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- 1866 - [1910] (Creation)
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Transcriptions and notes from manuscripts and publications by Furnivall, Edmund Brock, Walter William Skeat, David Laing and others including: The Rewle of the Moon from Sloane MS 635 and Harleian MS 3725; alliterative poem by Humfrey Newton; John Page's poem The Siege of Rouen from Egerton MS 1995; Metrical Romances and Moralizations, held at the Advocate Library, Edinburgh; first two chapters of Henrik Rantzau's De Valetudine Conseruanda or The Preservation of Health, or a Dyet for the Healthfull Mann (London: August Matthews for Thomas Dewe, 1624); William Langland's _Piers Plowma_n from Lincolns Inn MS 150; Thomas Hoccleve's poem Lerne to Dye from Harley MS 172; The Confession of a Syren from Sloan MS 542; Chapter 77 of John Bourchier's Froissart's Chronicle (London: Richard Pinson, 1525). Includes library request slips from the British Museum for manuscripts ordered by Furnivall [note: Humfrey Newton transcript is oversize]