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þe gretyng of gabriel þe conceyuyng of goddis sun þe blessyng of elizabeth þat kald hur modur of hur lorde she rose not in heghenes of thouȝt ne in bolnyng of pride bot in swetnes of hert'. 'of þis way
of Robert of Gloucester/Piers Plowman/Aldelmus de Vita Monachorum'. Later drawings: drawing of comic face on ff. 224r and 229r. On f. 230r are three faces, two brown copies of one in black. On f. 286v there are two versions
late-fourteenth century copy of the Prick of Conscience copied by a single scribe c. 1370 (Lewis and McIntosh 1982, p. 48). ff. 3r-136v Prick of Conscience (Main Version, IMEV 3428 ) 'Explicit stimulus consciencie'. 'þe myght of the fader almyghty'.
- ff. 6-8, early type of Anglicana, tiny. Body height: c. 1mm. Scribe 3 - ff. 9-26, a later variation of the early Anglicana. Body height: 1.5mm. Two-line initials in item 1, first letters of lines detached and with a
University of Birmingham, March 2004. Bennett, J. A. W. 1954. The Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville , New York: Modern Language Association of America, p. 290. Dennison, L., Orr, M. T., and Scott, K. L. ed, 2001. An Index of
of Devonshire's MS s. xv English Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 423 276, LP 65 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). A fifteenth-century copy of Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection . ff. 1r-61v Walter Hilton Scale
þat is clepid þe sauter'. Rubric in red. English ff. 1v-276r Richard Rolle of Hampole English Psalter (IPMEP 271 ) 'In þis psalme firste he spekiþ of crist & of his folweres'. 'to sle gostly fro god'. English Codex Parchment
copy of the Prick of Conscience from the second half of the fourteenth century. ff. 1r-119r Richard Rolle Prick of Conscience (Main Version, IMEV 3428 ) 'Her byginneth in presence the book cald pricke of conscience'. 'þe myȝt of the
p. 250). Scribe of ff. 139-40. Language of Suffolk or SE Norfolk (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 146). Scribe of ff. 141r-208r, Worcestershire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 146). A manuscript of three independent
The Text of the Scale of Perfection , Medium Aevum 5, 11-30. Hanna, R. 1982. The Archaeology of a Manuscript: Huntington Library HM 266 , Scriptorium , 36, 99-102. Hanna, R. 1984. The Index of Middle English
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,
Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4. Morris, R. ed, 1863. Richard Rolle of Hampole, The Pricke of Conscience (Stimulus Conscientiae), Berlin: Asher.
cristes blessinge. Amen'. 'Explicit iacob & iosep'. English Napier 1916. ff. 11r-46r Geoffrey of Waterford Elucidarius 'Souentefois mauoient prie mi disciple'. Translation into French of the Elucidarius of Honorius Augustodunensis. French Meyer 1956, pp. 117-118. ff. 46v-51v Letter from Prester
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
) Part of the Southern Passion . f. 32r South English Legendary: Life of Judas (IMEV 1809 ) f. 34r South English Legendary: Life of Pilate (IMEV 2755 ) f. 36v South English Legendary: Life of St Mary of Egypt
H., ed, 1959. Historical Poems of the XIVth and XVth Centuries , New York: Columbia University Press. Ward, H. 1910. Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum , London: Trustees of the British Museum, 2,
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
also the scribe of Cambridge, Magdalene Pepys, 2616 and Scribe 2 of Wisbech Museum, MS 8 (Fletcher 1994, p. 151). Aarts, F. G. A. M. 1967. The Pater Noster ofRichard Ermyte: a Late Middle English Exposition of the Lord
7190 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 196). A late fourteenth-century copy of the C-text of Piers Plowman that contains a contemporary note regarding Stacy de Rokayle of Shipton under Wychwood, allegedly William Langland's father (Russell and Kane 1997, p.