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later/near contemporary hand. 'Marke this well & take' written on p. 16 in a fifteenth/sixteenth century hand. Good Unknown ' John heghse_d I let the _ now þ at last hoste I ponde a now' written in a sixteenth-century? hand

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Graunge'. F. 118v - 'T plegges ffor stemulus conciencie In latyn a sequenciarie a lytyl book of a treteys of John of Burdews and a Rolle of al þe cete of Rome et aliis'. A Johannes Graunge also owned Cambridge,

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Choosing of Matthias (IMEV 409 ) Part of the Southern Passion . f. 34r South English Legendary: Concerning Peter and John (IMEV 3767 ) Part of the Southern Passion . f.34v South English Legendary: Ascension (IMEV 126 ) Part of

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pyne of helle þat we ne spille. Amen'. G0rlach 1974, no. 85. pp. 29-40 South English Legendary: Life of St. John the Evangelist (IMEV 2932 ) 'Seint ion þe ewangelist þat apostel also is'. 'Bidde ffor vs þat we mote

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luctus'. Hilka 1926, pp. 123-54. ff. 89ra-90rb Fall of Troy 'Excidium troie'. 'Vlcio pugnatur fit machina troia crematur'. ff. 90rb-94va John of Bridlington 'Prophecia cuiusdam de domino edwardo rege anglie tercio post conquestum'. 'Hinc terrena spuens sanctus super ethera scandit'.

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Good but initial page and border faded. Unknown Unknown Acquired by Trinity between 1688 and 1741/2. Rebound at Trinity by John Exshaw in 1741/2 (Brooks 1951). Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, May 2004. Abbott, T. K. 1900.

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hand wrote the title of art. 3 and a few other notes. Mynors and Thomson note that this is probably John Foxholes OFM, who was at the Lichfield convent in 1436-41, and then at Oxford c. 1451, and archbishop of

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with extended red penwork into left margin e.g. ff. 6v (stained), 14v. Not medieval. Date: early nineteenth century. Rebound by John Jones of Liverpool (worked for Holkham 1816-1823), brown gilt calf. Spine: STIMULUS/CONSCIENTIAE/MS./ANGL./SAEC.XIV./668. Coke family ostrich cre st in gilt

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Latin Ward 1910, pp. 116-155. ff. 155r-156r Notes on an epistle of St. John: Ad Paulinum 'Frater ambrosius'. Latin ff. 156r-157r Notes on an epistle of St. John: Ad Desiderium 'Desiderii mei'. References to 'biblia regis offe que est Wygorn.'

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481-482. Wright, C. E. 1960. English Vernacular Hands from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Centuries , Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 14. Wright, T. ed, 1839. Political Songs of England, John to Edward II , Camden Society, 6, London: Camden Society.

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126 - single-sheet document containing papal confirmation of indulgences granted to the Master and Brothers of the Hospital of St. John, Beverley. This is followed by a notarial instrument of [... ] Peccham, 'clericus [... ] ', AD 1384 (Ker

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(MS. V. b. 236) and Princeton, R. H. Taylor's MS 10. Bennett, J. A. W. 1954. The Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville , New York: Modern Language Association of America, pp. 289-90. Campbell, G. H. 1915. ‘ The Middle English

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notation. In good condition with its original binding. Texts still clear and decoration fresh. Sixteenth century: F. 116r - ' John Morgan ' - late fifteenth/early sixteenth century. Catalogued and encoded by Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, 2003. Related Manuscripts

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The fragmentary leaves of the manuscript have now been remounted separately. f. 1r South English Legendary: In principio (homily on John 1:1-14) (IMEV 276 ) '[A ] mong oþer gospels hit tys noȝt to byleue'. English f. 2r South English

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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'.

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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

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33; Holkham Hall, Wells, Norfolk, Library of the Earl of Leicester, MS 668; London, College of Arms, MS 57; Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS English 50; New Haven, Yale University Library, MS Osborn a 13; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS

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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

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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

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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,