Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. a. 1
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Shelfmark
Country:England
Settlement:Oxford
Repository: Bodleian Library
Idno:Eng. poet. a. 1
AltName:SC 3928-42Vernon
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Date and Language
Date:s. xivex
Language: English
Dialect:Scribe 1: Scribal dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 378 262, LP 7670 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 250). Serjeantson places the scribe of the Index (Scribe 1) into 'South Shropshire-South Staffordshire' area (1937, p. 227) Scribe 2: Scribal dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 389 270, LP 7630 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 249).
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Contents
This manuscript, famously known as the Vernon manuscript, is an impressive book in every respect. Its imposing size equals the extent of its vernacular Middle English texts whilst its plentiful decoration and illumination serve to highlight its luxury status. An extensive collection of Middle English religious and didactic texts, the manuscript runs to over 350 items and has been termed a 'typical medieval one-volume library' by Göorlach (1974, p. 102). The manuscript is thought to date from c. 1390.

Item: 1
Locus:f. i ra-iii rb
Title:Index
Incipit:
Explicit:
Rubric:'Here bygynnen že tytles off the book žat is cald in latyn tonge salus anime and in englyhs tonge sowlehele'
Bibliography:Serjeantson 1937.

Item: 2
Locus:ff. iii va-viii ra
Title:De Institutione Inclusarum (IPMEP 478)
Incipit:'Nou let heere here and vnderstonde ententyflyche myne wordes whateuere heo be žat haž fursake žis worlde'.
Explicit:'to my savyour žat i abide and to my domesman žat i drede he wylle deuoytly preye for my mysdedes žat he and i mowe come to žat blisse žat i vnworžly haue spoken of quod nobis misericorditer concedat qui viuit et regnat in secula seculorum amen'.
Rubric:'Informacio alredi abbatis monasterii de rieualle ad sororem suam inclusam translata de latino in anglicum per thomam n.'
Note:F. iiiv (top) printed as frontispiece in Ayto and Barratt 1984.
Bibliography:Printed in Ayto and Barratt 1984.

Item: 3
Locus:ff. 1r-6va
Title:South English Legendary: Old Testament History (Life of Christ) (IMEV 3973)
Incipit:'...hit comež in my žouht že muchele sor and sunne'.
Explicit:'And so vr lord euere among nymež wreche of his soon'.
Note: The beginning of this text is lost (initial only) due to the top inner corner of the leaf having been torn away.
Bibliography:

Item: 4
Locus:f. 6va
Title:Sayings of the Prophets (IMEV 213)
Incipit:'Al žat že prophetes tolden whylen in heore prophecie'.
Explicit:'And alle žis ožere goode men and že holy zakarie'.
Note:Used as a headlink to the prologue of the Founding of the Feast of the Conception.
Bibliography:

Item: 5
Locus:ff. 6va-7ra
Title:Prologue to the Founding of the Feast of the Conception (IMEV 4173)
Incipit:'Wolle ?e witen whanne and hou že fest schal ben iholde'.
Explicit:'žat hit ne for leete'.
Bibliography:

Item: 6
Locus:ff. 7ra-9rb
Title:The Founding of the Feast of the Conception (IMEV 104)
Incipit:'Now we beož in že storie so fer icome wižinne'.
Explicit:'He loked hir as his ladie deore and what heo wolde hit was ido'.
Bibliography:

Item: 7
Locus:f. 9rb
Title:South English Legendary: Prologue/Banna Sanctorum 2304
Incipit:'Now blowež žis newe fruyt žat late began to springe'.
Explicit:'And fro on to ožur so arowe že while že ?er wol leste'.
Bibliography:

Item: 8
Locus:f. 9rb-va
Title:South English Legendary: New Year's Day
Incipit:'?eres day že holy feste hei? day is and good'.
Explicit:'Že day is good to holde hei?e of men žat bež wyse'.
Bibliography:

Item: 9
Locus:f. 9va
Title:South English Legendary: Epiphany (IMEV 3813)
Incipit:'Twelfže dai že he?e feste nobliche is to holde'.
Explicit:'Wel ouhte we halewe žat ilke day and honoure also'.
Bibliography:

Item: 10
Locus:f. 9va-c
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Hilary (IMEV 2912)
Incipit:'Seint hillare že holi mon of aquitayne was'.
Explicit:'Nou god for že loue of hym vs bringe žider vchon. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 11
Locus:ff. 9vb-10va
Title:South English Legendary: Lives of St. Wulstan (IMEV 3068)
Incipit:'Seint wolston bisschop of wircestre was her of engelonde'.
Explicit:'Nou god seene žat we mote wiž him in že ioye of heuene beo. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 12
Locus:f. 10va-b
Title:South English Legendary: Lives of St. Fabian and St. Sebastian (IMEV 2896)
Incipit:'Seint ffabian žrettene ?er pope was in roome'.
Explicit:'And to že ioye of heuene from pyne he gon wende'.
Note:'Pope' crossed through.
Bibliography:

Item: 13
Locus:ff. 10vb-11rb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Agnes (IMEV 2850)
Incipit:'Seint agnes že holy mayde wel sone heo bygon'.
Explicit:'And wende to že blisse of heuene afture hire muchele pyne'.
Bibliography:

Item: 14
Locus:f. 11rb-vb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Vincent (IMEV 3067)
Incipit:'Seint vincent in spayne was and to a cristene bisschop com'.
Explicit:'Žat we mote to heuene come and for?if vs vre misdede. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 15
Locus:ff. 11vb-12rb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Julian Hosteler (IMEV 2950)
Incipit:'Seint iulian goode herbigour of noble kuynde com'.
Explicit:'Žat vr lord vs lete vr sunne bete and heuene haue to mede. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 16
Locus:f. 12rb-vb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Blase (IMEV 2866)
Incipit:'Seint blase wel clene lyf ladde wižouten hore'.
Explicit:'Žat seint blase is inne ibrou?t and žat we žerof ne misse. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 17
Locus:ff. 12vb-13rb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Agatha (IMEV 2839)
Incipit:'Seint agace žat gode maide in cisyle was ibore'.
Explicit:'Žat we to že ioye of heuene wiž hire come mote. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 18
Locus:f. 13rb-va
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Scholastica (IMEV 3052)
Incipit:'Seint scolace žat holy mayde holy was of lyue'.
Explicit:'Iburied at vr endyng day and to heuene flee. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 19
Locus:f. 13va
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Valentine (IMEV 3066)
Incipit:'Seint valentin že martir good mon was inouh'.
Explicit:'Now god for že loue of hym vs bringe to žat ilke place. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 20
Locus:ff. 13va-14rb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Juliana (IMEV 2951)
Incipit:'Seint iuliane com of hei?e men as we fyndež iwrite'.
Explicit:'Didde for vs žat we mote to že ioye of heuene weende. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 21
Locus:f. 14rb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Matthias (IMEV 3026)
Incipit:'Seint mathi apostel is as ?e schule alle iwite'.
Explicit:'Žat we whenne we henne wende come to heuene blisse. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 22
Locus:f. 14rb-vb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Gregory (IMEV 2910)
Incipit:'Seint gregori že confessour in cisyle was ibore'.
Explicit:'žat he bifore vr lord crist vr neode vndurstonde. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 23
Locus:f. 14vb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Longinus (IMEV 2960)
Incipit:'Seint longius was a blind kniht žo God was don on že roode'.
Explicit:'Ffor?if vs vre misdedes her and bring vs to heuene also. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 24
Locus:ff. 14vb-15va
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Edward the Elder (IMEV 2889)
Incipit:'Seint edward že ?onge martir was kyng of engelonde'.
Explicit:'To že loue of heuene wiž hem vs brynge žere. Amen amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 25
Locus:ff. 15va-16ra
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Cuthbert (IMEV 2880)
Incipit:'Seint cuthberd was ibore her in engelonde'.
Explicit:'Žorwh že bone of seint cuthbert come žulke ioye to. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 26
Locus:f. 16ra-b
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Benedict (IMEV 2861)
Incipit:'Seint benet ladde holy lyf žat was so holy mon'.
Explicit:'Žat seint benet is inne in heuene žat we žerof ne misse. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 27
Locus:f. 16rb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Julian the Confessor (IMEV 2949)
Incipit:'Seint iulian že confessor ibore was at roome'.
Explicit:'Žat we whonne we henne wende come to heuene blisse. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 28
Locus:ff. 16rb-va
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Bridget (IMEV 2871)
Incipit:'Seint bride of wel he?e men in to scotlonde com'.
Explicit:'Žat god haž iordeyned žat lastež wižouten ende. Amen'.
Note:Short version.
Bibliography:

Item: 29
Locus:ff. 16va-17rb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Oswald the Bishop (IMEV 3035)
Incipit:'Seint Oswold was ibore heere in engelonde'.
Explicit:'God lete vs to že ioye come žer he is inne ibrou?t. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 30
Locus:ff. 17rb-va
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Chad (IMEV 2874)
Incipit:'Seint chadde že gode mon was her of engelonde'.
Explicit:'Nou god for že loue of seint chadde to žilke ioye vs bringe. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 31
Locus:ff. 17va-18va
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Mary of Egypt (IMEV 2990)
Incipit:'Seinte marie egipcian in egipte was ibore'.
Explicit:'Nou god for že loue of seint marie žider vs lete wende. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 32
Locus:f. 18va
Title:South English Legendary: Feast of the Annunciation (IMEV 2989)
Incipit:'Seinte marie day in lente among ožur dayes gode'.
Explicit:'Žat we mote come to žat ilke ioye žat he vs to brouhte amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 33
Locus:f. 18va
Title:South English Legendary: Moveable Feasts/Septuagesima (IMEV 791)
Incipit:'Festes meble že beže icleped fyue in že ?ere'.
Explicit:'Fforte leuen heore lužur sunnes žat heo wrouhten er'.
Bibliography:

Item: 34
Locus:ff. 18va-19rb
Title:South English Legendary: Lent (IMEV 1859)
Incipit:'Now beož žer žreo hondred dawes and sixti in že ?ere'.
Explicit:'Bote heo beon wižoute wražže ožur of dedly sinne'.
Bibliography:

Item: 35
Locus:f. 19rb-va
Title:South English Legendary: Easter (IMEV 3384)
Incipit:'Že holy feste of aster comeže after lenton anon'.
Explicit:'Žat he ?af to stronge deže for vs vppon že roode'.
Note:Explanation of Easter.
Bibliography:

Item: 36
Locus:f. 19va
Title:South English Legendary: Ascension (IMEV 126)
Incipit:'Že fourtiže day žer afturward žat he aros from deže to lyue'.
Explicit:'Let vs vr sunnes bete her že fend to ouercome. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 37
Locus:ff. 19va-24vb
Title:South English Legendary: The Southern Passion (IMEV 483)
Incipit:'Bifore six dayes of aster as a palmsone eue'.
Explicit:'Žat me stele hit not awey žat žey mihte vndur?ite'.
Bibliography:

Item: 38
Locus:ff. 24vb-25ra
Title:South English Legendary: Resurrection (IMEV 1546)
Incipit:'In že dawynge že soneday as že day gon springe'.
Explicit:'And as mylde beo to sinfol men and ensaumple žerof toke'.
Note:First part of the Southern Passion.
Bibliography:

Item: 39
Locus:f. 25ra
Title:South English Legendary: Appearance to Mary Magdalene (IMEV 2106)
Incipit:'Marie magdalene erliche was iwent'.
Explicit:'And wende euere žat vr lord weore awey ibore'.
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
Bibliography:

Item: 40
Locus:f. 25ra-va
Title:South English Legendary: Mary Magdalene (IMEV 2120)
Incipit:'Marie wolde no?t awey er heo wuste more'.
Explicit:'Ffor as prest he is to for?iue as mon is forte bidde'.
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
Bibliography:

Item: 41
Locus:f. 25va-b
Title:South English Legendary: Appearance on the road to Emmaus (IMEV 2647)
Incipit:'Off vr lordes diciples žulke selue day tweye'.
Explicit:'So wite hem from drede of že gywes bote seint thomas one'.
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
Bibliography:

Item: 42
Locus:f. 25vb
Title:South English Legendary: Feria iiia in ebdomada Pasche (IMEV 396)
Incipit:'As late žulke selue dai in že euenynge atte laste'.
Explicit:'And hose sunnes ?e wiž holdež wižholde žer worže also'.
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
Bibliography:

Item: 43
Locus:ff. 25vb-26ra
Title:South English Legendary: Appearance to Thomas (IMEV 3664)
Incipit:'Thomas on of že twelue žat his to nome was'.
Explicit:'And to alle žat goode beož to že more blisse atte fyne'.
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
Bibliography:

Item: 44
Locus:f. 26ra
Title:South English Legendary: Appearance by the Sea of Tybre (IMEV 578)
Incipit:'Bi že see of tybre ihesus more schewede him to his fere'.
Explicit:'Ne hou longe after aster day at žo žei hedde i?ete'.
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
Bibliography:

Item: 45
Locus:f. 26ra-b
Title:South English Legendary: Charge to Peter (IMEV 3766)
Incipit:'To seint peter ihesus seide peter louest žou me'.
Explicit:'More aunguissche a?en his dež and žo žis wordes were ised'.
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
Bibliography:

Item: 46
Locus:f. 26rb-va
Title:South English Legendary: Concerning Peter and John (IMEV 3767)
Incipit:'To seinte peter ihesus sede folwe me anon'.
Explicit:'Ffor bettere is dye in good dež žen beo euere her in wo'.
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
Bibliography:

Item: 47
Locus:f. 26va
Title:South English Legendary: Appearance at Mt. Tabor (IMEV 719)
Incipit:'Elleuene diciples to galile hom wende'.
Explicit:'Vr lord kudde more his loue as i ow telle may'.
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
Bibliography:

Item: 48
Locus:f. 26va
Title:South English Legendary: Choosing of Matthias (IMEV 409)
Incipit:'As že enleuen disciples adoun isete were'.
Explicit:'Ffor že mony ffestes of halewen žat bi falež in holy churche'.
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
Bibliography:

Item: 49
Locus:ff. 26vb-27ra
Title:South English Legendary: Ascension (IMEV 126)
Incipit:'After žat swete ihesus že wey to heuene nom'.
Explicit:'By že haly gost hem weore isent žei ne dorste out gon'.
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
Bibliography:

