Western Medieval Manuscripts : Trilingual compendium of texts

Western Medieval Manuscripts

<p style='text-align: justify;'>MS Gg.1.1 is a <i>Trilingual compendium of texts</i> put together in the early fourteenth century. It contains literary, historical, grammatical, scientific, astronomical, theological, pastoral and devotional texts and is predominantly written in Anglo-Norman but also contains Middle English and Latin. As the French scholar Paul Meyer commented in 1886, 'Ce livre est à lui seul toute une bibliothèque'.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Featured in <a target='_blank' class='externalLink' href='https://exhibitions.lib.cam.ac.uk/moving-word/'>The moving word</a> exhibition at Cambridge University Library.</p>