Thomas Tanner was born in 1674 and matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford in 1689. In 1697 he became Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; he was prebendary of Ely in 1713-1723, archdeacon of Norfolk in 1721, and canon of Christ Church from 1724. In 1732 he was made bishop of St. Asaph, and died in Oxford 14 Dec. 1735. By his will most of his manuscripts passed to the Bodleian.
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 1 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9821 |
| Summary of contents | Richard Rolle, Commentary on the Psalter. |
| Language | English and Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 15th century, beginning |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Penwork. | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 82 |
| Quarto image | Col. 1 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 2 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9822 |
| Summary of contents | Historical texts mostly relating to English and Scottish history. |
| Language | Latin and English |
| Date | 16th century, beginning |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 82 |
| Quarto image | Col. 2 |
| Quarto image | Cols. 3-4 |
| Bibliography | |
| 1992 | |
| Mary-Rose McLaren, 'The textual transmission of the London Chronicles', English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700 (eds. P. Beal & J. Griffiths), 3 (1992), pp. 38-72, at pp. 48, 62, 67, 70 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 3 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9823 |
| Summary of contents | Gregory the Great, Dialogi. Papal letter to bishop Roger of Worcester added in the 12th century (fol. 1r). |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English, West (?) |
| Date | 11th century, second quarter |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Fine miniature (retouched), plain gold initials. (P&A iii. 45, pl. V) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 82 |
| Quarto image | Col. 4 |
| Manuscript image | fol. 1v St. Gregory the Great lectures a monk. |
| Bibliography | |
| 2001 | |
| Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts: a list of manuscripts and manuscript fragments written or owned in England up to 1100 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241), Tempe AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001, no. 667 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Cat. | |
| 1999 | |
| Richard Gameson, The manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130), Oxford, etc.: OUP for The British Academy, 1999, p. 45 [fol. 198v] | |
| 1996 | |
| R. Sharpe, J. P. Carley, R. M. Thomson & A. G. Watson, eds., English Benedictine libraries: the shorter catalogues (Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4), London: The British Library in association with The British Academy, 1996, B115 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R | |
| D. Nebbiai-Dalla Guarda, 'Les glossaires et dictionnaires dans les bibliothèques médiévales', in Les manuscrits des lexiques et glossaires de l'antiquité tardive à la fin du moyen age: Actes du Colloque international organisé par le "Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture" (Erice, 23-30 septembre 1994), ed. Jacqueline Hamesse (Fédération Internationale des Instituts d'Etudes Médiévales, Textes et Etudes du Moyen Age, 4), Louvain-la-Neuve 1996, pp. 145-204, at p. 155 | |
| 1995 | |
| Richard Gameson, The role of art in the late Anglo-Saxon Church, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, pp. 205 n. 83, 207 | |
| Cited in more than one chapter of Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, vol. IV, South-East England (by Dominic Tweddle, Martin Biddle, Birthe Kjolbye-Biddle et al.), Oxford, etc.: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 1995, pp. 65, 68, 179, Fig. 18g | |
| 1994 | |
| Cited in more than one article in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts: basic readings, ed. Mary P. Richards (Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England, vol. 2 = Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 1434), New York & London 1994, pp. 140, 183, 201, 218 [= Gneuss no. 667] | |
| 1993 | |
| David N. Dumville, English Caroline script and monastic history: studies in Benedictinism, A.D. 950-1030, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1993, p. 55 | |
| 1992 | |
| Janet Bately, ed., The Tanner Bede: the Old English version of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica ... (Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 24) Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1992, p. 35 n. 27 | |
| Teresa Webber, Scribes and scholars at Salisbury Cathedral c. 1075 - c. 1125, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, pp. 79 n., 84 n. | |
| Milton McC. Gatch, 'Piety and liturgy in the Old English Vision of Leofric', in Words, Texts and Manuscripts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon culture presented to Helmut Gneuss on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, eds. Michael Korhammer and others, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992, pp. 159-79, at p. 168n. | |
| 1991 | |
| Christine Franzen, The tremulous hand of Worcester: a study of Old English in the thirteenth century, Oxford 1991, p. 77 | |
| M. B. Parkes, Scribes, scripts and readers: studies in the communication, presentation and dissemination of medieval texts [collected essays], London & Rio Grande: The Hambledon Press, 1991, p. 184 n. 66 [fol. 189] | |
| Elizabeth C. Teviotdale, The Cotton Troper (London, British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A. xiv, ff. 1-36): a study of an illustrated English Troper of the eleventh century, doctoral thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1991, p. 243 | |
| 1978 | |
| Elaine M. Drage, Bishop Leofric and the Exeter Cathedral Chapter 1050 - 1072: a reassessment of the manuscript evidence, D. Phil. thesis, Oxford University, submitted 1978, p. 66 Bodleian shelfmark: = MS. D. Phil. c. 2650 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 4 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9824 |
| Summary of contents | Sermons. Theological treatises. Commentaries on the Bible. Etc. |
| Language | Latin |
| Date | 13th century, end, and 14th century |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 82 |
| Quarto image | Col. 4 |
| Quarto image | Cols. 5-6 |
| Quarto image | Col. 7 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 5 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9825 |
| Summary of contents | Pontifical. Use of Sarum. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 15th century, beginning |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 82 |
| Quarto image | Col. 7 |
| Bibliography | |
| 1994 | |