Item: 50
Locus:f. 27ra-b
Title:South English Legendary: Pentecost (IMEV 443)
Incipit:'At vnderne a Witsoneday as že apostles stode & sete'.
Explicit:'Bring vs to že ioye of heuene žat žou vs bouhtest to. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 51
Locus:ff. 27rb-28ra
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Alphege (IMEV 2844)
Incipit:'Seint alphe že martir good mon was inouh'.
Explicit:'Žat we mowe žorwh his preyere into heuene wende. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 52
Locus:f. 28ra-b
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. George (IMEV 2905)
Incipit:'Seint george že holi mon as we fyndež iwrite'.
Explicit:'Now god for seynt george loue vs leeue žider wende. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 53
Locus:f. 28rb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Mark the Evangelist (IMEV 3004)
Incipit:'Seint mark že godspellere wyde wede aboute in londe'.
Explicit:'And for že loue of seint mark graunt vs žider to wende. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 54
Locus:f. 27v
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Peres (IMEV 3042)
Incipit:'Seint peter že frere prechour in že cite of veronye'.
Explicit:'God vs bringe to žat ioye žat his soule to come. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 55
Locus:f. 28va-b
Title:South English Legendary: Lives of Saints Philip and James (IMEV 3048)
Incipit:'Seint phelip and seint iacob apostles weoren tweyne'.
Explicit:'Žat vre soules mote wižheoren in heuene ben ido. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 56
Locus:ff. 28vb-30ra
Title:South English Legendary: Early History of the Cross (IMEV 3389)
Incipit:'Že holy rode že swete treo riht is to hauen in muynde'.
Explicit:'Žat we mote to že ioye of heuene come žat is so swete and god. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 57
Locus:ff. 30ra-vb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Quiriac (IMEV 3051)
Incipit:'Seint quiriac že bisshop prechede godus lawe'.
Explicit:'Bring vs to že hei?e ioye žat he vs bou?te to'.
Bibliography:

Item: 58
Locus:ff. 30vb-31rb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Dunstan (IMEV 2884)
Incipit:'Seint dunston was of engelonde icome of goode more'.
Explicit:'Bring vs to že ioye of heuene as angelis ži soule bere. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 59
Locus:f. 31rb-va
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Aldelm (IMEV 2843)
Incipit:'Seint aldelm že confessour was mon of goode lyue'.
Explicit:'Žat we mote to že ioye come žat he is inne ido. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 60
Locus:f. 31va-b
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Augustine (IMEV 2854)
Incipit:'Seint augustin žat cristendom brouhte into engelonde'.
Explicit:'Žat we mote to že ioye come to whom vr lord vs bouhte. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 61
Locus:ff. 31vb-32ra
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Petronilla (IMEV 3049)
Incipit:'Seint pernele žat holi mayde riht is to habben in muynde'.
Explicit:'Now god for že loue of hire to žulke ioye vs bringe. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 62
Locus:f. 32ra-b
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Barnabas (IMEV 2856)
Incipit:'Seint barnabe že apostel žat goode was and hende'.
Explicit:'Ffor loue of seint barnabe žat he to heuene vs bringe. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 63
Locus:f. 32rb-vb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Eadburh (IMEV 2885)
Incipit:'Seint adboruh žat holi maide was here of engelonde'.
Explicit:'Žat we mote forž wiž hire to že ioye of heuene wende. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 64
Locus:ff. 32vb-33ra
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Alban (IMEV 2842)
Incipit:'Seint albon žis holy mon was here of engelonde'.
Explicit:'Žat we mote to že ioye come žat euere schal ilaste. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 65
Locus:f. 33ra-b
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Aylbriht (IMEV 2841)
Incipit:'Seint aylbriht že holy kyng kyng was of engelonde'.
Explicit:'Žat his soule is to iwent aftur vr endynge. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 66
Locus:f. 33rb-va
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Etheldreda (IMEV 2838)
Incipit:'Seint aeldrede of heli god mayde was and hende'.
Explicit:'Nou god for že loue of hire bring vs to heuene blis. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 67
Locus:f. 33va-b
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Botulf (IMEV 2867)
Incipit:'Seint botulf žis holy monk and adulf his brožer'.
Explicit:'Žat we mote to žat ioye come and so že deueles schende. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 68
Locus:ff. 33vb-35vb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Patrick (IMEV 3037)
Incipit:'Seint patrik com žorwh god to preche in irelonde'.
Explicit:'So žat we in purgatorie bileuen a luytel stounde. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 69
Locus:ff. 35vb-36vb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. John the Baptist (IMEV 2945)
Incipit:'Seint iohan was že beste bern že holy baptyst'.
Explicit:'Let vs žorwh vr cristendom to že ioye of heuene come amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 70
Locus:f. 36rb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Peter (IMEV 3046)
Incipit:'Seint peter was wiže vr lord of alle hise apostles hext'.
Explicit:'Žerfore ne recchež žis goode mon žauh me him do wo'.
Note:F. 37 is missing.
Bibliography:

Item: 71
Locus:f. 38ra-vb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Paul (IMEV 3041)
Incipit:'A?eyn že prikke to wince swiže strong is že'.
Explicit:'Bring vs to že ioye of heuene aftur žat we ben ded. Amen amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 72
Locus:ff. 38vb-39ra
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Athelwold (IMEV 2837)
Incipit:'Seint aželwold bisschop was and in engelonde ibore'.
Explicit:'Ffor že loue of seint aželwold to že ioye of heuene vs bringe. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 73
Locus:f. 39ra-va
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Swithun (IMEV 3060)
Incipit:'Seint swithyan že confessour was her of engelonde'.
Explicit:'Bring vs to že ioye of heuene žorwh vr lordes sonde. Amen'.
Note:The index gives St. Oswald here.
Bibliography:

Item: 74
Locus:f. 39va-b
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Kenelm (IMEV 2955)
Incipit:'Seint kenelm in engelonde was icome of goode streone'.
Explicit:'Ihesus for že loue of him vs schilde from helle pyne. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 75
Locus:ff. 39vb-40vb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Margaret (IMEV 2987)
Incipit:'Seinte margarete was an holi maide and good'.
Explicit:'Nou god for že loue of seinte margrete ne let vs neuer žerof misse. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 76
Locus:ff. 40vb-41vb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Mary Magdalene (IMEV 2994)
Incipit:'Seinte marie magdaleyn žat god for?af hire sunne'.
Explicit:'Bidde god žat we wiž hire to že ioye of heuene weende. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 77
Locus:ff. 41vb-42rb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Mildred (IMEV 3030)
Incipit:'Seint mildride že holi mayde of kynges kunne com'.
Explicit:'Nou god vs sende žulke wey žat we blenche not amis. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 78
Locus:ff. 42rb-43va
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Christina (IMEV 2876)
Incipit:'Seint cristine žis holi žing as i ow telle con'.
Explicit:'Nou god for že loue of hire vs bringe žider vchon'.
Bibliography:

Item: 79
Locus:ff. 43va-44rb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. James the Great (IMEV 2918)
Incipit:'Seint iem že holi apostel riht is to habben mone'.
Explicit:'Nou bidde we vr lord seint iem žat he us ?iue milce and ore. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 80
Locus:ff. 44rb-45ra
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Alexius (IMEV 3156)
Incipit:'Sittež stille withouten strif and i wol tellen ou of a lyf of an holy mon'.
Explicit:'Graunt vs alle god endyng and in heuene awonyng amen per charite'.
Bibliography:

Item: 81
Locus:ff. 44ra-47rb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Gregory (IMEV 209)
Incipit:'Alle žat ich in word and dede i žonke hit god al folkes kyng'.
Explicit:'Že pope haž graunted hem to mede and h___ dawes to pardoun'.
Note:The explicit has been purposely rubbed presumably to try to obliterate the reference to the Pope and his pardon relating to this text.
Bibliography:

Item: 82
Locus:f. 47rb-vb
Title:South English Legendary: The Seven Sleepers (IMEV 3091)
Incipit:'Seue slepers were seli men as me haž ou itold bifore'.
Explicit:'Bryng vs to žat ioye žat heore soules to wende. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 83
Locus:ff. 47vb-49ra
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Dominic (IMEV 2883)
Incipit:'Seint dominik že noble frere in spayne was ibore'.
Explicit:'Žat we beo foržwiž him to že ioye of heuene ibrouht. Amen amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 84
Locus:f. 49ra
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Oswald the King (IMEV 3036)
Incipit:'Seint oswold že goode king of žat on ende of engelonde'.
Explicit:'Žat vr lord vs sende his swete help and alle žat hebbež neode. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 85
Locus:f. 49ra-vb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Christopher (IMEV 2878)
Incipit:'Seint cristofre was a sarazin in že lond of canaan'.
Explicit:'Now god vs bringe to žulke ioye žer he his soule brouhte. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 86
Locus:ff. 49vb-50rb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Laurence (IMEV 2957)
Incipit:'Seint laurence good mon was and in strong martirdom'.
Explicit:'Bring vs to že ioye of heuene žat žin angelis his soule ladde. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 87
Locus:f. 50rb-va
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Hippolytus (IMEV 2915)
Incipit:'Seint ypolyt že martir kniht was wiž gret honour'.
Explicit:'Žat god haue merci of vs alle and of alle žat habbež neode. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 88
Locus:ff. 50va-51va
Title:South English Legendary: The Assumption of Our Lady (IMEV 2991)
Incipit:'Seinte marie godus moder fro že apostles was heo nouht'.
Explicit:'Nou god vs graunte foržwiž hire to že ioye of heuene come. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 89
Locus:ff. 51va-52rb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Bartholomew (IMEV 2858)
Incipit:'Seint bartholomeu? že holi mon com of kynges blode'.
Explicit:'Žat we že sannores žorwh his bone come to heuene blis. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 90
Locus:f. 52rb-vb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Giles (IMEV 2906)
Incipit:'Seint gyles že holi mon louede nožing sunne'.
Explicit:'Žat we aftur žisse lyue to že ioye of heuene wende. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 91
Locus:ff. 52vb-53ra
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Ecgwin (IMEV 2891)
Incipit:'Seint egwyne že holy mon was here of engelonde'.
Explicit:'Žat we mote to heuene come and for?iue vs vre misdede. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 92
Locus:f. 53rb-va
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Matthew (IMEV 3017)
Incipit:'Seint matheu že ewangelist apostel he was iwis'.
Explicit:'Ffor že loue of seint marheu žat his holy soule is inne. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 93
Locus:ff. 53va-54va
Title:South English Legendary: Legend of St. Michael (IMEV 3029)
Incipit:'Seint michel že archaungel and hise felawes also'.
Explicit:'Žat žey že brennynge of helle wiž hem heo berež aboute'.
Note:A three-part text with part three appearing at f. 291v, The Right Pit of Hell.
Bibliography:

Item: 94
Locus:ff. 54va-55ra
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Jerome (IMEV 2922)
Incipit:'Seint ierome was swiže god clerk and wis žorwh alle žinge'.
Explicit:'Nou god vs bringe to žulke ioye žat his soule gon to wende. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 95
Locus:f. 55ra-va
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Justina (IMEV 2953)
Incipit:'Seint iustine of hei?e men in antioche com'.
Explicit:'And for že loue of seint ciprian schild vs from helle pyne. Amen'.
Note:Includes the Life of St. Ciprian.
Bibliography:

Item: 96
Locus:f. 55va-b
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Leger (IMEV 2958)
Incipit:'Seint leger a bisschop was an holi mon also inouh'.
Explicit:'Žat we aftur žisse lyue to žulke ioye mote wende. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 97
Locus:ff. 55vb-56vb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Francis (IMEV 2899)
Incipit:'Seint fraunceis že frere menour žat good mon was inouh'.
Explicit:'And as hit were men of witte žis foules he gonne preche'.
Note:Eight leaves missing, ff. 57-64 with the loss of 11 texts.
Bibliography:

Item: 98
Locus:f. 65ra-va
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Clement (IMEV 2875)
Incipit:'Allas quaž žis gode mon myne leue children žreo'.
Explicit:'God ?if vs part of žat ilke ioye žat his soule is inne. Amen'.
Note:322 lines missing at beginning.
Bibliography:

Item: 99
Locus:ff. 65va-66va
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Katherine of Alexandria (IMEV 2954)
Incipit:'Seinte katerine of noble kunne com bi olde dawe'.
Explicit:'?if vs že ioye of heuene and schild vs from helle pyne. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 100
Locus:ff. 66va-67rb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Andrew (IMEV 2848)
Incipit:'Seint andreu že apostel was seint petres brožur'.
Explicit:'And bidde for vs žat we mote come to heuene blisse. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 101
Locus:ff. 67rb-68vb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Nicholas (IMEV 3033)
Incipit:'Seint nicholas že holi mon žat god confessor was'.
Explicit:'Schild vs from že pyne of helle and dedlych sunne also. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 102
Locus:ff. 68vb-69rb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Lucy (IMEV 2961)
Incipit:'Seint lucie že holi maide in cicile was ibore'.
Explicit:'Nou god for že loue of hire vs lete alle žider wende. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 103
Locus:ff. 69rb-70ra
Title:South English Legendary: Lives of Saints Martha and Frontoun (IMEV 2127)
Incipit:'Seint Martha god womon was as ?e schule here telle'.
Explicit:'Bring vs to žat he?e blisse žer žin angeles hire soule bere. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 104
Locus:ff. 70ra-71rb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Thomas the Apostle (IMEV 3063)
Incipit:'Seint thomas že gode apostel imartred was in inde'.
Explicit:'Bring vs to že ioye of heuene to whom vr lord vs bouhte. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 105
Locus:f. 71rb-vb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Stephen (IMEV 3059)
Incipit:'Seint steuene was a gyeu and of gywes he com'.
Explicit:'Nou god for že loue of him schilde vs from helle pyne. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 106
Locus:ff. 71vb-73rb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. John (IMEV 2932)
Incipit:'Seint ion že ewangelist žat apostel also is'.
Explicit:'Dide for vs žat we mote come to heuene blis. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 107
Locus:ff. 73rb-80vb
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Thomas of Canterbury (IMEV 4171)
Incipit:'Wolle ?e nou vnderstonde hou hit is write'.
Explicit:'Ac vr lord for seint thomas loue his grace sone of hem caste'
Note:121 lines missing at end. Ff. 81-89 lost with the loss of 11 texts.
Bibliography:

Item: 108
Locus:f. 89ra-va
Title:Smaller Vernon Collection: St. Paula (IMEV 717.5)
Incipit:'Eižer ožur žus to cložun and fede'.
Explicit:'To godus sone žat is ihesus'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1878, pp. 1-8

Item: 109
Locus:ff. 89va-91rb
Title:Smaller Vernon Collection: St. Ambrose (IMEV 1110)
Incipit:'Herknež sires for my purpose'.
Explicit:'Bože more and eke lesse'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1878, pp. 8-26.

