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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
C-text of Piers Plowman . Allen, H. E. 1927. Writings Ascribed 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 Associati on of
Description of Man's Limbs (IMEV 4070 ) 'Whereof is mad al mankynde'. 'God of his mercy haue vs in mynde. Amen'. English Kail 1904, pp. 64-69. ff. 115r-116r Follies of the Duke of Burgundy (IMEV 1939 ) 'A remembraunce of
the diocese of Lichfield and Coventry' (Doyle 1987, p. 13). Allen, H. E. 1927. Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole and Materials for his Biography , Modern Language Association of America Monograph series, 3, New York and London:
J. A. W. 1954. The Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville , New York: Modern Language Association of America, p. 292. Braswell, L. 1987. The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist IV: A Handlist of Douce Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose
Hall, near Tideswell, Derbyshire, at the Auction Sale of Books, late the Property of the Reverend Duncalf, deceased Minister of Peak Forest, in the County of Derby, buy this book, (No. 40 of Sale Catalogue) (prices at which it was
a list of sheriffs and mayors of Chester for the years 1469-1499. Manuscript not consulted. Book written for John Dedwood of Chester c. 1470 (see Macaulay 1899-1902, p. clxiii). Dedwood's name and device, a piece of the trunk of a
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'.
the southern recension of the Prick of Conscience from the second half of the fourteenth century (Lewis and McIntosh 1982, p. 133). Only Part 2 is considered here. f. 1r Table of Contents ff. 1v-96v Prick of Conscience (Southern Recension,
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
ff. 173r-179ra A treatise of the houses of the planets 'Here begynnethe the merueylous and sothefaste conynge of astrologye'. 'and barly litell and shorte þat yere'. English f. 179ra-b The Letting of the Moon 'The lettynge of the mone'. 'Nowe
Manuscript: Textual Studies of Malory s Morte Darthur , University of Wales, PhD thesis. Kelliher, H. 1981. The Early History of the Malory Manuscript , in Takamiya, T. and Brewer, D., Aspects of Malory , Arthurian
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.
of Gloucester Chronicle (IMEV 727 ) 'Fram the begynnyng of the world to tyme that now is' Imperfect Chronicle begins with the siege of Troy and ends imperfectly with the death of John. See Hudson 1969. ff. 170r-188v Chronicle
to the Manuscripts of the Prick of Conscience, Medium Aevum Monographs 12, Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures, pp. 87-88. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English:
Unknown On f. 28 is a note of the banns ofRichard Wynyard and Joan Blymyll . On f. 256v is an entry of the death of Robert Whytt , BA, curate of a church dedicated to SS. Peter and
Scribe of ff. 7r-86v and Scribe of ff. 87r-end: Scribal Dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 350 240, LP 7391 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 199). A late fifteenth-century manuscript of the Memoriale Credencium , a sophisticated manual of
drȝete hym throw the ȝere of methus and drynkys and lething of blode and also to beware of perlus daies the which bene cleped ioues de fe'. 'In the monythe of ienyver al maner of swete wynes ben gode to
Legendary: The Feast of Midwinter's Day ( IMEV 3336 ) 'þe feste of midewinteris dai is of muche pris'. 'Of wan ȝe desireþ so much to wite of to kninge'. ff. 173r-174v South English Legendary: The Feast of the Ascension