MSS. Rawl. poet.

Rawlinson manuscripts (MSS. Rawl. poet.)

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 10
Summary Catalogue no.	14503
Summary of contents	Thomas Hoccleve, De regimine principum, with the introductory dialogue.
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century, middle
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 285

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 14
Summary Catalogue no.	14507
Summary of contents	Partonope of Blois (imperfect).
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century, second half
Material	paper


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 286

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 32
Summary Catalogue no.	14526
Composite	A \|\| B \|\| C \|\| D \|\| E \|\| F
Summary of contents	John Lydgate, poems. Anonymous poems. \|\| John Lydgate, Fabula duorum mercatorum - 130 stanzas rhyme royal, including Envoy. \|\| Proverbs. Brut Chronicle. \|\| The Fifteen O's of Christ - thirty-four stanzas rhyme royal ('O Ihesu cryste of euerlastynge swettnes'). \|\| ' ... The bible [i.e. libel] of Englische polycy ...' (1436). \|\| 'A processe of philosophers'.
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century, second half
Material	parchment, paper


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 290
Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 291

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 34
Summary Catalogue no.	14528
Composite	A \|\| B \|\| C
Summary of contents	Life of St. Margarete. \|\| Poems, including Sir Degare. \|\| A Balade in praise of the Virgin Mary, with acrostic - fifteen stanzas rhyme royal ('Away ffeynt lufe full of varyaunce').
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century
Material	paper


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 291
Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 292

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 35
Summary Catalogue no.	14529
Summary of contents	Benedict Burgh, Cato Major - rhyme royal plus three ababbcbc stanzas of 'Lenvoye' at the end ('...With mene estate that halt him aggreable Plente and pouerte be nat suffrable... '). John Lydgate, Dietary.
Language	English, Latin
Origin	English
Date	15th century, late
Material	paper


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 292

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 36
Summary Catalogue no.	14530
Summary of contents	John Lydgate, Valentine to our Lady; anonymous poems.
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century, second half
Material	paper


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 292

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 38
Summary Catalogue no.	15563
Summary of contents	William Langland, Piers Plowman (imperfect), B-version.
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century, early
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 436

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 118
Summary Catalogue no.	14611
Summary of contents	John Capgrave, Life of St. Katherine, rhyme royal. Religious and moralizing poems.
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century, third quarter
Material	paper


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 307

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 137
Summary Catalogue no.	14631
Summary of contents	William Langland, Piers Plowman, A-version. \|\| [Fragments of the French romance Gui de Warewic, formerly present, are now MS. Rawl. D. 913, fols. 86-89.]
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century, first half
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 311

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 138
Summary Catalogue no.	14632
Summary of contents	The Prick of Conscience.
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century, first half
Material	paper


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 311
Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 312

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 139
Summary Catalogue no.	14633
Summary of contents	The Prick of Conscience.
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	14th century, second half
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 312

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 140
Summary Catalogue no.	14634
Summary of contents	John Lydgate, The Life of our Lady.
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century, second quarter
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good border, initial. (P&A iii. 948)



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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 312

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 141
Summary Catalogue no.	14635
Summary of contents	Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (part).
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century, ? middle
Material	paper


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 312

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 143
Summary Catalogue no.	14637
Composite	A \|\| B
Summary of contents	Juliana Barnes (Berners) (attrib.), The book of hunting. \|\| Thomas Stanley, The Stanleys antiquytyes in Englishe meeter.
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century, middle \|\| 17th century, first half
Material	paper


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 313

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 144
Summary Catalogue no.	14638
Summary of contents	John Lydgate, The siege of Troy.
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century, second half
Material	paper


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 313

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 145
Summary Catalogue no.	15432
Summary of contents	Fragments: Latin arithmetical note; The Anonymous Short Metrical Chronicle of England, in couplets ('In that tyme the pope of rome He be thowth hym wel swythe sone...' ); latter part of prose commentary on ten commandments; treatise on Charity, Purity, Hope, etc. ('Herkeneth alle now to me / For y wylle speke of Charyte').
Language	English, Latin
Origin	English
Date	14th century, first half
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 426
Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 427

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 149
Summary Catalogue no.	14641
Summary of contents	Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (imperfect).
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century, third quarter
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 314

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 150
Summary Catalogue no.	14642
Summary of contents	French metrical romances: La Chanson des Lorrains, etc.
Language	French
Date	13th century
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 314
Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 315

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 151
Summary Catalogue no.	14643
Summary of contents	Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae. English translation by John Walton (1410).
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century, first half
Material	parchment

Decoration
Initials. (P&A iii. 965)



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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 315

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 156
Summary Catalogue no.	14648
Summary of contents	John Gerson, Josephina.
Language	Latin
Origin	French
Date	15th century, second quarter
Material	parchment

