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MS. Add. A. 30

Contents:
Texts relating to the Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem — 1350 with additions to c. 1410; French, Provence (?)
Manual of confession — 15th century; French
Quodvultdeus — 15th century; Spanish

MS. Add. A. 44

Contents:
Secular and religious verse with some prose ('The Bekynton anthology'); England, early 13th century, additions 15th century.

MS. Add. C. 29

Contents:
Guillaume de Deguilleville, Pèlerinages; France, c. 1400

MS. Arch. Selden. B. 8

Contents:
Porphyry — 16th century
Gregoras Nicephorus, Aristarchus of Samos, etc. — 16th century
Messahala, Albumazar, etc. — 15th century, second half; English
Untitled work or fragment — 16th century, last quarter
Prophecies — 16th century, middle; English

MS. Arch. Selden. B. 10

Contents:
John Harding — c. 1470–1480; English
John Lydgate — c. 1520; English

MS. Arch. Selden. B. 14

Contents:
Geoffrey Chaucer — c. 1450–1470; English
Polyphonic fragments — 14th century; English

MS. Arch. Selden. B. 26

Contents:
A: Selden carol-book, England, s. xv 2/4; B: Gregory the Great, England, s. viii 2/2; C: texts by and opposing John Wycliffe,…

MS. Ashmole 61

Contents:
Middle English verse ('The Rate manuscript'); England (perhaps Leicester?), late 15th or early 16th century

MS. Ashmole 333

Contents:
Breviary, Use of Sarum — 15th century, middle; English
Prognostications, tables, etc of John Brooker — 17th century; English

MS. Ashmole 342

Contents:
Composite manuscript: prognostication, astronomy, medicine, etc., in Latin, Middle English and French; England (?), 13th-15th…

MS. Ashmole 360

Contents:
Letter of fraternity — c. 1395–1402, 1450; English
Alexander de Villa Dei, etc. — c. 1300
Martin of Spain, etc. — 15th century
Petrus de S. Audomaro, Albumasar, etc. — 14th century
Alcabitius, etc. — 15th century
Geoffrey Chaucer — 15th century
Matthias Woghenoris — 15th century
Alexander de Villa Dei, Johannes de Sacro Bosco, etc. — 13th century
Calendar, Astrological notes and tables, etc. — 14th century, early
Astronomical diagram — 13th century

MS. Ashmole 391

Contents:
Medical and astrological treatises — 16th century; English
John Somer — c. 1440; English
Johannes Lichtenberger — after 1488; German
The Nativity of Sir Robert Holborne of Lincolnes Inn — 1598; English
Nicholas of Lynn — 14th century, end (after 1387); English
Geoffrey Chaucer — 15th century, beginning; English

MS. Ashmole 748

Contents:
Bible — 14th century
Text on Canon Law — 14th century or 15th century

MS. Ashmole 789

Contents:
Writing exercises — 15th century, second quarter; English
Disticha Catonis, 'Sentences of Sages' — 15th century
Formulary of letters — 15th century, first half; French
Correspondence and documents of ambassadors to England and France from the Pope of Rome, 1374–6 — 14th century, second half
Documents relating to Anglo-French treaties, 1395–1410 — 15th century
Documents relating to a meeting of the ambassadors of England and France, 1418 — 15th century
Thomas Bekynton, etc. — 14th century; English
John Somer — 14th century, end (after 1387); English

MS. Ashmole 1114

Contents:
Documents relating to the Order of the Garter — 17th century; English
Account of ceremonies of the Order of the Garter, 1564–7 — 16th century; English
Notes on Henry VIII's will — 16th century; English
Documents collected by (?) Robert Champlayn, Knight of the Garter, relating to his campaigns in Hungary against the Turks and to the Order of the Garter — 15th century, late; English
Documents relating to Anglo-French diplomacy, 1408–9, Letter from Christ to the King of France — 15th century; English

MS. Ashmole 1132

Contents:
Account of the induction of John Radcliff into the Order of the Garter — 1429 (?); English
Petition of Windsor College against taxation, with associated documents — 1451 (?); English
Account of payment to the vicar of St. George's College, Windsor — 1471; English
Deed, 1527 — English
Letters patent of Richard III, 1485 — English
Deed, 1505 — English

MS. Ashmole 1389

Contents:
Medical recipes, Astrological texts and tables — c. 1500; English
Medical recipes, notes and glossary — 15th century; English

MS. Ashmole 1413

Contents:
Treatise on urines, Medical texts — 15th century, second half; English
Medical recipes and notes — 15th century; English
Medical recipes — 16th century, second half; English
Medical recipes — 17th century, first half; English

MS. Ashmole 1434

Contents:
John Arderne, Johannes de Toleto, etc. — 15th century, second half; English
Gerard of Montpellier, etc. — 14th century; English
Treatise on surgery — 17th century, first quarter; English

MS. Ashmole 1450

Contents:
Composite alchemical manuscript in Latin and English; 15th-17th centuries