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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
unique placing of St. Anne and the Conception of the Virgin , item 2.64, among the July legends could be an indicator of the manuscript's production date. The Feast of St. Anne was established in England by edict of Pope
Life of St. Dunstan ( IMEV 2884 ) 'Seint dunston was of enguelonde icome of guode more Miracle ore louerd dude for him þe ȝuyt he was un bore'. 'Eyȝhte an four ti abbeies of monekes and of nonnes 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
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
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,
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
comendyd of wryters'. F. 118v - same hand - 'A defynityon of gentilyty'. F. 119r - same hand: 'gentilyte ys ye renowne of our auncesters for theyr bounty wch ys ye gyft of god...'; 'Tullyus Hostilius was discendid of pare
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
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
IMEV 3384 ) Explanation of the Feast of Easter English f. 134r South English Legendary: Life of St. Mary of Egypt ( IMEV 2990 ) English Horstmann 1887, pp. 260-271. f. 138v South English Legendary: Life of St. Alphege (