• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

frere To preche and eek to begge it is no doute In which þer wente a lymytour aboute , A mersshy countre called holdernesse LOrdynges þer is in york schire , as I gesse Here begynneþ þe Somnours tale ,

• York

Record: York County Yorkshire Transcript Eborienc' Icon description three spired churches, two with crosses, two castles, gold decoration, stripy roofs, green roofs, walls with five gates Icons gates (multiple) decorated roofs decorated roofs decoration castles (multiple) churches with cross (mutliple)

• The Wolds (district name)

Appearances red ink, within a cartouche Etymology OE weald (Angl wald), 'forest land' Translation Earlier editors appears as district name on Saxton's map of 1577 (Parsons) Early Maps york wold (Angliae Figura) Overwritten no Attested spelling Yorkes Wold 1551 NCWills

• null, Château d'Amour, called 'The Myrour of Lewed Men' (translated into English)

(£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection. Flourished initials Robert Grosseteste York England, N. E.? (York)

• Illuminated initial 'S'(elon), with a full border including an added white rose of York and the closed fetterlock in the lower border., La cité des dames

pen-flourishing. La cité des dames Cecily [Cicely; née Cecily Neville], duchess of York (b. 1415, d. 1495), Yorkist matriarch, and/or her husband Richard of York, 3rd duke of York (b. 1411, d.1460), regent of France in 1436 and 1441-1445: includes

• null, Register book of the Fraternity of Corpus Christi, York

15). Smaller initials in blue with red foliate pen-flourishing including human heads. Register book of the Fraternity of Corpus Christi, York Heading 'Liber ordinacionis Fraternitatis corporis Christi fundate in Ebor ... Incepte Anno domini millesimo cccc^o^ octavo' (f. 15).William Petty

• Full page miniatures of the fortified town of York., Historical miscellany, including abridged versions of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae' (index Gesta Britonum) in verse (404 verses) and in prose (ff. 46-48v), followed by a poem relating to the building of York (ff. 48v-55v), and copies of papal bulls and regal documents (ff. 55v-58v)

of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. York Geoffrey of Monmouth (index Galfridus Monumetensis) York England, N. (York ?)

• Decorated initial 'D'(ominus) and partial foliate border., Breviary, Use of York, imperfect

Decorated initial 'D'(ominus) and partial foliate border. Containing a York calendar (ff. 7-12v) including in red William of York (8 June) and his translation (6 Jan.), Wilfrid of York (12 Oct.). These saints also appear in the litany (ff. 76v-77).Catchwords

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

MS 112. Edition: R. H. Robbins, Historical Poems of the XIVth and XVth Centuries (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959): 140-143. Other editions and studies: G. Holmstedt, Speculum Christiani, EETS OS 182 (London: Oxford University Press, 1933): 185-187; 331. T.

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Other editions: C. Horstmann, 'Life of Adam and Eve', Altenglische Legenden, Neue Folge (Heilbronn: Henninger, 1878; reprinted Hildeshein and New York: G. Olms, 1969): 139-147. Corrections in: A. J. Bliss, 'The Auchinleck Life of Adam and Eve', Review of English

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969). (Normalised text based on Sisam). W. H. French and C. B. Hale, Middle English Metrical Romances (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1930). K. Sisam, Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose (Oxford: Clarendon, 1921). A. S. Cook, A Literary Middle English

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Languages and Literature, 1995). Other editions and studies: W. H. French and C. B. Hale, Middle English Metrical Romances (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1930). (Auchinleck MS completed from Ff.2.38). M. B. Carr, 'Sir Degarre', unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago (1924).

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

1804). E. Kölbing, Die Nordische und die Englische Version der Tristan-Sage, 2 vols (Heilbronn: Henninger, 1878-82; reprinted Hildesheim and New York: G. Olms, 1978-85). Manual I, 77; 255. Index 1382. Sir Tristrem I was a[t Erceldoune,] , Wiþ Tomas spak