Item: 110
Locus:f. 91rb-vc
Title:Smaller Vernon Collection: 'De Theodosio Imperatore' (IMEV 1613)
Incipit:'Hit bifel one tyme in ceyteyn'.
Explicit:'God ?if us grace to beo not sore'.
Bibliography:

Item: 111
Locus:ff. 91vc-92rb
Title:Smaller Vernon Collection: A Maiden of Antioch (IMEV 422)
Incipit:'At antioche as men han sayde'.
Explicit:'And doy awey al vuel fame'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1878, pp. 26-34.

Item: 112
Locus:f. 92rb-vc
Title:Smaller Vernon Collection: Sithia and Climonen (IMEV 3186)
Incipit:'Nou ?er maidens alle and sum'.
Explicit:'Žei toke heor corounes boye at ones'.
Bibliography:

Item: 113
Locus:ff. 92vc-93ra
Title:Smaller Vernon Collection: Sithia and Climonen (IMEV 3186)
Incipit:'Sum tyme men reden žat žer was'.
Explicit:'On latyn take hede to his purpose'.
Bibliography:

Item: 114
Locus:f. 93ra-vc
Title:Smaller Vernon Collection: St. Theodora (IMEV 421)
Incipit:'At alisaundre telle i ow con'.
Explicit:'And ?iue us heuene blisse. Amen'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1878, pp. 35-41.

Item: 115
Locus:ff. 93vc-96rc
Title:Smaller Vernon Collection: St. Bernard (IMEV 2863)
Incipit:'Seint bernard born was at burgoyne'.
Explicit:'Of heuene riches blisse ?euen part. Amen'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1878, pp. 41-61.

Item: 116
Locus:ff. 96rc-100rb
Title:Smaller Vernon Collection: St. Augustine (IMEV 2855)
Incipit:'Seint austin was nempned žat name'.
Explicit:'To preye for hym žat žis lyf made. Amen'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1878, pp. 61-92.

Item: 117
Locus:f. 100rb-vb
Title:Smaller Vernon Collection: St. Savinian and St. Savina (IMEV 3188)
Incipit:'Sum tyme žer was an hežen man'.
Explicit:'Ffor žei sunten of hire hed'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1878, pp. 93-97.

Item: 118
Locus:ff. 100vb-103rc
Title:Smaller Vernon Collection: Barlaam and Josephat (IMEV 39)
Incipit:'A good mon žer was and a clene'.
Explicit:'Miracles is wrouht žorwh godus soon'.
Note:F. 102 missing.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1875, p. 215.

Item: 119
Locus:ff. 103rc-104vc
Title:Smaller Vernon Collection: St. Euphrosyne (IMEV 1465)
Incipit:'In alisaundre žat grete citee'.
Explicit:'God graunte vs grace žat hit so be. Amen Amen for charite'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1878, pp. 178-182.

Item: 120
Locus:ff. 104vc-105vc
Title:La Estorie del Evangelie (IMEV 3194)
Incipit:'Sumwhile ich was wiž sunne ibounde'.
Explicit:'As crist and lord of alle žinge'.
Note:Text decorated with three miniatures on f. 104v and three on f. 105r. Ff. 106-113 - formerly miniatures, all lost.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 1-11.

Item: 121
Locus:f. 114ra-b
Title:Paraphrase of the 51st Psalm (IMEV 2157)
Incipit:'...so let me neuere werk biginne'.
Explicit:'He schylde vs alle from helle fere'.
Note:Only a fragment of the text remains.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 12-16.

Item: 122
Locus:f. 114rb-va
Title:Prayer to the Trinity (IMEV 775)
Incipit:'Fadur and sone and holigost Lord to že i crie and calle'.
Explicit:'On že to seo žat swete siht ffadur and sone and holigost. Amen'.
Rubric:'Her biginnež an orisun of že trinite'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 16-19.

Item: 123
Locus:f. 114va
Title:Confession to Jesus Christ (IMEV 3231)
Incipit:'Swete ihesu crist to že A gulti wrecche ich ?elde me'.
Explicit:'Preyež for me to vre ladi Žat ihesus of me haue merci'.
Rubric:'A confession to ihesu crist'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 19-21.

Item: 124
Locus:f. 114vb
Title:Prayer to the Five Wounds (IMEV 1684)
Incipit:'Ihesu crist my lemmon swete Žat di?edest on že rode tre'.
Explicit:'Beo hit me lef beo hit me lož Žow do hit a wey from me. Amen'.
Rubric:'A preyer to že fiue woundes'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, p. 22.

Item: 125
Locus:f. 114vb-c
Title:Prayer to Our Lady (IMEV 2110)
Incipit:'Marie modur and mayden euere wel že be Modur and mayden mylde marie ženk on me'.
Explicit:'Žat euermore schal lasten wižouten eny misse. Amen'.
Rubric:'A preiere to vre ladi'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 22-24.

Item: 126.1
Locus:f. 115ra
Title:Prayer at the Elevation (IMEV 3883)
Incipit:'Welcome lord in fourme of bred In že is bože lyf and ded'.
Explicit:'Godus sone žat art so briht In fourme žou art of bred'.
Rubric:'A preyer at že leuacioun'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 24-25.

Item: 126.2
Locus:f. 115ra
Title:Prayer at the Elevation (IMEV 1372)
Incipit:'I že honoure wiž al my miht In fourme of bred as i že se'.
Explicit:'Wiž ffadur and sone and holygost Žat regnež god in trinite. Amen'.
Rubric:'A preyer at že leuacioun'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, p. 25.

Item: 127
Locus:f. 115ra-b
Title:The Five Joys of Our Lady (IMEV 1122)
Incipit:'Haue ioye marie modur and maide As že angel gabriel message to že saide'.
Explicit:'Graunt vs že ioye žat is aboute Žat neuer haž endyng. Amen.'
Rubric:'Že fyue ioyes of vr ladi'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 25-26.

Item: 128
Locus:f. 115rb
Title:Prayer to God (IMEV 1967)
Incipit:'Lord my god al merciable I že biseche wiž herte stable'.
Explicit:'Žyne Ioyes vsen and wiž že wone In ži glorie wiž ffadur and sone. Amen'.
Rubric:'An orisoun to god'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 26-29.

Item: 129
Locus:f. 115rc-va
Title:Prayer to Lord Jesus (IMEV 1970)
Incipit:'Lord swete ihesu crist haue merci of me Žat out of heuene come into eorž for me'.
Explicit:'On domesdai whon žo schalt demen schew us ži face freo And bring vs into paradys žer endeles blisse schal beo. Amen'.
Rubric:'An orisoun to vr lord ihesu'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 29-30.

Item: 130
Locus:f. 115va-b
Title:Prayer to the Virgin (IMEV 1030)
Incipit:'Heil beo žou marie mylde qwen of heuene Blessed is ži nome and good hit is to nemene'.
Explicit:'Schild me from synne and schome žat I falle no mare And sen me hosul and schrift ar i hežene fare'.
Rubric:'An orison to vr lady'.
Note:According to the index, An orysoun to godes sone followed this text. It is now missing.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 30-32.

Item: 131
Locus:f. 115vb
Title:Prayer to God/Confession (IMEV 965)
Incipit:'God žat al hast mad of nouht Ffor loue of mon žat žou hast bouht'.
Explicit:'And bring me to ži muchele blisse. Amen'.
Rubric:'A confession of wyrschip in orysoun'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, p. 32.

Item: 132
Locus:f. 115vb
Title:A prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Incipit:'Marie modur qwen of heuene Ženk on me and here my steuene'.
Explicit:'Marie into blisse wiž že to wone Ffor ihesu loue ži deore sone. Amen'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, p. 33.

Item: 133
Locus:f. 115vc
Title:A prayer for the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost (IMEV 975)
Incipit:'God žat art of mihtes most Že seuen ?iftus of že holigost'.
Explicit:'To žat ioye žow me sende Žat lastež now and ay. Amen'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, p. 34.

Item: 134
Locus:f. 115vc
Title:Confession for negligence of the Deeds of Mercy (IMEV 1959)
Incipit:'Lord i ?elde me gulti Žat i neuere fedde že hungri'.
Explicit:'žat I may comen aftur my ded And wonen euer lord wiž že. Amen.'
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 34-35.

Item: 135
Locus:f. 116ra
Title:Prayer for Saving the Five Wits (IMEV 1969)
Incipit:Lord sunged haue i ofte In my fyue wittes wiž wille and žou?te'.
Explicit:'And also lord in synful felyng ?if ži wille be. Amen'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, p. 35.

Item: 136
Locus:f. 116ra
Title:Confession of negligence of the Commandments (IMEV 1602)
Incipit:'Inwardliche lord bi seche i že Al my trespas for?iue žou me'.
Explicit:'Ffor?if me now and alle men Žat haue broken ži comaundemens ten'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, p. 36.

Item: 137
Locus:f. 116ra-va
Title:Hours of the Cross (IMEV 701)
Incipit:'Erliche in že morwenyng ihesu že iewes gunne take His frendes and his diciples hedden him sone forsake'.
Explicit:'God sende us lyues fode and in heuene a place. Amen'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 37-43.

Item: 138
Locus:f. 116va-b
Title:Veni creator spiritus
Incipit:'Cum lord vr makere holigost Že žouhtes of žyne forte sene'.
Explicit:'And sende us schrift for his pite Že ?iftus of že holygost. Amen'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 43-45.

Item: 139
Locus:f. 116vb-c
Title:Song of Love to Jesus (IMEV 1781)
Incipit:'Ihesu ži swetnesse whose miht hit se And žerof haue a clene knowyng'.
Explicit:'And led me lord in to ži blis Wiž že to wone wižouten ende. Amen'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 45-48.

Item: 140
Locus:f. 117ra
Title:A prayer to Jesus (IMEV 1752)
Incipit:'Iesu žat art heuene kyng Sothfast god and mon also'.
Explicit:'Heere and spede my pore preyeres And saue me žat i ne beo spilt'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 48-49.

Item: 141.1
Locus:ff. 117ra-121vb
Title:Psalterium Beatae Mariae (IMEV 1060)
Incipit:'Heyl mayden ouer maydenes vchon'.
Explicit:'Make me freo nou I že prey Ffrom heui serwe to be. Amen'.
Rubric:'Beatus virgin'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 49-105.

Item: 141.2
Locus:f. 121vb-122va
Title:Prayer to the Virgin (IMEV 2038)
Incipit:'Mayden modur and comely qween Žat art in heuene and euer schal ben'.
Explicit:'And schild vs from že foule fend And let vs neuer be schent. Amen'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 121-131.

Item: 142
Locus:f. 122va-b
Title:A prayer to the five wounds of Jesus (IMEV 1759)
Incipit:'Ihesus žat di?edest vppon že tre And žoledest dež for loue of me'.
Explicit:'žat wižouten ende schal leste And seo ži louely face. Amen'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 131-132.

Item: 143
Locus:f. 122vb
Title:Prayer to the five joys of our Lady (IMEV 2118)
Incipit:'Marie modur wel že bee Modur and mayden ženk on me'.
Explicit:'And let me neuer for no synne fforgo žat ioye žat žou art inne. Amen par charite. Aue'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 133-134.

Item: 144
Locus:f. 122vb-123ra
Title:Salutation to our Lady (IMEV 1031)
Incipit:'Heil beo žow marie moodur and may Mylde and meke and merciable'.
Explicit:'Žau synnes haue vs žorwh souht Bring vs to ži blis žat euer schal be. Amen. Aue'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 134-137.

Item: 145
Locus:f. 123ra-124rb
Title:Psalterium Beatae Mariae (IMEV 1057)
Incipit:'Heil mayde cheef of alle Žorw whom že blessed mon'.
Explicit:'And wiž preisyng on že calle Žou herest heore orisoun'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 106-120.

Item: 146
Locus:f. 124rc-va
Title:Miracles of the Virgin: The city of Croteye (IMEV 1984)
Incipit:'Lordus ?if ?e wol lusten to me Of croteye že noble cite'.
Explicit:'Nou ladi preye ži sone on hih To alle cristene he graunte merci. Amen'.
Note:The miniature which begins this text is placed at the bottom of column b.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 138-141.

Item: 147
Locus:f. 124va-c
Title:Miracles of the Virgin: The child slain by the Jews (IMEV 4136)
Incipit:'Wose louež wel vre ladi Heo wol quiten his wille wel whi'.
Explicit:'Now marie for ži muchele miht Help vs to heuene žat is so briht'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 141-145.

Item: 148
Locus:ff. 124vc-125ra
Title:Miracles of the Virgin: The harlot's prayer (IMEV 971)
Incipit:'God žat al žis world haž wrouht And formed alle žing of nouht'.
Explicit:'Of hol remission of vre synne And to ioye žat heo wonež inne. Amen'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 145-149.

Item: 149
Locus:f. 125rb-va
Title:Miracles of the Virgin: The boy in the oven (IMEV 1966)
Incipit:'Lord makere of alle žing almihti god in maieste'.
Explicit:'In heuene an hih ihesu for ži moder loue. Amen'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 149-154.

Item: 150
Locus:f. 125vb-c
Title:Miracles of the Virgin: The man who cut off his foot (IMEV 1713)
Incipit:'Iesu god and godus sone žat were a babe iboren Of že mayden swete marie kuynde qween icoren'.
Explicit:'Help vs žat we mowe wiž že ffor euere in ioye dwelle'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 154-157.

Item: 151
Locus:f. 126ra-v
Title:Miracles of the Virgin: The Virgin a Surety (IMEV 423)
Incipit:'At constantynnoble in žat cite Dwelled a merchaunt of herte fre'.
Explicit:'And žat hit mote so be Seiž alle amen par charite. Amen'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 157-161.

