Website of the Week (WoW) #98: The Vernon Manuscript contains 370 texts of poetry and prose and reflects the English West Midlands dialect. But the mystery remains who it was made for and why. View the Bodleian online exhibition.
The Vernon Manuscript: A Literary Hoard from Medieval England
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
The Vernon manuscript is one of the Bodleian Library’s greatest treasures and one of the most important books in English to survive from the medieval period.