Decoration
Fine historiated initial of Gershon. (P&A i. 681, pl. LII)



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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 316

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 161
Summary Catalogue no.	14653
Summary of contents	Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae. In French verse.
Language	French
Date	15th century, first half
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 318

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 162
Summary Catalogue no.	14654
Summary of contents	Charles de Bourgueville, poems and prose.
Language	French
Origin	French, Caen
Date	1528-1578
Material	paper


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 318

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 163
Summary Catalogue no.	14655
Summary of contents	Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; A Balade to Rosamond- twenty-four lines.
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century
Material	paper


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 318

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 168
Summary Catalogue no.	14660
Summary of contents	Thomas Hoccleve, De regimine principum.
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century, middle
Material	paper


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 319

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 175
Summary Catalogue no.	14667
Summary of contents	The prick of conscience. Religious and moral poems.
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	14th century, second half
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 321
Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 322

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 179
Summary Catalogue no.	14671
Summary of contents	Apocalypsis Goliae.
Language	Latin
Date	16th century
Material	paper


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 322

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 223
Summary Catalogue no.	14714
Composite	fols. I-X \|\| fols. 1-270
Summary of contents	John Lydgate, The siege of Troy (fragment, with MS. Rawl. D. 913, fols. 2-3). \|\| Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales.
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century, third quarter \|\| c. 1450-1460
Material	paper \|\| parchment

Decoration
Good border, initial. (P&A iii. 1083, pl. C) \|\| Fine borders, historiated and other initials. In two styles. Pen flourishes, and initials. (P&A iii. 1062, pl. XCVIII)
Initials and borders, decorated with sprays of foliage, flowers and gold disks, at the beginning of Tales and Prologues on fols. 44r, 55r, 63r, 79v, 90v, 149r, 165v, 175r, 204r, 115v, 219r, 233v.
fol. 142r
Type	initial T
Subject	Friar with raised hand, standing in pulpit (Prologue to the Friar's Tale).
fol. 183r
Type	Initial A
Subject	Melibee(?) or Geoffrey Chaucer(??) in fine dress, seated at lectern with an open book (The Tale of Melibee).



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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 332
Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 333

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 224
Summary Catalogue no.	14715
Summary of contents	Poems, liturgical pieces, etc. connected with the Holy Tear. Written for the monastery of the Holy Trinity at Vendôme, which preserved the relic.
Language	Latin, French
Origin	French
Date	1453-1461 \|\| 1528
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good miniature, border, initials. (P&A i. 742, pl. LVIII)



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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 333
Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 334

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 225
Summary Catalogue no.	14716
Summary of contents	South English Legendary (imperfect): Lives of Saints, etc., in verse.
Language	English
Origin	English
Date	15th century
Material	paper


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 334

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 230
Summary Catalogue no.	14721
Summary of contents	Octavien de St. Gelais, Épître de la Vertue.
Language	French
Origin	French
Date	c. 1530
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good miniatures, borders, initials. (P&A i. 848)



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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 335

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 232
Summary Catalogue no.	14723
Summary of contents	Poems of moral instruction (penmanship displays).
Language	French
Origin	French
Date	16th century, beginning
Material	parchment

Decoration
Fine calligraphic initials. Written by Louis Pourchin (?). (P&A i. 837, pl. LX)



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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 335
Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 336

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 233
Summary Catalogue no.	14724
Summary of contents	Petrarch, Il Canzoniere.
Language	Italian
Origin	Italian, Ferrara
Date	15th century, third quarter
Material	parchment

Decoration
Fine miniature, border, initials. (P&A ii. 425, pl. XLII)
fol. 1r
Type	iminiature
Subject	Blind-folded Cupid aims his bow at a kneeling young man, whose chest is pierced with an arrow; landscape in the background.



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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 336

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 234
Summary Catalogue no.	14725
Composite	A \|\| B \|\| C
Summary of contents	William the Clerk of Normandy, Vie de Tobie, in verse. \|\| Ps. John of Damascus, Barlaam et Josaphat, French prose translation. \|\| Song of Solomon, paraphrased in French verse, with added prophecy in English verse.
Language	French \|\| French \|\| French, English
Date	13th century \|\| c. 1300 \|\| 13th century, late, and 16th century
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 336

Shelfmark	MS. Rawl. poet. 241
Summary Catalogue no.	14732
Summary of contents	Theological notes and treatises. Religious, moral and astronomical poems, including Miracles of the Virgin Mary in French verse.
Language	Latin, French
Date	13th century, second half
Material	parchment


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Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 338
Catalogue image	Vol. 3, p. 339

LwM 12 July 2011