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'The entre' and incipit, 'Byfore þat eny þing was wrouȝt'. English Ed. Morris 1863. pp. 205-224 Speculum Gy de Warewyck (IMEV 1101 ) 'Herknes alle to my speche'. Unreadable, imperfect. English Morrill 1898. Codex Parchment. Fairly thick. 245 145 mm

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McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4. Voigts, L.E. 1985. A Handlist of Middle English in Harvard Manuscripts , Cambridge, Mass.

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N. F. 1972. Middle English Religious Prose , York Medieval Texts, London: Arnold. Boffey, J. 2003. ‘ The Charter of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost and its Role in Manuscript Anthologies ’ , Yearbook of English Studies , 33,

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of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4. Pearsall, D. ed. 1990. Studies in the Vernon Manuscript , Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, p. 42. Sajavaara, K., ed, 1967. The Middle English Translations of Robert

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Library Eng. 90 Ashburnham 136 s. xiv/xv English Latin Scribal Dialect: Shropshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 373 286, LP 4218 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 234). A late fourteenth/early fifteenth century (Ker 1983, p. 413) copy of the Prick

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and English on good manners. At the end is written, 'G. E.' and 'J. Th'. English Latin ff. 30r-31v John Lydgate Stans puer ad mensam (IMEV 2233 ) 'Mi dere child first thisylue'. 'put al defaute apon iohn lidgate'. English

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47, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 255-284. Duff, E. G. 1917. Fifteenth-Century English Books: a bibliography of books and documents printed in England and of books for the English market printed abroad , Bibliographical Society Illustrated Monographs 18, Oxford: Oxford

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Library Ee.iv.35.2 s. xiv 2 English Scribal Dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 383 193, LP 7000 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 196). A composite manuscript. Part 1, a sixteenth-century manuscript, contains various texts such as The Child and

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6571 The Royal Book ?s. xv English Scribal Dialect: south Herefordshire (Whitchurch area), or north east Monmouthshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (Benskin and McIntosh 1986, p. 200). A manuscript in one hand located to the Herefordshire/Monmouthshire border containing

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Modern Language Association of America, p. 292. Braswell, L. 1987. The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist IV: A Handlist of Douce Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Bodleian Library, Oxford , Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 36-37. Coxe,

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list in Latin of expressions relating to the deity followed by an English charm, the Letter to Charlemagne . The English text begins on f. 175v. Latin English Printed in Baugh 1956, p. 154. f. 178r-v Fifteen Joys of the

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vol. 1, p. 113). The manuscript contains Latin theological and moral texts which are interspersed with English and some French verses. Only the English verses are listed here. f. 7r Meditation on the Passion (IMEV 4107 ) 'Ho þat siþ

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Atlas of Late Medieval English: General Introduction, Index of Sources, Dot Maps , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4

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Amen'. English ff. 155v-158v South English Legendary: Life of St. Cecilia (IMEV 2873 ) 'Seint cecile kinne i bore was at Rome'. 'Graunte ous to þulk ioie come þer þat angles hire to ladde. Amen'. English ff. 158b-167v South English

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Library Brotherton 500 s. xiv/xv English Latin Scribal Dialect (main scribe, ff. 1-147v): Worcestershire, Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 370 266, LP 7660 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 249). Lewis and McIntosh state 'North west Worcestershire' (1982, p. 56). A

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in full. English f. 4v Recipe Too faded to decipher. This hand also responsible for texts on ff. 1v, 3v, 4r. English f. 5r Charm for women in childbirth 'For wemen þat trawayillit on cyldebed'. Latin EnglishEnglish rubric to

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þe sauter'. Rubric in red. English ff. 1v-276r Richard Rolle of Hampole English Psalter (IPMEP 271 ) 'In þis psalme firste he spekiþ of crist & of his folweres'. 'to sle gostly fro god'. English Codex Parchment 180 120 mm

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Role in Manuscript Anthologies ’ , Yearbook of English Studies , 33, 120-130. Braswell, L. 1987. The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist IV: A Handlist of Douce Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Bodleian Library, Oxford , Cambridge:

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Ripon Fragment of Mandeville ’ s Travels ’ , English Studies , 38, 262-265. . McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press,

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Amen amen pur charyte'. English ff. 62r-80v Assumption of the Virgin ( IMEV 2165 ) 'Hic incipit assumpcio beate marie'. 'In honorance of ihesu cryst'. 'That ihesus vs graunt so. Amen.' 'Celi regina fit scriptori medicina'. English Lumby 1866, pp.