Text | Title | Language | Start folio (ordinal) | End folio (ordinal) | Total pages |
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1 | ff. 3r-194v: Layamon’s Brut (Boffey, no. 295), the most complete surviving copy of this work, composed in alliterative verse by Layamon, a priest at Areley Kings in Worcestershire, at the beginning of the 13th century. A second copy, much abbreviated, is found in Cotton MS Otho C XIII | English | 3r (5) | 194v (388) | 384.0 |
2 | ff. 195r-216r: Chardri, La Vie de Seint Josaphaz (Dean, no. 532) | French | 195r (389) | 216r (431) | 42.5 |
3 | ff. 216r-229v: Chardri, Les Set Dormanz (Dean, no. 534) | French | 216r (431) | 229v (458) | 27.0 |
4 | ff. 229v-232v: Le Livere des reis de Brittanie (Dean, no. 13) | French | 229v (458) | 232v (464) | 6.5 |
5 | ff. 233r–246r: The Owl and the Nightingale , a satirical debate in verse, originally composed in southern England, probably Surrey or Dorset. This is one of two surviving copies of . The other is Oxford, Jesus College 29 (Boffey, no. 1384) | English | 233r (465) | 246r (491) | 26.5 |
6 | ff. 246r–v: Death’s wither-clench (Boffey, no. 2070) | English | 246r (491) | 246v (492) | 0.83 |
7 | f. 246v: An orison to Our Lady (Boffey, no. 2687); Will and Wit (Boffey, no. 4016) | English | 246v (492) | 246v (492) | 0.33 |
8 | ff. 246v–247r: Doomsday (Boffey, no. 3967) | English | 246v (492) | 247r (493) | 0.83 |
9 | ff. 247r–248v: The Last day (Boffey, no. 3517) | English | 247r (493) | 248v (496) | 2.83 |
10 | f. 248v: The Ten abuses (Boffey, no. 4051) | English | 248v (496) | 248v (496) | 0.33 |
11 | ff. 248v–249r: A Lutel soth sermun (Boffey, no. 1091) | English | 248v (496) | 249r (497) | 0.83 |
12 | ff. 249r-261v: Chardri, Le Petit Plet (Dean, no. 265) | French | 249r (497) | 261v (522) | 25.5 |
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