| Ralph Hanna III, ' 'Meddling with makings' and Will's work', in Late-medieval religious texts and their transmission: essays in honour of A. I. Doyle, edited by A. J. Minnis (York Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series, vol. III), Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994, pp. 84-94, at p. 86n. | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 6 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9826 |
| Summary of contents | Bede, Commentary on Acts of the Apostles. Caesarius of Arles, Homilies. Theological treatises. |
| Language | Latin |
| Date | 12th century, end |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 82 |
| Quarto image | Cols. 7-8 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 8 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9828 |
| Composite | fols. 1-300 || fols. 301-723 |
| Summary of contents | Johannes Faventinus, Summa in Gratiani Decretum. Canons (Tanner collection). || Collection of Canons (Tanner collection). |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | c. 1200 || 13th century, second quarter |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Initials. (P&A iii. 302) || Good initials. (P&A iii. 384) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 82 |
| Quarto image | Cols. 9-10 |
| Bibliography | |
| 2000 | |
| English Episcopal Acta, 20. York 1154-1181, ed. Marie Lovatt, Oxford, etc.: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 2000, App. I no. 4 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 9 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9829 |
| Summary of contents | Desiderius Erasmus, Institutio principis Christiani. Translated by Guy de Bandereul, commendatory Abbot of St. Martin au Bois, Clermont. |
| Language | French |
| Origin | French |
| Date | c. 1530 |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Good miniatures, border, initials. The dedication copy to Louis d'Orléans, duc de Longueville, 1524-37, with his arms. (P&A i. 847, pl. LXII) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 82 |
| Quarto image | Col. 10 |
| Quarto image | Col. 11 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 10 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9830 |
| Summary of contents | Bede, Historia ecclesiastica. |
| Language | Old English |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 10th century, first half |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Fine initials. (P&A iii. 22, pl. II) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 82 |
| Quarto image | Col. 11 |
| Manuscript image | fol. 68r Zoomorphic initial 'Þ' of interlaced winged lions and dragons disgouring a human figure at top (head lost). |
| Bibliography | |
| 2001 | |
| Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts: a list of manuscripts and manuscript fragments written or owned in England up to 1100 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241), Tempe AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001, no. 668 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Cat. | |
| 2000 | |
| Peter Orton, The transmission of Old English poetry (Westfield Publications in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 12), Turnhout: Brepols, 2000, p. xvi (listed as siglum 'Caed T') | |
| 1997 | |
| Timothy Graham, 'Robert Talbot's 'Old Saxonice Bede': Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.3.18 and the 'Alphabetum Norwagicum' of British Library, Cotton MSS, Domitian A. IX', in Books and Collectors 1200-1700: essays presented to Andrew Watson, eds. James P. Carley & Colin G. C. Tite, London: The British Library, 1997, pp. 295-316, at pp. 297, 301, 311 | |
| Mildred Budny, Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman manuscript art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: an illustrated catalogue, 2 vols., Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1997, Vol. I, p. 504 | |
| D. R. Howlett, British books in biblical style, Dublin & Portland, OR, 1997, pp. 266-7, 464-72 | |
| 1996 | |
| Michelle P. Brown, The Book of Cerne. Prayer, Patronage and Power in Ninth-Century England, London, etc.: The British Library and University of Toronto Press, 1996, p. 180 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Pal. | |
| 1995 | |
| Richard Gameson, The role of art in the late Anglo-Saxon Church, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, pp. 229-230, 231, 254 | |
| D. Tweddle, 'The development of sculpture, c. 950-1100', in Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, vol. IV, South-East England (by Dominic Tweddle, Martin Biddle, Birthe Kjolbye-Biddle et al.), Oxford, etc.: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 1995, pp. 62-95, at p. 85 | |
| 1994 | |
| Cited in more than one article in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts: basic readings, ed. Mary P. Richards (Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England, vol. 2 = Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 1434), New York & London 1994, pp. 16, 183, 188, 216, 234, 241, 245, 247-8, 333 [= Gneuss no. 668] | |
| 1993 | |
| Michael Lapidge, 'Schools, learning and literature in tenth-century England' [first published 1991], reprinted in his Anglo-Latin Literature 900-1066 [collected articles], London & Rio Grande: The Hambledon Press, 1993, pp. 1-48, at p. 12n., see also p. 469 | |
| 1992 | |
| Janet Bately, ed., The Tanner Bede: the Old English version of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica ... (Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 24) Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1992, passim (complete facsimile) | |
| David N. Dumville, Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar: six essays on political, cultural, and ecclesiastical revival, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1992, p. 65 | |
| Richard Gameson, 'The decoration of the Tanner Bede', Anglo-Saxon England, 21 (1992), pp. 115-59, passim | |
| Richard Gameson, 'The fabric of the Tanner Bede', Bodleian Library Record, 14 no. 3 (1992), pp. 175-206 | |
| 1991 | |
| Christine Franzen, The tremulous hand of Worcester: a study of Old English in the thirteenth century, Oxford 1991, p. 109 | |
| M. B. Parkes, Scribes, scripts and readers: studies in the communication, presentation and dissemination of medieval texts [collected essays], London & Rio Grande: The Hambledon Press, 1991, pp. 149, 154-5, 158-60, 162 | |
| Fred C. Robinson & E. G. Stanley, Old English verse texts from many sources: a comprehensive collection (= Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 23), Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1991 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R | |
| 1990 | |
| Frederick M. Biggs, Thomas D. Hill & Paul E. Szarmach, Sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture: a trial version (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 74), Binghamton NY 1990, pp. 73-4 | |
| Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Visible song: transitional literacy in Old English Verse (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 4), Cambridge, etc.: C.U.P, 1990, p. 3 n. 5, p. 33 n. 30, p. 39, p. 43, p. 44, p. 45 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 10* (R) |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 27694 |
