The Coventry MS, which contains writings by Chaucer, Hoccleve, Lydgate, Mandeville, and others, belonged to the Grammar School at Coventry from shortly after 1602 until the early years of the present century, when it disappeared. The volume reappeared, in private hands, in the 1950's and was bought by the Coventry City Council. Virtually nothing has been known of the contents of the MS. The Chaucerian texts (transcriptions printed in the article) are A B C, Bukton, Purse, Gentilesse, Lak of Sledfastnesse, Truth. These texts generally represent a good tradition (Brusendorff's “Bradshaw group”) and exhibit an interesting relationship with the important Canterbury Tales MS, Cambridge University Library Gg. 4. 27. The Coventry MS was written in the middle or third quarter of the fifteenth century. Its Chaucerian texts mark it as the fourth largest anthology of Chaucer's Short Poems known from medieval times.