, Harley 875An early fifteenth-century manuscript containing Piers Plowman (A-text) (Doyle 1986, p. 37).
London, British Library, Lansdowne 348An early fifteenth-century copy of the Prick of Conscience (Lewis and McIntosh 1982, p. 68).
London, British Library, Lansdowne 392A composite manuscript/miscellany containing a mid fifteenth-century copy of Mirk's Festial. The other texts are earlier...
London, British Library, Royal 12 C.xiiAn early fourteenth-century collection (c. 1320-40 (Warner and Gilson 1921, p. 29); 1316-40 (Revard 2000, p. 58)) of mis...
London, British Library, Royal 12 G.ivA manuscript of medical texts and recipes made up of one original book written c. 1300 (items 2-4) with various medical ...
London, British Library, Royal 17 A.xxviiA manuscript in two distinct parts. Part 1 is an early thirteenth-century copy of Sawles Warde and the Katherine Group w...
London, British Library, Royal 17 B.xliiiThe manuscript is made up of four originally independent sections which were bound together in the eighteenth century. H...
London, British Library, Sloane 1009 (vol. 1)A late fifteenth-century manuscript containing Chaucer's Tale of Melibeus and miscellaneous religious texts perhaps sugg...
London, British Library, Sloane 2027A mid-fifteenth-century manuscript (Hudson 1966) containing the Secrets of Philosophers and The Chronicle of Robert of G...
London, British Library, Sloane 3160A fifteenth-century miscellaneous manuscript containing mostly English medical texts such as Agnus Castus but also a var...
London, British Library, Sloane 5A late fourteenth-century and fifteenth-century manuscript written by two scribes (or perhaps one) containing surgical a...
London, British Library, Stowe 949A late fourteenth-century copy of the South English Legendary.
London, College of Arms (Heralds' College), Arundel 57A late fourteenth-century copy of Cursor Mundi and the Prick of Conscience.
London, Lincoln's Inn, Hale 150A manuscript from the first quarter of the fifteenth century containing four romances and Piers Plowman (A-text). The di...
London, University of London, Sterling v. 17An early fifteenth-century manuscript containing Piers Plowman, Estoire del Euangelie and the Assumption of the Virgin i...
Manchester, John Rylands University Library, Eng. 50A late fifteenth-century manuscript (Ker 1983, p. 401) containing the Prick of Conscience and Speculum Gy de Warwick.
Manchester, John Rylands University Library, Eng. 90A late fourteenth/early fifteenth century (Ker 1983, p. 413) copy of the Prick of Conscience with Lollard interpolations...
Oxford, Balliol College, 239Originally two separate fifteenth-century manuscripts but bound together by the sixteenth century and considered as one ...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Add. B. 107A copy of Grosseteste's Castle of Love believed to be from the second quarter of the fifteenth century.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Add. C. 220An early fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's Festial.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole 1438A fifteenth-century composite manuscript, in two parts, containing miscellaneous medical material by c. 12 scribes exhib...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole 1481A rough book made up of various booklets regarding medicine. Only the English texts have been recorded here.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole 41A composite manuscript that was originally two although they are now foliated consecutively. The first manuscript contai...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole 43A late thirteenth/early fourteenth-century copy (no later than 1330 (Görlach 1974, p. 74)) of the South English Leg...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Barlow 20A generously decorated copy of the Canterbury Tales beginning with the General Prologue and ending with the Manciple's T...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodl. 123A mainly Latin manuscript with some English pieces collected and written by Thomas Urmston, chaplain of Lyme in Cheshire...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodl. 177Miscellaneous alchemical, astrological, astronomical, and medical treatises in Latin and English. The manuscript is made...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodl. 652A late thirteenth-century tri-lingual manuscript containing Latin, English, and French texts.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodl. 851A manuscript of three independent sections, the first containing Walter Map's De Nugis Curialium, the second is an antho...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 102A mid to late fifteenth-century copy of Piers Plowman, C-text, along with various English poems and Richard Maidstone's ...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 171A late fourteenth-century copy of the C-text of Piers Plowman.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 205A manuscript of the first quarter of the fifteenth century (Hudson 1966, p. 360, n. 2) including a prose chronicle and R...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 86A late thirteenth-century 'common-place book' containing French, Latin and eighteen English texts of various genres incl...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 103A composite manuscript made up of five manuscripts of mainly Latin texts but including a short English grammar which has...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 141An early fifteenth-century copy of the Prick of Conscience, Abbey of the Holy Ghost and various other didactic/devotiona...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 302A mid fifteenth-century (c. 1420-1426) collection of devotional and didactic texts with some in Latin, compiled by the a...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 304A fifteenth-century paper copy of a medical book of diseases and medical recipes.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 78Various prayers to Christ and the Virgin, medical recipes, and the romance Titus and Vespasian. A rather scrappily made ...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. a. 1This manuscript, famously known as the Vernon manuscript, is an impressive book in every respect. Its imposing size equa...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gough Eccl. Top 4A mid fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's Festial.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Greaves 57A fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's Instructions for Parish Priests copied by John Holyns.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 19A copy of William of Nassington's Speculum Vitae from the first half of the fifteenth century.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 96A late fifteenth-century manuscript containing the Festial and sermons. The manuscript is written by five scribes althou...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 56A copy of the Prick of Conscience from the first half of the fifteenth-century.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 108Composite manuscript of religious vernacular material bound together since the fifteenth century. Part I contains the So...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 286An early fifteenth-century manuscript containing Richard Rolle's English Psalter.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 321An early fifteenth-century (Ogilvie-Thomson 2000, p. 40) copy of Rolle's Psalter.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 463An early fifteenth-century copy of the South English Legendary.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 486Late fourteenth-century/early fifteenth-century copy of the Prick of Conscience followed by Gregory's Pastoral Care in L...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 553A fifteenth-century manuscript of Agnus Castus, a translation of Galen's De Phlebotomia, and various other medical texts...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 601A late fourteenth-century, c. 1374-1400, decorated copy of the Prick of Conscience with prayers added by a late fifteent...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 706Thirty-four Latin or macaronic sermons but with four predominantly in English. Some of the Latin texts are attributed to...