| Summary of contents | 'Tituli', or communications of religious foundations which prayed for the soul of William abbot of Thorney (i.e. W. of Yakesle, d. 1293). On other side: lists of books lent from the book-closet in 1327-(?)1331. Originally endleaves from MS. Tanner 10, removed 1898. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 14th century |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 5, p. 339 |
| Bibliography | |
| 1996 | |
| R. Sharpe, J. P. Carley, R. M. Thomson & A. G. Watson, eds., English Benedictine libraries: the shorter catalogues (Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4), London: The British Library in association with The British Academy, 1996, B100 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R | |
| Simon Keynes, ed., The Liber Vitae of the New Minster and Hyde Abbey Winchester, British Library Stowe 944, together with leaves from British Library Cotton Vespasian A. VIII and British Library Cotton Tiberius Titus D. XXVII (Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 26), Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1996, p. 63 n. 123 | |
| 1994 | |
| David N. Bell, An index of Cistercian authors and works in medieval library catalogues in Great Britain (Cistercian Studies Series, 132), Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 1994, p. 142 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R | |
| 1992 | |
| Janet Bately, ed., The Tanner Bede: the Old English version of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica ... (Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 24) Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1992, passim (complete facsimile) | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 11 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9831 |
| Summary of contents | Chronicle of England continued to the taking of Rouen by Henry V ('Caxton's chronicle'). |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 15th century |
| Material | paper |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 82 |
| Quarto image | Col. 11 |
| Bibliography | |
| 1998 | |
| Lister M. Matheson, The Prose Brut: the development of a Middle English Chronicle (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 180), Tempe, AZ, 1998, pp. xxvii, 73, 215, 220-2, 226, 228 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 13 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9833 |
| Summary of contents | Year books (transcripts of pleadings in English courts, 1307/1308-1320/1321). |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 14th century, beginning |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 82 |
| Quarto image | Cols. 13-14 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 15 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9835 |
| Summary of contents | Ps.-John Capgrave, Nova legenda Angliae. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | French |
| Date | 1499 |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Good border, initial. (P&A i. 796) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 82 |
| Quarto image | Col. 18 |
| Manuscript image | fol. 1r Gold 9-line initial 'A' with tiny initials on filigreework against blue and rose ground. Spray border in top and half of left margin with gold balls and pine cones, stylized and coloured flowers and leaves. |
| Bibliography | |
| 2000 | |
| Glyn S. Burgess & Clara Strijbosch, The Legend of St Brendan: a critical bibliography, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2000, p. 8 [pp. 75-86] | |
| 1997 | |
| M. B. Parkes, 'Archaizing hands in English manuscripts', in Books and Collectors 1200-1700: essays presented to Andrew Watson, eds. James P. Carley & Colin G. C. Tite, London: The British Library, 1997, pp. 101-141, at pp. 111, 114 | |
| Peter J. Lucas, From author to audience: John Capgrave and medieval publication, Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 1997, pp. 296, 304-5 | |
| 1996 | |
| Nicholas Vincent, Peter des Roches: an alien in English politics, 1205-1238 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th Series, 31), Cambridge 1996, p. 485 (Bibliography) | |
| 1995 | |
| David Jones, ed., Saint Richard of Chichester: the sources for his life (Sussex Record Society, 79, for 1993), Lewes 1995, p. 249 (listing only) | |
| 1991 | |
| M. B. Parkes, Scribes, scripts and readers: studies in the communication, presentation and dissemination of medieval texts [collected essays], London & Rio Grande: The Hambledon Press, 1991, p. 251 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 16 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9836 |
| Summary of contents | Richard Rolle, Commentary on the Psalter. |
| Language | English and Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | c. 1400 |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Fine border, initials (partly mutilated). (P&A iii. 789, pl. LXXIV) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 82 |
| Quarto image | Col. 18 |
| Manuscript image | fol. 2v Blue and rose 10-line Initial B(eatus). Surround and column bar border with blue and rose leaves, daisy buds, cornerpieces and interlace. Bottom left cornerpiece cut out. |
| Manuscript image | fol. 106v Decoration as above, with both large initial, a cornerpiece and decoration at mid-point of the border cut out. Tiny red or blue flourished capitals throughout two columns of text. |
| Bibliography | |
| 1995 | |
| Kathleen L. Scott, 'An Hours and Psalter by two Ellesmere illuminators', in The Ellesmere Chaucer: essays in interpretation, eds. Martin Stevens & Daniel Woodward, San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, and Tokyo: Yushodo Co., Ltd., 1995, pp. 87-119, at p. 118 n. 51 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 17 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9837 |
| Summary of contents | South English Legendary: Lives of Saints, and Temporale (Passion of Christ). |
| Language | English |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 15th century, beginning and middle |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Good border, initials. Fine miniatures (mostly coloured drawings) of 15th century, middle, added in margins. (P&A iii. 861, pl. LXXXII) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 82 |
| Quarto image | Col. 18 |
| Quarto image | Cols. 19-20 |
| Quarto image | Col. 21 |
| Manuscript image | fol. 85r St. Mary of Egypt, died 421 A. D., April 2nd. A hermit, she carries three loaves which were her food in the desert. |
| Bibliography | |
| 2000 | |
| Glyn S. Burgess & Clara Strijbosch, The Legend of St Brendan: a critical bibliography, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2000, p. 70 (fols. 99v-107v) | |
| Karen A. Winstead, ed., Chaste Passions: medieval English virgin martyr legends, Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2000, p. 101 Fig. 5 (fol. 7r) | |
| 1997 | |
