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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
ff. 173r-179ra A treatise of the houses of the planets 'Here begynnethe the merueylous and sothefaste conynge of astrologye'. 'and barly litell and shorte þat yere'. English f. 179ra-b The Letting of the Moon 'The lettynge of the mone'. 'Nowe
family of the "Hawkins's" of Boughton under Blean near Canterbury, County of Kent.' There follows an account on the family from Middle Ages to modern times and an account of the hand. Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham,
comendyd of wryters'. F. 118v - same hand - 'A defynityon of gentilyty'. F. 119r - same hand: 'gentilyte ys ye renowne of our auncesters for theyr bounty wch ys ye gyft of god...'; 'Tullyus Hostilius was discendid of pare
of Gloucester Chronicle (IMEV 727 ) 'Fram the begynnyng of the world to tyme that now is' Imperfect Chronicle begins with the siege of Troy and ends imperfectly with the death of John. See Hudson 1969. ff. 170r-188v Chronicle
Collection of medical recipes 'This tretys byfore wryten is compyled of þe tretyses of arystotel galeyne and of ypocrase and of oþer leches of salerne. Magister willelmus leche de kylingholme'. 'Recipe þe iuse of planteyne and of syngrene and of
of St. Edmund s Speculum , Ascribed to Richard Rolle , PMLA , 40.2, 240-251. Wright, C. E. 1972. Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Ma nuscripts preserved in the Department
i am kyng of all kynges lord of all lordes'. 'Writen in þe yere of youre gret god my cosyn mcccc xli yere'. Proclamation dated 1416. English f. 5v The breadth and length of an acre of land In a
'58' is written in the hand of Thomas Martin of Palgrave (d. 1771) with a note referring to a manuscript in the possession of [Joseph ] Ames (d. 1759). Eighteenth/nineteenth century - the names of Matthew Lee and Thomas Huckell
Pope Blaunt'. Flyleaf, f. 1r - bookplate ofRic[hard ] Rawlinson. Flyleaf, f. iv - 'Brutes chronicle ms Tho: Pope Blount eq. owner'. F. 16r 'of the countye of ... Thomas Lewis of Syntonn ' - sixteenth century. F. 23r
Scribe of ff. 7r-86v and Scribe of ff. 87r-end: Scribal Dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 350 240, LP 7391 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 199). A late fifteenth-century manuscript of the Memoriale Credencium , a sophisticated manual of
4 mm. Scribe of ff. 149v-167r writing in a regular Anglicana Formata, very similar to scribe of ff. 118r-149v. Use of the same ink colour, but the aspect of this hand is more rounded. The strokes of the letters are
drȝete hym throw the ȝere of methus and drynkys and lething of blode and also to beware of perlus daies the which bene cleped ioues de fe'. 'In the monythe of ienyver al maner of swete wynes ben gode to