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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

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 1393

Contents:
Alchemical, medical and other recipes — 15th century - 16th century, first half; English
Culinary and other recipes — 15th century - 16th century, first half; English
Moral treatise — 15th century - 16th century, first half; English
Religious verse, Revelatio de aquila et ampulla — 15th century - 16th century, first half; English
Medical and astrological treatises, Religious and other verse — 15th century - 16th century, first half; English

MS. Ashmole 1447

Contents:
Medical treatise — 14th century, late; English
Medical recipes, charms and prognostications — 15th century; English
Medical recipes — 15th century; English
Herbal (Agnus Castus), Medical recipes — 15th century (?); English
Medical treatises and recipes, Herbal — 15th century (?); English
Medical recipes — 16th century; English
Medical recipes — 16th century, second half; English
Medical treatise — before 1634; English
Medical texts, Alchemy — 16th century - 17th century; English

MS. Ashmole 1448

Contents:
Alchemical treatises, Genealogy of the Kings of England to Richard III — 15th century; English
Calendar — 15th century; English

MS. Ashmole 1524

Contents:
Eusebius Gallicanus, Origen, etc. — 11th century or 12th century; English
Peter of Poitiers — 13th century, beginning; English
Boethius — 12th century, middle; Flemish (?)
Register of John de Sautre, abbot of Ramsey — 13th century, late - 14th century, early; English
'Computation of the Tymes' from Creation — 16th century, second half; English
Richard Rolle, etc. — 15th century; English

MS. Ashmole 1804

Contents:
John Mandeville, John of Bridlington, etc. — 14th century, end; English

MS. Barocci 170

Contents:
Leo the Wise — 1577; Italian, Venice (?)

MS. Bodl. 39

Contents:
Collectanea of St Mary's Abbey, York

MS. Bodl. 48

Contents:
Richard Rolle, Ps.-Albertus Magnus (Ps.-Richard Rolle), etc. — 15th century, early; English

MS. Bodl. 57

Contents:
Miscellaneous theological and moral pieces in Latin, of which there is a full list in the Old Catalogue of 1697 and which… — c. 1300; England, Leicester Abbey

MS. Bodl. 131

Contents:
Ps.-Bonaventure, William Flete, etc. — 15th century, middle; English, York (?)

MS. Bodl. 163

Contents:
Bede, Aethelwulf, etc. — Multiple dates; English,
Nennius, Ps.-Methodius, etc. — 12th century, first half; English
Sermons — 15th century, early
Ralph de Hengham — 13th century, late

MS. Bodl. 177

Contents:
Johannes Viennensis, Johannes de Sacro Bosco, etc. — Multiple dates

MS. Bodl. 233

Contents:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Michael of Cornwall, etc. — 13th century, end; English

MS. Bodl. 297

Contents:
John of Worcester, etc. — Multiple dates; English, Bury St. Edmunds, Benedictine abbey

MS. Bodl. 302

Contents:
Distinctiones theologicae — 14th century, second half; English
Interpretatio nominum mansionum (Num. 33.3–48), Interpretationes nominum — 15th century, early; English
Bede, etc. — 14th century; English

MS. Bodl. 462

Contents:
Parliament Roll for 1388, Laws of Oleron — 15th century, middle; English
Thomas Walsingham — 15th century, middle; English
Thomas de Elmham — 15th century, middle; English

MS. Bodl. 496

Contents:
Latin poems chiefly of the Goliardic type composed in the 12th and 13th centuries. The longer ones are: — 15th century, middle; English
Augustine (?) — 15th century, second half

MS. Bodl. 507

Contents:
Ps.-Hildegard of Bingen, Alexander de Villa Dei, etc. — 15th century, middle; English

MS. Bodl. 585

Contents:
Matthew Paris, John Whethamstede, etc. — 1440 × 1448; English, St Albans, Benedictine abbey
Rule of St. Clare — 15th century, middle; English

MS. Bodl. 596

Contents:
Life of Adam, Religious texts, etc. — 15th century, beginning (after 1415); English
John Lydgate — 15th century, third quarter; English
Bede, Lethaldus Miciacensis, etc. — 11th century, end - 12th century, beginning; Multiple places of origin

MS. Bodl. 599

Contents:
Hugh of Fleury — 13th century, beginning; English
Dorotheus Archimandrite — 12th century (?); English

MS. Bodl. 622

Contents:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, etc. — 13th century, end; English

