Manuscript

Coventry, City Record Office, MS 325/1

Date of originMiddle or third quarter of the 15th century
Place of originLondon area
MaterialParchment
DimensionsWidth: 190mm | Height: 320mm
Notes

According to Doyle, the volume is probably a product of the London book trade. It is damp-damaged and many leaves are lost.

Contents

Folio Content item IMEV Details
1r-40r

Thomas Hoccleve's 'Regiment of Princes'

2229
40r-43r

Thomas Hoccleve's 'Complaint'

124
43v-49r

Thomas Hoccleve's 'Dialogue with a friend'

299
49r-57r

Thomas Hoccleve's 'Tale of the Emperor Gereslaus'

1561
57r-64v

Thomas Hoccleve's 'Learn to Die'

3121
64v-69v

Thomas Hoccleve's 'Tale of Jonathas'

3582
70r-74v

John Lydgate's 'Danse macabre'

2591
75r-76r

Geoffrey Chaucer's ABC

239
76r

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Lenvoy a Bukton'

2262
76v

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Complaint of Chaucer to his purse'

3787
76v

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Gentilnesse'

3348
76v-77r

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Lak of Stedfastnesse'

3190
77r-79r

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Balade de boun Counsail'

809
77v-95v

Mandeville's Travels

248.5
98r-129v Titus and Vespasian 1881
137r-167v

John Lydgate's 'The Siege of Thebes'

3928
167v-168

Moral poem

502.5

Later addition.