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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 19

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MS. Ashmole 32
Contents:
Coats of arms of Welsh families — 15th century, late - 16th century, first half

MS. Ashmole 59

Contents:
Ps.-Aristotle, John Gower, etc. — 1447 × 1456; English, London
John Lydgate — 16th century, second half; English

MS. Ashmole 61

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

MS. Ashmole 342

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

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 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 1450

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

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 1763A

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MS. Ashmole 1763
MS. Ashmole 1164
MS. Ashmole 1296
MS. Ashmole 1300
Contents:
Book of Pedigrees and guardbook of miscelleaneous documents from the Ashmole collection

MS. Ashmole 1796

Contents:
Astrological treatises and tables — 14th century, second half; additions, 15th century-16th century; English

MS. Auct. F. 1. 4

Contents:
Aristoxenus Tarentinus, Ptolemaeus Claudius, etc. — 16th century, late

MS. Auct. T. 2. 13

Contents:
Hephaestion, John Tzetzes, etc. — 15th century, late - 16th century, early

MS. Barlow 27

Contents:
Thomas Stubbs — c. 1480 and 16th century; English

MS. Barocci 145

Contents:
Prophecies, Homilies, etc. — Multiple dates; Italian, Venice

MS. Bodl. 181

Contents:
Aegidius de Columna, Ps.-Aristotle, etc. — Multiple dates; English

MS. Bodl. 242

Contents:
Chartulary of Langley Abbey, Norfolk with 14th-, 15th- and early 16th century additions — 13th century, end; additions to 16th century, early; English

MS. Bodl. 480

Contents:
The Pricking of Love — Multiple dates; English

MS. Bodl. 488

Contents:
Statutes of the Hospital of S. Maria Nuova, Florence — c. 1500; Italian, Florence

MS. Bodl. 879

Contents:
Ps.-Raymund Lull, etc. — c. 1500; France

MS. Bodl. 1029

Contents:
Treatise on confession, Treatise on the Mass, etc. — Multiple dates; Italian, Florence

MS. Buchanan e. 3

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MS. Lat. liturg. e. 24
Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Rouen, in Latin and French. France (Rouen), late 15th or early 16th century.

MS. Buchanan e. 4

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MS. Lat. liturg. e. 25
Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin and French. France, late 15th or early 16th century.

MS. Buchanan e. 8

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MS. Lat. liturg. e. 29
Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris, Hymns, etc. — 15th-16th century, c. 1500; French, Paris

MS. Buchanan e. 10

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MS. Lat. liturg. e. 31
Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris, Prayers to the Virgin — 15th-16th century, c. 1500; French, Paris

MS. Buchanan e. 12

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MS. Lat. liturg. e. 33
Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Bayeux — 15th century, late - 16th century, early, c. 1500; additions, 16th century; France, Normandy

MS. Buchanan e. 14

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MS. Lat. liturg. e. 35
Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Evreux — 15th century, late - 16th century, early, c. 1500; French, Normandy

MS. Bywater 17

Contents:
Collection of Moral Sayings; France or Italy, 15th - 16th century

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. 22

Contents:
Ovid — 15th century, middle; Italian, North-east
Religious and other poems — 16th century; Italian

MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 135

Contents:
Ps.-Aristotle — c. 1400–1405; Italian, Venice
Theological treatises — 16th century; Italian

MS. Canon. Gr. 64

Contents:
Triodion with synaxaria of Nicephorus Callistus — 14th century, fourth quarter (fols. 9–212, 214–232, 283–371); fols. 233–282 replacement leaves, 15th century, second half; fols. 1–6 added 16th century, middle; Byzantine

MS. Canon. Gr. 126

Contents:
Religious poetry, Homilies — 15th century - 17th century; Greek, islands (?)
Homiliary — 15th century - 17th century; Greek, islands (?)
Patristic extracts — 15th century - 17th century; Greek, islands (?)
Hymnologion — 15th century - 17th century; Greek, islands (?)
Lives of Saints — 15th century - 17th century; Greek, islands (?)
Homilies — 15th century - 17th century; Greek, islands (?)
Hymns — 15th century - 17th century; Greek, islands (?)
Nicephorus Cretensis — 15th century - 17th century; Greek, islands (?)
Lectionary — 15th century - 17th century; Greek, islands (?)
Leo the Wise — 15th century - 17th century; Greek, islands (?)

