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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
del Euangelie and the Assumption of the Virgin in English. The manuscript once formed part of a larger collection of texts including Mandeville's Travels , Robert Manning's Handlyng Synne and the Meditations on the Supper of Our Lord . ff.
blue with red flourished penwork - ff. 3v, 4r, 13r, 23r, 35v. F. 122r: drawing of bust of Bishop of Lincoln (presumed author of Prick of Conscience ) in mitre and amice with apparel in dull red and pink with
The Manuscripts of Trevisa s Translation of the Polychronicon : Towards a New Edition , Modern Language Quarterly , 51, 281-317. Waldron, R. 1991. Dialect Aspects of Manuscripts of Trevisa s Translation of the Polychronicon
alle hys herte and of þys loue comyth alle fulnes of grace'. ff. 136r-137v Table of Contents 'These ben þe titles of þis bok folwyng'. 'Recapitulacion of all þese matters to fore and of some maner of prayers'. Lists 27
Prick of Conscience , the Abbey of the Holy Ghost and the Three Kings of Cologne . The mid fifteenth-century date of 1442 is indicated by the explicit of item 5, 'Thus endythe þe lyffe of iij kyngys of coleyne
sancta maria'. 'Heyle of wymmen flour of alle'. 'Blessid mot þou be þou berd so bryȝt'. English ff. 29v-33v (Items 66-81) On Virginity of Saints ( IMEV 535 ) 'De virgin[i ] tate'. 'For the loue of a maydon fre'.
J. A. W. 1954. The Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville , New York: 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
a later version of Thomas of Hales's Love Rune ( IMEV 66). English Furnivall 1901, pp. 464-468. ff. 299vb-300rb Morning Song of the Love of God ( IMEV 3760 ) 'A mournyng song of þe loue of God'. 'To loue
1895. Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole and His Followers , Library of Early English Writers, 2 vols, London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1. Horstmann, C. 1896. Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole and His Followers , Library of Early English Writers,
and the names of recipients of copies of this Middle Hill edition. Other notes on f. iv, presumably by a member of the Fermor family, are taken from Warton's account of the manuscript ( The History of English Poetry ,
Hall, near Tideswell, Derbyshire, at the Auction Sale of Books, late the Property of the Reverend Duncalf, deceased Minister of Peak Forest, in the County of Derby, buy this book, (No. 40 of Sale Catalogue) (prices at which it was
p. 154. f. 178r-v Fifteen Joys of the Virgin 'Legitur...archiepiscopus viii gaudia'. Narrative of the vision of St. Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, concerning the Fifteen Joys of the Virgin. Latin ff. 178v-179r Memorial of St. George 'Salue miles nobilis'. Latin
by Wm Hamper of Birmingham, was written about the end of Ric: II reign...'. Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, August 2003. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English:
1896. Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole and His Followers , Library of Early English Writers, 2 vols, London: Swan Sonnenschein, 2. Lumby, J. 1866. King Horn , with fragments of Floriz and Blauncheflur, The Assumption of Our Lady, EETS,
Guide to the Manuscripts of the Prick of Conscience, Medium Aevum Monographs 12, Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval La nguages and Literatures, pp. 119-120 Morris, R. ed, 1863. Richard Rolle of Hampole, The Pricke of Conscience (Stimulus Conscientiae),
a list of sheriffs and mayors of Chester for the years 1469-1499. Manuscript not consulted. Book written for John Dedwood of Chester c. 1470 (see Macaulay 1899-1902, p. clxiii). Dedwood's name and device, a piece of the trunk of a
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
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
the southern recension of the Prick of Conscience from the second half of the fourteenth century (Lewis and McIntosh 1982, p. 133). Only Part 2 is considered here. f. 1r Table of Contents ff. 1v-96v Prick of Conscience (Southern Recension,