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MS. Add. A. 166

Contents:
Juvenal, etc. — 1475; Italian, Rieti

Agricultural and prognostic almanac in six pieces [Middle English and Latin]

The Annals of Inisfallen [Irish and Latin]

The Annals of Ulster [Latin and Irish]

MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1

Contents:
‘Codex Mendoza’, etc.; A: Mexico, c. 1541 (?); B: England, early 17th century (?)

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. Ash. Rolls 4

Former shelfmark:
MS. Ashmole 15A
Contents:
Coats of arms of sovereigns of Europe and English nobility, Treatise on heraldry, etc. — 14th century, end or 15th century, beginning

MS. Ash. Rolls 21

Former shelfmark:
MS. Ashmole 25
Contents:
Genealogy of the Kings of England from William I to Henry VI, illustrated with verses and medallions — 15th century, middle; English

MS. Ashmole 34

Contents:
Fifteenth-century single text codex of John Harding's Chronicle.

MS. Ashmole 59

Contents:
Composite anthology of Middle English verse and prose in two parts, partially the work of John Shirley

MS. Ashmole 189

Contents:
The Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy, Prognostication — 15th century; English
Astrological treatises, Prognostication: Lunary, etc. — 15th century; English
Petrus Hispanus, etc. — 16th century, first half; Flanders
Ps.-Robert Grosseteste, etc. — 15th century; English

MS. Ashmole 304

Contents:
Texts on prognostication; England (St Albans), before 1259

MS. Ashmole 337

Contents:
Astrological treatise — 15th century; English
Aristotle, etc. — 16th century, second half; English
Astrological treatise, Household expenses and memoranda of John Dee — 16th century, second half; English
Astrological treatises — c. 1600; English
Prophecies, Moral, religious and heraldic extracts — 17th century; English

MS. Ashmole 764

Contents:
Aeneas Sylvius, Honoré Bouvet, etc. — 15th century, third quarter – late; English (script); French (decoration)

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 804

Contents:
Genealogical collections — 16th century; English
Legal documents, Documents relating to the dukes of Norfolk — 17th century; English
Ordinances of the royal household, temp. Henry VII and Henry VIII — 17th century; English
Roll of arms (Powell's Roll) — c. 1345–1351; English

MS. Ashmole 837

Contents:
Text concerning heralds — c. 1500; English
Inquisition relating to Knaresborough forest — 1273 (?); English
Account of the foundation of the abbey of St. Mary, Dore — c. 1500; English
List of French nobles present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, 1520 (?) — 16th century, first half; English
Account of a coronation feast, temp. Henry VIII (?) — 16th century, first half; English
Attainder of Edward, duke of Buckingham — 16th century, first half; English

MS. Ashmole 845

Contents:
Genealogical collections — 16th century, first half; English
Genealogical and heraldic collections — 16th century – 17th century; English
Inventory of the treasury of St. Paul's, London, 1295 — 14th century, first half; English
Documents relating to a dispute between the bishop of London and the dean and chapter of St. Paul's, London, 1402 — 15th century, beginning; English
Rental of lands in Herefordshire — c. 1300; English
Satirical text on the Council of Constance, 1417 — 15th century; English
Index to the Bible — 14th century; English

MS. Ashmole 1113

Contents:
Heraldic and historical collections — 16th and 17th centuries; English