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lyuerd & holpe anon'. Addition in a later hand. English. f. 115v The Schoolboy's Lament ( IMEV 1399 ) Acephelous A f ragment only partially copied and now difficult to read. English. Codex Parchment 310 210 mm Fifteen quires. Eights.

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Library Dd.3.13 s. xiv ex English Scribal Dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 359 213, LP 7230 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 197). 'S. E. Herefords. and N. W. Gloucs. borders' (Samuels 1988). A late fourteenth-century copy (Skeat believes

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Virginia Hench 10 Aldenham s. xiv 2 English Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 448 277, LP 534 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). A late-fourteenth century copy of the Prick of Conscience copied by a single scribe

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Duke 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

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York: Kraus Reprint, 3, pp. 187. Hudson, A. 1966. ‘ Tradition and Innovation in Some Middle English Manuscripts ’ , The Review of English Studies , 17, 359-372, p. 360, n. 2. Hudson, A. 1969. ‘ Robert of Gloucester and

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Press, pp. 403-404. Doyle, A. I. 1983. ‘ English Books in and out of Court from Edward III to Henry VII ’ , in Scattergood, J. V., and Sherborne, J. W., ed, English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages

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383 R.3.8 s. xiv ex English Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 412 309, LP 36 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 237). A late fourteenth-century copy (Thompson 1998, p. 38) of the Cursor Mundi written by a single

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Dd.vi.29 s. xiv and s. xv English Latin Scribal Dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 365 233, LP 7340 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 199). A collection of medical tracts of various dates. Only the hand of ff. 110r-124v

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Huntington Library HM 125 s. xiv/xv English Latin Scribal Dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 383 231, LP 7800 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 250). A late fourteenth/early fifteenth-century copy (Dutschke 1989, p. 156) of the Prick of Conscience

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the Earl of Leicester 668 s. xiv/xv English Latin Scribal Dialect: Scribe 1 - Lichfield; Scribe 2 - Lichfield; Scribe 3 - Staffordshire; Scribe 4 - too short to assess. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin

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, M. L., ed, So Meny People Longages and Tonges: Philological Essays on Scots and Mediaeval English Presented to Angus McIntosh , Edinburgh: Middle English Dialect Project, pp. 251-264, pp. 257-259, 263, and nn. 22, 26. Lewis, R. E., and

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'þer þou regnest lord and sire'. English Cf. Horstmann 1892, pp. 19-20. ff. 35v-36r Prayer to the Virgin (IMEV 3241 ) 'Swete leuedy synte marie ff ul of grace and curteysie'. 'swete ihesus amen'. English Cf. Horstmann 1892, pp. 20-21.

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English Religious and Ethical Literature: Essays in Honour of George H. Russell , Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 35-48, p. 37. Eljenholm-Nichols, A., Orr, M. T., Scott, K. L., and Dennison, L., ed, 2000. An Index of Images in

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English f. 91v South English Legendary: Feast of the Circumcision ( IMEV 4266 ) English f. 92r South English Legendary: Epiphany ( IMEV 3813 ) English f. 92r South English Legendary: Life of St. Hilary ( IMEV 2912 )

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Morris, R., ed, 1868. OldEnglish Homilies , series 1, EETS, os, 29, London: University Press, p. 245. Morris, R., ed, 1871. Legends of the Holy Rood; Symbols of the Passion and Cross Poems In OldEnglish of the Eleventh,

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English Lyrics of MS Harley 2253, Old and English Texts , Manchester: University Press. Brown, C. 1916. A Register of Middle English Religious and Didactic Verse , 2 vols, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 320-22. Brown. C. ed., 1932.

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amen'. This is a unique preface to the prologue of Rolle's English Psalter . The explicit is defective due to crumpling of the leaf. ff. 1v-2va Richard Rolle English Psalter: Prologue 'Grete plente of gostly conf ort and ioy'. 'in

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Library Brotherton 500 s. xiv/xv English Latin Scribal Dialect (main scribe, ff. 1-147v): Worcestershire, Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 370 266, LP 7660 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 249). Lewis and McIntosh state 'North west Worcestershire' (1982, p. 56). A

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in full. English f. 4v Recipe Too faded to decipher. This hand also responsible for texts on ff. 1v, 3v, 4r. English f. 5r Charm for women in childbirth 'For wemen þat trawayillit on cyldebed'. Latin EnglishEnglish rubric to

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in the manuscript. English f. 1r South English Legendary: The Long Life of Christ ( IMEV 3452 ) Defective Defective Fragmentary: 901 verses, covering the middle life of Christ. English Horstmann 1875, p. 1. ff. 11r-21v South English Legendary: The