| David Farmer, 'St Augustine's life and legacy', in English Heritage Book of St Augustine's Abbey Canterbury, ed. Richard Gem, London: B. T. Batsford / English Heritage, 1997, pp. 15-32, at pp. 28-9 ill. 4 (fol. 111r) | |
| Karen A. Winstead, Virgin Martyrs: legends of sainthood in late medieval England, Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 1997, pp. 115-6 and figs. 22 (fol. 19r detail), 23 (fol. 22r detail) | |
| 1996 | |
| Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490 (A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6), 2 vols., London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 1996, no. 45; I, pp. 34, 42; II, pp. 41, 259, 261; ills. 183, 184, 185, 186 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Pal. | |
| 1990 | |
| Kathleen L. Scott, 'The illustrations of Piers Plowman in Bodleian Library MS Douce 104', The Yearbook of Langland Studies, 4 (1990), 1-86 at p. 78 no. 7 Bodleian shelfmark: = REFS. LXXXVII.17 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 18 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9838 |
| Summary of contents | Cartulary of William Molash as almoner of Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury, in 1419, with later materials relating to the Priory. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English, Canterbury Christ Church. |
| Date | 15th century |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 82 |
| Quarto image | Col. 22 |
| Bibliography | |
| 1995 | |
| Nigel Ramsay, 'The Cathedral Archives and Library', in A History of Canterbury Cathedral, eds. Patrick Collinson, Nigel Ramsay, and Margaret Sparks, Oxford, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 341-407, at p. 354 n. 65 | |
| 1991 | |
| English Episcopal Acta, II, Canterbury 1162-1190, eds. C. R. Cheney & B. E. A. Jones, and III, Canterbury 1193-1205, eds. C. R. Cheney & E. John, corrected paperback edition, Oxford, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1991, vol. II, nos. 82, 84, 87 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 19 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9839 |
| Summary of contents | Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 15th century, beginning |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Good borders, initials (partly damaged). (P&A iii. 854) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 82 |
| Quarto image | Col. 22 |
| Manuscript image | fol. 19r Light blue initial 'E' on gold ground and two blue red-flourished initials. Gold barborder in left and lower margin with blue and pink leaves, lower right cornerpiece ending in a spray with trilobed leaves. |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 86 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9912 |
| Summary of contents | Texts relating to the Council of Basel, 1430-1433 and n.d. |
| Language | Latin |
| Date | 15th century |
| Material | paper |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 82 |
| Quarto image | Col. 423 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 110 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9936 |
| Summary of contents | Bestiarium moralizatum. Sermons. Theological treatises, fragments and notes. Etc. |
| Language | French, Latin, and English |
| Date | 12th century, 13th century, 14th century, 15th century |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 82 |
| Quarto image | Cols. 479-480 |
| Quarto image | Cols. 481-482 |
| Bibliography | |
| 1998 | |
| Ron Baxter, Bestiaries and their users in the middle ages, Stroud & London: Sutton Publishing Ltd. & The Courtauld Institute, 1998, pp. 148, 151, 177 | |
| 1992 | |
| William A. Ringler, Jr., Bibliography and index of English verse in manuscript 1501-1558, London: Mansell, 1992, pp. 45-6 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 116 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9942 |
| Summary of contents | Roger Bacon, Commentary on Ps.-Aristotle, Secretum secretorum. Ps.-Aristotle, Secretum secretorum. Simon of Faversham, Commentaries on Aristotle. |
| Language | Latin |
| Date | 13th century, end |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 82 |
| Quarto image | Cols. 493-494 |
| Bibliography | |
| 1994 | |
| Bibliographie annuelle du moyen-Âge tardif: auteurs et textes latins, ed. Jean-Pierre Rothschild, Tome IV [covering 1993-4], [Paris]: Brepols 1994, no. 3496 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R.Pal.19.50/4 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 165 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9991 |
| Summary of contents | Register of William Molash, Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, from 1427, including the Registrum angliae de libris doctorum et auctorum ueterum. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English, Canterbury Christ Church |
| Date | 15th century |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 85 |
| Quarto image | Col. 621 |
| Bibliography | |
| 1996 | |
| Helmut Gneuss, 'Englands Bibliotheken im Mittelalter und ihr Untergang' [first published 1964], reprinted in his Books and libraries in early England (Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS558), Aldershot, etc.: Variorum, 1996, article no. I, p. 105 | |
| 1995 | |
| S. E. Kelly, ed., Charters of St Augustine's Abbey Canterbury and Minster-in-Thanet (Anglo-Saxon Charters, 4), Oxford, etc.: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 1995, pp. lix, cxxix, 9 | |
| 1994 | |
| Bibliographie annuelle du moyen-Âge tardif: auteurs et textes latins, ed. Jean-Pierre Rothschild, Tome IV [covering 1993-4], [Paris]: Brepols 1994, no. 3059 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R.Pal.19.50/4 | |
| David N. Bell, An index of Cistercian authors and works in medieval library catalogues in Great Britain (Cistercian Studies Series, 132), Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 1994, pp. 7, 15 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R | |
| 1993 | |
|
Ivan Hlaváček, 'Miscellanea codicologica Bohemica Oxoniensia medii aevi', Studie o Rukopisech, 30 (1993-4), pp. 3-22, at pp. 14-15 SCWMSS archive: = REFS. CI.18 |
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| 1992 | |
| Teresa Webber, Scribes and scholars at Salisbury Cathedral c. 1075 - c. 1125, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, pp. 60 n., 61 n. | |
| 1991 | |
| L. D. Reynolds & N. G. Wilson, Scribes & scholars: a guide to the transmission of Greek & Latin literature, 3rd edn., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991, p. 269 | |
| 1987 | |
| Mary A. Rouse & Richard H. Rouse, 'The Franciscans and books: Lollard accusations and the Franciscan response' [first printed 1987], reprinted in their collected articles, Authentic Witnesses: approaches to medieval texts and manuscripts (Publications in medieval studies [The Medieval Institute, The University of Notre Dame], 17) [= reprinted articles], Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991, pp. 409-24, at p. 423 | |
| 1976 | |
