• London, British Library MS Harley 2280 / Troilus and Criseyde

Troilus and Criseyde Author: Chaucer Contents: Troilus and Criseyde Language: English Date Range: 1400-1425 Scribal Hands: Unknown Dialect: Standardised; some Northern (poss. Lincs) features Material: Parchment No of Folios: 3 modern flyleaves + i + 98 + 1 (Victorian flyleaf?)

• London, British Library MS Harley 2392 / Troilus and Criseyde

Troilus and Criseyde Author: Chaucer Contents: Troilus and Criseyde Language: English Date Range: 1425-1450 Scribal Hands: Style? Material: Combination No of Folios: i paper flyleaf + i parchment flyleaf + 1-145 parchment and paper leaves + i parchment flyleaf +

• London, British Library MS Harley 3943 / Troilus and Criseyde

Troilus and Criseyde Author: Chaucer Contents: Troilus and Criseyde Language: English Date Range: 1400-1425 Scribal Hands: HM 114 Scribe Exeter College 129 Scribe Hand A Hand C Dialect: LP 6030; County: Essex Material: Parchment No of Folios: 116 Pagination: Modern

• London, British Library MS Harley 4912 / Troilus and Criseyde

Troilus and Criseyde Author: Chaucer Contents: Troilus and Criseyde Language: English Date Range: 1450-1475 Scribal Hands: Unknown Material: Parchment No of Folios: 2 modern flyleaves + 175 + i + 3 modern flyleaves Quiring: 1-3(8), 4(12), 5-9(8) Catchwords: Yes bottom

• London, British Library MS Harley 7335 / Canterbury Tales

(Manly and Rickert) Title: Canterbury Tales Author: Chaucer Contents: Canterbury Tales Language: English Date Range: 1450-1475 Scribal Hands: Harley 7335 Scribe Dialect: Chaucerian/W.Essex/W.Kent Material: Combination No of Folios: 1 heavy paper flyleaf + 2 newish paper flyleaves + 163 leaves

• London, British Library MS Sloane 1009 part 1 / Five booklets in part 1: booklet 3 contains Melibeus

number of items from the fifteenth century including the Tale of Melibeus. Part 2 is a seventeenth century collection. Language: English Date Range: 1475-1496 (Manly and Rickert I: 517). Scribal Hands: Unknown Dialect: S. Herefords Material: Paper No of Folios:

• London, British Library MS Sloane 1686 / Canterbury Tales

(Manly and Rickert) Title: Canterbury Tales Author: Chaucer Contents: Canterbury Tales Language: English Date Range: 1475-1500 Scribal Hands: Unknown Dialect: Norfolk Material: Paper No of Folios: 1-295 Pagination: Modern foliation. Quiring: 8's 1(6 i and viii missing), 2-27(8), 28(7 iii

• England, Lichfield, Lichfield Cathedral Library MS 29 / Canterbury Tales

Title: Canterbury Tales Author: Chaucer Contents: Canterbury Tales including Retraction treated as end of Parson's Tale. Language: English Date Range: 1425-1450 Scribal Hands: Petworth Scribe Lichfield Scribe Dialect: Scribe 1 : Chaucerian/Standardised; Scribe 2 : 'Petworth scribe' S.W.Worcs/Gloucs (Smith 1997)

• Cambridge, Pembroke College MS 307 / Confessio Amantis

Amantis (A version) ff. 1-197. Text ends on f197, added texts and names on 197v-200r. Language: English and Latin Date Range: 1400-1425 Scribal Hands: Petworth Scribe Dialect: LP No. N/A; County Gloucs/Worcs border Material: Parchment No of Folios: 2 newer

• London, British Library, MS Arundel 59 / Regiment of Princes, Secretum Secretorum

Author: Hoccleve and Lydgate Contents: Regiment of Princes ff1-89v; Two blank folios; Secreta Secretorum ff90-130v Language: English Date Range: 1450-1475 Scribal Hands: Hammond Scribe Material: Paper No of Folios: 2 newer paper folios, the first of which is marbled on

