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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
speche'. 'þat is kyng of alle þinge. Amen'. English f. 22rb-va Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Feast of St. John the Apostle (IMEV 1090 ) 'Herkneþ alle for ȝor prou'. 'To come to heuene & sen his face. Amen'.
Piers section of the manuscript was copied by a Chancery clerk (Kirby-Fulton 2000, p. 108). On f. 286v is written John Godere or Godeve. Owned by Sir Robert Cotton. Cotton's hand found on ff. 3r and 287r. Archbishop Parker's secretary
cccc mo . xlj o '. From this evidence it is apparent that the initial owner and scribe was one John Graseley . Later in the library of the Mercer Henderson family at Fordell House, Inverkeithing, co. Fife; inherited by
þo þis wordes were ised'. Part of the Southern Passion . English f. 26rb-va South English Legendary: Concerning Peter and John (IMEV 3767 ) 'To seinte peter ihesus sede folwe me anon'. 'Ffor bettere is dye in good deþ þen
T. Astle, p. 66. Erbe, T., ed. 1905. Mirk s Festial : A Collection of Homilies by Johannes Mirkus, John Mirk edited from Bodl. MS. Gough Eccl. Top. 4, with variant readings from other MSS , EETS, es, 96,
ioye come þat euere sschal ylaste. Amen'. Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 67-70. ff. 68r-69v South English Legendary: Life of St. John the Baptist ( IMEV 2945 ) 'Seint iohn was þe beste bern þe holie baptist'. 'Lete ous þorȝ oure
a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand. F. 1v is a flyleaf. f. 3v Medical recipe 'A prowyd myddesson for the tovtheache prowyd by john wyllson of bakham'. 'Take peper and bete yt small and take a qvyantyte off honye and the hyest toppes
barnabe þat he us to heouene bringue'. English Horstmann 1887, pp. 26-29. ff. 32v-34r South English Legendary: Life of St. John the Baptist ( IMEV 2945 ) 'Seint iohan was þe beste bern þe holie baptist þat euere of womman
Instructions for Parish Priests by John Myrc: edited from Cotton MS. Claudius A. II , EETS, os, 31, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr ü bner. Peacock, E. ed. 1868. Instructions for Parish Priests by John Myrc , EETS, os, 31,
23v, ' John Longley ' (?Langley Green, extreme W. Worcs). See also Seymour 1966 for more details, p. 192. Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, March 2004. Bennett, J. A. W. 1954. The Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville
4. http://molcat.bl.uk/msscat . Powell, S. 1991. John Mirk s Festial and the Pastoral Programme , Leeds Studies in English , 22, 85-102. Wakelin, M. F. 1967. The Manuscripts of John Mirk s Festial ,
focle', ' John Peyntor ', fifteenth/sixteenth century. F. 86v ' John ?Games ' sixteenth century. F. 89v ' Elynor vaughan ' sixteenth/seventeenth century. F. 100r ' John ?perf of Bredwardiny [Bredwardine ] ' sixteenth century. F. 105r 'John Games' sixteenth
ff. 1r-2v John Trevisa 'Dialogus inter dominum et clericum'. 'Seþthe þat babyl was ybuld'. 'hys godhede & manhede. Explicit dialogus'. English preface on translation prefixed to Trevisa's translation. Printed in Waldron 1988, pp. 289-294. Perry 1924. f. 2v John Trevisa
inscription tells us that after the book was bought for St. Mary's Priory, Coventry it was added to by Brother John of Grenborough. Various medical texts were then added over the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Two separate books of
1500, ' iohn baker owe this boke wytnes iohn fuller edmund baker damyd'; John Baker's name also appears on ff. 33, 41v, 48v, 52v, 53v, 57v. John Wood ' in a sixteenth-century hand on ff. 34v, 86. On f. 59r,
of the Prick of Conscience now kept as Manchester, John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 90 ( olim Asburnham 136) with which it once formed one manuscript. On f. 1v of Manchester, John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 90 is 'Iste sunt
in red. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing extending down the left margin. Not medieval. ff. 75 'Written by John Watson' appears on the first fly-leaf. Good Unknown The second flyleaf carries the inscription '1819 White Knights Library 1450'.
and Benskin 1986, p. 196). A manuscript containing religious tracts inluding the Memoriale Credencium , work by a follower of John Wyclif, and the Fifteen Oes among others. ff. 1r-69r Memoriale Credencium (IPMEP 448 ) 'Man & woman þat wylneþ
blank, a later hand on f. 17v has transcribed the opening of the treatise appearing on f. 18r. ff. 18r-53r John Lelamour Herbal/Treatise of Macer (IPMEP 459 ) 'Here followeth the konnyng and sage clerk marcer'. 'Ingworte or moderworte is
London, British Library, MS Additional 37787, f. 71r. Latin ff. 95r-97r Prayer with note of 6,000 years' indulgence from Pope John. Latin Codex Parchment 165 120 mm 1 8 , ff. 71r-78v; 2 8 , ff. 79r-86v; 3 8 ,