• London, British Library MS Additional 24194 / Polychronicon

(Waldron) Title: Polychronicon Author: Trevisa Contents: Trevisa's translation of Higden's Polychronicon. Language: English and Latin Date Range: 1400-1425 Scribal Hands: Delta Material: Parchment No of Folios: Newer paper flyleaves + 263 folios Pagination: Modern foliation in pencil with arabic numbering

• USA, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections MS Taylor 6 / Polychronicon

Taylor 6 MS Appellation: T (Waldron) Title: Polychronicon Author: Trevisa Contents: Polychronicon (version A 1450-1475) Waldron Language: English Date Range: 1450-1475 Scribal Hands: Upright hooked g Scribe Material: Parchment No of Folios: 1 marbled, 1 paper flyleaves + 1 original

• England, Manchester, Chetham's Library MS 6696 (Mun. A.7.48) / Confessio Amantis

Title: Confessio Amantis Author: Gower Contents: Confessio Amantis (A version) ff2-126 Language: English and Latin Date Range: 1625-1650; 16th century script; purchased for the library in 1666. Scribal Hands: Notehurst-Nuthurst Dialect: Cf. LP 411; County: Lancs Material: Paper No of

• England, London, British Library MS Stowe 65 / Higden's Polychronicon

Defensio Curatorum (trans. Richard FitzRalph's sermon) IPMEP 1; ff217ra-218rb Dialogus inter Dominum & Clericum ; ff218rb-221vb Index to Polychronicon Language: English Date Range: 1400-1420 (Waldron) Scribal Hands: Unknown Material: Parchment No of Folios: 2 new paper flyleaves + 1 parchment

• USA, San Marino, CA, Henry E. Huntington Library MS HM 28561 / Trevisa, trans of Polychronicon

(version A); Of the Begynnyng of the World and the Rewmes Bitwixe; Dialogus inter Clericum et Militem; Defensio Curatorum. Language: English Date Range: 1450-1475. Dutschke says 'towards the middle and end of the fifteenth century' (2.686). Scribal Hands: Hand 1

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Library Dd.1.17 / Piers Plowman, B version

Langland Contents: See Luard 1.15-26, most of volume in the main hand is chronicles in Latin but four English texts described Luard pp. 24-25, i.e. items 18-21, which are: Piers Plowman, B-text, How men that ben in Hele sholde visite

• USA, New Haven, CT, Beinecke Library MS 493 (olim Phillipps 8267, olim Bodmer) / Hoccleve's Series

moralization on the Tale of Jonathas, 51-51v; Lydgate's Dance of Macabre, ff. 51v-60v; Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes ff. 61-133v Language: English Date Range: Shailor cites M. B. Parkes as dating third quarter of 15th century. Material: Combination: paper with parchment

• USA, Chicago, IL, Newberry Library MS f.33.7 / Regiment of Princes

Title: Regiment of Princes Author: Hoccleve Contents: Regiment of Princes Language: English Date Range: 1440-1465 Scribal Hands: Unknown Material: Combination: outer bifolium of each quire is parchment; paper tete de boeuf, Briquet 14938 No of Folios: 3 new paper +

• London, Lincoln's Inn Library MS Hale 150 / Piers Plowman, A Version

fragment, ff109-125v; at end of volume of ME romances, Libeaus Desconus, [Arthur and] Merlin, Alysaunder, Bellum Trojanum/Batayle of Troye Language: English and Latin Date Range: Script of late 14th ' early 15th cc. Scribal Hands: Unknown Dialect: LP : 4037;

• London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B.XVI / Piers Plowman, C version

in English relating to measurements of a parcel of land written on f5v in 16th century; fragment of prose Latin treatise on f95v, beginning in mid-sentence as if preceding leaves might have been washed to complete Piers(?). Language: English and

• London, Institution of Engineering and Technology Library, MS Thompson 1 / Astrolabe