Item: 152
Locus:f. 126rc-va
Title:Miracles of the Virgin: The Fornicating Priest (IMEV 1477)
Incipit:'In bok we fynde as we rede Of a preest was wylde of dede'.
Explicit:'And žat hit mote so be Seyž to hire an aue'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 162-164.

Item: 153
Locus:f. 126va
Title:Miracles of the Virgin: The monk with the quinsy (IMEV 69)
Incipit:'A mon of gret deuociun Was sum tyme in religiun'.
Explicit:'Preye we heo preye hire sone ihesus Žat euer he haue merci on vs Žat to his blisse he take vs to Žat is and schal ben euer mo. Amen'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 164-166.

Item: 154
Locus:f. 126vc
Title:Miracles of the Virgin: The incontinent monk (IMEV 90)
Incipit:'A sexteyn was in an abbey Of že ordre of monkes grey'.
Explicit:'Gret wonder žei hedden hem among Whi že sexsteyn was so long'.
Note:Ff. 127-166 missing.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 166-167.

Item: 155
Locus:f. 167ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for First Sunday in Advent (IMEV 2996)
Incipit:'Er že folfullyng of tyme was come'.
Explicit:
Bibliography:

Item: 156
Locus:f. 167rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Story of Mary Magdalene (IMEV 4226)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Bibliography:

Item: 157
Locus:f. 167vb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Second Sunday in Advent (IMEV 3790)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Bibliography:

Item: 158
Locus:f. 168ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: A Monk who Returned from Death (IMEV 26)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Bibliography:

Item: 159
Locus:f. 168rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Third Sunday in Advent (IMEV 3018)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Bibliography:

Item: 160
Locus:f. 168va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Herod and John the Baptist (IMEV 3623)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Bibliography:

Item: 161
Locus:f. 168vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Feast of the Annunciation (IMEV 2084)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Bibliography:

Item: 162
Locus:f. 169rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Virgin comes to the Devil instead of his Victim (IMEV 1641)
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Item: 163
Locus:f. 169va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Friday of the Third Week in Advent (IMEV 3951)
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Item: 164
Locus:f. 169vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Fourth Sunday in Advent (IMEV 3789)
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Item: 165
Locus:f. 170rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Pilgrim to St. James (IMEV 1642)
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Item: 166
Locus:f. 170va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'In vigilia Nativitatis' (IMEV 3991)
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Item: 167
Locus:f. 170vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'In nocte natalis domini' (IMEV 4214)
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Item: 168
Locus:f. 171rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Exempla (IMEV 3289)
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Note:Exempla concerning Saints Martin, Anthony, and Machary.
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Item: 169
Locus:f. 171vb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'In die natalis ad altam missam' (IMEV 539)
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Item: 170
Locus:f. 172ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Sunday after the Nativity (IMEV 3393)
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Item: 171
Locus:f. 172rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Archbishop and the Nun (IMEV 284)
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Item: 172
Locus:f. 173ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Feast of the Circumcision (IMEV 2977)
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Item: 173
Locus:f. 173rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'In vigilia Ephiphanie' (IMEV 1094)
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Item: 174
Locus:f. 173vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Epiphany (IMEV 3492)
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Item: 175
Locus:f. 174va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'Dominica infra Oct. Epiphanie' (IMEV 1880)
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Item: 176
Locus:f. 174vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'In Oct. Epiphanie' (IMEV 2134)
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Item: 177
Locus:f. 175rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'Dominica infra Oct. Epiphanie' (IMEV 3395)
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Item: 178
Locus:f. 175va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: St. John and the Boy (IMEV 3954)
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Item: 179
Locus:f. 176ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Second Sunday after Epiphany (IMEV 2930)
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Item: 180
Locus:f. 176rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Second Sunday after the Octave of Epiphany (IMEV 3012)
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Item: 181
Locus:f. 176va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Narratio: Giezi and Naaman (IMEV 3317)
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Item: 182
Locus:f. 176vb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Third Sunday after the Octave of Epiphany (IMEV 3021)
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Item: 183
Locus:f. 176vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Knight who did penance among worms (IMEV 45)
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Item: 184
Locus:f. 177rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'Dominica iiij. post Oct. Epiph.' (IMEV 3740)
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Item: 185
Locus:f. 177rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Devil as Physician (IMEV 306)
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Item: 186
Locus:f. 177va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Feast of the Purification (IMEV 1494)
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Item: 187
Locus:f. 178ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Widow's Candle (IMEV 97)
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Item: 188
Locus:f. 178rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Narratio: The Abbess who went with Child (IMEV 3290)
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Item: 189
Locus:f. 178va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Septuagesima (IMEV 1912)
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Item: 190
Locus:f. 179rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Hermit who returned to the World (IMEV 314)
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Item: 191
Locus:f. 179va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Sexagesima Sunday (IMEV 1519)
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Item: 192
Locus:f. 179vb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Monk Mawryne (IMEV 89)
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Item: 193
Locus:f. 180rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Quinquagesima Sunday (IMEV 2971)
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Item: 194
Locus:f. 180vb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Pater noster for St. Bernard's palfrey (IMEV 3865)
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Item: 195
Locus:f.
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the First Sunday in Lent (IMEV 1862)
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Item: 196
Locus:f. 181rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Legend of St. Eustace (IMEV 43)
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Item: 197
Locus:f. 183va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Second Sunday in Lent (IMEV 3013)
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Item: 198
Locus:f. 184ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: How a Hermit put another into Wanhope (IMEV 3784)
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Item: 199
Locus:f. 184rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Third Sunday in Lent (IMEV 2968)
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Item: 200
Locus:f. 184vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Narratio: St. Bede and the Birds (IMEV 3288)
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Item: 201
Locus:f. 185ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Passion Sunday (IMEV 2939)
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Item: 202
Locus:f. 185rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Wife who hung her husband's shirt by her bed (IMEV 96)
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Item: 203
Locus:f. 185vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Easter Sunday (IMEV 2999)
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Item: 204
Locus:f. 186rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: St. Martin and the Naked Pilgrim (IMEV 416)
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Item: 205
Locus:f. 186rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Easter Monday (IMEV 2970)
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Item: 206
Locus:f. 186vb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Devil in Church (IMEV 290)
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Item: 207
Locus:f. 186vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Tuesday after Easter (IMEV 1100)
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Item: 208
Locus:f. 187rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'Feria quarta post Pascha' (IMEV 1878)
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Item: 209
Locus:f. 187vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Thursday after Easter (IMEV 1096)
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Item: 210
Locus:f. 188rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'Feria sexta post Pascha' (IMEV 1348)
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Item: 211
Locus:f. 189rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the First Sunday after Easter (IMEV 2941)
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Item: 212
Locus:f. 189va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: St. Edmund and the Devil (IMEV 3298)
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Item: 213
Locus:f. 189va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Second Sunday after Easter (IMEV 2938)
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Item: 214
Locus:f. 189vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Count Theobald (IMEV 1645)
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Item: 215
Locus:f. 190rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Third Sunday after Easter (IMEV 2927)
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Item: 216
Locus:f. 190rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The monk who wished to see the least Joy in Paradise (IMEV 47)
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Item: 217
Locus:f. 190va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Fourth Sunday after Easter (IMEV 2926)
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Item: 218
Locus:f. 190vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Fifth Sunday after Easter IMEV 2936 )
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Item: 219
Locus:f. 191ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'Feria iia in Rogationibus (IMEV 1098)
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Item: 220
Locus:f. 191rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'Feria iva in vigilia Ascensionis (IMEV 1795)
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Item: 221
Locus:f. 191vb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'In die Ascensionis' (IMEV 3933)
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Item: 222
Locus:f. 191vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The story of Carpus (IMEV 32)
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Item: 223
Locus:f. 192ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'Sabbato in vigilia Pentecostes' (IMEV 1797)
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Item: 224
Locus:f. 192rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Whitsunday (IMEV 3592)
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Item: 225
Locus:f. 192vb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Obedient Servant (IMEV 289)
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Item: 226
Locus:f. 192vb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Tuesday after Whit Sunday (IMEV 1782)
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Item: 227
Locus:f. 193rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'Feria iva post Pentecoste' (IMEV 2712)
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Item: 228
Locus:f. 193va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Thursday after Whit Sunday (IMEV 1667)
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Item: 229
Locus:f. 193vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Friday after Pentecost (IMEV 3833)
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Item: 230
Locus:f. 194va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'In vigilia sancte trinitatis' (IMEV 2020)
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Item: 231
Locus:f. 194vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Trinity Sunday (IMEV 2928)
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Item: 232
Locus:f. 195rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Whit Monday (IMEV 2937)
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Item: 233
Locus:f. 195va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Thais (IMEV 40 )
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Item: 234
Locus:f. 195va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'Dominica infra Oct. Ascensionis' (IMEV 3741)
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Item: 235
Locus:f. 195vb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Melancholy King (IMEV 385)
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Item: 236
Locus:f. 195vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Trinity Sunday (IMEV 2301)
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Item: 237
Locus:f. 196ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Homily on the Feast of Corpus Christi (IMEV 4250)
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Item: 238
Locus:f. 197rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Extract from Robert of Brunne's Handlyng Synne (IMEV 937)
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Item: 239
Locus:f. 199rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for First Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 3683)
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Item: 240
Locus:f. 199va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Second Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 3739)
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Item: 241
Locus:f. 199vb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Hermit and the Angel (IMEV 1464)
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Item: 242
Locus:f. 199vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Third Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 3791)
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Item: 243
Locus:f. 200ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Fall of the Angels and the Creation of Man (IMEV 485)
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Item: 244
Locus:f. 200rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Fourth Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 1118)
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Item: 245
Locus:f. 200rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Monk who was Harsh in Judging (IMEV 3816)
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Item: 246
Locus:f. 200va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Fifth Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 2976)
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Item: 247
Locus:f. 200vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Sixth Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 3708)
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Item: 248
Locus:f. 201ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Seventh Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 3003)
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Item: 249
Locus:f. 201rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Eighth Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 2965)
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Item: 250
Locus:f. 201rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Ninth Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 2969)
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Item: 251
Locus:f. 201va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Tenth Sunday after Trintiy (IMEV 1657)
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Item: 252
Locus:f. 202rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Eleventh Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 1136)
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Item: 253
Locus:f. 202rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: King Oswald and the Hermit (IMEV 1482)
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Item: 254
Locus:f. 202vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Twelfth Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 3002)
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Item: 255
Locus:f. 203rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 3738)
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Item: 256
Locus:f. 203vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Legend of Theophilus (IMEV 25)
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Item: 257
Locus:f. 205rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 2978)
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Item: 258
Locus:f. 205va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Adulterous Parish Priest (IMEV 291)
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Item: 259
Locus:f. 206rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 3829)
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Item: 260
Locus:f. 206vb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Thrifty Gardener (IMEV 1646)
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Item: 261
Locus:f. 207rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 1117)
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Item: 262
Locus:f. 207va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Dying Monk (IMEV 1144)
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Item: 263
Locus:f. 208rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 1648)
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Item: 264
Locus:f. 208vb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Pelagia (IMEV 1469)
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Item: 265
Locus:f. 209vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 3009)
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Item: 266
Locus:f. 210rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Knight who forgave the Slayer of his Father (IMEV 1647)
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Item: 267
Locus:f. 210va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 1521)
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Item: 268
Locus:f. 210vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: (IMEV 414)
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Item: 269
Locus:f. 211ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gregory and Trajan's Soul (IMEV 286)
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Item: 270
Locus:f. 211rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Twentieth Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 3591)
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Item: 271
Locus:f. 212ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gregory's Aunts (IMEV 2907)
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Item: 272
Locus:f. 212rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 2935)
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Item: 273
Locus:f. 212vb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Despised Nun (IMEV 2859)
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Item: 274
Locus:f. 213ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 3020)
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Item: 275
Locus:f. 213vb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: The Backbiting Monk (IMEV 79)
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Item: 276
Locus:f. 213vb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 3590)
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Item: 277
Locus:f. 213vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Story of Queen Esther (IMEV 2094)
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Item: 278
Locus:f. 214vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity (IMEV 2940)
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Item: 279
Locus:f. 214vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Piers Toller (IMEV 1643)
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Item: 280
Locus:f. 215va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: 'Nisi granum frumenti cadens in terram' (IMEV 3952 )
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Item: 281
Locus:f. 216rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'In Vigilia Sancti Andree' (IMEV 2944)
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Item: 282
Locus:f. 216va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel 'In festo Sancti Andree' (IMEV 1095)
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Item: 283
Locus:f. 217ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'In festo Conceptionis Marie' (IMEV 3316)
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Item: 284
Locus:f. 217rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'In festo Sancti Thome apostoli' (IMEV 3663)
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Item: 285
Locus:f. 217vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'In festo Sancti Stephani' (IMEV 1099)
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Item: 286
Locus:f. 218vb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Feast of St. John the Apostle (IMEV 1090)
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Item: 287
Locus:f. 219ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel 'In festo sanctorum Innocentium' (IMEV 188)
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Item: 288
Locus:f. 219vb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Feast of St. Thomas of Canterbury (IMEV 1783)
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Item: 289
Locus:f. 220ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul (IMEV 3105 )
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Item: 290
Locus:f. 220rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Feast of St. Peter (IMEV 1109)
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Item: 291
Locus:f. 220vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Feast of St. Matthew (IMEV 3841)
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Item: 292
Locus:f. 221rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the feast of Saints Phillip and Jacob (IMEV 1763)
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Item: 293
Locus:f. 221rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for Trinity Sunday (IMEV 2928)
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Item: 294
Locus:f. 222ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel 'In vigilia apostolorum Petri et Pauli' (IMEV 1765)
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Item: 295
Locus:f. 222rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel 'In Oct. apostolorum Petri et Pauli' (IMEV 1784)
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Item: 296
Locus:f. 222vb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel 'In festo sancte Margarete' (IMEV 1696)
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Item: 297
Locus:f. 223ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Story of Mary Magdalene (IMEV 4226)
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Item: 298
Locus:f. 223va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Six Exempla: marvellous beast, tree, fowls, fish etc. (IMEV 1476)
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Item: 299
Locus:f. 223vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'In festo Sancti Iacobi maioris' (IMEV 3839)
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Item: 300
Locus:f. 224rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Feast of the Assumption (IMEV 2972)
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Item: 301
Locus:f. 224rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'In festo Sancti Bartholomei' (IMEV 3842)
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Item: 302
Locus:f. 224vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'In festo Exaltationis Crucis' (IMEV 1712)
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Item: 303
Locus:f. 225rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'In festo S. Matthei' (IMEV 395)
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Item: 304
Locus:f. 225va
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Homily, 'In festo S. Michaelis' (IMEV 3326)
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Item: 305
Locus:f. 226ra
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel 'In festo S. Luce Evangeliste' (IMEV 2720)
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Item: 306
Locus:f. 226rc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel 'In festo SS. Simonis et Iude' (IMEV 1745)
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Item: 307
Locus:f. 226vc
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'In festo omnium sanctorum' (IMEV 1102)
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Item: 308
Locus:f. 227rb
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel for the Feast of St. Martin the Confessor (IMEV 1537)
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Item: 309
Locus:f. 227va-c
Title:Northern Homily Cycle: Gospel, 'In festo dedicationis ecclesie' (IMEV 1462)
Incipit:
Explicit:'God and mon mayden sone. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 310
Locus:ff. 227vc-230rb
Title:How a Man Shall Live Perfectly (IMEV 1512)
Incipit:'In nome of him alweldyng Žat is vr hei?e heuene kyng'.
Explicit:'And žei ben pore in querte Žat han riches and louen pouerte'.
Rubric:'Hou a man schal lyue parfytly'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 221-251.