MS. Canon. Ital. 197

Contents:
Belo Moietta — c. 1486–1501; Italian, Venice

MS. Canon. Ital. 274

Contents:
Astronomical tables — 15th century; Italian
Antonio Millo, admiraglio dal Zante — 1591; Italian, Venice

MS. Canon. Liturg. 55

Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome — c. 1500; French

MS. Canon. Liturg. 99

Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Bourges — c. 1500; French, Bourges

MS. Canon. Liturg. 148

Contents:
Prayers, meditations, etc — c. 1500; Flemish

MS. Canon. Liturg. 343

Contents:
Breviary (Cistercian) — c. 1500; Italian, Venice or Padua

MS. Canon. Misc. 268

Contents:
Summula abbreviata de casibus, Constitutions of Synod of Spoleto, 1277 — 14th century (?)
Petrus de la Turre — 16th century, beginning
Stephanus Fliscus de Soncino — 1453 or after; Italian, North (Ragusa?)
Office of St. Jerome — 14th century (?)

MS. Canon. Misc. 340

Contents:
Alphonso the Wise, etc. — 15th century - 16th century; Spanish

MS. Canon. Misc. 375

Contents:
Alphabet — 16th century, middle; Italian (?)
Gasparinus Barzizius — 15th century (?); Italian (?)

Christ Church MS. 93

Contents:
Hours of St. Denis; France (?Paris), s. xvex (1484 × 1501)

Christ Church MS. 112

Contents:
Statutes of Archbishops of Canterbury, concerning the Court of Arches; England (?Lambeth), s. xvi3/4, with item 5 s. xv2/4

Christ Church MS. 140

Contents:
John Foxe, Syllogisticon; England, s. xviex

Christ Church MS. 342

Contents:
Cartulary of Eynsham Abbey; Eynsham, s. xivex, with additions to s. xvi2/4.

Christ Church MS. 343

Contents:
Cartulary of Oseney Abbey; England (Oxford), s. xiiiex (perhaps 1280 × 1284), with additions s. xiiiex-s. xvi

MS. Don. d. 176

Contents:
Catasto of Cistercian nunnery of Sta. Giuliana, Perugia — 1498 and later additions (15th - 16th centuries); Italian, Perugia

MS. Don. e. 248

Contents:
Psalter, Calendar, etc. — 15th century, last quarter (after 1462, before 1513); German, Medingen, Cistercian nunnery

MS. Douce 51

Contents:
Untitled work or fragment — c. 1490; Flemish
Untitled work or fragment — c. 1500; French

MS. Douce 93

Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Calendar (Utrecht), etc. — Multiple dates; Dutch, Utrecht

MS. Douce 136

Contents:
Gilbertine institutions and statutes, with additions to 1525 — 13th century, first half, and 13th century, second half; additions to 1525; English

MS. Douce 262

Contents:
Ps.-Bonaventure, etc. — 15th century, first half (?) - 16th century, 1st quarter; English

MS. Douce 271

Contents:
Treatises on heraldry and the Order of the Garter, Religious treatise — 15th century, third quarter; additions, 16th century; English

MS. Douce 381

Contents:
Life of St. Juliana — 13th century
Adam Ross — 13th century
The Destruction of Troy — 13th century
Characters of first eighteen days of the month in relation to good and ill fortune — 15th century
Martijn van Thorout — 14th century, second half; Dutch
Romance of Garin de Montglane (?) — 15th century
Songs — 15th century, late
Songs with music — 14th century, late (?)
Chanson de Jérusalem — 13th century
Collectar and Hymnal — 13th century
[22 more parts]

MS. Douce b. 4

Contents:
Illustrations of medieval fools and jesters: illuminations from manuscripts, original sketches and copies — 14th century -19th century; Multiple places of origin

MS. Douce b. 5

Contents:
Guardbook of fragments

MS. Douce d. 19

Contents:
Collection of illuminated and historiated initials cut from various MSS.

