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'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
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
100v South English Legendary: Prologue of the Founding of the Feast of the Conception (IMEV 4173 ) f. 102r South English Legendary: Life of St. Stephen (IMEV 3059 ) f. 103v South English Legendary: Life of St. John the Evangelist
encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, August 2003. http://molcat.bl.uk/msscat . Dawson, W. R. 1934. A Leechbook or collection of medical recipes of the fifteenth century: the text of ms no. 136 of the Medical Society of London, together with a
manuscripts of the Fasciculus Morum f. 64r The Reply of the Oracle on the Sins of the Time (IMEV 4273 ) 'ȝissinge and glosinge'. 'þer boden as ich am aferd'. Furnivall 1866, p. 251. f. 79r The Vicissitudes of Life
IMEV 3384 ) Explanation of the Feast of Easter English f. 134r South English Legendary: Life of St. Mary of Egypt ( IMEV 2990 ) English Horstmann 1887, pp. 260-271. f. 138v South English Legendary: Life of St. Alphege (
time of Charles the 1st and Cromwell'. Ff. 14r, 21v, 31r - name of Samuel Higgins. F. 77r names of Samuel Higgins, Anne and Mary Higgins, probably children of Joseph Higgins , Rector of Eastnor, d. 1847, and descendants of
English f. 47v On the lowliness of Christ (IMEV 2644 ) 'Of one stable was is halle'. English f. 47v On obedience, virtues, riches, and a note of Augustine Latin ff. 48r-56v Legend of St. Nicholas 'De sein nicholas ai
Legendary: The Feast of Midwinter's Day ( IMEV 3336 ) 'þe feste of midewinteris dai is of muche pris'. 'Of wan ȝe desireþ so much to wite of to kninge'. ff. 173r-174v South English Legendary: The Feast of the Ascension
unique placing of St. Anne and the Conception of the Virgin , item 2.64, among the July legends could be an indicator of the manuscript's production date. The Feast of St. Anne was established in England by edict of Pope
Life of St. Dunstan ( IMEV 2884 ) 'Seint dunston was of enguelonde icome of guode more Miracle ore louerd dude for him þe ȝuyt he was un bore'. 'Eyȝhte an four ti abbeies of monekes and of nonnes Of
Description of Man's Limbs (IMEV 4070 ) 'Whereof is mad al mankynde'. 'God of his mercy haue vs in mynde. Amen'. English Kail 1904, pp. 64-69. ff. 115r-116r Follies of the Duke of Burgundy (IMEV 1939 ) 'A remembraunce of
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
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,
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
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
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
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