• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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'.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

An early fifteenth-century collection of miscellaneous items, secular and religious, including Sir Orfeo and Richard Maidstone's Penitential Psalms (Edden 1990, p. 19). The second part of the manuscript (not examined here) is from the second half of the fifteenth century

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

þat men clepiþ richardof seynt victor in a boke þat he makeþ of þe studye of wisdome wittenesiþ'. 'is Beniamyn þe ȝonge childe in raueschynge of mynde'. 'Explicit de +ii filiis iacob'. Translation ofRichardof St. Victor's De

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

p. 199). An early fifteenth century copy of the Prick of Conscience . ff. 1r-64v Prick of Conscience (Southern Recension, IMEV 3429 ) 'The might to þe fader of hevene'. 'seven werkes of mercy þat hi did noȝt here by

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

smelled swetenes of grace'. 'of my mynde þerfore blessed be þe name of ihesu in þe world of worldes. Amen'. English Furnivall 1866; Horstmann 1895. pp. 127-135 The syxtene conditions of charite 'þe syxtene condicions of charite'. 'Of alle uertues

• CP.F.89

nun of the convent of Wallingwells Location: Carlton In Lindrick (Nottinghamshire) Place(s): Priory of Wallingwells (domus monialium de Wallan Welles, prioratus de Wallenwelles) : religious house York (Ebor') : diocese Participant: Katherine wife of nobleman RobertRudston [Rudestane; Katherine wife of

• CP.F.129

the church ofYork Minster Location: York : city Place(s): York Minster (ecclesia Ebor') : undefined Participant: JohnBrignall [Brignale] Role: witness Details: male; clerk Employment: parson in the church ofYork Minster Location: York : city Place(s): York Minster (ecclesia

• CP.F.155

(skynner) Location: York (Ebor') : undefined Place(s): York, St Wilfrid (Yorkshire) York, St Wilfrid (Sanctus Wilfridus) : ecclesiastical parish Location: York (Ebor') : city Location: York (Ebor') : diocese Location: York : city Place(s): YorkHospital of St Leonard, York (hospitalis

• CP.F.153

York, Holy Trinity (Kings Court) Location: York, Holy Trinity (kings Court) (Yorkshire) Place(s): York, Holy Trinity (Kings Court) (sancta trinitas) : ecclesiastical parish York (Ebor') : undefined Participant: WilliamBaker [Baker] Role: witness Details: male; 50 Employment: Tailor (tailour) Location:

• CP.F.52

: undefined York, St Sampson (Yorkshire) York, St Sampson (Sanctus Samson ) : ecclesiastical parish Participant: WilliamBransby [Bransby; Brandysby] Role: witness Details: male Employment: Butcher (bucher) Location: York (Ebor') : undefined Place(s): York, St John (micklegate) (Yorkshire) York, St John

• Illuminated initial 'S'(elon), with a full border including an added white rose of York and the closed fetterlock in the lower border., La cité des dames

née Cecily Neville], duchess ofYork (b. 1415, d. 1495), Yorkist matriarch, and/or her husband RichardofYork, 3rd duke ofYork (b. 1411, d.1460), regent of France in 1436 and 1441-1445: includes the Yorkists badges of the white rose

• Calendar page for October, added obit of Isabel, sister of Richard, duke of York, and wife of Henry Bourchier, 1st earl of Essex (2nd October 1484), 'Obitus illustrissime d[omi]ne / d[omi]ne Isabelle comitisse / Essex[ensis] consortis Henrici / Bourgchier comiti / Essex[ensis] l[itte]ra d[omi]nicali B? A[nn]o / D[omi]ni M[illesi]mo cccc mo lxxxiiii'., Psalter, with 12 Canticles, Litany, and Office of the Dead, use of Sarum

beginning of major Psalm divisions (ff. 7, 22v, 32v, 41v, 51, 63, 74, 86), with the arms of Isabel, sister ofRichard, duke ofYork, aunt of Edward IV impaled by those of her husband, Henry Bourchier, 1st earl of

