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ista anglie confinia ita quod fere omnes turbarentur in lectis'. Good. On f. 1r: ' John nycholas owethe this book' and again on f. 214v: 'John nycholas owethe this book 1576'. Other names on f. 214v: ' dominus thomas browne

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focle', ' John Peyntor ', fifteenth/sixteenth century. F. 86v ' John ?Games ' sixteenth century. F. 89v ' Elynor vaughan ' sixteenth/seventeenth century. F. 100r ' John ?perf of Bredwardiny [Bredwardine ] ' sixteenth century. F. 105r 'John Games' sixteenth

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the original manuscript), 'Heare begynneth ye [... ] booke of cresyse'. Good Unknown John Boyce - Sixteenth century: F. i verso - 'Jhon boyce'. F. 21r 'John b'. Nineteenth century?: Owned by Sir Henry Spelman - name written on back

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of ownership on ff. 13r and 181v where the name John Paunteley along with the date 1412 is written. However, this could just be an attribution of the texts. John Paunteley was a monk of Gloucester, ordained deacon and priest

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z-shaped ȝ used regularly. Body height: 2 mm. Illuminated by the scribe, John Lacy. Thirty-seven of forty-two miniatures survive. On f. 16v is a half-page miniature depicting John Lacy in his anchorhold watching the crucifixion (Hanna 2002, plate IV). Below

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distinct booklet. Talbot 1967, p. 188. ff. 21r-23r John of Burgundy A Noble Tretis for Medicina Agenst the Pestilence (IPMEP 659 ) 'Here begynnes a nobill tretys made of a nobill fisicyane john of burdeux for medecyne agayne þe pestilence

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these texts (1986, p. 199). Paues assigns a 'Southern' dialect to the Prologue, Peter, James, 1 John and the Pauline Epistles whilst 2-3 John, Jude, Matthew and the Acts are 'Midland with a more or less strong intermixture of Southern

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1500, ' iohn baker owe this boke wytnes iohn fuller edmund baker damyd'; John Baker's name also appears on ff. 33, 41v, 48v, 52v, 53v, 57v. John Wood ' in a sixteenth-century hand on ff. 34v, 86. On f. 59r,

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of the Prick of Conscience now kept as Manchester, John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 90 ( olim Asburnham 136) with which it once formed one manuscript. On f. 1v of Manchester, John Rylands Library, Eng. MS 90 is 'Iste sunt

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in red. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing extending down the left margin. Not medieval. ff. 75 'Written by John Watson' appears on the first fly-leaf. Good Unknown The second flyleaf carries the inscription '1819 White Knights Library 1450'.

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and Benskin 1986, p. 196). A manuscript containing religious tracts inluding the Memoriale Credencium , work by a follower of John Wyclif, and the Fifteen Oes among others. ff. 1r-69r Memoriale Credencium (IPMEP 448 ) 'Man & woman þat wylneþ

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to local saints (Edden 2000, p. 58). Inscriptions on the penultimate flyleaf refer to 'Johannes More, Mildenham Wygornie' referring to John More , Prior of Worcester, 1499-1507 and Thomas Meldenham , prior of Worcester 1499-1507 (Edden 2000, p. 58). See

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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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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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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,