• The Joys of Mary

a balsam gum used in embalming, so the gift signifies Jesus' mortality. 35 Levedi. MS: Levid. Brown's emendation. 42 Compare John 7:36. §75 Heyl be thou, Marie, milde quene of hevene. Index no. 1030. MS: St. John's College Cambridge 256,

• The Joys of Mary

a balsam gum used in embalming, so the gift signifies Jesus' mortality. 35 Levedi. MS: Levid. Brown's emendation. 42 Compare John 7:36. §75 Heyl be thou, Marie, milde quene of hevene. Index no. 1030. MS: St. John's College Cambridge 256,

• The Craft of Lovers

Tale: "O bussh unbrent, brennynge in Moyses sighte" (CT VII[B2]468); see also Lydgate, Life of Our Lady (lines 281-87) in John Lydgate: Poems, ed. Norton-Smith. 18 infirmynat langoures. T (sores langorous) is clearly the easier reading, reflecting this scribe's practice

• Wisdom

De doctrina christiana, though the initial source is likely such passages as “Deus caritas est” (God is love) in 1 John 4.8. 276 The “tabernacle” is the human body which has been created in God’s image (“lyknes,” line 274). God

• Penitential Poems

well of Jacob, where Jesus meets the woman of Samaria and tells her about the "living water" of everlasting life (John 4:1-30). 7 et spes nostra. The MS reads mea, but the English text translates the Latin nostra from the

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 1, The Creation of the Angels and the Fall of Lucifer

numbering adjusted accordingly to account for half lines. Scribes are identified as fol­lows: Scribe A; Scribe B: main scribe; JC: John Clerke; LH: later scribal hand (unidentified). This pageant was copied by Scribe A, who also entered the second pageant

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 9, The Flood

numbering adjusted accordingly to account for half lines. Scribes are identified as follows: Scribe A; Scribe B: main scribe; JC: John Clerke; LH: later scribal hand (unidentified). 14 formefadres. LTS: forme ffadres; RB: forme-fadres; Reg: formed fadres. 24 As. So

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 10, Abraham and Isaac

numbering adjusted accordingly to account for half lines. Scribes are identified as follows: Scribe A; Scribe B: main scribe; JC: John Clerke; LH: later scribal hand (unidentified). 15 schulde be. RB: shulde be; Reg, LTS: schulde. multyplyed. Reg: Final letter

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 11, Pharaoh and Moses

numbering adjusted accordingly to account for half lines. Scribes are identified as follows: Scribe A; Scribe B: main scribe; JC: John Clerke; LH: later scribal hand (unidentified). 1 O pees. Words separated in Reg by deleted letter. 2 comaunde. Indefinite

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 13, Joseph’s Troubles about Mary

numbering adjusted accordingly to account for half lines. Scribes are identified as follows: Scribe A; Scribe B: main scribe; JC: John Clerke; LH: later scribal hand (unidentified). 1 JOSEPH. Reg: added by LH. Of. Large capital O in Reg. 11

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 20, Christ and the Doctors

numbering adjusted accordingly to account for half lines. Scribes are identified as follows: Scribe A; Scribe B: main scribe; JC: John Clerke; LH: later scribal hand (unidentified). 20 By LH, at right in Reg: hic caret (erased). 46–48 JOSEPH. RB,

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 26, The Conspiracy

numbering adjusted accordingly to account for half lines. Scribes are identified as follows: Scribe A; Scribe B: main scribe; JC: John Clerke; LH: later scribal hand (unidentified). 1 PILATUS. Speech identification by LH in Reg. 13 grone. So RB; Reg,

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 32, The Remorse of Judas

numbering adjusted accordingly to account for half lines. Scribes are identified as follows: Scribe A; Scribe B: main scribe; JC: John Clerke; LH: later scribal hand (unidentified). 1 Pees. Reg: capital P sketched in (strapwork initial). me. Deleted in Reg,

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 35, Crucifixio Christi

numbering adjusted accordingly to account for half lines. Scribes are identified as follows: Scribe A; Scribe B: main scribe; JC: John Clerke; LH: later scribal hand (unidentified). As addition to craft ascription, by LH: and Paynters. 80 hange. So RB;

• John Metham, Amoryus and Cleopes

third ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987; Craig: Hardin Craig, ed. The Works of John Metham; Trevisa: M.C. Seymour, et al., eds. On the Properties of Things: John Trevisa's Translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus "De Proprietatibus Rerum," 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon: Oxford

• Lancelot of the Laik

wits or senses, medieval theory recognized inner wits, one of which is the wit memoratyve. John of Trevisa (in On the Properties of Things: John of Trevisa's Translation of Bartholomæus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975] I, 98)

• Lancelot of the Laik

wits or senses, medieval theory recognized inner wits, one of which is the wit memoratyve. John of Trevisa (in On the Properties of Things: John of Trevisa's Translation of Bartholomæus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975] I, 98)

• The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn

so long, halff our lyvlode Wold scarsly suffise hymselff oon. And nere ye wold be greved, I swere by Seynt John!" "He shuld after this day be clothed no more for me, But he wold kepe hem better and drawe

• The Shewings of Julian of Norwich

most obviously physiological, Julian's context here. DiMarco notes Bartholomaeus Anglicus as a contemporary source. See On the Properties of Things: John Trevisa's Translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum, ed. M. C. Seymour and others, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press,

• The Siege of Milan

Genyenn That was a lorde of grete renownn And Rowlande modir hade wedde. Thare wery hym bothe God and Sayne John! The falseste traytoure was he one That ever with fode was fedde. For landis that Rowlande solde have thare