• CP.F.182

21 Location: York, St Sampson (Yorkshire) Place(s): York, St Sampson (Sanctus Samson) : ecclesiastical parish York (Ebor') : undefined Participant: JohnThwing [Thweyng] Role: witness Details: male; 29 Employment: weaver (wever) Location: York, St Mary Bishophill (senior) (Yorkshire) Place(s): York, St

• CP.F.122

of the Duke of York Location: Wakefield, All Saints (YorkshireWestRiding) Place(s): Wakefield, All Saints (Wakfeld) : ecclesiastical parish Participant: WilliamTurton [Turton] Role: defendant Details: male Employment: farmer of the mills and waters of the Duke of York Location: Penistone (YorkshireWestRiding)

• CP.F.124

male; clerk Employment: vicar of Doncaster, St George Location: Doncaster, St George (YorkshireWestRiding) Place(s): Doncaster, St George (Doncastr') : undefined York (Ebor') : diocese Participant: Sybil wife of HenryShalford [Schalford] Role: defendant Details: female Location: Doncaster, St George (YorkshireWestRiding) Place(s):

• CP.F.181

Details: male; 20 Employment: servant of William Wright Location: York (Ebor') : city Place(s): York : city North Street (North Strete) : street name Location: York (Ebor') : city Location: York : city Place(s): YorkNorth Street (North Strete) : street

• CP.F.216

Fountains (Fontibus) : religious house York (Ebor') : diocese Participant: RobertLayton [Laton] Role: defendant Details: male; esquire Location: Ripon (YorkshireWestRiding) Place(s): Ripon (Ripon) : ecclesiastical parish Nun Monkton (YorkshireWestRiding) Nun Monkton (Munkton) : undefined York (Ebor') : diocese Participant: WilliamDriffield

• Detail of illuminated initial 'A'(d dominum cum tribularer), with foliate motifs, at Psalm 119., Psalter (the 'Ramsey Psalter' or 'Psalter of Oswald'), in the Gallican version, with a litany (ff. 209-211) followed by prayers (ff. 211-214)

the time the manuscript was made); perhaps made for Oswald, founder of Ramsey abbey, bishop of Worcester, and archbishop of York from 972 to 992: mentioned in Ramsey's 14th-century catalouge as a 'Psalter of St Oswald' (see Gameson 1996).Thomas Powell:

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'D'(ixit dominus domino meo), with foliate and knotwork motifs, at Psalm 109., Psalter (the 'Ramsey Psalter' or 'Psalter of Oswald'), in the Gallican version, with a litany (ff. 209-211) followed by prayers (ff. 211-214)

the time the manuscript was made); perhaps made for Oswald, founder of Ramsey abbey, bishop of Worcester, and archbishop of York from 972 to 992: mentioned in Ramsey's 14th-century catalouge as a 'Psalter of St Oswald' (see Gameson 1996).Thomas Powell:

• Text page with plain initials in gold 'C'(anticum Psalmorum)., Psalter (the 'Ramsey Psalter' or 'Psalter of Oswald'), in the Gallican version, with a litany (ff. 209-211) followed by prayers (ff. 211-214)

the time the manuscript was made); perhaps made for Oswald, founder of Ramsey abbey, bishop of Worcester, and archbishop of York from 972 to 992: mentioned in Ramsey's 14th-century catalouge as a 'Psalter of St Oswald' (see Gameson 1996).Thomas Powell:

• Detail of tinted drawing with the Virgin Mary standing at the base of the cross., Psalter (the 'Ramsey Psalter' or 'Psalter of Oswald'), in the Gallican version, with a litany (ff. 209-211) followed by prayers (ff. 211-214)

the time the manuscript was made); perhaps made for Oswald, founder of Ramsey abbey, bishop of Worcester, and archbishop of York from 972 to 992: mentioned in Ramsey's 14th-century catalouge as a 'Psalter of St Oswald' (see Gameson 1996).Thomas Powell:

• Detail of illuminated initial 'D'(eus in nomine tuo saluum me fac) at Psalm 53., Psalter (the 'Ramsey Psalter' or 'Psalter of Oswald'), in the Gallican version, with a litany (ff. 209-211) followed by prayers (ff. 211-214)

the time the manuscript was made); perhaps made for Oswald, founder of Ramsey abbey, bishop of Worcester, and archbishop of York from 972 to 992: mentioned in Ramsey's 14th-century catalouge as a 'Psalter of St Oswald' (see Gameson 1996).Thomas Powell:

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4. Robbins, R. H., ed, 1959. Historical Poems of the XIVth and XVth Centuries , New York: Columbia University Press. Ward, H. 1910. Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum ,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Dictionary , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4. Matzke, J. 1909. Les oeuvres de Simund de Freine , New York: Johnson Reprint, 1968. Meyer, P. 1884. ‘ Notice et extraits du MS. 8336 de la Bibliotheque de Sir Thomas

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

456). Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, March 2004. Blake, N. F. 1972. Middle English Religious Prose , York Medieval Texts, London: Arnold. Boffey, J. 2003. ‘ The Charter of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost and its

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

in the Vernon Manuscript , Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 1-13, p. 8. Dreves, G. 1961. Analecta Hymnica , New York; London: Johnson Reprint Corp. Erler, M. C. 2002. Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England , Cambridge: Cambridge

• Middle of xv. cent MS Part Two: Medieval Manuscripts from the Additional Manuscripts, Section B 37790 British Library, London 241 images.

a 16th cent. owner's name "Vincit Winge his Booke." Bookplates of arms of William Constable, F.R.S., of Burton Constable, co. York (d. 1791) and Lord Amherst. Burton Constable sale-cat. 1889, lot 148; Amherst sale-cat. lot 813. "At the reuerence off