• Norfolk (county name)

name) County Northamptonshire Transcript Norfolk Icon description Icons Description Appearances red ink, within a cartouche Etymology OE norþ-folc (in OldEnglish Bede used to denote the people living north of the Humber) Translation Earlier editors Early Maps Overwritten no Attested

• Cheltenham

1935 (Parsons) Early Maps Overwritten no Attested spelling Chelteham 1156 RBE, 1218 ClR, 1248 Ass; OldEnglish form varies between Celtan- and Ciltan-; in Middle English Chilt- is the predominant form, but Chelt- reasserts itself from the middle of the

• Gloucester

gates, stripy roofs Icons gates (multiple) castle church Description Appearances Etymology Romano-British Glevum (probably Celtic glavio-, 'bright'), adopted into OldEnglish as Gleawe + ceaster, 'Roman settlement' Translation Earlier editors gloucestre (Parsons) Early Maps glocit(er) (Angliae Figura); Gloucestre (Totius Britanniae;

• Rochester

gates, stripy roofs Icons decorated roofs castle church with cross building gates (multiple) Description Appearances flaking ink Etymology Hrofi, OldEnglish form of Romano-British place-name Dorubrevi + OE ceaster, 'Roman settlement' Translation Earlier editors Rowchestr; a bridge is shown over

• Tenby

Full Record: Tenby County Pembrokeshire Transcript tynbey Icon description two castles, walls with one gate Icons gate castles (multiple) Description Appearances faded Etymology W din, 'fort' + bych, 'small' Translation Earlier editors Tynbeyr (Gough) Early Maps ty(n)by (Angliae Figura);

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

nine MSS of the South English Nativity of Mary and Christ (part of the South English Legendary) contain closely related texts. Edition: O. S. Pickering, The South English Nativity of Mary and Christ, Middle English Texts 1 (Heidelberg: Winter, 1975).

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Edition: M. Wattie, The Middle English Lai le Freine', Smith College Studies in Modern Languages, vol. 10, no. 3 (Northampton, Mass.: Smithe College, 1928). (Critical edition). Other editions: A. Laskaya and E. Salisbury, The Middle English Breton Lays (Michigan: Medieval

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

1966). Other editions: A. Laskaya and E. Salisbury, The Middle English Breton Lays (Michigan: Medieval Publications for TEAMS, 1995). (Includes an electronic version of the text). D. B. Sands, Middle English Verse Romances (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1986). B. Ford,

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

S. J. H. Herrtage, The Early English Versions of the Gesta Romanorum, EETS ES 33 (London: Trübner, 1879; reprinted 1962): 498-499. R. P. Wülcker, Altenglisches Lesebuch (Halle: Niemeyer, 1874-80). A. J. Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation, Chaucer Society, Second Series,

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

591 lines, not including Latin speech-labels or the English title. Ends perfect but with loss of line ends on f.35ra. Six other manuscripts of variant versions: BL Additional MS 22283 (Simeon). W. Midland. 1380-1400. Simeon also has The King of

• Benefice of OLD SODBURY (WO.GL.HW.16)

Preter hec portio vicarii Benefice of OLD SODBURY (WO.GL.HW.16) MAGNA SOBBUR' Lichfield Dean and Chapter Library, MS 23 p.54 MAGNA SUBBURY T 239-40 (from PRO E179/58/3, one membrane, now almost completely illegible, apparently damaged by water, and use of the

• Benefice of SHERFIELD ENGLISH (WN.WN.SO.04)

Scirefeld' Benefice of SHERFIELD ENGLISH (WN.WN.SO.04) SCHIRFELD Lichfield Dean and Chapter Library, MS 23 p.25v SCIREFELD Lincolnshire Archives Office, Lincoln Dean and Chapter Muniments, A1/11 p.143 SCHIREFELD Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliae et Walliae Auctoritate Papae Nicholai IV, ed. T.Astle & S.Ayscough

• Benefice of WENDEN PARVA (LO.CO.NE.12)

TEX, TLIB1&2, TCI) £ 0. 6s. 8d. WENDEN PARVA TL509365 1 ded: UNKNOWN J.J.Mackay, Wendens Ambo: the History of an English Village (Saffron Walden, 1982) p.14-15 (pension) LONDON ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, SECULAR COLLEGE, CHAPTER £ 0. 6s. 8d. (inst.) rec.

