British literary manuscripts from the British Library, London. Series 3, the Medieval manuscripts to c. 1500.

Set includes material from the Sloane collection. Entries from the British Library's catalogs of manuscripts precede each reel. Prominent works include four texts of The Canterbury Tales (Sloane 1685, 1686; Add. MSS. 5140, 35286), The Legend of Good Women (Add. MS. 12044) and Troilus and Cresseid (Add. MS. 12044). There is also a rich cache of religious and devotional material. CRL owns Parts 1-2 of this Series.

Author: 
British Library. Dept. of Manuscripts
Publisher: 
Harvester
Temporal Coverage: 
-1500
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