| Mary A. Rouse & Richard H. Rouse, 'The development of research tools in the thirteenth century' [first published and republished, 1976-9], reprinted in their collected articles, Authentic Witnesses: approaches to medieval texts and manuscripts (Publications in medieval studies [The Medieval Institute, The University of Notre Dame], 17) [= reprinted articles], Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991, pp. 221-55, at p. 238 n. 42 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 166 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9992 |
| Summary of contents | History of Thornton Abbey, Lincolnshire. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 16th century, beginning |
| Material | paper |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 85 |
| Quarto image | Col. 621 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 169* |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9995 |
| Composite | pp. 3-174 || pp. 1-2, 177-178 || pp. 175-176 |
| Summary of contents | Psalter and masses, with calendar. || Hymns to the Holy Cross and to St. Oswald, with musical notes. || Part of an alliterative poem, beg. 'Stod ho ...'. |
| Language | Latin || Latin || English |
| Origin | English, Chester |
| Date | 12th century, end (c. 1192-1193) || 13th century, end || 13th century |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Fine miniature (drawing), fine and good initials. Cycle, pp. 15-16, from 1188-1263, and marks in calendar for 1192-1193. (P&A iii. 225, pl. XXII) || - || - | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 86 |
| Manuscript image | fol. p. 17 Psalm 1. Beatus initial with finely drawn leaves and buds against a blue ground. |
| Manuscript image | fol. p. 149 Text of Canon of the mass, with miniature of the Crucifixion in column I. Many decorated initials of different sizes in light red, blue and green. |
| Bibliography | |
| 1998 | |
| Arno Borst, Die karolingische Kalenderreform (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Schriften, Band 46), Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1998, Siglum 'g 13': pp. XXVI, 149, 508 | |
| 1996 | |
| Andrew Hughes, Late medieval liturgical offices. Resources for electronic research: sources and chants (Subsidia Mediaevalia 24), Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1996, p. 121 (List of Sources only) Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R | |
| 1993 | |
| Margaret Laing, Catalogue of sources for a linguistic atlas of early medieval English, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993, p. 142 | |
| 1991 | |
| Margaret Laing, 'Anchor texts and literary manuscripts in Early Middle English', in Regionalism in late medieval manuscripts and texts: Essays celebrating the publication of A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English, ed. Felicity Riddy (= York Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series, 2 [Proceedings of the 1989 Conference]), Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991, pp. 27-52, at p. 49 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 170 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 9996 |
| Summary of contents | Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon. Etc. |
| Language | Latin |
| Date | 14th century, end |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 86 |
| Quarto image | Col. 622 |
| Manuscript image | fol. 15v Mappa mundi of mandorla shape. Peculiar to Ranulf Higden, it presents the World (the oikumene) as an allegory of Christ in majesty. |
| Bibliography | |
| 1995 | |
| A. S. G. Edwards, 'Geography and illustration and Higden's Polychronicon', in Art into life: Collected Papers from the Kresge Art Museum Medieval Symposia (eds. C. G. Fisher & K. L. Scott), East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1995, pp. 95-113, at pp. 109-110 n. 33; 110-111 n. 41 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 184 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10010 |
| Summary of contents | Apocalypse with commentary. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English, Westminster (?) |
| Date | c. 1250-1255 |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Fine miniatures (tinted drawings). By two hands, pp. 1-18 and 19 to the end. (P&A iii. 463, pl. XLII) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 86 |
| Quarto image | Col. 628 |
| Manuscript image | fol. p. 10 Rev. VI, 5. The opening of the Third Seal. The Calf, another of the four Beasts, holds a scroll. "Lo, a black horse. And he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand." |
| Bibliography | |
| 1995 | |
| Suzanne Lewis, Reading images: narrative discourse and reception in the thirteenth-century illuminated Apocalypse, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, p. 343 | |
| Rosemary Muir Wright, Art and Antichrist in medieval Europe, Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 1995, pp. 132, 139 | |
| 1990 | |
| Nigel Morgan, ed., The Lambeth Apocalypse: Manuscript 209 in Lambeth Palace Library. A Critical Study (Commentary Text Volume to the Facsimile Edition), London: Harvey Miller, 1990, pp. 22 n. 26, 30, 31, 40, 87, 88, 93 n. 13, 113 n. 22, 114, 116 n. 32; App. III p. 271; Figs. 8, 21 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 187 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10013 |
| Summary of contents | Gospel of St. Matthew with gloss. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | French (?) |
| Date | c. 1200 |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Good initial, unfinished. (P&A i. 504) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 87 |
| Quarto image | Col. 629 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 188 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10014 |
| Summary of contents | Brut chronicle to 1387-1388. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 15th century |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 87 |
| Quarto image | Col. 629 |
| Bibliography | |
| 1998 | |
| Lister M. Matheson, The Prose Brut: the development of a Middle English Chronicle (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 180), Tempe, AZ, 1998, pp. xxvii, 72, 177, 183-4, 187, 239, 254 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 189 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10015 |
| Summary of contents | Henry Bracton (attrib.), De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 13th century, end |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 87 |
| Quarto image | Col. 629 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 190 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10016 |
| Summary of contents | Marino Sanudo, Secreta fidelium Crucis. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | Italian, Venice |
| Date | c. 1321-1324 |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Fine miniatures, maps, historiated borders and initials. (P&A ii. 118, pl. XI) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 87 |
| Quarto image | Col. 630 |