Item: 311
Locus:f. 230rc
Title:Vision of St. Paul (IMEV 1898)
Incipit:'Lustnež lordynges leof and dere ?e žat wolen of že sonday here'.
Explicit:'Bi w?uche seruyse we may come To vre lord god and wiž him wone'.
Rubric:'The visions of seynt poul wan he was rapt into paradys'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 251-260.

Item: 312
Locus:f. 231ra-vc
Title:The Golden Trental (IMEV 1653)
Incipit:'Writen i fynde a good stori Že pope hit wrot seint gregori'.
Explicit:'Že same hom to god vs sende To wone wiž him wižouten ende. Amen'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 260-267.

Item: 313
Locus:f. 231va
Title:Pater Noster
Incipit:
Explicit:
Rubric:'Pater noster in a table ypeynted'.
Note:Intricate diagram of the Pater Noster in Latin and English.
Bibliography:Henry 1990.

Item: 314
Locus:ff. 231va-265rc
Title:Speculum Vitae (IMEV 245)
Incipit:'Almihti God in trinite In who only the persons žre'.
Explicit:'Žat on že cros for vs wolde hynge. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 315
Locus:ff. 265rc-284ra
Title:Prick of Conscience (Main Version, IMEV 3428)
Incipit:'The miht of že ffader almihti že wit of že sone alwitti že grace and že godnes of že holigost žat ison god of mihtes most. Be wiž vs at že biginning and bring vs to god endyng. Amen'.
Explicit:'Žat for vre hele on roode can hinge. Amen'.
Rubric:'Prikke of conciens hette žis book hose wole mai rede and look'.
Bibliography:

Item: 316
Locus:ff. 284ra-286rc
Title:Prick of Love (IMEV 974)
Incipit:'God žat art of mi?tes most Ffader and sone and holigost'.
Explicit:'Žus endež že spore of loue God grant vs že blisse of heuene aboue'.
Rubric:'Her beginnež že prikke of loue Žat profitable is to soule behoue'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 268-297.

Item: 317
Locus:ff. 286rc-287rb
Title:Debate Between the Body and the Soul (IMEV 351)
Incipit:'As ich lay in winteres niht In a droupnynge tofore že day'.
Explicit:'Graunt vs god for žyn holy grace. Amen.
Rubric:'A disputacion bytwene že bodi and že soule'.
Bibliography:Printed from London, British Library, MS Additional 37787 in Baugh 1956, pp. 107-12. Conlee 1991, pp. 18-49.

Item: 318
Locus:ff. 287rc-288vc
Title:Dialogue between St. Bernard and the Virgin Mary (IMEV 1869)
Incipit:'Lewed men be not lered in lore As clerkes ben in holi writ '.
Explicit:'Whon we schul dye and henne go Schilde vs from že pyne of helle. Amen'.
Rubric:'Her is a gret lamentacion Betwene vr ladi & seint bernard Of cristes passion hire dere sone Žat was so pyneful & so hard'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 297-328.

Item: 319
Locus:ff. 288vc-291vb
Title:Disputation between a Good Man and the Devil (IMEV 3247)
Incipit:'Swiže muche neode hit is Žat vche mon be war and wys'.
Explicit:'And kep vs from že synnes seuene And graunt vs alle že blisse of heuene'.
Rubric:'A dispitison bitwene a god man and že deuel'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 329-354.

Item: 320
Locus:ff. 291vb-293rc
Title:Legend of St. Michael III/The Right Pit of Hell (IMEV 3453)
Incipit:'Že ri?te put of helle'
Explicit:'Žat seint michel hire mote avenge And bifore him lede. Amen'.
Note:Part 3 of the Legend of St. Michael.
Bibliography:

Item: 321
Locus:ff. 293rc-296va
Title:Castle of Love (IMEV 3270)
Incipit:'Žat good ženkež good may do And god wol helpe him žerto'
Explicit:'God leeue vs here so ende Žat we ben worži to heuene wende. Amen'.
Rubric:'Her byginnet a tretys Žat is yclept castel off loue Žat bisschop Grostey?t made ywis Ffor lewede mennes by houe''Here endyth the castel of love Made iwys for lewde mennis behove'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1892, pp. 355-406.

Item: 322
Locus:ff. 296va-297vc
Title:Ypotis (IMEV 220)
Incipit:'Alle žat wollež of wisdom lere Listnež nou and ?e may here'.
Explicit:'God graunt vs alle his swete blessyng Schrift & hosel and good endyng. Amen'.
Rubric:'Her biginnež a tretys Žat me clepež ypotis'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1881, p. 341-348.

Item: 323
Locus:ff. 297vc-298rb
Title:Three Messengers of Death (IMEV 3419)
Incipit:'Že mon žat is of wommon ibore His lyf nis heere but a žrowe'.
Explicit:'Žat heiže sittež in trinite Graunt vs alle his blessyng. Amen Amen par charite'.
Rubric:'Her biginnež a tretis Of žreo messagers of dež iwis.'
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 443-448.

Item: 324
Locus:f. 298rb-c
Title:Song of Love-Longing to Jesus (IMEV 3238)
Incipit:'Swete ihesu now wol i synge To že a song of loue longinge'
Explicit:'Bring me in to žat loue longyng To come to že at myn endyng'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 449-451.

Item: 325
Locus:ff. 299rc-b
Title:Poem appended to the song of love-longing (No IMEV)
Incipit:'Marie moder mylde qween Send vs grace synne to flen'.
Explicit:'Holygost his herte schal tille Ffrom synne him bringe & ffendes ille.'
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 451-462.

Item: 326
Locus:f. 299rb-c
Title:A Treatise of Love of God's Passion (IMEV 1695)
Incipit:'Ihesu crist žat is so fre To monnes soule spekež he'.
Explicit:'?iue vs for žin holy miht Alle comen to heuene briht. Amen'.
Rubric:'A luytel tretys of loue of godes passyon'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 462-464.

Item: 327
Locus:ff. 299rc-vb
Title:Of Clean Maidenhood (IMEV 2605)
Incipit:'Off a trewe loue clene & derne I haue iwrite že a ron'.
Explicit:'Žat to že siht of ži swete face On domesday we may come tille'.
Rubric:'Of clene maydenhod To be weddet clanly to god'.
Note:This is a later version of Thomas of Hales's Love Rune (IMEV 66).
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 464-468.

Item: 328
Locus:ff. 299vb-300rb
Title:Morning Song of the Love of God (IMEV 3760)
Incipit:'To loue I chulle beginne Ihesu bože day and niht'.
Explicit:'As was že spere into žyn herte Whon žou suffredest dež for me'.
Rubric:'A mournyng song of že loue of God'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 469-476.

Item: 329
Locus:f. 300rb-c
Title:Friar Henry (IMEV 419)
Incipit:'At a sarmoun žer iseet A comely clerk ich herde crauen'.
Explicit:'He žat al žis world schal demen Žou rihtwys lord žou rewe on mon. Amen'.
Rubric:'A luytel sarmoun žat is of good edificacioun'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 476-478.

Item: 330
Locus:ff. 300rc-301rc
Title:King Robert of Sicily (IMEV 2780)
Incipit:'Princes proude žat bež in pres I wol ou telle žing not lees In cisyle was a noble kynh'.
Explicit:'Euermore to ben aboue Žer is ioye cumfort and loue. Amen'.
Rubric:'Her is of kyng robert of cicyle Hou pride dude him begyle'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1878, pp. 209-219.

Item: 331
Locus:f. 301rc-vb
Title:Jesus and the Masters (IMEV 1887)
Incipit:'Lustnež lordes leoue in londe Soželi sawes I wol ?ou telle'.
Explicit:'Preye we crist žat we so don To geten že gle in his glorie. Amen'.
Rubric:'Her is a disputison bitwene child ihesu and maistres of že lawe of iewes'.
Bibliography:Printed from this manuscript in Conlee 1991, pp. 167-177. Furnivall 1901, pp. 479-484. Horstmann 1878, pp. 204-208.

Item: 332
Locus:ff. 301vc-302rc
Title:A Christian and a Jew (IMEV 167)
Incipit:'Alle bliže mote žei be Žat folyes bleželiche wole fle'.
Explicit:'Žus to vre god he hym kneu? And ?eply him ?olde'.
Rubric:'A disputisoun bytwene a cristenemon and a iew'.
Bibliography:Printed from this manuscript in Conlee 1991, pp. 178-191. Furnivall 1901, pp. 484-493. Horstmann 1878, pp. 204-208.

Item: 333
Locus:ff. 302va-303vc
Title:How a Man Should Hear Mass (IMEV 4276)
Incipit:'?ong & old more and lasse Fful god hit is to here a masse'.
Explicit:'Whon we schal dye no lengor dwelle Kep vs from že pyne of helle. Amen ffor charite'.
Rubric:'Her techež žys tretys ženne Hou mon scholde here hys masse Hit is ful nedful to alle menne To more and eke to lasse'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 493-511.

Item: 334
Locus:ff. 303vc-304rc
Title:The Golden Trental (IMEV 1653)
Incipit:'Wryten I fynde a good stori Žer pope hit wrot seint gregori'.
Explicit:'Že same hom to vs seende To wone with him wižouten ende. Amen'.
Rubric:'Here byginnet že guldene trental Žat ou?te be loued swyže wel'.
Bibliography:

Item: 335
Locus:f. 304rc-vb
Title:Sayings of St. Bernard: Man's Three Foes (IMEV 2865)
Incipit:'Seint bernard seiž in his bok Žat mon is worm & wormes cok'.
Explicit:'And žat we mote ži sone seen World wižouten ende. Amen'.
Rubric:'Her telle? seynt bernard Mon haž žreo enemys hard'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 511-522.

Item: 336
Locus:ff. 304vb-307ra
Title:The King of Tars (IMEV 1108)
Incipit:'Herknež now bože olde and ?yng Ffor marie loue žat swete žyng'.
Explicit:'Graunt vs alle in heuene liht To seo ži swete face. Amen'.
Rubric:'Her bigennež of že kyng of tars And of že soudan of dammas Hou že soudan of dammas was icristned žoru gods gras'.
Bibliography:

Item: 337
Locus:ff. 307rb-309va
Title:Proverbs of Prophets, Poets and Saints/ Proverbs of Old Philosophers (IMEV 3501)
Incipit:'Že wyse mon in his bok haž žis seying'.
Explicit:'And god žat made alle žing ?if vs alle good endyng. Amen. Amen'.
Rubric:'Cher amys receue? de moy'
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 522-553.

Item: 338
Locus:ff. 309va-314rb
Title:Distichs of Cato/Parvus & Magnus Cato (IMEV 247)
Incipit:'Almihti god in trinite Leeue vs wel to spede'.
Explicit:'God hem graunte žorw his grace Of heore sunnes be clene. Amen'.
Rubric:'Her biginnež luytel caton'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 553-609.

Item: 339
Locus:ff. 314rb-315vc
Title:The Stations of Rome (IMEV 1962)
Incipit:Lord ihesu crist in trinite Žreo persones in vnite'.
Explicit:'Graunt vs part of žis pardoun And žerto his benisoun. Amen'.
Bibliography:Prologue printed in Furnivall 1901, pp. 553-611.

Item: 340
Locus:ff. 314vc-316vc
Title:Dispute between Mary and the Cross (IMEV 2718)
Incipit:'Oure ladi freo on rode treo made hire mon Heo seid on že že fruit of me is wo bigon'.
Explicit:'And marie preiers žat ben ful goode grant vs že lyf of grace. Amen'.
Rubric:'Explicit disputacio inter mariam et crucem secundum apocrafum'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 612-626.

Item: 341
Locus:f. 317ra-vb
Title:The Pistill of Susan (IMEV 3553)
Incipit:'Žer was in babiloine a bern in žat borw riche'.
Explicit:'Graunt us alle že blisse of heuene. Amen'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 626-636.

Item: 342
Locus:ff. 317vb-318rb
Title:Long Charter of Christ (IMEV 1718)
Incipit:'Ihesu kyng of heuene and helle Mon and wommon i wol že telle'.
Explicit:'Že blisse žat loste oure frende To že whuche blisse criste vs bringe withouten ende. Amen. Amen'.
Note:A text. F. 318v blank.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 636-657.

Item: 343
Locus:ff. 319ra-334ra
Title:Prick of Love (IPMEP 46)
Incipit:'Al forwondred of vreself ouhte vs for to be ? we bižouhte vs inwardlyche of že grete vnmesurable loue žat god to vs haž schewed and of že grete vnkyndenes žat we don him a?eyn for his gode dede for ?if vre lord louež vs so muche žat to vre kynde so knittet wolde be žat neuer wolde from vs twinne'.
Explicit:'and loue ži lord rys vp syon and preise ži lord ? heuene and eorže and al žat is žerinne louež vr lord and so mot vre tretys ende is louynge of god so žat alle blessede spirites mote louen vre lord in že blisse of heuene amen'.
Rubric:'Now a mon schal haue cristes passion...in heuenly ierusalem. c.xxxvij'.
Colophon:'Here endeže že tretis žat is cald prikke of loue made bi a ffrere menour bonaventure žat was a cardinal in že court of rome'.
Bibliography:A translation of the pseudo-Bonaventuran Stimulus Amoris.

