• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 29, The Short Charter of Christ

“Last Will and Testament.” More commonly scribes call this text a charter (carta), such as the “Carta humane redempcionis” (“Charter of the Redemption of Humanity”) or the “Magna Carta de libertatibus mundi” (“Great Charter of the World’s Freedoms”). The title

• Item 29, The Short Charter of Christ: Introduction

tenure. They could grant liberties and priv­ileges to individuals or classes of people, as in the case of the MagnaCarta or the charters that established the rights of towns, universities, and other corporations. Charters could also be used to

• Eustache the Monk: Introduction

to England with ruined schemes to face his unpopularity among the northern barons. 1215Although John accepts the articles of MagnaCarta on June 15, he has no intention of honoring them. Instead, he prepares for war against the barons. 1216The

• A Gest of Robyn Hode

roe deer) and vert (wood). Baronial discontent with forest law reached its peak in the years leading up to MagnaCarta (1215). In the "Articles of the Barons," the barons demanded that King John amend the "wicked customs connected with

• O recolende

fama satire nequibit, Plena set exhibit, cum laudeque plena redibit: Non sic transibit, vbicumque tirannus abibit; Cum nimis ascribit sibi magna, minora subibit; Vt meritum querit, sors sua fata gerit. [Whenever one drinks with a solemn vow, he cannot thirst

• Lydgate, Of the Sodein Fal of Princes in Oure Dayes

duceret, quae cum Regina Anna venerat de Boemia, ut fertur, cujusdam sellarii filiam, ignobilem prorsus atque foedam; ob quam causam magna surrepsit occasion scandalorum: — cujus nomen erat, in vulgari idiomate ‘Launcecrona’” [“and took another woman, who had come with

• The N-Town Plays: Play 31, Satan and Pilate’s Wife; Second Trial before Pilate

hands Sir; thieves two Sir; are; guilty; say say Sir can; against Sir; all insist; (t-note) [Et clamabunt omnes voce magna dicentes:1 “Ya! Ya! Ya!” 190 195 *681 200 205 *691 210 PYLAT Jhesu, thin owyn pepyl han dysprevyd Al

• Richard Maidstone, Concordia: Appendix 2

ejus frenum duxit, incedendo pedes. Regem vero sequebantur milites et cotanei sui, atque domus regi familiares. Nec defuit tant turb magna vis lituum et tubarum; nam turba seorsum suos tubicines prcedentes habebat, statutique fuerant per Londonienses super aquductum, et super

• The N-Town Plays: Play 13, Visit to Elizabeth

the lownes of hese handmayde, ye, So ferforthe for that, all generacyonys blysse yow in pes. MARIA Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est, Et sanctum nomen eius.4 ELIZABETH For grett thyngys he made and also myghtyest And ryght holy

• The N-Town Plays: Play 25, Raising of Lazarus

Them for to brynge clene out of dowt, This day oure myght thei all shul se. [Hic Jhesus clamat voce magna, dicens: Lazare! Lazare, my frende so fre! From that depe pitt come out anon! Be the grett myght of

• De Lucis Scrutinio

Psalm 137:4-5: "Confiteantur tibi, Domine, omnes reges terrae, Quia audierunt omnia verba oris tui; Et cantent in viis Domini, Quoniam magna est gloria Domini" ("May all the kings of the earth give glory to thee: for they have heard all

• Richard Maidstone, Concordia: Appendix 1

tabulam mensalem argenteam ac deauratam longitudine novem pedum, valentem quingentas marcas. Istis sic decursis, quadam die non longe postea in magna aula Westmon' sedens rex in sua sede regia concessit prefatis Londoniensibus omnes libertates quas ab eis abstulerat exceptis tribus.

• Poems of Political Prophecy: When Rome is Removed

leopardis regni Angliae. . . . Et illi flores deliciarum conjuncti cum leopardis demonstrant annos posteriores guerrarum, scilicet quod erunt magna bella et multa annis sequentibus inter Anglicos et Gallicos" (Wright, PPS 1:148). In medieval symbolism generally the leopard represents

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

bote; LTS suggests loke howe beste that bote myght be. 154–55 Reg: in left margin, by LH: Hic caret loquela magna et diversa. 170 JUDAS. Added in Reg in LH. 231 worthi. So LTS, RB; Reg: wothi. 239 Following line

• Richard Maidstone, Concordia: Appendix 3

in sublimitatibus constitutos in edificiis magnifice decorari, prout probat Philosophus (in IIIIo Etichorum); scilicet necesse est eos habere edificia sumptuosa, magna, pulcra et bene ornata, ad quorum ornatum varii artifices requiruntur, scilicet pictores, sculptores, vitriarii, fabri, aurifices et alia genera

• Lay le Freine

Grace, to be Agnes's "daughter." The case is recorded by Adam of Eynsham in his life of Hugh of Lincoln, Magna vita Sancti Hugonis, ed. Decima L. Douie and David Hugh Farmer, 2 vols., (Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson, 1961/62), vol. II,

• Ancrene Wisse, Part Three

"witerliche thu havest undervo thi mede." Sein Gregoire awundreth him ant seith thet men beoth wode the trochith swa uvele: Magna verecundia est grandia agere et laudibus inhiare. Unde celum mereri potest, nummum transitorii favoris querit. "Muchel meadschipe hit is,"

• The N-Town Plays: Play 41, Assumption of Mary

nesciuit thorum in delictis, Habebit requiem in respectu animarum sanctarum. 22 MARIA Beatam me dicent omnes generaciones, Quia fecit michi magna qui potens est, et sanctum nomen eius.23 DOMINUS Veni de Libano, sponsa mea; veni coronaberis.24 MARIA Ecce venio quia

• John Gower, Traiti selonc les auctours pour essampler les amantz marietz

LA TRESPLUS BELLE Q’UNQES FUIST HUMEINE 2 ff. Latin marginalia in F: Qualiter ex adulterio Helene vxoris Menelai regis Troia magna in cineres conuersa pro perpetuo desolata permansit. [“How through the adultery of Helen, the wife of king Menelaus, great

• The Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf

sordidam et setosam quasi hyrci, (4) manus truncas, digitos breves et grossos, pedes rotundos, (5) nasum spissum et gibbosum, labia magna et grossa, faciem azininam, capillos veluti hyrcorum. (6) Calciamenta pedum ejus rustica erant nimis, pannitiosa atque lutosa pellis; (7)