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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
endyth a [part ] of þis book'. Fragment English ff. 25v-26v Three Workings of Man's Soul (IPMEP 5 ) 'A grete clerke richardof seynt victores'. Epistle on thought, thinking, and contemplation based on Richardof St. Victor's De Preparatione
C-text of Piers Plowman . Allen, H. E. 1927. Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole and Materials for his Biography , Modern Language Association of America Monograph series, 3, New York and London: Modern Language Associati on of
A Bibliographical Manual , New York: Macmillan, rpt, New York: Peter Smith, pp. 185-186. Kirby-Miller, W. A. 1938. Scribal Dialects of the C and D Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales , University of Chicago, PhD thesis, pp. 67-68.
Description of Man's Limbs (IMEV 4070 ) 'Whereof is mad al mankynde'. 'God of his mercy haue vs in mynde. Amen'. English Kail 1904, pp. 64-69. ff. 115r-116r Follies of the Duke of Burgundy (IMEV 1939 ) 'A remembraunce of
The Manuscripts of Trevisa s Translation of the Polychronicon : Towards a New Edition , Modern Language Quarterly , 51, 281-317. Waldron, R. 1991. Dialect Aspects of Manuscripts of Trevisa s Translation of the Polychronicon
Prick of Conscience , the Abbey of the Holy Ghost and the Three Kings of Cologne . The mid fifteenth-century date of 1442 is indicated by the explicit of item 5, 'Thus endythe þe lyffe of iij kyngys of coleyne
sancta maria'. 'Heyle of wymmen flour of alle'. 'Blessid mot þou be þou berd so bryȝt'. English ff. 29v-33v (Items 66-81) On Virginity of Saints ( IMEV 535 ) 'De virgin[i ] tate'. 'For the loue of a maydon fre'.
J. A. W. 1954. The Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville , New York: 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
and the names of recipients of copies of this Middle Hill edition. Other notes on f. iv, presumably by a member of the Fermor family, are taken from Warton's account of the manuscript ( The History of English Poetry ,
Hall, near Tideswell, Derbyshire, at the Auction Sale of Books, late the Property of the Reverend Duncalf, deceased Minister of Peak Forest, in the County of Derby, buy this book, (No. 40 of Sale Catalogue) (prices at which it was
p. 154. f. 178r-v Fifteen Joys of the Virgin 'Legitur...archiepiscopus viii gaudia'. Narrative of the vision of St. Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, concerning the Fifteen Joys of the Virgin. Latin ff. 178v-179r Memorial of St. George 'Salue miles nobilis'. Latin
a list of sheriffs and mayors of Chester for the years 1469-1499. Manuscript not consulted. Book written for John Dedwood of Chester c. 1470 (see Macaulay 1899-1902, p. clxiii). Dedwood's name and device, a piece of the trunk of a
of Robert of Gloucester/Piers Plowman/Aldelmus de Vita Monachorum'. Later drawings: drawing of comic face on ff. 224r and 229r. On f. 230r are three faces, two brown copies of one in black. On f. 286v there are two versions
the southern recension of the Prick of Conscience from the second half of the fourteenth century (Lewis and McIntosh 1982, p. 133). Only Part 2 is considered here. f. 1r Table of Contents ff. 1v-96v Prick of Conscience (Southern Recension,
ff. 173r-179ra A treatise of the houses of the planets 'Here begynnethe the merueylous and sothefaste conynge of astrologye'. 'and barly litell and shorte þat yere'. English f. 179ra-b The Letting of the Moon 'The lettynge of the mone'. 'Nowe
Manuscript: Textual Studies of Malory s Morte Darthur , University of Wales, PhD thesis. Kelliher, H. 1981. The Early History of the Malory Manuscript , in Takamiya, T. and Brewer, D., Aspects of Malory , Arthurian
comendyd of wryters'. F. 118v - same hand - 'A defynityon of gentilyty'. F. 119r - same hand: 'gentilyte ys ye renowne of our auncesters for theyr bounty wch ys ye gyft of god...'; 'Tullyus Hostilius was discendid of pare
of Gloucester Chronicle (IMEV 727 ) 'Fram the begynnyng of the world to tyme that now is' Imperfect Chronicle begins with the siege of Troy and ends imperfectly with the death of John. See Hudson 1969. ff. 170r-188v Chronicle
H., ed, 1959. Historical Poems of the XIVth and XVth Centuries , New York: Columbia University Press. Ward, H. 1910. Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum , London: Trustees of the British Museum, 2,
i am kyng of all kynges lord of all lordes'. 'Writen in þe yere 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