Index of manuscripts in Middle English prose contained in the Douce Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford The large and diverse Douce Collection contains fifty four manuscripts containing Middle English prose, ranging from the collections of medical and other recipes, to a translation of Vegetius De re military, a copy of the Master of Game, several copies of the Wycliffite translation of the Bible, a romance Ponthus, a manuscript of devotional treatises of Carthusian provenance.