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vicarium de malden'. English ff. 30r-40r Proverbs of Prophets, Poets and Saints/ Proverbs of Old Philosophers ( IMEV 3501 ) 'The wyse man in his boke'. 'and god that made all thynge ȝeve vs all good endyng'. English ff. 40v-127r

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20 SC 6420 s. xv 2 English Scribal dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: Not mapped (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 250). A generously decorated copy of the Canterbury Tales beginning with the General Prologue and ending with the

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in alphabetical order. 169 chapters. Table of contents and treatise appear to be in separate hands. English Brodin 1950. ff. 62v-64r Medical Recipes English Codex Paper. 210 c. 145mm Each page remounted. Unable to ascertain. Pricking: none. Writing space of

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199r-v South English Legendary: Life of St. Edmund the King(IMEV 2887 ) 'De sancto edmundo rege & martire'. 'Seynt edmunde the martyr was kyng of a parte of englond'. Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 296-299. ff. 199v-201r South English Legendary: Life

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a crysten man moo. Deo gracias'. English Erbe 1905. ff. 191v-194r Explanation of the Apostle's Creed in English 'The fyrst is y beleve in god almyȝty'. 'kepe well ten and fle from sevyn'. English Codex Parchment 200 140 mm 1

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scribes although the texts written by Scribe 1 are in sixteen distinct varieties of Middle English. In total there are nineteen varieties of Middle English in the manuscript, as discerned by McIntosh and Wakelin (1982, p. 447). A detailed description

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Harley 2417 s. xv 1 English Scribal dialect: North West Worcestershire. Earlier, incorrectly analysed as Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 371 273, LP 702 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 249). A copy of Mirk's Festial from the first half

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'The entre' and incipit, 'Byfore þat eny þing was wrouȝt'. English Ed. Morris 1863. pp. 205-224 Speculum Gy de Warewyck (IMEV 1101 ) 'Herknes alle to my speche'. Unreadable, imperfect. English Morrill 1898. Codex Parchment. Fairly thick. 245 145 mm

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McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4. Voigts, L.E. 1985. A Handlist of Middle English in Harvard Manuscripts , Cambridge, Mass.

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of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4. Pearsall, D. ed. 1990. Studies in the Vernon Manuscript , Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, p. 42. Sajavaara, K., ed, 1967. The Middle English Translations of Robert

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Library Eng. 90 Ashburnham 136 s. xiv/xv English Latin Scribal Dialect: Shropshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 373 286, LP 4218 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 234). A late fourteenth/early fifteenth century (Ker 1983, p. 413) copy of the Prick

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47, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 255-284. Duff, E. G. 1917. Fifteenth-Century English Books: a bibliography of books and documents printed in England and of books for the English market printed abroad , Bibliographical Society Illustrated Monographs 18, Oxford: Oxford

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6571 The Royal Book ?s. xv English Scribal Dialect: south Herefordshire (Whitchurch area), or north east Monmouthshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (Benskin and McIntosh 1986, p. 200). A manuscript in one hand located to the Herefordshire/Monmouthshire border containing

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Modern Language Association of America, p. 292. Braswell, L. 1987. The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist IV: A Handlist of Douce Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Bodleian Library, Oxford , Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 36-37. Coxe,

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vol. 1, p. 113). The manuscript contains Latin theological and moral texts which are interspersed with English and some French verses. Only the English verses are listed here. f. 7r Meditation on the Passion (IMEV 4107 ) 'Ho þat siþ