• Foliate initial 'B'(eatus) with a full foliate border and the arms of Isabel, sister of Richard, duke of York, aunt of Edward IV impaled by those of her husband, Henry Bourchier, 1st earl of Essex, with two eagles as supporters, and with her badge, a fatterlock, combined with the badge of her husband, a knot., Psalter, with 12 Canticles, Litany, and Office of the Dead, use of Sarum

of Isabel, sister ofRichard, duke ofYork, aunt of Edward IV impaled by those of her husband, Henry Bourchier, 1st earl of Essex, with two eagles as supporters, and with her badge, a fatterlock, combined with the badge

• Calendar page for December with added obits of Richard, duke of York, and Edward Bourchier, both killed at the battle of Wakefield (30th December 1460), 'Obitus Rica[rdi] Ducis Ebor[is] / Anno D[omi]ni Mill[es]imo cccc mo / Sexagesimo / Edwardus Bourgchier / filius d[omi]ne Isabelle comi/tisse Essex[ensis] et Sororis / eiusdem duciis, obiit eisdem / die et anno suprascript[is]'., Psalter, with 12 Canticles, Litany, and Office of the Dead, use of Sarum

beginning of major Psalm divisions (ff. 7, 22v, 32v, 41v, 51, 63, 74, 86), with the arms of Isabel, sister ofRichard, duke ofYork, aunt of Edward IV impaled by those of her husband, Henry Bourchier, 1st earl of

• Arms of Thomas Wolsey, royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal., An explication of the ten commandments (imperfect at the beginning) (ff. 1-8v), Lavynham's Little Treatise on the Seven Deadly Sins (De septem mortalibus peccatis), a tract on the Pater Noster (ff. 28v-48v), and various other religious works (imperfect at the end)

fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Thomas Wolsey Richard Lavenham and various other authors (index Richard Lavynham,

• MS Part One: Medieval Manuscripts from the Sloane and Additional Manuscripts, Section A 24,203 British Library, London 160 images.

of the XIVth cent. Much injured by the application of an extract of galls to bring out the writing. On f. 22 b is an acknowledgment of a debt from Robert Barkynburyo, of Langton, to Richard Enggersoun, ofYork,

• MS Part Two: Medieval Manuscripts from the Additional Manuscripts, Section B 39943 British Library, London 167 images.

of ch. xxv, beg. of ch. xxviii, ends of chs. xxxi, xxxv (with rubric to xxxvi), xxxvi (with rubric to xxxvii), beg. of ch. xli, whole of ch. xliii, end of ch. xlv. f. 7 b: (5) (5) Account

• MS Part Two: Medieval Manuscripts from the Additional Manuscripts, Section B 30,031 British Library, London 115 images.

Description MIRROR of the Life of Christ: translated from the Speculum vite Christi of St. Bonaventura by Nicholas Love, prior of the Carthusian monastery of Mount Grace, co. York. The preface is headed, "Here bigynneþ þe prohemie of þe book

• MS Part Two: Medieval Manuscripts from the Additional Manuscripts, Section B 33,736 British Library, London 13 images.

a Latin elegiac poem in praise of Henry VII. and in celebration of the birth of Prince Arthur in 1486, by Peter Carmelianus of Brescia, afterwards Chaplain and Latin Secretary to the King, Archdeacon of Gloucester, etc. (Gr. x.) Vellum;

• beginning of the xvth cent. MS Part One: Medieval Manuscripts from the Sloane and Additional Manuscripts, Section A 24,194 British Library, London...

John of Trevise, Vicar of Berkeley, Gloucester, and chaplain to Thomas, 10th Lord Berkeley, viz.:—— Vellum; beginning of the xvth cent.; with illuminated borders and miniature initials. On ff. 4 and 36 are the arms ofRichard Beauchamp, Earl of