MS. Bodl. 623

Contents:
Prophecies chiefly relating to English history, with calendarial and other pieces, of which the chief are as follows, a full… — 1465; English, London

MS. Bodl. 625

Contents:
Astrology, geomancy, astronomy, etc.; A-D England, 13th-14th century

MS. Bodl. 648

Contents:
Civil law — 14th century, early
Recipes, Fables — 15th century, first half (before 1438?); English, Canterbury
'Prester John', John Lydgate, etc. — 1461 × 1468; English, Canterbury

MS. Bodl. 686

Contents:
The Canterbury Tales; England, 1430s

MS. Bodl. 755

Contents:
Aimoin of Fleury — 12th century; English

MS. Bodl. 761

Contents:
Petrus Hispanus, H. Sampsonis de Clouburnel, etc. — c. 1360–1370; English

MS. Bodl. 851

Contents:
Walter Map, De nugis curialium; Latin poetry; Piers Plowman (Z- and C-texts); England, 14th century, late, or 15th century,…

MS. Bodl. 912

Contents:
Guillaume le Clerc, John Lydgate — 14th century, beginning; English
'Matthew of Westminster', John Bever, etc. — 14th century, beginning; English

MS. Bodl. 968

Contents:
Mirouer historiale abregé de France — c. 1451–1473; French, Angers

MS. Bodl. Rolls 6

Contents:
Gervase of Canterbury, etc. — 15th century, second quarter; England

Brasenose College MS. 57

Contents:
Guardbook of fragments

MS. Bywater 1

Contents:
Diogenes Laertius, etc. — 15th century, third quarter; Italian

MS. Bywater 3

Contents:
Diogenes Laertius — 15th century, second half; Italian, Urbino

MS. Bywater 15

Contents:
Humanist collection (fol. 145); Germany, early 16th century; bound with two printed books (fols. 8, 114)

MS. Bywater 37

Contents:
Collections (six manuscripts bound together); Italian (Venice, Verona, and Padua); 15th and 16th centuries (1460, 1536–40,…

MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 131

Contents:
Xenophon — 1453; Italian, Rome (?)
Aurelius Victor, etc. — 1450s-1460s; Italian, Rome (?)

MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 260

Contents:
Valerius Maximus, Festus, etc. — 14th century, end; Italian, Veneto

MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 262

Contents:
Valerius Maximus — 1384; Italian
Sallust — 15th century; Italian

MS. Canon. Ital. 210

Contents:
Guido da Pisa, Francesco Lendinara, etc. — 15th century; Italian

MS. Canon. Ital. 219

Contents:
Treatise on dreams, Medical treatise, etc. — 15th century; Italian

MS. Canon. Misc. 218

Contents:
Philosophical texts, Classical extracts, etc. — 16th century

MS. Canon. Misc. 378

Contents:
Notitia dignitatum, etc.; Switzerland (Basel), 1436

MS. Canon. Misc. 521

Contents:
Leo the Wise — 16th century; Italian
Treatise on motion — 1505; Italian
Hero of Alexandria — c. 1500; Italian

MS. Canon. Misc. 575

Contents:
John the Deacon, Vita S. Gregorii Papae, etc.; 11th century, end, Austria(?), Carinthia(?)

Christ Church MS. 99

Contents:
Historical miscellanies, including Geoffrey of Monmouth, Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, the Secreta secretorum etc; Innocent…

Chronicle of England to 1307 [Latin and Middle English]

Chronicle of London, 1189–1511 [Middle English and Latin]

Chronicles of England [Latin and Middle English]

Chronological notes [Latin and Italian]

'Codex Mendoza': Mexican pictorial manuscript [Spanish and nahuatl]

Collectanea of Sir James Ware [Latin, Anglo-Norman, English, and Irish]

Commonplace book containing prophecies, legal notes, medical recipes and charms, and household accounts [Latin, Middle English, and Middle French]

Deposition of Richard II [Latin and Anglo-Norman]

MS. Digby 11

Contents:
Odoricus de Portu Naonis, Johannis de Plano Carpini, etc. — 14th century; English, Oxford (?)
Ps.-Aristotle, Adelard of Bath, etc. — 13th century
Sermons, Theological texts and notes, etc. — 13th century and 14th century; English, Stanley (Wiltshire), Cisterican abbey

