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`The Index of Middle English Prose when completed will be a monumental achievement' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES Cambridge University Library is one of Britain's major repositories of medieval manuscripts. Its two-letter collection (Dd-Oo) includes just over 1,000 medieval western manuscripts, and amongst these may be found examples of everytype of Middle English prose composition. Religious works predominate: there are several copies of the Wycliffite Bible, various sermon cycles, and works by Love, Hilton and Rolle; there is also a vast number of unattributed religious works. Secular texts are represented by the works of Chaucer, Mandeville's Travels, and no fewer than eight copies of the Brut. The collection is also extremely rich in Middle English prose writing in the fields of science and information, preserving medical, gynaecological, veterinary, culinary, alchemical, mathematical, heraldic and linguistic texts. Altogether the current handlist covers 207 manuscripts, and indexes more than 1250 separate items. MARGARET CONNOLLY teaches in the School of English at the University of St Andrews.

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English language --- English literature --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Paleography, English --- English paleography --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Middle English manuscripts --- Germanic languages --- Dialects --- Criticism, Textual --- Dialectology --- Historical linguistics --- anno 1200-1499

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This volume is a vital research tool for anyone working with Middle English prose texts. It is designed to give immediate access to the indices now found separately in the first twenty descriptive manuscript catalogues published as The Index of Middle English Prose. This single new volume enables scholars to quickly find all surviving manuscript copies of a particular text. In addition to an index of first lines, the volume contains other finding aids in the form of an index of final lines and of acephalous and atelous texts. A general index covers subjects, rubrics and titles, and there is also a summary contents list for each of the twenty published catalogues.

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Handlist to the rich collection of manuscripts contained in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with full indices. The majority of the medieval manuscripts in Corpus Christi which contain Middle English prose came to the College as part of the bequest of Matthew Parker (1504-75), archbishop of Canterbury, who in 1568 had been given authority by the Privy Council to collect "auncient recordes and monumentes written" for "perusyng of the same". These manuscripts came from all over the south of England, having mainly originated in monastic libraries. Some were subsequently returned to their owners, but the majority appear to have remained with Parker and to have been considered his personal property, to dispose of as he wished. The majority went to Corpus Christi, where he had been Master from 1544-53. Of the 433 Parker manuscripts in the College, 48 are indexed in this Handlist. A further four manuscripts, derived from other sources, containing Middle English are also included. The texts range in length from jottings in the margin of the Bury Bible (MS 2) to a complete Wycliffite sermon cycle (MS 336). The great majority are religious texts; among those are the Ancrene Wisse, The Compendyous Treatise, Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, Richard Rolle's English Psalter, A Treatise of Goostely Batayle, Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection, Beniamyn minor and the Treatise on the Seven Points of True Love and Everlasting Wisdom. There are also a large collection of fourteenth-century medical recipes, Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe, Trevisa's translation of Higden's Polychronicon and William Worcester's Itineraries. Kari Anne Rand is Professor of Older English Language at the University of Oslo.

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Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Old English literature --- 091 =20 --- 091 <41 CAMBRIDGE> --- English prose literature --- -Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- -English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Middle English manuscripts --- English literature --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--CAMBRIDGE --- -Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- 091 <41 CAMBRIDGE> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--CAMBRIDGE --- 091 =20 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts --- Corpus Christi College (University of Cambridge). --- Cambridge.