The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist XV: Manuscripts in Midland Libraries

‘The Index of Middle English Prose when completed will be a monumental achievement.' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES

This handlist indexes 82 manuscripts from twelve Midlands collections. The collections examined are diverse in origin: the cathedral libraries include Hereford and Worcester, whose collections include manuscripts in their possession continuously since the middle ages, and Gloucester, Lichfield, Peterborough and Southwell Minster, whose early libraries were largely dispersed at the d...