Treatise on the Astrolabe, ff17v-30r; other contents: Petrus Peregrinus, Tractatus magnetis (ff1-6), Tractatus arsmetrie (ff6r-12v), Tractatus veteris quadrantis (ff12v-17). Language: English Scribal Hands: Unknown Dialect: Seymour dates 1450-1475. Material: Parchment No of Folios: 31 Quiring: 8s except last which is

• Holkham, Norfolk, Holkham Hall, Collection of the Earl of Leicester MS 667 / Canterbury Tales

MS Appellation: Hk (Manly and Rickert) Title: Canterbury Tales Author: Chaucer Contents: Canterbury Tales Language: English Date Range: 1430-1450 Scribal Hands: Unknown Dialect: Essex/Suffolk Material: Parchment No of Folios: 86 Quiring: 1(1 missing i-vii), 2(8), 3(6), 4-9(8), 10(7 v missing),

• England, Manchester, Chetham's Library MS 6709 (Mun. A.4.104) / Religious compendium

Life of Our Lady; Second Nun's Tale; Prioress's Prologue and Tale; Lydgate's Lives of Saints Margaret, George, Edmund, Fremund. Language: English Date Range: Dated variously between 1485-90 in hand of the scribe. Scribal Hands: William Cotson de Dunstaple canonicus Material:

• England, Clitheroe, Lancashire, Stonyhurst College Library MS B. XXIII / Miscellany of religious works.

The tale of Mellybe and Prudence (34r-45r); Abbey of the Holy Ghost; Four Feathers; The Quantitey of the Earth Language: English Date Range: 1450-1475 Scribal Hands: Unknown Material: Combination No of Folios: 1-68 Quiring: 1-7(8), 8(9) + 4 paper folios

• Wales, Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales MS 21972D / Canterbury Tales (fragment)

Rickert) Title: Canterbury Tales (fragment) Author: Chaucer Contents: Canterbury Tales: fragment of Nun's Priest's Link and Tale. Language: English Date Range: 1395-1415 Scribal Hands: Unknown Material: Parchment No of Folios: 3 folios only Page Size: Damaged folios with upper portion

• Scotland, Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Library MS 123 / Miscellany of which f10v-31 is the Astrolabe

Chaucer Contents: Moral tales in Latin; Latin theological notes; Astrolabe, 10v-30v part only; Seneca De Quattour virtutibus cardinalis Language: English Date Range: 1425-1450 Scribal Hands: Unknown Dialect: N. Midland. Parts of MS written in Cheshire ca.1400 Material: Combination No of

• USA, Austin, Texas, University of Texas at Austin, The Harry Ransom Center, pre-1700 MS 46 (Phillipps 6570, Ph1) / Two fragments of the Canterbury Tales

and Melibeus, with Shipman, Prioress and Thopas; second part contains the end of the Parson's Tale with the Retraction. Language: English Scribal Hands: Unknown Material: Paper No of Folios: 2 x 12 folios Pagination: Modern foliation numbering 1-12 in the

• USA, New York, NY, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Plimpton 254 / Astrolabe

A calendar on ff1-11 was a separate booklet; the Astrolabe begins on f12r; an astrological treatise begins on f24v. Language: English Date Range: 1425-1450 Scribal Hands: Unknown Material: Parchment No of Folios: 27 + i Pagination: Fairly recent foliation in

• USA, New York, NY, Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum MS M 817 / Troilus and Criseyde

817 MS Appellation: Campsall Title: Troilus and Criseyde Author: Chaucer Contents: Troilus and Criseyde Language: English Date Range: 1403-1413 Scribal Hands: Morgan M817 scribe Material: Parchment No of Folios: 1 (medieval guard leaf) + 2-120 Quiring: 18 - 148 157

• USA, Philadelphia, PA, Rosenbach Museum & Library MS 1084/1 / Canterbury Tales

(Manly and Rickert); olim Phillipps 8137 Title: Canterbury Tales Author: Chaucer Contents: Canterbury Tales Language: English Date Range: 1425-1450 Scribal Hands: Hand 1 Hand 2 Dialect: Scribe 2 : Herefords Material: Parchment No of Folios: i-vii (paper flyleaves) + 199