A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

OR BROWSE BY

MANUSCRIPTS
WORKS
PEOPLE
PLACES
1 - 90 of 90
Number of results to display per page

MS. Add. A. 92

Contents:
Autograph proverb collection of Martin Luther; Germany, 16th century, first half

MS. Add. C. 105

Contents:
Hieronymus de Vallibus — 16th century, early

MS. Ashmole 45

Contents:
Composite manuscript in four parts, containing The Earl of Toulouse, Knighthode and Bataile, notes by William Fitzwilliam,…

MS. Ashmole 59

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

MS. Ashmole 61

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

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 191

Contents:
William Reed, etc. — 15th century; English
Astrological treatises — 15th century; English
Astrological treatises — 16th century; English
Poems with music, Astronomical calendar — 15th century; English

MS. Ashmole 210

Contents:
Richard Thorpe, etc. — 14th century, end; English, York (?)
Astrological treatises — 16th century, beginning; English
Astrological treatise — 17th century; Italian (?)
Astrological treatise — 16th century, beginning; English
William Lilly — 17th century; 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 970

Contents:
Treatises on rhetoric and prosody

MS. Ashmole 1379

Contents:
Treatise on rosemary, Carol — 16th century, first half; 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 1423

Contents:
George Marrowe — 16th century, late; English
Roger Merryfoot — 16th century, late; English
Peter Percy — 16th century, late; English
Alchemical recipes — 16th century, late; English
Alchemical treatise (Liber Aureus), Alchemical poems, recipes and notes — 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. Auct. F. 6. 1

Contents:
Theological and classical collections by a Franciscan; Spain (?), c. 1500

MS. Auct. F. 6. 6

Contents:
Henry Hook — c. 1575–1580

MS. Auct. T. 1. 19

Contents:
Michael Apostolius — 16th century (before 1573); Italy, Venice

MS. Auct. T. 2. 13

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

MS. Auct. T. 4. 4

Contents:
Patristic letters, Theological, scientific and rhetorical works — 16th century

MS. Auct. T. 5. 10

Contents:
Calila et Dimna — 16th century

MS. Auct. T. 5. 11

Contents:
Michael Glycas, Gregory of Nyssa — 1570 and 1572

MS. Auct. T. 5. 21

Contents:
Alexandri Magni vita et res gestae — 16th century, beginning

MS. Auct. T. 5. 22

Contents:
Spaneas Carmen Paraeneticum — 16th century

MS. Auct. T. 5. 23

Contents:
Sententiae and Apophthegmata — 16th century

MS. Auct. T. 5. 24

Contents:
Narratio de Achilleo — 16th century

MS. Auct. T. 5. 25

Contents:
Imberios et Margarona — 16th century, beginning (c. 1515-16)

MS. Auct. T. 6. 5

Contents:
Literary texts, commentaries, letters, etc — c. 1500

MS. Barocci 108

Contents:
Gregory of Nyssa, Basil of Caesarea, etc. — 1574

MS. Barocci 125

Contents:
Maximus Planudes, etc. — 16th century, beginning

MS. Bodl. 1029

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

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. 22

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

MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 106

Contents:
Commentary on Plautus, Comedies — 16th century, beginning

MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 114

Contents:
Pierio Valeriano Bolzano — 16th century; Italian

MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 125

Contents:
Quintus Aemilianus Cimbriacus, etc. — 16th century

MS. Canon. Gr. 56

Contents:
Ps.-George Codinus, Nemesius, etc. — 16th century

MS. Canon. Gr. 69

Contents:
Johannes Stobaeus, etc. — 16th century

MS. Canon. Ital. 19

Contents:
'Maestro Filippo' of Pistoia, Giovanni Battista Bracciolini, etc. — 15th century, end and 16th century, beginning; Italian

MS. Canon. Ital. 25

Contents:
Historia Apollonis regis Tyri — 16th century, beginning; Italian

MS. Canon. Ital. 35

Contents:
Poems — 16th century, first half; Italian

MS. Canon. Ital. 36

Contents:
Poems, Novel in prose — 16th century, first half; Italian

MS. Canon. Ital. 61

Contents:
Petrarch and later poetry in Italian; Italy, 16th century

MS. Canon. Misc. 297

Contents:
Michele Riccio — 16th century and 15th century
Petrarch — 16th century and 15th century
Cicero — 16th century and 15th century

Christ Church, Allestree fragments, no. 37

Contents:
Fragment of English verse; England (?north-west), s. xviin

MS. Digby 6

Contents:
Menander, Cyril of Jerusalem, etc. — 16th century, middle

MS. Digby 133

Contents:
Galileo Galilei — 17th century; Italian
Ps.-Roger Bacon — 16th century; English
The Conversion of St. Paul — 16th century, early; English
Astronomical treatises — 16th century (?); English
Treatise on geomancy — 16th century (?); Italian
Mary Magdalene, Killing of the Children, etc. — 15th century, second half - 16th century, early; English

