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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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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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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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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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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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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,

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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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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