Item: 344
Locus:f. 334ra
Title:Nine Points Most Pleasing to God (IPMEP 410)
Incipit:'Hit was an holi mon and bisou?te god sende him grace such vertues forto vse žat weore best to lyf and to soule ženne apeered vr lord iesus godes sone to him and seide ?if žin herte to me and žin almus to že pore mon for že loue of me and hit schal lyke me betere žen žauh žou ?iue al že gold of žis world aftur ži day'.
Explicit:'žen žou preyed my moder and al že halewes of heuene to preye for že loue me wiž al žin herte to haue my blisse and hit schul lyke me bettere žen žou made a piler rechyng vp to heuene stikyng ful of rasours al ži bodi to renden on'.
Rubric:'A tretis hou god apered to an holi mon'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1895, pp. 110-111.

Item: 345
Locus:f. 334ra
Title:Christ's appeal to man (IMEV 3826)
Incipit:'Unkuinde mon ?if kep to me And seo what pyne i soffre for že'.
Explicit:'In eorže my grace in heuene my blis'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1895, p. 71.

Item: 346
Locus:f. 334ra-vb
Title:The Commandment (IPMEP 660)
Incipit:'Že comaundement of god is žat we loue vr lord iesus in al vre herte in al vre soule in al vre herte žoruout in al vre herte žat is in al vre vnderstonding wižouten a?eynsey?ing in al vre žou?t žat is žat we ženke on him wižouten for?etynge in žis manere is'.
Explicit:'loue hit more žen ži lyf roote hit in ži muynde loue iesus in al žyn herte for he made že and bou?te že ful deore ?if žin herte to him for hit is his dette forži loue iesus wiž al žin herte wiž al ži soule wiž al ži žouht amen'.
Rubric:'Her is a tretis žat techež to loue god with al žin herte'.
Bibliography:Ogilvie-Thompson 1988, pp. 34-39.

Item: 347
Locus:ff. 334vb-338ra
Title:Form of Perfect Living (IMEV 4056) and (IPMEP 351)
Incipit:'In euerich synful mon or wommon žat is bounden in ded[..] synne beož žreo wrecchednesses že w?uche bringež he[..] to dež of helle že furste is defaute of gostliche strengže žat žei ben so feynte wižinne in heore heortes žat žei mowe not stonden a?eynes že fondyng of že deuel ne žei mowe not lifte heore wil to'.
Explicit:'že fourme of louynge and hou žou maist comen to perfeccion and to louen him žat žou hast taken že to ?if hit do že good and profyt žonke god and preye for me že grace of vr lord god be with že and kepe že woržily to him amen'.
Rubric:'Her biginnež že fourme of parfyt liuyng že w?uche holi richard že hermit of hampulle wrot to a recluse žat was clepet margarete'.
Bibliography:Ogilvie-Thompson 1988, pp. 1-25.

Item: 348
Locus:ff. 338ra-339ra
Title:Ego Dormio (IPMEP 160 with IMEV 2250 and IMEV 2270)
Incipit:'Žow žat desirest loue hold žin eren and here of loue in že song of loue i fynde iwriten žat i sette at my biginnynge of my writyng i slepe and myn herte wakež muche loue he schewež žat neuer is weori of loue but euere sittyng stondyng going or eny ožur dede doyng is euere of loue ženkyng and oftesižes žerof'.
Explicit:'žat i mi?te beo with že to loke on že and to loue že mi setel ordeyne redi and sette žou me žerinne for ženne schul we neuer twynne of loue žen schul we synge žorw si?t of ži schinynge in heuene withouten endynge amen'.
Bibliography:Ogilvie-Thompson 1988, pp. 26-33.

Item: 349
Locus:ff. 339ra-341ra
Title:Qui habitat (IPMEP 554)
Incipit:'Qui habitat in adiutorio altissimi in proteccione dei celi commorabitur alle men žat wol liuen in žis world cristenliche schal suffre persecucions as že apostel seiž or fro withouten bi malice of men or fro withinne bi temptacion of že fend žerfore žat no mon schulde ouurtaken of himself be fals sikernes on žat'.
Explicit:'and hi?ež so brennyndliche to mi si?t žerfore i schal fulfillen his desire and schewen me fulli to him in my ful blisse i schal speke aperteliche to him not in prouerbes for hose louež me i schal louen him and i schal schewen myself to him'.
Rubric:'Her is a psalm of že psauter expouned in englisch qui habitat'.
Bibliography:

Item: 350
Locus:ff. 341rb-342vb
Title:Bonum Est (IPMEP 115.5)
Incipit:'Bonum est confiteri domino et psallere nomini tuo altissime hit is good to schriuen to vre lord and singen to ži name žou allerhi?est no man mai liuen in žis lyf žat he ne schal sinne sumtyme and žerfore hit is good to vche mon to schriuen him to vre lord and syngen to his name schrift gož bifore and song'.
Explicit:'and he is good in alle his werkes žer is no wontyng of goodnes in him for he is fulfild of his owne kynde not takyng part of anožer žing and forži žer is in him no wikkednesse but he is goode and alle goode and souereyn godnesse'.
Rubric:'Her is a psalm of že psauter in englisch bonum est confiteri domino'.
Bibliography:

Item: 351.1
Locus:f. 343ra-b
Title:Tabula
Incipit:'Ža že inner hauyng of man be lyt to že vtter of actyf lyf'.
Explicit:'žat hit was made vnto'.
Note:A tabula dividing the following text into 93 chapters.
Bibliography:

Item: 351.2
Locus:ff. 343va-353va
Title:Scale of Perfection (IPMEP 255)
Incipit:'Gostly brožer or suster in iesus crist i preye že žat in že callyng w?uche vre lord haž called že to his seruice žou hold že payed and stond studefastli žerin trauayling bisyli with al že mi?tes of ži soule by grace of iesus crist forte fulfille in sožfastnes of good lyuyng že state w?uche žou hast taken in liknes and in'.
Explicit:'oužur for lakkyng of englische or wantyng of reson i prey že amende hit only žer ned is žei longe not alle to o man w?uch haž actyf lyf but to že or to anožer whuch haž stat of lyf contemplatyf že grace of vre lord iesus crist be with že amen'.
Note:Book 1 only.
Bibliography:Underhill 1923; Bestul 2000.

Item: 352
Locus:ff. 353vb-356rb
Title:Epistle of Mixed Life (IPMEP 147)
Incipit:'Že grace and že goodnes of vr lord iesus žat he haž schewed to že in wiždrawyng of žin herte from loue and lyking of worldli vanyte and vse of fleschli synnes and in turnyng of ži wille enterli to his seruise and his plesaunce bringež into myn herte muche matere for to loue him in his merci and also hit sterež'.
Explicit:'and of že maieste withoute gret clannes and meknes schal be ouurleyd and oppressed of himself'.
Rubric:'Here beginež a luitel boc žat was writen to a worldli lord to teche him hou he schulde haue him in his state in ordeynd loue to god and to his euencristene'.
Note:Between the rubric and the incipit is an outline of the chapters beginning, 'Whi gode desyres neodež to be reuled be discrecion & medeful werkes to be wrou?t' and ending, '& wisely use že grace žat god haž ?eue to him./ cao xxvijo že prologe'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1895, pp. 264-292.

Item: 353
Locus:ff. 356rb-359vb
Title:The Mirror of St. Edmund (IPMEP 706)
Incipit:'Že word of že apostele fallež to men of religion and to alle gode cristene men seož že stat wherto ?e beož clept žis he seiž for to drawe vs to perfecion and žerfore what time i ženke on myself bi day or bi niht on on half i haue gret ioye and on anožur half gret serwe ioye for že grete religion and godnesse'.
Explicit:'iesu cryst graunte vs god so honouren vre brežeren louen and vreself meken žat we mouwen for vre honouring ben honoured for vre loue ben loued and for vre meokyng beon hei?ed in že ioye of heuene žat is ordeyned to vs amen iesus graunt hit vs amen'.
Rubric:'Heer biginnež a good tretis žat seint edmond že bisschop made wiž že mirour of seint edmound i cleped hit is žat techež mon to heuene blis'.
Note:An English translation of St. Edmund's Speculum Ecclesie written c. 1240 by Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury. An outline of chapters between the rubric and the incipt begins as follows, 'žis is že Bok sikerly žat techež to heuen parfytliche hit is clept že mirour of seynt Edmound' and ends, 'What is to liuen honurabliche loueredenliche and mekeliche'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1895, pp. 240-261.

Item: 354
Locus:ff. 359vb-361rb
Title:Abbey of the Holy Ghost (IPMEP 39)
Incipit:'Mi deore brežren and sustren i seo wel žat monie wolde ben in religion but žei mowe not for pouert or for age or for drede of heore kun or for bond of mariage and žerfore i make her a book of religion of herte žat is of že abbeye of že holi gost žat alle žo žat mouwe not ben in bodi religion žei mowe ben in gostly'.
Explicit:'In whuche ben foundet alle goode virtues and alle foule vices ben driven out'.
Rubric:'Heer biginnež a tretis žat is clept že abbey of že holy gost Žat is concience of monnes herte schulde ben in žis abbey most'.
Note:There is a connecting passage between this text and the one that follows.
Bibliography:Consacro 1971. Horstmann 1895, pp. 321-337.

Item: 355
Locus:ff. 361rb-363vb
Title:The Charter of the Abbey (IPMEP 590)
Incipit:'Her is že bok žat spekež of a place žat is cleped že abbey of že holigost'.'Witeže ?e žat now heere And žei žat bež to comen'.
Explicit:'žat is to seye goode vertues in vre soules žat we mowe come to žat ioie and to žat blisse žat iesus crist bou?te vs to with his precious blood to žat ioye and blisse bring vs he žat for loue of monnes soule di?ede on že roode tre amen'.
Rubric:'And žus bigynnež že chartre of že same abbey of že holigost'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1895, pp. 337-362. Fanning 1975.

Item: 356
Locus:ff. 363vb-366vb
Title:The Spirit of Guy (IPMEP 229)
Incipit:'For as muche as seint austin seiž to peter in že booc of beleeue žat is a miracle what heih žing ožur vncostumable žing so comež ouur monnus faculte to be strengžing of vr feiž forwhi alle žinges žat beož writen ben writen to vr techyng žyng žat we mouwe haue hope žorw soffraunce and cumfort of writynges'.
Explicit:'and in že day of ester žat next com že pope sent židere and fond nou?t for foreseide spirit forwhi men trouwež wel žat he is nou in heuene to w?uche heuene bring vs godes sone žat liuež and regnež wiž že fader and wiž že holy gost amen'.
Rubric:'Heer begynnež a good tretis žat men clepež spiritus gwydonis'
Bibliography:Horstmann 1896, pp. 292-293.

Item: 357
Locus:ff. 366vb-367vb
Title:Form of Confession (IPMEP 309)
Incipit:'I knowleche me gulti and ?elde me to god almihti and to his blessed moder seynte marie and to al že holy cumpanye of heuene and to že mi gostliche fader here in godes stude of alle že sunnes žat ich haue greuousliche sunged inne from že tyme žat i was bore into žis day as in word in werk in wille in žou?t'.
Explicit:'in iust demynge wherin stondež temperaunce in mesurable etyng and drinkyng spekyng sleping and trauaylyng wherinne stondež strengže in mihti wižstondyng of temptacion continueliche seruyng god god ?iue vs grace to serue god amen'.
Rubric:'Heer is good Confession Žat techež mon to sauacion How žat mon schal schriue him here To techen him wel že maneere'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1896, pp. 340-345.

Item: 358
Locus:ff. 367vb-371vb
Title:A Talking of the Love of God (IPMEP 749)
Incipit:'Žis tretys is a talkyng of že loue of god and is mad for to sturen hem žat hit reden to louen him že more and to fynde lykyng and tast in his loue hit fallež for to reden hit esyliche and softe so as men may mest in inward felyng and deplich ženkyng sauour fynden and žat not beodene but biginnen and leten'.
Explicit:'my lyues loue mi lyf mi dež mi blisse for žou ordeyndest me to ži deore lemmon bitwene žin armes ley i me bitwene myn armes cluppe i že nou ?if me felyng in že withouten ending and hold me in ži kepyng swete iesus heuenkyng amen'.
Rubric:'Heer is a tretys a talkyng of že loue of god'.
Note:A modernised version of the thirteenth-century Wooing of Our Lord.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1896, pp. 345-366. Westra 1950.

Item: 359
Locus:ff. 371vb-392ra
Title:Ancrene Riwle/ Ancrene Wisse (IPMEP 559 with IMEV 3568)
Incipit:'Lourd seiž godes spouse to hire derworže spous že rihte louež že'.
Explicit:'ženne habbež heo strengže wel to ben vnderstonden now is žis al iseid now iesus crist žat me gurde i že mouž and galle ?af to drynke with moužes sunne witež ow and žolež sum pyne in žat wit as he was žerinne i pynet'.
Note:A modernised version of the thirteenth-century text.
Bibliography:Savage and Watson 1991. Zettersten and Diensberg 2000.

Item: 360
Locus:ff. 392rb-393rb
Title:The Pains of Sin and Joys of Heaven (not in IPMEP)
Incipit:'Salamon seiž in al žin werkes ženk on žin eende and žou schalt neuere do sinne ženk žat žou schalt dy?e and žou ne wost whenne ne in what stude ne in what tyme ne on what dež ne in what state and žerfore seiž seint austine žat euure schulde vre last dai be in vre žouht for whenne žou arysest vp of ži bedde'.
Explicit:'že world iloren for žat heo mowen neuere hemseluen helpen ne non ožur ?if ?e vnderstonde wel žis žing ?e ouhten to haue žis world in despit and luitel to leten of heore wordes god ?eue vs grace to be goode and to make heer a good ende amen'.
Bibliography:Unpublished.

