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Vernon Manuscript

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Date
  
c. 1400

Language(s)
  
Medieval English

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The vernon manuscript


The Vernon Manuscript is a medieval English manuscript, written in the dialect spoken in the English West Midlands around 1400, now in the Bodleian Library, to whom it was presented in around 1677, by Colonel Edward Vernon. It has been described as "the biggest and most important surviving late medieval English manuscript" and "one of the Bodleian Library’s greatest treasures".

The manuscript is lavishly illustrated and decorated, and includes 370 poetry and prose texts on moral or religious subjects, intended to be read by the pious. It has over 700 pages and weighs 22 kilograms (49 lb). The Bodleian estimate that the manuscript was compiled around the end of the 14th century, perhaps 1390-1400.

It is commemorated by an online exhibition curated by Professor Wendy Scase of the University of Birmingham. A facsimile and transcription are available commercially.

References

Vernon Manuscript Wikipedia