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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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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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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.

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of youre gret god my cosyn mcccc xli yere'. Proclamation dated 1416. English f. 5v The breadth and length of an acre of land In a later hand. English ff. 6r-95r Piers Plowman, C-text (IMEV 1459 ) 'In a somer

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Latin ff. 18r-72v Speculum Christiani First English rubric, f. 22r: 'In heuen shalle dwelle all cristen men that knowe and kepe godis byddyngis ten'. 'Explicit speculum christiani'. Latin English The text contains the following English verse texts: IMEV 1342, 1491,

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made. Fiat fiat amen'. English Kristensson, 1974, pp. 105-7; Peacock 1902, pp. 60-67. f. 128r Instructive Verse Regarding Excommunication ( IMEV 3372 ) 'Than you þi candul kaste to grownde'. 'You myȝte se many mo'. English Kristensson, 1974, pp. 105-7;

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English Kengen 1979. ff. 69v-70v Story preceding Fifteen Oes 'A woman recluse & solitarye coueitynge to knowen þe number of þe woundes of oure lord ihesu crist'. ' & bryngen his soule into heuene biliue amen p ar charite'.

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Samuels, M. L., ed, So Meny People Longages and Tonges: Philological Essays on Scots and Mediaeval English Presented to Angus McIntosh , Edinburgh: Middle English Dialect Project, pp. 251-264, pp. 257-259 and n. 22. Lewis, R. E., and McIntosh, A.

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Index of Middle English Prose: A Handlist of Manuscripts containing Middle English Prose in the Digby Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford , Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 63-64 Hudson, A. 1966. ‘ Tradition and Innovation in Some Middle English Manuscripts ’