Item: 361
Locus:ff. 393rb-394vb
Title:Life of Adam and Eve (IPMEP 53)
Incipit:'Alle žat bileeuen on iesus crist lustenež and ?e mowen heere how muche is že miht of vre heuenekyng furst he schop heuene and sižen že eorže to beren treo and gras že eorže was fruy?e and withouten moisture žer nas nožing žat was quik neižer more ne lasse že holi gost was euere withouten bigining and schal be'.
Explicit:'and so heo weoren alle ablent and žerfore god almihti adreynt al že world he dreynte al žat was quik abouen že eorže but onliche eihte soules now ichaue ?ow told al of že furste worlde and to že world žat euer schal laste god us žider bringe'.
Rubric:'Žis tretys is hou že word was wrou?t and adam and eue & že wo žat adam & eue in heore lyue hedden'.
Bibliography:Horstmann 1878, pp. 220-227.

Item: 362
Locus:ff. 394vb-401v
Title:Piers Plowman, A text (IMEV 1459)
Incipit:'In a somer sesun whon softe was the sonne'.
Explicit:'A lyf is ihoten housebondes hit usen'.
Note:A-text. F. 402 is missing.
Bibliography:Ed. Skeat 1867. Kane 1960.

Item: 363
Locus:ff. 403ra-404vb
Title:Joseph of Arimathia (IMEV 49)
Incipit:'...sire he seid and sonenday is nouwe'.
Explicit:'And žei lenden of že toun and leuen hit žeres'.
Bibliography:

Item: 364
Locus:ff. 404vb-406ra
Title:South English Legendary: Life of Pilate and Judas (IMEV 1809 and IMEV 2755)
Incipit:'Judas was a lužer brid žat ihesus solde to že rode'.
Explicit:'God schilde vche cristene mon from so deolful cas. Amen'.
Note:F. 406 has been cut vertically so that only half of the page remains, the second column is therefore missing. The text ends half way down the page with the remainder of the column remaining blank. However, there is a catchword for the next text in the bottom right-hand corner of the page.
Bibliography:

Item: 365.1
Locus:f. 407ra-c
Title:Mercy passes all things (IMEV 583)
Incipit:'In west vnder a wylde wode syde In a launde žer i was lente'.
Explicit:'Bifore ži face žat we mai sai Now merci passež alle žinge'.
Note:Items 367.1-26 are known collectively as the Vernon Lyrics.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 658-663.

Item: 365.2
Locus:f. 407rc-va
Title:Deo Gracias (IMEV 1448)
Incipit:'In a chirche žer i con knel Žis ender day in on morwenynge'.
Explicit:'And sitte among his seintes hende And žer synge deo gracias'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 664-666.

Item: 365.3
Locus:f. 407va-b
Title:Against my will I take my leave (IMEV 2302)
Incipit:'Nou bernes buirdus bolde and blyže To blessen ow her nou am i bounde'.
Explicit:'Crist kepe ow out of cares colde Ffor nou is tyme to take my leue'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 666-668.

Item: 365.4
Locus:f. 407vb
Title:Deus caritas est (IMEV 678)
Incipit:'A deore god omnipotent Lord žou madest bože fould & best'.
Explicit:'Ženkež nouže on deus caritas And bring vs alle to good endyng'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 668-670.

Item: 365.5
Locus:f. 407vc
Title:Deo gracias (IMEV 2280)
Incipit:'Mi word is deo gracias In world wher me be wel or wo'.
Explicit:'And afterward into heuene go Žer to synge deo gracias. Amen'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 670-671.

Item: 365.6
Locus:ff. 407vc-408ra
Title:Each man ought himself to know (IMEV 1455)
Incipit:'In a pistel žat poul wrou?t i fond hit writen & seide riht žis'.
Explicit:'žat cristes face mai ben vr foode ffor vche mon ou?te him self to knowe'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 672-675.

Item: 365.7
Locus:f. 408ra-va
Title:Think on yesterday (IMEV 3996)
Incipit:'Whon men beož muriest at heor mele In mete & drink to maken hem glade'.
Explicit:'Whon men beož muryest at heor mele I rede ?e ženke on ?usterday'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 675-680.

Item: 365.8
Locus:f. 408va-b
Title:Keep well Christ's Commandments (IMEV 1379)
Incipit:'I warne vche leod žat liuež in londe And do hem dredles out of were'.
Explicit:'Fforži i preye žat crist vs spede Kuyndely to kepe his comaundement'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 680-683.

Item: 365.9
Locus:f. 408vb-c
Title:Who says sooth he shall be shent (IMEV 3420)
Incipit:'Že mon žat luste to liuen in ese Or eny worschupe her to ateyne'.
Explicit:'Žis lesson lernež alle at me Ho seiž že sože he schal be schent'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 683-686.

Item: 365.10
Locus:ff. 408vc-409ra
Title:Fy on a faint friend (IMEV 872)
Incipit:'Frenschipe failež & fullich fadež Ffeižful frendes fewe we fynde'.
Explicit:'Do we so žat crist beo payet And ženne we hauen a syker frend'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 686-688.

Item: 365.11
Locus:f. 409ra-c
Title:Thank God of all (IMEV 562)
Incipit:'Bi a wey wandrynge as I went Sore I syked for serwyng sad'.
Explicit:'žou? we haue not al vr wil Euermore žonke we god of al'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 688-692.

Item: 365.12
Locus:f. 409rc-va
Title:This world fares as a fantasy (IMEV 1402)
Incipit:'I wolde witen of sum wys wiht Witterly what žis world were'.
Explicit:'And her we stuntež but a stounde Ffor žis world is but fantasye'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 692-696.

Item: 365.13
Locus:f. 409va-c
Title:Ay mercy, God (IMEV 374)
Incipit:'As I wandrede her bi weste Ffaste vnder a forest syde'.
Explicit:'Ži swete face žat we may se Nou merci god and graunt merci'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 696-699.

Item: 365.14
Locus:ff. 409vc-410ra
Title:Truth ever is best (IMEV 4158)
Incipit:'Hose wolde him wei avyse Of žis wrecched world iweene'.
Explicit:'We schul him hunte as cat dož mys Whon trouže him cheues žat euer is best'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 699-701.

Item: 365.15
Locus:f. 410ra-b
Title:Charity is no longer dear (IMEV 4157)
Incipit:'Hose wolde beženke him weel Ou žis world is went iwis'.
Explicit:'And let concience bere že keye Ffor žen schal charite be most chere'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 701-704.

Item: 365.16
Locus:f. 410rb-c
Title:Of women comes this world's weal (IMEV 1596)
Incipit:'In worschupe of žat mayden swete Mylde marie moder and may'.
Explicit:'žou? i žus schortliche make an ende Of wymmen comež žis worldes wele'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 704-708.

Item: 365.17
Locus:f. 410rc-vb
Title:Mary, mother of Christ (IMEV 2607)
Incipit:'Off alle floures feirest fall on And žat is marie moder fre'.
Explicit:'In heuene of že to haue a siht Laid to že my mone i mene'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 708-711.

Item: 365.18
Locus:f. 410vb-c
Title:Fleur de Lys (IMEV 2108)
Incipit:'Marie mayden moder mylde Žat blisful bern in bosum beere'.
Explicit:'Heuene blisse žat we may wynne And wone žer wiž ži fflourdelys'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 711-715.

Item: 365.19
Locus:ff. 410vc-411rb
Title:Death of Edward III (IMEV 5)
Incipit:'A dere god what mai žis be Žat alle žing & wastež awai'.
Explicit:'And nou heore los biginnež to swage Žat selde ise?e is sone for?ete.'
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 715-718.

Item: 365.20
Locus:f. 411rb-c
Title:Earthquake of 1382 (IMEV 4268)
Incipit:'Yit is god a curteis lord And mekeliche con schewe his miht'.
Explicit:'Of his gret godnesse and his gras Sende vs such warnyng to beware'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 719-721.

Item: 365.21
Locus:ff. 411rc-va
Title:Love Holy Church and its Priests (IMEV 606)
Incipit:'Crist ?iue vs grace to loue wel holichirch Or elles certes we don riht nouht'.
Explicit:'Ihesu bring vs and socoure Out of žis world whon we schal go'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 721-723.

Item: 365.22
Locus:f. 411va
Title:Try to say the best (IMEV 2790)
Incipit:'Qween of heuene moder and may Saue hem alle nou žat ben here'.
Explicit:'Nou to žis word ?e take goode hede Ffor marie loue to seye že beste'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 723-725.

Item: 365.23
Locus:f. 411va-b
Title:Tomorrow (IMEV 1443)
Incipit:'Ilke a wys wiht scholde wake And waite with werk heuen to wynne'.
Explicit:'He ?iue vs grace to wone him by Žen schal vs tyde no teone to morn'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 725-727.

Item: 365.24
Locus:ff. 411vb-412ra
Title:Make amends for thy sins (IMEV 563)
Incipit:'Bi a wode as i gon ryde Walkynge al mi self alone'.
Explicit:'In heuene of ži sone to haue a siht And heer in eorže amendes make'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 727-730.

Item: 365.25
Locus:f. 412ra-b
Title:Suffer in time and that is best (IMEV 3925)
Incipit:'Whon alle sožes ben souht and seene Euerichone at heore deuys'.
Explicit:'Žer bi god and vre ladi Suffre in hym and žat is beste'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 730-733.

Item: 365.26
Locus:f. 412rb-c
Title:Mane nobiscum Domine (IMEV 1532)
Incipit:'In somer bifore že ascenciun At euensong on a sonundai'.
Explicit:'Out of žis world whon we be brou?t Mane nobiscum domine'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 733-735.

