The Crabhouse nunnery manuscript, with its entries from the late thirteenth to the late fifteenth century, has been called many things: quaint, picturesque, confusing, or just plain jumbled. Although some scholars refer to it as a cartulary, the British Library labels the manuscript a ‘register’, as does Mary Bateson, its sole editor to date. Davis includes the manuscript in his Short Catalogue of Cartularies, but lists it in the category ‘Other Registers, etc.’ because it was ‘at some point wrongly described as a cartulary’. For lack of a better term, I will refer to the manuscript as simply that – the Crabhouse manuscript, for it is, in fact, a jumble, its fifty-four folios containing a verse prologue in Latin and French; a prose foundation legend and cartulary in French; three separate rentals – two in Latin, one in French; a terrier in Latin and another in French; two fairly long records commemorating a generous donation that are almost sermon-like in tone and address – written in French but with introductions in verse; and finally, two entries in English: a brief memorandum of a wedding and an annal-like entry commemorating the works of three prioresses but devoting enough attention to one of them to verge on hagiography. The table appended to this essay describes the contents of the Crabhouse manuscript in their order of appearance, with more detail than can be found in published guides to the text, including Bateson's edition.