Description: Index of Middle English Prose Handlist IX : A Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Ashmole Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford, Paperback by Eldredge, L. M., ISBN 1843841436, ISBN-13 9781843841432, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US More than 700 manuscripts reflect Ashmole's life-long passions: heraldryand the sciences of his day: astrology, alchemy, geomancy, medicine;well over 100 contain items in Middle English. There are manuscriptsof great interest, such as the Ashmole Bestiary, but the importantitems in Middle English are no less noteworthy. Here we find the uniquecopy of an English translation of Bernard of Gordon's Lilium medicinae; a codex, Ashmole 59, entirely in the hand of John Shirley; a Wycliffite Bible and a copy of the Pore Caytif. Along with many anonymous pieces of popular astrology, there is an English translation of John Ashenden's Introductory, several copies of John of Burgundy's plague tract, and an elegant copy of Henry Daniel's Liber uricrisiae. There are also two copies of The Brut, and anthology manuscripts collecting vast arrays of herbal medicine, astrological techniques and alchemical . ELDREDGE was formerly Professor in the Department of Englishat the University of Ottawa.
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Book Title: Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist IX : Manuscripts in the Ashmole Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Topic: Bibliographies & Indexes, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 2007
Genre: Référence, Literary Collections
Item Length: 11 in
Author: L. M. Eldredge
Book Series: Index of Middle English Prose Ser.
Item Width: 8.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
