Details for manuscript 502

Manuscript №

502

Location

London

Collection

British Library

Reference

Harley 1005

Headnote

Register

Estimated date of production

s.xiii (2)

Folia

279

Place of production

Suffolk

Produced for

Bury St Edmunds

Notes

see catalogue for full contents (total foliation and languages uncertain); Dean dates this MS to s.xiii (med-2) ; once belonged to the monks of Bury St. Edmund who have entitled it "Librum Album" (copied in stages); French in "Les Reules Seynt Robert, by Robert Grosseteste (Dean no. 392) on ff.51v-54v, ff. 87v (?); 'Manere de laver' on ff. 88r (88r also contains Latin); vocabulary on f. 93r (including Latin); Soke or Franchise of the Eight Hundreds and a Half given to the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds by King Edward the Confessor on f. 189r-v; diagram of wind in Latin and English on f.94

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