• London, British Library, MS Arundel 38 / Regiment of Princes

Princes Title: Regiment of Princes Author: Hoccleve Contents: De Regimine Principum (presentation copy) Language: English Date Range: 1400-1425; after 1413 when Henry V acceded to the throne. Scribal Hands: Unknown Material: Parchment No of Folios: 1 marbled paper + 2

• Scotland, Glasgow, Glasgow University Library MS Hunter 367 (V.1.4) / Polychronicon

Trevisa Contents: Trevisa, Dialogue of the Lord and the Clerk; Trevisa, translation of Higden's Polychronicon; (version A Waldron) Language: English Date Range: 1440-1465 (Waldron) Scribal Hands: Unknown Dialect: Material: Parchment No of Folios: 2 brand new blank parchment flyleaves +

• England, London, British Library MS Harley 1900 / Polychronicon; Trevisa's translation

a translation of Methodius, IPMEP 221); Trevisa's translation of Higden, Polychronicon; Index to Polychronicon 24-41v, text of Polychronicon 42-310. Language: English and Latin Date Range: 1400-1425 Scribal Hands: Unknown Material: Parchment No of Folios: 4 modern paper leaves of which

• Manchester, Chetham's Library MS 11379 (Mun. A.6.90) / Polychronicon

Title: Polychronicon Author: Trevisa's translation of Higden Contents: Trevisa's translation of Higden's Polychronicon Language: English Date Range: 1390-1415 Scribal Hands: Polychronicon Scribe Dialect: LP 7051; County: Gloucs Material: Parchment No of Folios: 2 new paper flyleaves + 178 + 2

• USA, Columbia, Missouri, University of Missouri, Fragmenta Manuscripta 150 / CUL Gg. 4.27 Scribe

Special Collections and Rare Books, University of Missouri at Columbia a Usage: 'as'; the scribe uses anglicana 'a' in the English portion of the text. Usage: 'nat'; Usage: 'fortuna'; single compartment secretary 'a' used in the Latin portion of the

• England, Longleat House, Marquess of Bath MS 257 / Composite of two parts

of two parts Author: Chaucer and Lydgate Contents: Part 1: Seige of Thebes; Knight's Tale; Clerk's Tale; Ipomedon Language: English Date Range: 1450-1475 Scribal Hands: Unknown Material: Parchment No of Folios: ii + 98 + 80 Pagination: Bradshaw refoliated the

• USA, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library MS Eng. 920 / Astrolabe

Contents: Chaucer, Treatise on the Astrolabe on ff3-37; Summa chiromantia, ff37v-60v, including drawings of hands on ff59v-60v. Language: English Date Range: 1475-1500 Scribal Hands: Unknown Unknown Material: Parchment No of Folios: 1 blank flyleaf + 2 blank leaves numbered 1-2

• USA, San Marino, CA, Henry E. Huntington Library MS HM 143 / Piers Plowman, C version; Troilus and Criseyde fragment on flyleaves.

flyleaves. Author: Chaucer and Langland Contents: Piers Plowman, C version; excerpt Troilus and Criseyde Book I, 71-140 and 421-490 Language: English and Latin Date Range: 1400-1425 Scribal Hands: Hand 2 Unknown Dialect: Dutschke, 1.197, 'Written at the end of the

• Europe, Cologny, Switzerland, Fondation Martin Bodmer MS 48 / Canterbury Tales

Phillips 8136, Ph2 (Manly and Rickert) Title: Canterbury Tales Author: Chaucer Contents: Canterbury Tales Language: English Date Range: 1450-1475 Scribal Hands: Unknown Dialect: Chaucerian Material: Paper No of Folios: 1-247 Pagination: Foliation not original, perhaps 16th-17th century. Quiring: 1(7 i

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Dd.4.24 / Canterbury Tales

(Manly and Rickert) Title: Canterbury Tales Author: Chaucer Contents: Canterbury Tales Language: English Date Range: 1390-1420 Scribal Hands: Wytton Dialect: Chaucerian/Cambs Material: Paper and parchment No of Folios: 7 modern paper + 1 modern parchment + 205 + 9 paper