MS. Digby 34

Contents:
Life of St. Modwenna, Sermon — 13th century; English
H. of Sawtry, Adam of Eynsham, etc. — 13th century; English
Charm, Sermon, etc. — 15th century; English

MS. Digby 67

Contents:
Richard of Wallingford, etc. — 15th century (?)
Astrological treatises — 15th century (?)
Dietary, Scientific texts — 15th century (?)
Treatises on calendar, Arithmetical treatise — 12th century
Geoffrey of Monmouth — 13th century, beginning
Walter Map, etc. — 12th century, end
Albertus Magnus, etc. — 14th century; Multiple places of origin
Roger Bacon — 13th century

MS. Digby 81

Contents:
Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Thomas of Newmarket (?), etc. — 15th century; English
John of Stratford, etc. — 15th century
Somniale Danielis — 15th century
Albertus Magnus — 15th century
Calendars — 15th century, end; French, North-west
Easter tables — 10th century, late - 11th century, first half (between 988 and 1006)

MS. Digby 82

Contents:
Ranulph Hidgen, etc. — 15th century; English

MS. Digby 95

Contents:
Texts on astrology, physiognomy and palmistry, Medical recipes — 14th century, end; English
Macer, etc. — 15th century, end; English
Medical and herbal texts and recipes — 15th century, middle; English

MS. Digby 104

Contents:
Robert Grosseteste (?) — 13th century, middle; English
Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Alanus de Insulis — 13th century, beginning
Alexander de Villa Dei, etc. — 14th century
Astrological and historical notes — 15th century, beginning
Alhazen, etc. — 13th century
Astrological treatises, Treatise on geomancy — 14th century
Adam Marsh — 13th century
Walter Burley, Robert Grosseteste, etc. — 14th century
Bernard de Gordon — 14th century
Matthew of Vendome, Hugh of St.-Victor, etc. — 13th century, beginning
John of Garland, etc. — 13th century, beginning
Treatise on weather, Library catalogue of Coventry cathedral priory, etc. — 13th century; English, Coventry
William de Conches — 13th century

MS. Digby 140

Contents:
Poem on stars, Treatise on seasons — 13th century, end; French
Thomas Stubbs — c. 1300; English

MS. Digby 149

Contents:
Commentary on Genesis — 13th century, beginning
Stephen Langton — 13th century, second quarter
Maurice of Sully — c. 1200
Robert Grosseteste — 13th century, second half
Ps.-Bernard, etc. — 13th century, second half
Innocent III — 13th century, first half
Augustine — 12th century, second quarter
Treatise on virtues and vices — c. 1300
Calendar, Astrological tables — 14th century
Alcabitius, Roger of Hereford, etc. — 13th century, second half

MS. Digby 185

Contents:
Prose Brut; Thomas Hoccleve; King Ponthus. England, 15th century, middle

MS. Digby 186

Contents:
Injunctions of Cardinal John of Ferentino for St Mary's Abbey, York, 1206 — 13th century, beginning; English, York (?), St Mary's Abbey (?)
John of Bridlington, Geoffrey Eglyn, etc. — 15th century - 16th century, beginning; English

MS. Digby 196

Contents:
Marco Polo, Geoffrey of Monmouth, etc. — 15th century; English

MS. Digby 205

Contents:
Martinus Polonus, Robert of Gloucester, etc. — 14th century; English

MS. Digby 211

Contents:
Bede — 13th century, beginning; English

MS. Digby Rolls 2

Contents:
Chronicle of London, 1189–1511 — 16th century, beginning; English

Divinacio ciceronalis [Latin and Anglo-Norman]

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 [Latin and English]

MS. D'Orville 49

Contents:
Bartolomeo de Grandis, etc. — 16th century; Italy

MS. D'Orville 60

Contents:
Julius Pollux, Justin — 15th century

MS. D'Orville 141

Contents:
Glosses on Sallust; Jean Lebègue. France, 15th century, second half

MS. Douce 45

Contents:
Medical recipes, Arithmetical terms — 15th century
Campanus of Novara, etc. — 15th century
Medical recipes, Recipes for making colours for illumination — 15th century
Notes on physiognomy, Treatise on anatomy, etc. — 15th century
Astrological treatises, Poems — 15th century

MS. Douce 95

Contents:
Ps.-Aristotle, etc. — 15th century; English

MS. Douce 99

Contents:
Honorius Augustodunensis, Jean de Baissegny, etc. — 15th century