• Benefice of STOW (NEAR THREEKINGHAM) (LI.LK.AV.11)

Library, Cotton Tiberius C x p.121v £ 16. 13s. 4d. STOW (NEAR THREEKINGHAM) TF098350 1 ded: ST AETHELTHRYTH, recorded 1148x1166. English Episcopal Acta, vol. i (Lincoln 1067-1185), ed. D.M.Smith (Oxford, 1980) p.203 (vicarage) PRO, E179/68/8 (minute benefices for archdeaconries of

• Benefice of WOKING (WN.SU.GU.37)

Records (Hampshire Record Office), HRO A1/12 (Reg. Beaufort), fos 1v-8v (Winchester) p.8 WOKKINGG' PRO, C270/16 p.51 £ 41. 7s. 4d. OLD WOKING TQ020568 ded: ST PETER The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Surrey, ed. H.E.Malden, 4 vols &

• Coloured initial 'Q'(uid) at the beginning of Psalm 51., Psalter, in the Roman version, with Old English gloss, and 12 canticles

in OldEnglish, beginning 'Myn drihten god aelmihtig' (ff. 190v-192) and 'Min drihten aelmihtig god si þe wuldor 7 þonc', 11th century (192-196v).Added note on three Friday fasts in OldEnglish, 11th century (f. 196v). Added an OldEnglish translation

• Coloured initial 'B'(eatus) with display script, at the beginning of Psalm 1, with the pressmark of Christ Church, Canterbury 'r', and ownership inscriptions of Thomas Cranmer and Lord Lumley., Psalter, in the Roman version, with Old English gloss, and 12 canticles

in OldEnglish, beginning 'Myn drihten god aelmihtig' (ff. 190v-192) and 'Min drihten aelmihtig god si þe wuldor 7 þonc', 11th century (192-196v).Added note on three Friday fasts in OldEnglish, 11th century (f. 196v). Added an OldEnglish translation

• Miniature of the Lamb with the Manus Dei, the Evangelists' symbols, and 24 Elders, at the beginning of Revelation 5:6., Apocalypse (Revelation)

pen-flourishing. Apocalypse (Revelation) The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 14.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. The vision

• Miniature of the Lamb receiving a book with the seven seals from Christ enthroned with the Evangelists' symbols and 24 Elders, at the beginning of Revelation 5:7., Apocalypse (Revelation)

pen-flourishing. Apocalypse (Revelation) The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 14.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. The vision

• Penwork initial., Bible (Genesis to Tobit) with Jerome's letter to Paulinus, Preface and Prologues

on the same folio the English 'blere eyed' is written in the margin as a gloss to the following 'eiant blaimcheure es oels', ~having blemished eyes~ (f.80).the French for ‘thorns’ is omitted and the English 'stake' is written in the

• MS Scotland Medieval Ms. 3859 National Library of Scotland 118 images.

Scotland Medieval Manuscript Number Ms. 3859 Source Library National Library of Scotland Description Savonarola. Writings of Savonarola, translated into English, in the hand of Alexander Falconar, Advocate, who added some comments in the margins, late seventeenth or early eighteenth century:

• fourteenth century MS Scotland Medieval Ms. 1902 National Library of Scotland 131 images.

fourteenth century. Except ff.118-121v, the manuscript is written in double columns. Some names of speakers in (iv) are added in English in a fourteenth-century hand, and references to scripture in the margins of (v) in a hand probably of the