| Manuscript image | fol. 4r Angel supports red initial S(anctissimo) on ultramarine ground, inside a gold rectangle. Initial has seated bishop receiving three books from a kneeling author. Gold bar border decorated with ultramarine acanthus leaves wrapped around a pink stem. |
| Bibliography | |
| 1979 | |
| Cited in Studi Medievali, 3rd Series, vol. XX, 1(1979), 3 & n. [Reference taken from Studi Medievali, 3rd Ser., Indici, Anni I-XX: 1960-1979 (ed. G. Zanella), Spoleto: Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo, 1981, pp. 272-6] [fol. 207r] Bodleian shelfmark: = Per. 3962 d. 224 | |
| 1964 | |
| Cited in Studi Medievali, 3rd Series, vol. V, 1 (1964), p. 393 [Reference taken from Studi Medievali, 3rd Ser., Indici, Anni I-XX: 1960-1979 (ed. G. Zanella), Spoleto: Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo, 1981, pp. 272-6] Bodleian shelfmark: = Per. 3962 d. 224 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 192 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10018 |
| Summary of contents | Astronomical and arithmetical treatises and tables. Calendar. Added note in Portuguese, 15th century. |
| Language | Latin and Portuguese |
| Origin | French |
| Date | 14th century, second half |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Good diagrams, initial. (P&A i. 629) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 87 |
| Quarto image | Col. 630 |
| Quarto image | Cols. 631-632 |
| Manuscript image | fol. 109r Prophatius astrolabe-quadrant. |
| Bibliography | |
| 1998 | |
| Sigrid Krämer, Bibliographie Bernhard Bischoff und Verzeichnis aller von ihm herangezogenen Handschriften (Fuldaer Hochschulschriften, 27), Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Josef Knecht, 1998, No. 142, 71 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 194 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10020 |
| Summary of contents | Accounts of Prior Robert Wymondham of Hickling Priory, Norfolk, acting as cellarer, 1509-1522, with some later Hickling materials. |
| Language | Latin and English |
| Date | 16th century |
| Material | paper |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 87 |
| Quarto image | Col. 632 |
| Quarto image | Col. 633 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 195 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10021 |
| Summary of contents | Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae (imperfect at the beginning). Ralph de Diceto, De adventu Saxonum (imperfect at the end). Chronicle of the kings of England to Edward I, in French (imperfect at the end). |
| Language | Latin and French |
| Date | 14th century, beginning |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 87 |
| Quarto image | Col. 633 |
| Bibliography | |
| 1999 | |
| Ruth J. Dean (with Maureen B. M. Boulton), Anglo-Norman literature: a guide to texts and manuscripts (Anglo-Norman Text Society, Occasional Publications Series, No. 3), London 1999, no. 13 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 196 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10022 |
| Summary of contents | Formulary of Launceston Priory, Cornwall. Church documents, including material on the Augustinian Order. Theological treatises, including John Mirk, Instructions for Parish Priests, in Middle English verse. |
| Language | Latin and English |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 15th century |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 87 |
| Quarto image | Cols. 633-634 |
| Quarto image | Cols. 635-636 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 197 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10023 |
| Summary of contents | Record of wardrobe expenses of Edward II at Berwick-upon-Tweed, compiled by Johannes de Okham. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 1311 |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 87 |
| Quarto image | Col. 636 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 198 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10024 |
| Summary of contents | Carmen de natura breuium et de prerogatiua regis. Dedicated to John Stafford, bishop of Bath (1424-1443). 'Calendare statutorum', in French. Chapters of Magna Carta etc. |
| Language | Latin and French |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 15th century, middle (c. 1440-1450) |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Fine border (damaged), fine and good initials on fols. 1-16. (P&A iii. 973) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 87 |
| Quarto image | Col. 636 |
| Bibliography | |
| 1996 | |
| J. H. Baker, A catalogue of English legal manuscripts in Cambridge University Library, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1996, pp. 63, 219, 239 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Cat. | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 201 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10027 |
| Summary of contents | Theological treatise, beg. 'O man beholde ...'. Memoriale credencium. |
| Language | English |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 15th century, second half |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Good initial. (P&A iii. 1164) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 87 |
| Quarto image | Col. 637 |
| Bibliography | |
| 1995 | |
| Michael P. Kuczynski, Prophetic song: the Psalms as moral discourse in late medieval England (University of Pennsylvania Press, Middle Ages Series), Philadelphia 1995, pp. 113, 274 | |
| 1993 | |
| Richard Newhauser, The treatises on vices and virtues in Latin and the vernacular (Typologie des Sources du Moyen Age Occidental, fasc. 68, A-VI.C*), Turnhout: Brepols, 1993, pp. 39, 171 | |
| 1989 | |
| Martha Powell Harley, 'A reconsideration of the Middle English verses in Bodleian Library MS. Tanner 201', Bodleian Library Record 13:3 (1989), pp. 195-201 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 210 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10036 |
| Summary of contents | Richard Nykke, bishop of Norwich, Liber uisitationis ordinariae monasteriorum ac prioratuum religiosorum (1514). |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 16th century, beginning |
| Material | paper |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 87 |
| Quarto image | Col. 639 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 221 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10047 |
| Summary of contents | Collection of letters patent, ordinances, charters, deeds and accounts of the guild of Jesus in the Crowds, in St. Paul's church, London, 1459-1536 and n.d. |
| Language | Latin and English |
| Origin | English, London |
| Date | 15th century and 16th century, first half |
| Material | parchment, paper |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 87 |
| Quarto image | Cols. 643-644 |
| Bibliography | |
| 1996 | |
| Anne F. Sutton & Livia Visser-Fuchs, 'The cult of angels in late fifteenth-century England: an Hours of the Guardian Angel presented to Queen Elizabeth Woodville', in Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence (eds. Lesley Smith & Jane H. M. Taylor), London, Toronto & Buffalo, 1996, pp. 230-265, at p. 258 | |
