1) is a medieval English manuscript, written in the dialect spoken in the English West Midlands around 1400,[1] that is now in the Bodleian Library, to whom it was presented around 1677 by Colonel Edward Vernon.

[1] It has been described as "the biggest and most important surviving late medieval English manuscript"[2] and "one of the Bodleian Library’s greatest treasures".

[1] The manuscript is lavishly illustrated and decorated,[2] and includes 370 poetry and prose texts on moral or religious subjects,[1] intended to be read by the pious.

[3] The Bodleian Library estimates that the manuscript was compiled around the final decade of the fourteenth century.

[1] An online exhibition of the manuscript is curated by Professor Wendy Scase of the University of Birmingham.