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239). A mid fifteenth-century (c. 1420-1426) collection of devotional and didactic texts with some in Latin, compiled by the author, John Audelay . ff. 1r-2r Instructions in Christian Living ( IMEV *39 ) 'In hel ne purgatore non oþer plase'.

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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

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kyngys of coleyne primo die Januare anno domini millesimo ccccxlij'. English prose abridgement of the Historia SS. Trium Regum of John of Hildesheim, c. 1400. The text is collated and described in Horstmann 1886. ff. 216ra-255ra Titus and Vespasian (IMEV

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ed, 1980. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: Facsimile of Pynson ’ s Edition of 1496 , Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies, Exeter: University of Exeter. Seymour, M. C. 1994. ‘ Sir John Mandeville ’ , in Seymour, M.

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horder emebat...'. This inscription is in same hand as that of the scribe. Folio 1r - contemporary ownership inscription of John Horder: 'Hunc librum & librum vocatum gracia dei qui est in custodia willielmi carenti habeant abbatissa & conventus shaftoniensis

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; f. 68v (eighteenth century) - Nicholas Berbour ; f. 111v (nineteenth century) - Edward Burbecke , Jane Lawson , John Empson ; ff. 108r-109r - recipes in the hand of Nicholas Watson , surgeon to Sir William Hylton ,

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in the generous margins. Good Unknown F. 7r - scribbles in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand with the name ?'Iohannes han de', John Hand . Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, March 2004. Eljenholm-Nichols, A., Orr, M. T., Scott, K.

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182. He also added other Latin titles to books and some comments in the margins. F. 57v top margin - 'John (d?)ampaed/ oth this booke' and top left 'the man is blest that has not g__ '. F. 58r carrie

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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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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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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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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.