| 1990 | |
| J. B. Trapp, 'John Colet, his manuscripts and the Pseudo-Dionysius' [first published 1976], reprinted in his collected Essays on the Renaissance and the classical tradition (= Variorum Collected Studies Series 323), Aldershot: Variorum, 1990, Article XI, at p. 212 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 223 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10049 |
| Summary of contents | Cartulary of the See of Canterbury, comprising a register of royal, papal, and some other charters. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 16th century |
| Material | paper |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 87 |
| Quarto image | Col. 644 |
| Bibliography | |
| 1998 | |
| David Bates, ed., Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum: the Acta of William I(1066-1087), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, nos. 70, 71, 73, 75, 76, 79, 128 | |
| 1995 | |
| Nigel Ramsay, 'The Cathedral Archives and Library', in A History of Canterbury Cathedral, eds. Patrick Collinson, Nigel Ramsay, and Margaret Sparks, Oxford, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 341-407, at p. 371 | |
| 1991 | |
| English Episcopal Acta, II, Canterbury 1162-1190, eds. C. R. Cheney & B. E. A. Jones, and III, Canterbury 1193-1205, eds. C. R. Cheney & E. John, corrected paperback edition, Oxford, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1991, vol. II, nos. 66, 75, 183, 295, 300; vol. III, nos. 387, 389 | |
| 1990 | |
| David A. E. Pelteret, Catalogue of English post-Conquest vernacular documents, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1990, nos. 46, 50, 54 | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 224 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10050 |
| Summary of contents | Records of the payments of rent in Hickling Netherhall, Sutton, Stalham, Palling and other villages in Norfolk, 1519-1533. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 16th century |
| Material | paper |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 87 |
| Quarto image | Col. 644 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 242 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10068 |
| Summary of contents | Valor beneficiorum omnium ecclesiasticorum in Anglia (damaged). |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 16th century |
| Material | paper |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 88 |
| Quarto image | Col. 650 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 256 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10082 |
| Summary of contents | Valor collegiorum, ecclesiarum cathedralium, et hospitalium in Anglia. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 16th century |
| Material | paper |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 88 |
| Quarto image | Col. 652 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 263 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10089 |
| Summary of contents | List of church property in Norfolk. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 15th century |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 88 |
| Quarto image | Col. 653 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 334 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10161 |
| Summary of contents | Missal. Use of Rome. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | French (?) |
| Date | 14th century, beginning |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Fleuronnée initials. (P&A i, list p. 72) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 90 |
| Quarto image | Col. 733 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 335 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10162 |
| Summary of contents | Raymund de Penafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 13th century, third quarter |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Fine initials. (P&A iii. 464) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 90 |
| Quarto image | Col. 733 |
| Manuscript image | fol. 143r Initial 'Q' with elegant pale dragon interlaced with leaf-scrolls on blue ground in the bowl of the letter. |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 336 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10163 |
| Summary of contents | Collection of treatises, mostly ascribed to John Wycliffe. |
| Language | English |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 15th century, beginning |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 90 |
| Quarto image | Cols. 733-734 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 337 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10164 |
| Summary of contents | Theological treatises. Texts on English church law. Etc. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 15th century |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 90 |
| Quarto image | Col. 734 |
| Quarto image | Col. 735 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 346 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10173 |
| Summary of contents | Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, John Lydgate, and others, various poems. |
| Language | English |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 15th century, middle |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Good border, initial. (P&A iii. 1039) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 90 |
| Quarto image | Cols. 749-750 |
| Manuscript image | fol. 71r Text page with light blue red-flourished initial. |
| Manuscript image | fol. 73r Text page with light blue red-flourished initial. |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 347 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10174 |
| Summary of contents | John Lydgate, Life of St. Edmund. |
| Language | English |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 15th century |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 90 |
| Quarto image | Col. 750 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 348 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10175 |
| Summary of contents | Bede, Historia ecclesiastica. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 15th century, middle |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Initial. (P&A iii. 1040) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 90 |
| Quarto image | Col. 750 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 388 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10215 |
| Summary of contents | John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury, Statues of the collegiate church of South Malling, Sussex, 1453, with the revision of Archbishop Warham, 1515. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 16th century |
| Material | paper |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 91 |
| Quarto image | Col. 758 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 398 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10225 |
