• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Thopas and Guy of Warwick ’ in Long, P. W. ed, Essays and Studies in Honor of Carleton Brown , New York: New York University Press, pp. 111-128. Reprinted in Adventures in the Middle Ages , New York: Burt Franklin,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

shortened translation of the description of the Holy Land and Egypt at the beginning of book three of J. de Vitry, Historia orientalis . f. 131r Cest la conisaunce de les Armes des Roys French The arms of twenty-five kings

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, August 2003. http://molcat.bl.uk/msscat . Dawson, W. R. 1934. A Leechbook or collection of medical recipes of the fifteenth century: the text of ms no. 136 of the Medical Society of London, together with a

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

IMEV 3384 ) Explanation of the Feast of Easter English f. 134r South English Legendary: Life of St. Mary of Egypt ( IMEV 2990 ) English Horstmann 1887, pp. 260-271. f. 138v South English Legendary: Life of St. Alphege (

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

time of Charles the 1st and Cromwell'. Ff. 14r, 21v, 31r - name of Samuel Higgins. F. 77r names of Samuel Higgins, Anne and Mary Higgins, probably children of Joseph Higgins , Rector of Eastnor, d. 1847, and descendants of

• CP.E.39

Details: male; clerk Employment: vicar of the church of Middleton Location: Middleton (YorkshireWestRiding) Place(s): Middleton (Middilton) : ecclesiastical parish Participant: Robert Bougie [de Bougis] Role: witness Details: male; clerk Employment: rector of the church of Richmond Location: Richmond (YorkshireNorthRiding) Place(s):

• CP.E.32

Employment: Participant: Matilda wife of RandulfLister [Littister] Role: witness Details: female; 25; wife Participant: Simon Apper [Apper'] Role: witness Details: male Notes: Document damaged so that part of the surname is obscured. Participant: Robert son of Roger Role: witness Details:

• CP.E.38

1339 — 24/09/1340 People & Places Participant: prior and convent of Haverholm Role: plaintiff Details: male Participant: JohnHaworth [de Haukesworth] Role: defendant Details: male; clerk Employment: rector of the church of Thorpe Newark Participant: Robert Newham [de Newenham] Role: prosecution

• CP.E.43

Hotham (Hothan) : ecclesiastical parish Notes: former rector of the church of Hotham. Participant: Peter Randolph [Randolf] Role: witness Details: male Participant: Richard Cornhill [de Conhull] Role: witness Details: male Participant: Richard Hunsley [de Hundeslay; de Hundelay] Role: witness Details:

• CP.E.15

Location: Italy (Italy) : country Place(s): Italy (ItalyCourt of Rome (sedm apostolicam, curiam Romanam) : ecclesiastical province Location: Court of Arches (curiam Cant') : ecclesiastical province Refers to the ecclesiastical court of Canterbury which the deponent says was 'sedente in

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

of Fraunce, Of kniȝtes þat were in destaunce, þat dyed þurth dint of sward:, Of Rouland & of Oliuer, & of þe oþer dusseper,, Of Alisander & Charlmeyn, & Ector þe gret werrer, & of Danys le fiz Oger,,

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

of Witt, Sir Beues of Hamtoun, The Seven Sages of Rome and Guy of Warwick (different version). BL Egerton MS 2862 (olim Trentham-Sutherland). Late 14th century. Suffolk. Fragments. Egerton also has in common with Auchinleck: King Richard, Sir Beues

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

of England, Camden Society, 6 (London: Nichols, 1839). Re-issued by P. R. Coss (ed. and intro.), Thomas Wright's Political Songs of England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). D. Laing, Owain Miles (Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1837). Index 1857. The Sayings

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

he;, þilke of Baþe he hadde also, , þat at Welles wonede þo;, þilke of Chichester & of Winchester,, & eke þe bischop of Excester, þe fift was, wiþouten feyle,, At Seyn Jermain in Cornewaile., þe king of Merken merche,,

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

C. Horstmann, 'Life of Adam and Eve', Altenglische Legenden, Neue Folge (Heilbronn: Henninger, 1878; reprinted Hildeshein and New York: G. Olms, 1969): 139-147. Corrections in: A. J. Bliss, 'The Auchinleck Life of Adam and Eve', Review of English Studies, ns

• Puzzle initial, Liber specialis gratiae (the Booke of Gostlye Grace)

plain red or blue. Liber specialis gratiae (the Booke of Gostlye Grace) Richard III (b. 1452, d. 1485), king of England and lord of Ireland,: inscriptions: 'Anne Warrewyk', 'R[ichard Duke of] Gloucestre' (inside upper cover), and 'R Gloucestre' (inside lower

• Detail of decorated initial 'U'., Mainly scientific and grammatic miscellany, including the Summa Chiromantiae (ff. 100-108v; 109-34), the Mirror of Light (ff. 155-168); Cistercian statuta and ordinationes (ff. 200-220); De sphaera (ff. 59-75); algorismus with commentary (ff. 26-43)

Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Detail Richard Dove of Buckfast, John Metham, and others England

• Miniature of Diex d'Amors (the God of Love) taking hold of the Lover (L'Amans)., Roman de la Rose

III and Richard II, and one of the Lollard knights: owned by him, see inscription below.Thomas [Thomas of Woodstock], duke of Gloucester (b. 1355, d. 1397), prince, the seventh (but fifth surviving) son of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault:

• Detail of a miniature of Diex d'Amors (the God of Love) taking hold of the Lover (L'Amans)., Roman de la Rose

III and Richard II, and one of the Lollard knights: owned by him, see inscription below.Thomas [Thomas of Woodstock], duke of Gloucester (b. 1355, d. 1397), prince, the seventh (but fifth surviving) son of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault:

• Detail of an historiated initial 'H'(odie) of the Nativity of Christ, at the beginning of the choir response during the morning prayers (lauds) for Christmas., Breviary, Use of Sarum with Norwich variants ('The Stowe Breviary')

and a note of the beheading of Thomas, Duke of Lancaster, in March 1322 (f. 157). The last appointment of a bishop of Norwich mentioned is John Salmon (d. 1325) (f. 156v, line 14).Inscription, after 1344: note of debt for