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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
Library Kk.i.12 s. xv English Scribal Dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 356 244, LP 7420 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 199). A fifteenth-century copy of the Brut to the sixth year of Henry V copied in one hand.
J., ed, 1858. Early English Meals and Manners , EETS, os, 32, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr ü bner. Hudson, A. 1966. Tradition and Innovation in Some Middle English Manuscripts , The Review of English Studies , 17,
Amen'. English ff. 155v-158v South English Legendary: Life of St. Cecilia (IMEV 2873 ) 'Seint cecile kinne i bore was at Rome'. 'Graunte ous to þulk ioie come þer þat angles hire to ladde. Amen'. English ff. 158b-167v South English
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
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
from Bodl. MS Rawlinson A 389 , Middle English Texts, 22, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, p. 12. Hanna, R. 1984. The Index of Middle English Prose. Handlist 1. Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Henry E. Huntington Library
F. 90v contains scribbles. English ff. 91r-96r Treatise on urines 'These are þe tokens of colour in urynes'. ' & viscose & loþe to departe'. Imperfect. English f. 97r-98v Latin and English catalogue of herbs English Latin ff. 99r-100r Agnus
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
Explicit'. English f. 179rb-vb The Moon of Ptolome 'The mone of ptolome'. 'Here begynnyth þe mone'. 'a yere soyrow'. English ff. 179v-181ra Seven Planets 'Nowe ye moste vnderstonde that there ben 7 planetis'. '2 yere and a halfe'. English ff.
recipes in Latin and English. Latin English f. 17r-v Notes in EnglishEnglish f. 18r Glossary of Alchemical terms Glossary of alchemical terms in Latin translated into English. Glossary followed by recipes in English. Latin English ff. 18v-21r Recipes 'To
: A Middle English Herbal reconstructed from Various Manuscripts , Essays and Studies on English Language and Literature, 6, Uppsala Universitet: Engelska. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary
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 later hand. English ff. 6r-95r Piers Plowman, C-text (IMEV 1459 ) 'In a somer
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
G. C., ed, 1957. The English Works of John Gower , EETS, es, 81-82, London: Oxford University Press, pp. clxiii-clxiv. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: General Introduction, Index of
made. Fiat fiat amen'. English Kristensson, 1974, pp. 105-7; Peacock 1902, pp. 60-67. f. 128r Instructive Verse Regarding Excommunication ( IMEV 3372 ) 'Than you þi candul kaste to grownde'. 'You myȝte se many mo'. English Kristensson, 1974, pp. 105-7;
of excommunication (in English, f. 2), of an indenture of apprenticeship to John Swafield of Aburtone, 1 Feb. 1479 (f. 86). Latin only for the first part, the rest is in English between ff. 2r-6r. Latin English f. 6v Will
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
is the seconde medycyne'. 'and to gouerne vs with. Amen'. English ff. 17r-25v Reclusorium Anime 'We knowyth welle by comyn sapience'. 'þus endyth a [part ] of þis book'. Fragment English ff. 25v-26v Three Workings of Man's Soul (IPMEP 5
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
and spiritual mercy. Glossed by a later c. seventeenth-century owner? English. f. 4r Ten Commandments 'There by x commaundementis of the which'. 'and on cristyn forth beleue thou stodfastly amen'. English. ff. 4v-6r Prose prayer 'O blyssed lord that madyst