| Summary of contents | The seven points of true love and everlasting wisdom, a reduced version of Henricus Suso's Horologium sapientiae. |
| Language | English and Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 15th century |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 91 |
| Quarto image | Cols. 761-762 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 400 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10227 |
| Summary of contents | Register of writs. |
| Language | English |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 13th century and 14th century, beginning |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 91 |
| Quarto image | Col. 762 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 405 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10232 |
| Summary of contents | John Mandeville, Travels. |
| Language | English |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 15th century |
| Material | parchment, paper |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 91 |
| Quarto image | Col. 763 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 407 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10234 |
| Summary of contents | Commonplace book of Robert Reynys of Accle, Norfolk, including poems in Middle English. |
| Language | English and Latin |
| Origin | English, Norfolk |
| Date | 16th century |
| Material | paper |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 91 |
| Quarto image | Col. 764 |
| Quarto image | Col. 765 |
| Bibliography | |
| 2001 | |
| John Withrington, 'The Arthurian epitaph in Malory's Morte Darthur' [first published 1987], reprinted in Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian tradition, ed. James P. Carley (Arthurian Studies, 45), Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001, pp. 211-47, at pp. 213, 214 | |
| Middle English poetry: texts and traditions. Essays in honour of Derek Pearsall, ed. A. J. Minnis (York Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series, 5), York & Woodbridge, etc.: York Medieval Press, 2001, p. 283 | |
| 1995 | |
| John B. Friedman, 'Harry the Haywarde and Talbat his Dog: an illustrated girdlebook from Worcestershire', in Art into Life: Collected Papers from the Kresge Art Museum Medieval Symposia, eds. C. G. Fisher & K. L. Scott, East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1995, pp. 115-153, at pp. 139, 141-2 [fol. 52r] | |
| 1994 | |
| The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist X: Manuscripts in Scandinavian Collections, by Irma Taavitsainen, Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994, pp. 18 (fol. 12v), 21 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R | |
| 1992 | |
| Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge (general ed. R. Latham), vol. V, Manuscripts, Part i: Medieval (compiled by Rosamond McKitterick & R. Beadle), Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992, pp. 12, 47 | |
| William A. Ringler, Jr., Bibliography and index of English verse in manuscript 1501-1558, London: Mansell, 1992, pp. xvii, 46 | |
| 1991 | |
| Lynne S. Blanchfield, 'The romances in MS Ashmole 61: an idiosyncratic scribe', in Romance in Medieval England, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991, at p. 85 | |
| Richard Beadle, 'Prolegomena to a literary geography of later medieval Norfolk', in Regionalism in late medieval manuscripts and texts: Essays celebrating the publication of A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English, ed. Felicity Riddy (= York Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series, 2 [Proceedings of the 1989 Conference]), Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991, pp. 89-108, at p. 108 | |
| 1990 | |
| Derek Pearsall, ed., Studies in the Vernon Manuscript, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990, p. 116 | |
| Peter Whiteford, ed., The Myracles of Oure Lady ... from Wynkyn de Worde's edition (Middle English Texts, 23), Heidelberg 1990, pp. 98-9, 131 (Cat. 40) | |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 408 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10235 |
| Summary of contents | Speculum humanae saluationis. Verse summary of Peter Lombard's Sentences, bks. i-ii and part of iii. |
| Language | Latin |
| Date | 14th century, end |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 91 |
| Quarto image | Cols. 765-766 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 419 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10246 |
| Summary of contents | Francis I of France, works. |
| Language | French |
| Origin | French |
| Date | 16th century, middle |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Fine initials. (P&A i. 855, pl. LXII) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 91 |
| Quarto image | Col. 768 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 425 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10252 |
| Summary of contents | Cartulary of Hickling Priory, Norfolk. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English, Norfolk |
| Date | 13th century, middle, and 13th century, second half |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 92 |
| Quarto image | Col. 768 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 439 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10266 |
| Summary of contents | De proprietatibus partium hominis (imperfect at the begining and end). De herbarum virtutibus (imperfect at the begining and end). |
| Language | Latin |
| Date | 14th century |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 92 |
| Quarto image | Col. 770 |
| Quarto image | Col. 771 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 440 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10267 |
| Summary of contents | Monk of Evesham, History of the Life and Reign of Richard II (imperfect at beginning and end). |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 15th century |
| Material | parchment |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 92 |
| Quarto image | Col. 771 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 450 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 10277 |
| Summary of contents | Statutes of England. Register of writs. |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English |
| Date | 14th century, middle |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Good border, initials. (P&A iii. 644) | |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 3, p. 92 |
| Quarto image | Col. 774 |
| Quarto image | Col. 775 |
| Shelfmark | MS. Tanner 471 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | 30692 |
| Summary of contents | Justinian, Codex Repetitae Praelectionis, with commentary (two fragments). |
| Language | Latin |
| Date | 13th century, second half |
| Material | parchment |
| Provenance | Removed from the binding of [pr.] Tanner 106 in 1882, and kept amongst 'Palaeographical Specimens' until 1895 (see SC 30479). |
| Images | |
| Catalogue image | Vol. 5, p. 871 |
| Quarto image | Cols. 793-794 |