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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 Association of America, p. 214, 247. Allen, H. E. 1931. English Writings ofRichard

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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

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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

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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

• 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,

• Blank flyleaf at the beginning of the manuscript., Added prayers to saints

son of John Holland: the calendar of the Rennes Psalter includes dates of birth of children ofRichard (d. 1460), duke ofYork and Cecily Neville (b. 1415, d. 1495) added after 1461: Anne ofYork, Edward, Elisabeth ofYork,

• Obits of the members of the de Grandison family and some medical recipes in English inscribed on the flyleaf., Added prayers to saints

son of John Holland: the calendar of the Rennes Psalter includes dates of birth of children ofRichard (d. 1460), duke ofYork and Cecily Neville (b. 1415, d. 1495) added after 1461: Anne ofYork, Edward, Elisabeth ofYork,

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

frere To preche and eek to begge it is no doute In which þer wente a lymytour aboute , A mersshy countre called holdernesse LOrdynges þer is in york schire , as I gesse Here begynneþ þe Somnours tale ,

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

losengeour That plesen yow more bi my feith Than he that sothfastnesse vnto yow seith Redeth Ecclesiastre of flaterye Beth war ye lordes of hir treccherie This chauntecleer stood hie vpon his toos Strecchyng his nekke and heelde his eyen

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

sche sterte Sche was so full of torment and of Rage Whan þat hire housbonde hadde lost his lyff Ful lowder þen dede hasdrubaldes wyff But soueraynly dame Pertelote schright Whan þey hadde seye of chaunteclere þe sight As maden

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

, be my feith Than he that soothfastnesse , vn to ȝow seith Redeth Ecclesiast , of flaterie Beth war ȝe lordes , of here trecherie This Chauntecler stod hye , vp oon his toos Strecchynge his nekke , helde

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sayn of Chauntecler þe sight Nought soueraignly dam pertelote schright Ful lowder þan did hasdrubaldes wyf Whan þat hir housebond had lost his lyf And þat þe Romayns had I brent Cartage Sche was so ful of torment and of