The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist XIII: Manuscripts in Lambeth Palace Library, including those formerly in Sion College

Handlist to manuscripts in one of Britain's major medieval repositories.

Lambeth Palace Library, which dates from a bequest by Archbishop Bancroft in 1610, is one of England's major repositories of medieval manuscripts. More than half of the ninety-six manuscripts and documents containing items of Middle English prose were already present when the library was temporarily transferred to Cambridge in 1647. In the succeeding centuries further manuscript materials have continually been added, an...