MS. Digby 145

Contents:
William Langland, John Fortescue, etc. — 1532; English

MS. D'Orville 49

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

MS. D'Orville 119

Contents:
Pindar, Gregory Nazianzen, etc. — 16th century

MS. D'Orville 159

Contents:
Virgil, etc. — 15th century, second half, and 1511; Italy

MS. Douce 69

Contents:
Flores et Blanchefleur — 1553; France

MS. Douce 168

Contents:
Olivier de la Marche, Amé de Montgesoie — 16th century, middle; Flemish

MS. Douce 290

Contents:
E. Price — 16th century; English
Herbal with recipes — 15th century; English
Chronicle of England (Brut chronicle) to 1419 — 15th century; English

MS. Douce 329

Contents:
Boccaccio — 16th century, first half

MS. Douce 363

Contents:
George Cavendish, etc. — c. 1578–1580; English

MS. Douce 379

Contents:
Poems written for the Puy of the Fraternity of the Immaculate Conception at Rouen , 1511 — after 1511; French
Gesta Normannorum — 14th century, first half; French
Lancelot du lac (?) — 14th century; French

MS. e Mus. 63

Contents:
Thomas Norton, George Ripley — 16th century, early; English
Alchemical treatises and poems, Grammatical treatise and other texts — 16th century, middle; English

MS. Eng. poet. c. 3

Contents:
Middle English verse (binding fragments, 14th-16th cent.)

Exeter College MS. 115

Contents:
Yearbooks, in French, English, and Latin; London?, England, s. xvex

MS. Gough Norfolk 43

Contents:
Feodaries and accounts (extracts) relating to rents (of the duchy of Lancaster?) in Sussex, Kent, and Surrey, Common-place book of Thomas Brampton — 16th century; English, Norfolk

MS. Gr. misc. c. 2

Contents:
Guardbook of fragments — 16th - 20th centuries

MS. Holkham Gr. 22

Contents:
Sermons, mainly by Chrysostom, for Sundays in Lent, Holy week, Easter, All Saints, and some fixed festivals

MS. Holkham Gr. 80

Contents:
Works by Michael Apostoles

MS. Holkham Gr. 82

Contents:
Various – mainly patristic and Hagiographical – texts.

MS. Holkham misc. 32

Contents:
Apollonius Rhodius, etc. — 16th century

MS. Lat. misc. b. 12

Contents:
Guardbook: miscellanous fragments, mainly of legal works

MS. Lat. misc. c. 20

Contents:
Erasmus, etc. — 1534–1536

MS. Lat. misc. c. 62

Contents:
Humanistic collection; Italy, 15th-16th centuries

MS. Lat. misc. e. 16

Contents:
Thomas Legg — 1583; English

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. 97

Contents:
Pandolfo Collenuccio, etc. — 1518; Italian, Rome

MS. Laud Gr. 8

Contents:
Symeon Seth — 1543

MS. Laud Gr. 27

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

MS. Laud Gr. 38

Contents:
Michael Glycas — 16th century; Italian

MS. Laud Misc. 697

Contents:
Theological treatise, Religious dialogue — 16th century, beginning; English
Verses in the cloister and library of St. Albans Abbey, Verses on Henry V, etc. — 16th century, beginning; English

MS. Lawn medieval 17

Contents:
Theodoricus Ulsenius, etc. — c. 1501; German

MS. Mus. d. 103

Contents:
Love songs, with musical notes — 16th century, first half; English

MSS. Mus. e. 1-5

Contents:
'The Sadler Partbooks': sacred motets by John Taverner, Robert Whyte, Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, etc — c. 1585; English

MS. Rawl. B. 410

Contents:
Treatise on English law (unfinished), Confirmatory charter of Edward III to Shrewsbury Abbey, 1346, etc. — 16th century

MS. Rawl. C. 86

Contents:
Composite miscellany of literary, historical and devotional texts, mostly in Middle English

MS. Rawl. C. 339

Contents:
Formulary of royal writs and letters close, with administrative notes, c. 1422–1509 — 16th century, beginning; English

MS. Rawl. C. 813

Contents:
Poems, The Adulterous Falmouth Squire, etc. — 16th century, beginning; English

MS. Rawl. D. 265

Contents:
Apocalypsis Goliae — 16th century

MS. Rawl. D. 526

Contents:
Benedetto Varchi — 16th century; Italian

MS. Rawl. G. 154

Contents:
Johannes Secundus — c. 1530–1535

MS. Rawl. poet. 162

Contents:
Charles de Bourgueville — 1528–1578; French, Caen

MS. Rawl. poet. 179

Contents:
Apocalypsis Goliae — 16th century

MS. Selden Supra 15

Contents:
Theodorus Prodromus, Johannes Damascenus, etc. — 16th century

MS. Sparrow 3

Contents:
Poems partly or all by Christiano Canauli of Città di Castello, Eclogue, the speakers Pianus and Laceria mater — 16th century