• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 34, The Stations of Jerusalem

5 Venys toune. Venice was the most common departure point for northern Euro­pean pilgrims to the Holy Land, in part because of its location but largely due to its importance as a naval and mercantile power. Venice dominated the trade

• Item 34, The Stations of Jerusalem: Introduction

right to call him “the Proust of the genre.”3 The Stations of Jerusalem presents a fairly standard route, beginning in Venice, with stops in the Venetian-held ports of the Adriatic and eastern Mediterranean, and landing in Joppa. From there pilgrims

• Lydgate, Mumming for the Mercers of London

in short renowned whom still; (t-note) messenger; (see note) made his way (see note) River Jordan once sail (see note) Venice Genoa (see note) saw boat rock this reason: Great effort; (see note) Nothing avails sailing straits of Gibraltar perilous;

• Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes: Introduction

de Lyra et expositionibus Guillelmi Britonis in omnes prologos S. Hieronymi et additionibus Pauli Burgensis replicisque Matthiae Doering. 4 vols. Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 1489. [Hoccleve's explicit reference establishes that he had access to a Bible with Nicholas' commentary.] Quintilian. The

• The Book of Margery Kempe, Book II

Jerusalem on the road to Jaffa). 1746 purchasyn hir mor pardon, lit., to "purchase" for herself more pardon. 1751 Venyce, Venice. 1752 deyin, die. 1759 velany, shame. 1761 diswer, doubt. 1767 deceyvabyl, deceiving. 1769 flowyn on the gret plent of

• Alliterative Morte Arthure

Alliterative Morte Arthure Return to the Arthur Menu Return to Menu of TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95

• Ancrene Wisse, Part Seven

this story of the loyal friend lies the memory of the legendary friends Damon and Pythias. Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is a later handling of the same folkmotif. Though the antisemitism in this passage is drearily commonplace, there may

• Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Pp. 251-66. Hugh of St. Cher. Opera omnia in universum Vetus et Novum Testamentum. Venice: N. Pezzana, 1732. Isaac, Jean, O. P. Le "Peri Hermeneias" en Occident de Boce Saint Thomas. Bibliothque Thomiste, 29.

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Volume 3: Introduction

lion and a serpent. Vitalis thanks his deliverer, and appoints a time for him to come to his palace in Venice and receive the promised reward of half his goods; but when he comes, he is refused with contumely. The

• The Sultan of Babylon

note) somewhat disinheritance also beginning; spring woods nature spirit; proclaim honor hearken (see note) valiant moved ambassadors Asia; (see note) Venice, Phrygia; Ethiopia Nubia, Turkey; (see note) Macedonia, Bulgaria gathered fierce Moor giraffe excite their courage Many solemn truth; (see

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Book 5

Historiale 15.10; Legenda Aurea; and the English Gesta Romanorum (EETS e.s. 33, cap. lxvi). See also Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. 2278 ff. Latin marginalia: Hic ponit Confessor exemplum contra illos, qui in domibus Regum seruientes, pro eo quod ipsi

• The Book of Margery Kempe, Book I, Part I

Jerusalem on the road to Jaffa). 1746 purchasyn hir mor pardon, lit., to "purchase" for herself more pardon. 1751 Venyce, Venice. 1752 deyin, die. 1759 velany, shame. 1761 diswer, doubt. 1767 deceyvabyl, deceiving. 1769 flowyn on the gret plent of

• The Book of Margery Kempe, Book I, Part II

Jerusalem on the road to Jaffa). 1746 purchasyn hir mor pardon, lit., to "purchase" for herself more pardon. 1751 Venyce, Venice. 1752 deyin, die. 1759 velany, shame. 1761 diswer, doubt. 1767 deceyvabyl, deceiving. 1769 flowyn on the gret plent of