--- title: Egerton MS 1995 | daily.dev description: A researcher who previously studied the Book of St Albans (1486) and its terms of venery (collective nouns like 'an exaltation of larks') commissioned the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/egerton-ms-1995-o0kqzsbog twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Egerton MS 1995 | daily.dev og:description: A researcher who previously studied the Book of St Albans (1486) and its terms of venery (collective nouns like 'an exaltation of larks') commissioned the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/egerton-ms-1995-o0kqzsbog og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/O0KQZSBOG.png og:image:alt: Egerton MS 1995 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Egerton MS 1995 **[Arthur O'Dwyer](https://daily.dev/sources/quuxplusone)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A researcher who previously studied the Book of St Albans (1486) and its terms of venery (collective nouns like 'an exaltation of larks') commissioned the British Library to digitize the relevant folios of Egerton MS 1995 (circa 1450) to verify that this manuscript contains the spelling 'exaltacyon of larkys.' The post presents a rough transcription of the manuscript's content, including extensive tables of collective nouns for animals, birds, fish, and social groups, carving terms for fowl and fish, lists of hawks assigned by social rank, and various other medieval texts on hunting, courtesy, and prophecy. The scan has also been uploaded to the Internet Archive for public access. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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