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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'.
a later version of Thomas of Hales's Love Rune ( IMEV 66). English Furnivall 1901, pp. 464-468. ff. 299vb-300rb Morning Song of the Love of God ( IMEV 3760 ) 'A mournyng song of þe loue of God'. 'To loue
1895. Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole and His Followers , Library of Early English Writers, 2 vols, London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1. Horstmann, C. 1896. Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole and His Followers , Library of Early English Writers,
picture of a bird with caption'gallus'; f. 48r pattern of wiggly lines with caption 'mare'; f. 79v head of woman with caption 'rosa', pointing hand with caption 'manus', head of man with caption 'homo' and ?tool in front of face
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 ,
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
by Wm Hamper of Birmingham, was written about the end of Ric: II reign...'. Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, August 2003. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English:
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
this bok of Mr. John Cellsonne alldermane of the Sette of Rochester 1573'. Bookplate of the Earls of Essex dated 1701 no longer extant. Unknown when acquired by Henry E. Huntington. Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, August
Guide to the Manuscripts of the Prick of Conscience, Medium Aevum Monographs 12, Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval La nguages and Literatures, pp. 119-120 Morris, R. ed, 1863. Richard Rolle of Hampole, The Pricke of Conscience (Stimulus Conscientiae),
þe gretyng of gabriel þe conceyuyng of goddis sun þe blessyng of elizabeth þat kald hur modur of hur lorde she rose not in heghenes of thouȝt ne in bolnyng of pride bot in swetnes of hert'. 'of þis way
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
late-fourteenth century copy of the Prick of Conscience copied by a single scribe c. 1370 (Lewis and McIntosh 1982, p. 48). ff. 3r-136v Prick of Conscience (Main Version, IMEV 3428 ) 'Explicit stimulus consciencie'. 'þe myght of the fader almyghty'.
- ff. 6-8, early type of Anglicana, tiny. Body height: c. 1mm. Scribe 3 - ff. 9-26, a later variation of the early Anglicana. Body height: 1.5mm. Two-line initials in item 1, first letters of lines detached and with a
of Devonshire's MS s. xv English Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 423 276, LP 65 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). A fifteenth-century copy of Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection . ff. 1r-61v Walter Hilton Scale
copy of the Prick of Conscience from the second half of the fourteenth century. ff. 1r-119r Richard Rolle Prick of Conscience (Main Version, IMEV 3428 ) 'Her byginneth in presence the book cald pricke of conscience'. 'þe myȝt of the
p. 250). Scribe of ff. 139-40. Language of Suffolk or SE Norfolk (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 146). Scribe of ff. 141r-208r, Worcestershire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 146). A manuscript of three independent
The Text of the Scale of Perfection , Medium Aevum 5, 11-30. Hanna, R. 1982. The Archaeology of a Manuscript: Huntington Library HM 266 , Scriptorium , 36, 99-102. Hanna, R. 1984. The Index of Middle English
Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4. Morris, R. ed, 1863. Richard Rolle of Hampole, The Pricke of Conscience (Stimulus Conscientiae), Berlin: Asher.
cristes blessinge. Amen'. 'Explicit iacob & iosep'. English Napier 1916. ff. 11r-46r Geoffrey of Waterford Elucidarius 'Souentefois mauoient prie mi disciple'. Translation into French of the Elucidarius of Honorius Augustodunensis. French Meyer 1956, pp. 117-118. ff. 46v-51v Letter from Prester