MS. Douce f. 2

Contents:
Alphabet of painted capitals — 16th century, beginning; French
Psalter (?) — 12th century, end; French
Cutting — 15th century, beginning; French

MS. e Mus. 52

Contents:
Bernardus Provincialis, Johannes de Rupescissa, etc. — 15th century, middle or second half - 16th century, early (partly after 1511); English

MS. e Mus. 78

Contents:
Livre du Roy d'armes Monjoye — c. 1500; French
Treatise on Arthurian tournaments — 15th century, end; French

MS. Eng. misc. f. 36

Contents:
Honoré Bonet, Thomas, duke of Clarence, etc. — 15th century, late - 16th century, early; English

MS. Hamilton 3

Contents:
Hesychius of Jerusalem — 15th century, late, or 16th century, early (?); German

MS. Holkham Gr. 30

Contents:
Collection of Patristic Works

MS. Holkham Gr. 106

Contents:
Miscellaneous Texts

MS. Ital. b. 3

Contents:
Register of members of the Scuola della Misericordia, Venice — 15th century, middle, with additions to 16th century, middle; Italian, Venice

MS. Ital. e. 16

Contents:
Paolo da Trento, etc. — 1493–1501; Italian, Venice (?)

MS. Lat. hist. b. 1

Contents:
Guardbook

MS. Lat. liturg. a. 8

Contents:
Guardbook of liturgical fragments

MS. Lat. liturg. a. 12

Contents:
Liturgical fragments

MS. Lat. liturg. b. 7

Contents:
Guardbook of liturgical and other fragments

MS. Lat. liturg. b. 17

Contents:
Guardbook of liturgical fragments acquired 1976-2021

MS. Lat. liturg. e. 13

Contents:
Missal, with music, for a Benedictine nunnery; Austria (Salzburg (?)), 1495 × 1503, with inserted miniature c. 1460–70

MS. Lat. liturg. e. 45

Contents:
Book of Hours — 15th century, late - 16th century, early; French

MS. Lat. liturg. f. 4

Contents:
Prayer book — c. 1500–1520 (not before 1494); German, North-west

MS. Lat. liturg. g. 7

Contents:
Book of Hours, Dominican — 15th century, late–16th century, early; German, Esslingen am Neckar (Baden-Württemberg), Dominican friary

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3

Contents:
Fragments, 7th-17th centuries

MS. Lat. misc. b. 3

Contents:
Guardbook, chiefly from bindings

MS. Lat. misc. b. 12

Contents:
Guardbook: miscellanous fragments, mainly of legal works

MS. Lat. misc. b. 13

Contents:
Guardbook of fragments: the following description is incomplete

MS. Lat. misc. b. 17

Contents:
Fragments, 11th century - 17th century

MS. Lat. misc. b. 22

Contents:
Guardbook of medieval fragments found/acquired before 1976.

MS. Lat. misc. b. 25

Contents:
Manuscript fragments and documents accumulated by N. R. Ker (1908–82) , from known sources, 1933–65 and n.d. (the quotations of…

MS. Lat. misc. b. 26

Contents:
Manuscript fragments and documents accumulated by N. R. Ker (1908–82) , from sources not now identifiable (but most show traces…

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17

Contents:
Guardbook of fragments

MS. Lat. misc. c. 91

Contents:
Guardbook of fragments from the binding of Antiq. c.I.1514/1

MS. Lat. misc. c. 96

Contents:
Untitled work or fragment — 13th century - 18th century; English, French, German, Dutch

MS. Lat. misc. e. 85

Contents:
Vocabulary (Verbale), Vocabulary (Nominale) — 15th century; English
Sermon for Easter Day, Poem attacking Protestant reformers, etc. — 16th century; English
John Mandeville — 16th century; English

MS. Lat. misc. e. 122

Contents:
Guardbook

MS. Laud Gr. 27

Contents:
Ps.-Methodius, Constantine the Great, etc. — 15th and 16th centuries; Italian, Venice

MS. Laud Misc. 273

Contents:
Missal — Multiple dates; German, Alsace (?), possibly collegiate church of St Amarin

MS. Laud Misc. 292

Contents:
Johannes de Turrecremata; Germany, 15th century, second half

MS. Laud Misc. 501

Contents:
Pietro Carmeliano — after 1484; English

MS. Lawn medieval 18

Contents:
Guardbook of fragments — 11th century - 16th century; Flemish (?), French, English, German, Italian

MS. Liturg. 402

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MS. Canon. Liturg. 402
Contents:
Portable Psalter, Premonstratensian Use; Germany, diocese of Regensburg, 13th century, last quarter

MS. Liturg. 403

Former shelfmark:
MS. Canon. Liturg. 403
Contents:
Choir book — 1534; German, South
Cutting — 15th century, second half; German, South
Epistle and Gospel book — 12th century; German, South