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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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sixteenth-century court hand is: ' Richard Baylies / Esq. Governour of Graston / when I writt / this Booke. / John Maundevile K. of Lyes.' Other such scribbles are on ff. 117 and 118, 'Richardus' in another hand on f.

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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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& anglice'. 'Absintheum amarum deu maners gallice aoyne anglice weremod'. Late fourteenth-century alphabet of herbs. Latin English French ff. 13r-57r John Lelamoure, of Hereford Translation of Aemilius Macer's De virtutibus herbarum 'Ache is hote'. 'He prayeth with all his hart

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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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England Manchester John Rylands University Library Eng. 50 s. xiv ex English Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 405 304, LP 519 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 238). A late fifteenth-century manuscript (Ker 1983, p. 401) containing the

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de Rothestorne', 20 Jan. 1473), or declaring causes of excommunication (in English, f. 2), of an indenture of apprenticeship to John Swafield of Aburtone, 1 Feb. 1479 (f. 86). Latin only for the first part, the rest is in English

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Latin in ?two later hands. Good. Unknown F. 2r: ' W. Sancroft ' written on top fore edge. F. 107r: John Robinson wrote 'Iohannes Robinsonus me possidet' in a c. sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand. F. 107r: various inscriptions by Richard Horne -

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E. 1935. ‘ Malory ’ s Morte Darthur in the Light of a Recent Discovery ’ , Bulletin of the John Rylands Library , 69, 438-475. Vinaver, E., ed, 1967. Malory ‘ s Le Morte D ’ arthur , Oxford:

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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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by some branches of the Weeks family (Manly and Rickert. 1940. p. 57). F. 259v 'Per me Iohannem Wekes' ( John Wekes ) written in a late sixteenth-century hand. The same hand also wrote an English couplet and a prologue

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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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Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, June 2004. Baugh, N. S., ed, 1956. A Worcestershire Miscellany, Compiled by John Northwood, c. 1400, edited from British Museum MS Add. 37,787 , Philadelphia: prvt prt. Conlee, J. W, ed. 1991.

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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

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, Notes & Queries , 232, 154-6. Power, D., ed., 1910. Treatises of Fistula in Ano haemorrhoids, and clysters; by John Arderne from an early fifteenth-century manuscript. , EETS, os, 139, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr ü bner. Stephens, G.

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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

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Shropshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin, 1986, vol. 1, p. 149). A fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's Instructions for Parish Priests copied by John Holyns. ff. 1r-33v John Mirk Instructions for Parish Priests (IMEV 961 ) 'God seythe hymselfe as wretyn