Oxford, Bodleian, Lyell 30A private collection of prayers and devotions in Latin and English copied by [J.] Graseley and completed by him in 1441....
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lyell empt. 6An early fifteenth-century copy of the Prick of Conscience along with a Latin charm against fever added by a later hand.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. poet. f. 32An anthology made up of six booklets written and collected together in the second half of the fifteenth century.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. A. 389A late fourteenth-century manuscript copied at Lichfield containing various texts in English and Latin including ones by...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. B. 166A fifteenth-century manuscript of the Brut Chronicle.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. B. 171A copy of the Brut Chronicle written by two scribes at two different periods. The majority of the manuscript appears to ...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. B. 173A fifteenth-century copy of the Brut chronicle written by two scribes.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. C. 81A medical book that appears to have had a useful life until the eighteenth century. The manuscript carries internal evid...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. D. 100An early fifteenth-century manuscript of Mandeville's Travels (1966, p. 192).
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. poet. 139A copy of the Prick of Conscience from the second half of the fourteenth century.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. poet. 141A fifteenth-century manuscript of the second quarter of the fifteenth century (Seymour 1997, p. 184) of the Canterbury T...
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 201A late fifteenth-century manuscript of the Memoriale Credencium, a sophisticated manual of religious instruction, with s...
Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 431A mid to late fourteenth-century copy of the South English Legendary in one hand now in poor condition. The fragmentary ...
Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 59A miscellaneous early fourteenth-century manuscript (Brown 1928, pp. 588-589) made up of mainly Latin texts with only th...
Oxford, Jesus College, 29/2A manuscript in two parts. Part 1 is a fifteenth-century copy of a Latin chronicle of the Kings of England 900-1445 and ...
Oxford, St. John's College, 6A mid-fifteenth-century manuscript (Hanna 2002, p. 7) containing Lydgate's Troy Book.
Oxford, St. John's College, 94A manuscript written c. 1420 containing the Hours of the Virgin and English devotional texts. The manuscript was written...
Oxford, Trinity College, 15A copy of the Prick of Conscience from the first quarter of the fifteenth century.
Oxford, Trinity College, 16A A copy of the Prick of Conscience from the first half of the sixteenth century.
Oxford, Trinity College, 16BA late fourteenth/early fifteenth-century copy of the Prick of Conscience.
Oxford, Wadham College, 13A manuscript of the third quarter of the fifteenth century containing Gower's Confessio Amantis c. 1470 (Macaulay 1957, ...
Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Library, Garrett 138A manuscript of the Prick of Conscience of the first half of the fifteenth century copied by one scribe (Lewis and McInt...
Leeds, Leeds University Library, Ripon Cathedral xiii. A. 35All that remains of this manuscript is a double leaf containing Mandeville's Travels. There are two fragments, one from ...
Southwell, Southwell Minster, VIIA manuscript containing John Mirk's Festial and saints' lives produced in the late fifteenth century (Ker 1992, p. 351)....
Staffordshire, County Record Office, WSL D 1721/3/186A poem on a piece of paper collected together with other miscellaneous documents. Perhaps a poem circulating independent...
Worcester, Worcester Cathedral Chapter Library, F.10A loose collection of anti-Lollard Benedictine sermons of c. 1400 (Spencer 1993, p. 277) with only four being in English...
New Haven, Conn., Yale University Library, Osborn a 13A manuscript of the Prick of Conscience written by one scribe in the first half of the fifteenth century.
York, York Minster Chapter Library, XVI E 32A composite manuscript of medical texts etc. in ten independent sections assembled in this form by c. 1500.