Vernon Manuscript | |
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Bodleian Library | |
![]() MS. Eng. poet. a. 1 (Vernon Manuscript) Folio 265r, showing blue
columbine flowers, a praying figure in a religious habit and the image of God the Father with Christ on the cross in the interlace that decorates the initial and frames | |
Date | c. 1400 |
Language(s) | Middle English |
The Vernon Manuscript (Bodleian Library MS. Eng. poet. a. 1) is a medieval English manuscript, written in the dialect spoken in the English West Midlands around 1400, [1] that is now in the Bodleian Library, to whom it was presented around 1677 by Colonel Edward Vernon. [1] It has been described as "the biggest and most important surviving late medieval English manuscript" [2] and "one of the Bodleian Library’s greatest treasures". [1]
The manuscript is lavishly illustrated and decorated, [2] and includes 370 poetry and prose texts on moral or religious subjects, [1] intended to be read by the pious. [2] It has over 700 pages and weighs 22 kilograms (49 lb). [3] The Bodleian Library estimates that the manuscript was compiled around the final decade of the fourteenth century. [1]
An online exhibition of the manuscript is curated by Professor Wendy Scase of the University of Birmingham. [1] A facsimile and transcription are available commercially. [1]
Vernon Manuscript | |
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Bodleian Library | |
![]() MS. Eng. poet. a. 1 (Vernon Manuscript) Folio 265r, showing blue
columbine flowers, a praying figure in a religious habit and the image of God the Father with Christ on the cross in the interlace that decorates the initial and frames | |
Date | c. 1400 |
Language(s) | Middle English |
The Vernon Manuscript (Bodleian Library MS. Eng. poet. a. 1) is a medieval English manuscript, written in the dialect spoken in the English West Midlands around 1400, [1] that is now in the Bodleian Library, to whom it was presented around 1677 by Colonel Edward Vernon. [1] It has been described as "the biggest and most important surviving late medieval English manuscript" [2] and "one of the Bodleian Library’s greatest treasures". [1]
The manuscript is lavishly illustrated and decorated, [2] and includes 370 poetry and prose texts on moral or religious subjects, [1] intended to be read by the pious. [2] It has over 700 pages and weighs 22 kilograms (49 lb). [3] The Bodleian Library estimates that the manuscript was compiled around the final decade of the fourteenth century. [1]
An online exhibition of the manuscript is curated by Professor Wendy Scase of the University of Birmingham. [1] A facsimile and transcription are available commercially. [1]