MS 86 is now available online. This manuscript contains works by John Arderne (1307–1392), an important English surgeon. (Pictured: Fols. 5v and 6r) You can view in here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/b9afb8…

MS 57 is now available online. This MS contains several texts including two Middle English poems (The Prick of Conscience and Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls) and a London Chronicle ending in 1431/2. (Pictured: Fols. v v and vi r) You can view in here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/00cc19…

MS 238 is now available online. This MS is a set of notes on a chemistry course attended by John Merrick M. D. in Oxford in 1692/3. Merrick was a Fellow of St John’s College (d. 1757). (Pictured: Fols. 1v and 2r) You can view in here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/131eb8…

MS 370 is now available online. This MS is a complete copy of all 50 maqāmāt by al-Ḥarīrī. This copy was collated and vocalized by Jarmānūs Farḥāt (1670-1732), a Syrian grammarian (Pictured: Fols. 2a and 1b) You can view the manuscript here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/47dd23…

MS 56 is now available online. MS 56 principally contains a copy of John Lydgate’s Life of our Lady, a Middle English poem about the Virgin Mary. (Pictured: Fols 5v and 6r) You can view it here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/e5e708…

MS 143 is now available online. MS 143 contains the Hebrew Joshua, Judges, Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes. (Pictured: Fols. 1v and 2r) You can view it here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/d9bacb…

MS 22 is now available online. MS 22 is a copy of a treatise on skeletons by John Speed (1595-1640), Oxford's first anatomy lecturer, written in his own hand. (Pictured: Inside upper board and fol. i r) You can view it here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/640708…

MS 94 is now available online. MS 94 is a 15th century Hours of the Virgin, and also contains Middle English devotional texts. (Pictured: 2v and 3r) You can view it here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/c1b12b…

MS 226 is now available online as a partial digitization. MS 226 comprises a series of sixty coloured paintings on vellum depicting the vestments of the various Catholic religious orders and offices. (Pictured: 32r and 33r) You can view it here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/e0662b…

MS 192 is now available online. MS 192 contains copies of Juvenal’s Satires and Horace’s Ars poetica, and was formerly owned by the poet and playwright Ben Jonson. (Pictured: f. i v and f. 1r) You can view it here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/c50c22…

MS 201 is now available online. MS 201 is a richly illuminated copy of the Qur’ān, probably made in Iran in the first half of the 16th century. (Pictured: f. 2a and f. 1b) You can view it here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/ca3930…

MS 211 is now available online. MS 211 contains a copy of the Proverbs of Solomon in Greek and Latin on facing folios. (Pictured: f. 1v and f. 2r) You can view it here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/d87c4a…

MS 103 is now available online. MS 103 is the earliest recorded copy of al-A‘raj al Nīsābūrī’s commentary on ‘Memoir on the Science of Astronomy’. The item also includes some incidental Arabic poetry. (Pictured: f. 4a and f. 3b) You can view it here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/579f04…

MS 122 is now available online. MS 122 is a heavily annotated copy of a compendium on the linguistic sciences written by al-Sakkākī. This manuscript was completed on 23 Rajab 732 [= 20 April 1332]. (Pictured: f. 5a and f. 4b) You can view it here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/6c0df3…

MS 257 is now available online. MS 257 contains statutes of England, with fully illuminated pages at the head of the reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, and Henry VII. (Pictured: f. 85v and f. 86r) You can view it here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/0fc237…

MS 151 is now available online. MS 151 comprises three astronomical texts, including a 1532 copy of Ulugh Beg’s astronomical and chronological tables (zīj) in the revised version. (Pictured: f. 1a and f. 1b) You can view it here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/19cf98…

MS 17 has been redigitized. MS 17 is a computistical miscellany produced in England (Thorney, Cambridgeshire) in 1110(?), but with some later additions. (Pictured: f. 7v and f. 8r) You can view it here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/cca30c…

MS 178 is now available online. MS 178 is a miscellany consisting of six originally separate manuscripts, variously produced in England between the thirteenth and the fourteenth centuries. (Pictured: f. 159v and f. 160r) You can view it here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/45d784…

MS 340 is now available online as a partial digitization. MS 340 is a fifteenth-century copy of the ‘The Calendar’ by the prolific English poet John Lydgate (d.c.1450). (Pictured: f. 69v and f. 70r) You can view it here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/6da6bf…

MS 171 is now available online. MS 171 contains biblical commentary by John Wycliffe (d.1384), an English theologian. (Pictured: f. 1v and f. 2r) You can view it here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/976bea…