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• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

517 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). A late fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's Festial with an explanation of the Apostle's Creed in English. ff. 1r-191r John Mirk Festial (IPMEP 734 ) 'The helpe and the grace of almyȝty

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• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

a schort tretys the wich erle renate sone wrote to the emperor'. 'In old tyme hytt was'. Imperfect. ff. 37r-52r John Russell Boke of Kervyng & Nortur (IMEV 1514 ) 'In nomine patris god kepe me Et filii for charitie

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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