Item: 365.27
Locus:f. 412rc
Title:Ave maris stella (IMEV 1081)
Incipit:'Heil sterre of že see so briht Žow graunt vs to ben vr gyde'.
Explicit:'Ffader and sone and holygost Beo wiž us nou and euere. Amen'.
Rubric:'Ave maris stella dei mater alma Atque semper virgo felix celi porta'.
Note:Furnivall misses lines 13 and 14 in his edition.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1901, pp. 735-739.
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Physical Description
Form:Codex.
Support: Parchment
Extent:544 x 393 mm
Collation:Normally eights.
Layout:Pricking where visible - rounded or slits. Inner and outer margins are pricked for horizontal ruling. Writing space of 412-20 mm x 284 x 94 mm. Double and triple columns with 80 lines. Double columns - 132-37 mm wide. Triple columns - 88-91 mm wide. Ruled in brownish plummet.
Writing: Scribe 1 (ff. i-viii and rubrics left blank by Scribe 2 in later quires) writing in an Anglicana hand. Characteristics: flat-topped t; Majuscules: several forms of A with a long approach stroke on the left, exaggerated in the margin; one or two forms of B, wide V with first stroke from low left or higher right; uncial M with closed first compartment; occasional composite S; Minuscules: convex top right segment of the loop of b; frequent 8-like s in initial and final position and 6-like deep-bowled cursive form; flat-topped t; w with first stroke rising from low left; unlooped l (Doyle, 1987, pp. 12-13, colour plate 1). Scribe 2: Completed all texts apart from Quire 1 and some of the rubrics left blank in the quires he copied. Characteristics: 'steady set round anglicana' without Secretary influence (Doyle, 1987, pp. 11-12).
Decoration: One-line coloured (normally blue or red) or gold initials, which normally have contrasted and alternating penwork. Quires 32-36, and 41 have one-line gold initials with brown penwork and blue or orange paraphs. Quires 44-47 have violet penwork. There are c. 3250 illuminated initials and c. 365 flourished initials. Two-line indented initials, in gold or deep crimson or blue grounds, with or without marginal extension of more than one sort begin secondary divisions of text or Latin quotations. Four or five-line initials start primary divisions (single legends, miracles, or chapters within work) with the larger marginal extensions called at the beginning of items and of parts of the volumes. One twenty-two-line historiated initial for the Prick of Conscience on f. 265rc. God the Father holding a Crucifix between angels with censers with a monk in white habit kneeling in front, holding a scroll, 'miserere mei deus secundum magnam misericordiam' (Doyle, 1987, pl. XIV). Possibly by the La Estorie del Euangelie artist. The initial shows a similar technique and colouring, green flowers with red centres and is accompanied by the work of Border Artist D; D also worked on the borders of the Euangelie. Doyle notes that the columbines which hang from the vine at the bottom of the page are also included in some other manuscripts of similar date. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 316 c. 1394-7 (Pächt and Alexander, 3, no. 674, pl. LXX), Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon misc. 110 (Pächt and Alexander, 3, no. 775, pl. LXXIV) produced for the Benedictines of Norwich Cathedral Priory, c. 1394-1400, and Durham Chapter Library, A 1.3 in 1386. One full border and c. 340 border extensions by c. nine Border Artists. Border Artist A: ff. iii-viii (Doyle, 1987, pl. I). Stylistically close to Border Artist F with its characteristic style being 'brief sprigs of coloured balls or buds and untinted squiggles in pale brown ink on initials (or no sprigs) and well defined white patterns on and in initials (Scott, 1996, p. 22). Border Artist B: ff. 1r-96v, 167r-222v (Doyle, 1987, pl. II; ill. 2). Scott notes that Border Artist B is the second most accomplished Border Artist but writes that he 'has a provincial air, noticeable in the initial sprays with either rather feebly executed coloured balls, pairs of daisy-buds sometimes placed oddly with other motifs on initials (e.g. ff. 19v, 21r, 24r), and in the occasional lack of balance in handling vine-and-leaf branches (e.g. ff. 14r-v, 173v, 180v). His partial borders are characterised by a vine that curls back on itself in a large loop by staggered leaf motifs on vines, by trefoil leaves with white circles on two lobes, rather like eyes or Romanesque beaker heads, and by pairs of barbed, rounded daisy buds. His main colour range is orange, a murky or pale rose, and blue in two tones. Border Artist B had the distinction of making the only full border in the volume (f. 1), on two sides a filigree band and on the others a bar frame. Initials within the work allotted to Border Artist B have mainly coloured balls on extended pen lines' (Scott, 1996, pp. 22-23). Some of the characteristics of Border Artist D also occur in the work of other hands, for example on ff. 350v and 365v (Doyle, 1987, Pl. VXI). Border Artist B was responsible for the whole of part I of Vernon apart from the final quire, as well as quires 23-29 in part III. Border Artist C: ff. 97r-104v. The work of Border Artist C is only found in one quire of the manuscript, ff. 97r-104v. The partial borders of his work are characterised by 'straight sprays of rose and blue trefoil leaves alternating with gold balls not attached to the vine; his initials are deeply serrated around the letter form and hedged with coloured balls (no sprays)' (Scott, 1996, p. 22). A difference in intensity of colour is discernible with his rose and blue hues being brighter than than those painted by Border Artist B. Scott notes that the technique of this artist is closely related to Border Artists: G, G1, and G2 (Scott, 1996, p. 22). Border Artist D: ff. 105r, 114r-120v, 223r-278r (Doyle, 1987, pls. III, IX, XIII, XIV; ill. 3). This artist is considered by both Doyle and Scott to be the most sophisticated of the illuminators. His style is seen as being more refined and probably the result of London influence and training. Scott writes that he drew 'lively sprays of three slim daisy-buds (and sometimes a larger flower bud), whose small size was appropriate to their frequent occurrence on the page (e.g. f. 117). On larger initials this illuminator also used the "tally" style of initial exetension (e.g. ff. 229v, 234r), and also ending in daisy-bud sprays. Border Artist D's borders were executed in bright colours with pairs of (rather than staggered) motifs on border sprays, with ball-and-squiggle motifs along bar-frames (a new idea; see e.g. ff. 236v, 237r), and with, in the later section, grotesques. Some uses of bright orange are quite bright for the period (e.g. ff. 113v-117r). The fine initials f. 117 with large "maple" leaves on stippled gold are indicative of the quality of his training, possibly in London' (Scott, 1996, p. 22; Doyle, 1987, p. 8, pls. III, IV, XIV). Similar work can be found in two copies of Higden's Polychronicon, Cambridge University Library, Ii.2.24, f. 13, and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 316, f. 8. It is also thought that this artist was responsible for the partial border on f. 7 of London, British Library, Harley 401, a copy of the Floretum dated 1396 (Scott, 1996, p. 22). Border Artist E: ff. 121r-126v, 412r (Doyle, 1987, pls. V-XII, ill. 5). Border Artist E can be found in only one quire working with the Miracles artist and on the last leaf (f. 412) of the manuscript. Scott sees the sprays on the initials done by this Border Artist as being 'less structured'. They are drawn in black ink and have 'roughly executed' trefoil leaves. There are also coloured balls against the initial ground (Scott, 1996, p. 22). Border Artist F: ff. 279r-286v, 305r, and one intial on verso, 319r-322v, 324r-326v, 351r-352v, 354r-355v, 357r-358v, 394r-395v, 396v, 398r. Border Artist F is stylistically close to Border Artist A although they are not the same artist. Border Artist F is more accomplished than A and his work is 'characterised by two-line initials either without sprays but hedged by rose or blue balls (usually without squiggles) or, more rarely, with stiff, tally-bar extensions (e.g. f. 281), also with balls, and by the use of brown or pale brown for pen squiggles, and on border spray-work sometimes by a leaf and ball paired opposite each other on a vine (e.g. f. 284), but more frequently by pairs of motifs' (Scott, 1996, p. 22). Border Artist G: ff. 287r-294v. Scott describes the work of this artist as being some of the 'uglier work' in the manuscript. His style is characterised by 'daisy-buds on some initials (e.g. ff. 287r, 288r), a group of three buds or leaves from one flower (e.g. f. 288), variant white designs on initial grounds, much use of three dot design, and gold balls attached to the vine'. Scott also notes that the hand uses green tint on some pen squiggles (Scott, 1996, p. 22). Early use of green tint on pen squiggles is also found in a provincial context in the work of Border Artist B in London, British Library, MS Additional 37787, a textually related north Worcestershire manuscript. Border Artist G1: ff. 295r-310v, 323r, 327r-350v, 353r, 356r, 359r-393v (Doyle, 1987, pl. XV), 396r, 397r. It is thought that this artist was trained by Border Artist G. However, Scott sees some differences in technique; she writes that he 'differs from his mentor in two respects: he does not use green, and his partial borders have, at first, mainly smaller rounded leaf shapes, rather than the trefoil shapes of G's work. G1 made the majority of the tally initials. G1 began his second stint in the middle of a quire and on a leaf (f. 323r) started by Border Artist F, and later G1 and F worked together on a quire between ff. 351r-358v' (Scott, 1996, pp. 22-23). Border Artist G2: ff. 311r-318; 399r-411v. Scott sees this as another amateurish artist and describes it as being one of the 'rough hands'. His work is characterised by 'sinuous vines on initials with a variety of coloured motifs' (Scott, 1996, p. 23). Historiations in borders or initials: historiations are present in a number of borders including a grotesque head and grotesque animals, columbines, animal heads and a lion mask (see Scott, 1996, p. 19 for a comprehensive list). Illustrator A - La estorie del Euangelie: 1. f. 105rb: 'The Annunciation to Mary', with lily pot (faces damaged); 2. f. 105rc, top: 'The Visitation of Elizabeth by Mary'; 3. f. 105rc: 'The angel appearing to Zacharias' (face damaged); 4. f. 105va: 'The birth of John the Baptist' (two faces damaged); 5. f. 105vb: 'The angel reassuring Joseph'; 6. f. 105vc, top: 'The birth of Jesus'; 7. f. 105 vc: 'The angel appearing to the shepherds' (faces damaged). Only seven miniatures survive for this text although it is thought that others would have decorated the texts contained in the seven leaves now missing from the end of the Euangelie. A similar sequence is found in the Clopton manuscript which has thirty-three miniatures accompanying the text (the Euangelie is found in the London, University Library, MS S. V.17 portion of this now tripartite manuscript). The Clopton Euangelie also has a north Worcestershire dialect and it could share a common exemplar with Vernon (Turville-Petre 1990, p. 31). Each miniature is eight to twelve lines deep and drawn across one column. Frames vary between having one, two, three, or four sides. Characteristics: The figures have flattened body forms, with little modelling of drapery, apart from outlining in black. Faces are modelled to some extent, with those features not damaged rendered in orange-brown (pink on f. 265r); female figures often have rusty coloured hair. Heads or haloes frequently protrude onto the upper frame. The colour range is rose, bright orange, and blue, with landscape features in green. Backgrounds are of stippled gold or coloured with a flower or chainlink design in white, and two scenes (f. 105vb and c bottom) show the narrow foreground with a hilly landscape and stylised trees. Illustrator B - The Miracles of Our Lady: 1. F. 124rb: 'How Chartres was Saved':The Saving of the city of Crotey (Chartres) from Rolle, led by Bishop Waltelin and the mayor, bearing the Virgin's shift; the besieging army of Rollo blinded by the relic (damaged). 2. F. 124va: 'Miracle of the Boy Singer'/'The child in Paris killed by Jews': a) A Jew beckons the boy into his house; b) The Jew cutting the boy's throat; c) The Jew dumping the body in a privy; d) The mother pleading before the mayor and bailiff; e) The bishop [in margin] holding the lily found in the boy's throat, with the boy's corpse beside in a burial cloth; inscribed scrolls. 3. F. 124vc: 'The Harlot's Prayer': 'The harlot of Rome saved by Prayer': a) The harlot, with a stick, attempting to seduce a hermit, with beads; b) the harlot praying before the Virgin and Child. 4. F. 125rb: 'The Jewish Boy of Bourges'/'The Jewish child thrown into an oven': a) The Jew with a whip leading his son from the Christian church; b) The Jew throwing his child in an oven; c) The child miraculously alive in a burning oven, with his mother and the mayor seated beside. 5. F. 125vb: 'Miracle of the Amputated Leg'/The restoration of an amputated foot: a) a man with an axe amputating the diseased leg of another man, a woman watches; b) Mary restoring the leg; an image of the Virgin, with sprig, and Child beside. 6. F. 126ra: 'The Merchant's Surety'/'The merchant of Constantinople who borrowed from a Jew': a) The merchant Theodorus and Jew Abraham making a money-pledge before an image of the Virgin and Child; b) Theodorus putting a chest with money into the sea; c) Abraham finding the chest in the sea; d) Abraham confesses his deceit to Theodorus. 7. F. 126rc: 'The Fornicating Priest'/'The priest who lay with a nun': a) A monk lying with a priest [error for a nun]; b)The Priest's friend praying before an image of the Virgin and Child; c) The Priest giving the Eucharist to the same priest, who is commended by the Virgin. 8. F. 126va: 'The Quinsied Monk'/'The dying monk healed by Our Lady's milk': A monk seated on a trestle, head in hands; Virgin offering her milk to a monk with quinsy; monk seated on floor beside bed. 9. F. 126vc: 'The Incontinent Monk'/'The incontinent monk drowned but revived': An image of the Virgin and Child in a chapel; a monk with covered head sneaking away from the cloister; Virgin standing on a bridge, separating angels from devils and regarding the drowning sacristan in the river, draped figure on the riverbank.Whilst only nine miniatures remain it is probable that the manuscript carried thirty-three illustrations before the loss of forty-one leaves. The miniatures, apart from the first, are sixteen lines deep and one column wide. Characteristics: Illustrations regularly break into and out of the frame into the margins, lending the illustrations vitality and animation. Presentation of a series of events within a story and not just one incident. Realistic, more plastic, form of human figure. Faces heavily modelled through the use of grey and white, a complexion tone, and tinting of the lips. Fabrics have curved outlines with folds that fall gently, and sometimes outline the figure beneath. Muted shades with various shades of green. The Jew is consistently dressed in a rose-rust gown. The work of Illustrator B is accompanied by the work of Border Artist E. Diagrammatic text entitled 'Pater Noster in a table ypeynted' in the list of contents. The Pater Noster is presented in the form of a grid with the seven petitions of the Pater Noster presented in relation to the seven gifts of the spirit, the seven virtues and their contrary virtues (f. 231v, Doyle, 1987, pl. XIII; Henry, 1990, opp. p. 90). F. 105r, lower border, blank shield for an owner's or donor's arms.
Binding: Not medieval; nineteenth century. Covered in crushed russet leather with rectangular gold frame around the edge tooled in blind. Border of the frame is formed of square compartments with alternate fleur-de-lys and lion passant guardant. The internal rectangle is decorated with a lattice design formed by double fillets. The remains of tanned calf are visible beneath the current binding. Bevelled oak boards, possibly medieval. Sewn with six double spine cords, probably in the position of the medieval thongs. Six bands across the spine. Depressions of two clasps are visible on the outer edge of the upper cover of the exterior.
Foliation:Originally viii + 413. However 69 leaves are thought to be lost and the foliation is now viii + 343 (incomplete). Medieval foliation in red Roman numerals on the verso of many ff. The foliation appears to be by one of the scribes. The first, later, quire has not been foliated but has been paginated as a-k.
Additions:On f. 239v, written in a hurried script, contemporary with the manuscript, is 'De scripcione trium quaternorum vel quatuor primum verbum ožur dignite & trium foliorum'. This inscription is written next to the same words in the text of Speculum Vitae as those which appear in an inscription in the related Simeon manuscript. In the Simeon, on f. 38ra (modern)/ f. 219 (old), the copyist has written 'Memorandum quod Johannes Scryveyn scribet domino Thome Heneley tres quaternos vel quatuor & tria folio Et incipit ad ista verba in isto columine Ožur dignite. or benefys' (Doyle, 1987, p. 13, pl. 7a). It would appear that both the Vernon and Simeon manuscripts were being used as exemplars (see Doyle, 1987, p. 13).
Condition:In good condition although the manuscript now has only 350 of the 422 or 426 leaves that it originally contained.
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History
Origin:Date: c. 1390-1400. Not before 1381. The translator of Aelred of Rievaulx's De Institutione inclusarum refers to Lollard proposals for church disendowment of after 1381 and a further text refers to the earthquake of 1382 (On the Earthquake of 1382 (f. 411rb, IMEV 4268 (Brown, 1924, no. 113, pp. 186-8)) whilst another mentions the treatment of a Carmelite Friar in 1384 (Who says sooth he shall be shent (f. 408vb, IMEV 3420 (Brown, 1924, no. 103, pp. 152-54).
Provenance:Sixteenth century: - f. 413v, late, record of the marriage of Walter, son of Thomas Vernon of Houndhill (Staffordshire, near Sudbury) and Mary Littleton on 8 September 1583. The births of their children are also recorded: their son Edward on 14 December 1584, and twins Walter and Elinore on 20 September 1585. The death of the twins on that same day is also recorded. Colonel Edward Vernon, who gave the manuscript to the Bodleian was the grandson of Mary to her second marriage to Walter's cousin, John Vernon of Sudbury, Staffordshire (Quinn, 1952, pp. 133-137). Various other names, now cut off with half of the leaf are also written. A list of the Christian names of five sons and four daughters is written in a different hand. F. 343va - ''. He was possibly a Shrewsbury man whose will was registered at Lichfield in 1557. Ff. 316v and 317v - indecipherable sixteenth/seventeenth-century inscriptions. Seventeenth century: f. 413v - ' the senior'; f. 53rb, bottom - ''.
Acquisition:Given to the Bodleian by Colonel Edward Vernon in c. 1677, probably on the occasion of the award of his honorary D. C. L. degree by the University of Oxford.
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Record History
Catalogued and encoded by Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, July 2003. Manuscript not examined owing to viewing restrictions. Described with reference to Doyle 1987 and Scott 1996. A digital edition of this manuscript is forthcoming.
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Related Manuscripts and other documents Textual London, British Library, MS Additional 22283 (Simeon) (Doyle 1990, p. 11, Savajaara 1967). London, British Library, MS Additional 37787 (Worcestershire Miscellany) (Baugh 1956, p. 39; Thompson 1990, p. 217). London, University Library, MS V.17 and its two other parts - Washington, Folger Library, MS V.b.236; Princeton University Library, R. H. Taylor's MS (Clopton) (Turville-Petre 1990, p. 32). London, British Library, MS Additional 10036 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 141 (Edden 1990, pp. 35-36). For the Prick of Conscience nearly identical to London, British Library, MS Additional 22283. Assigned to Group 4 by Lewis and McIntosh (1982, p. 104). Scribal Scribe 1 - Chronicle and Cartulary of Stoneleigh Abbey and two views of frankpledge for the manor of Radway, south Warwickshire (Doyle 1987, p. 5, 12; Hilton 1960, frontispiece, pl. V.). Two copies of the Prick of Conscience - Oxford, Trinity College, MS 16B and Holkham, Holkham Hall, MS 668 (Doyle 1987, p. 12, pl. 6; Lewis and McIntosh, 1982, pp. 54-5, 121-2). On f. 1r of the Holkham manuscript this scribe has written, 'Nomen scriptoris iohannes plenus amoris [...] benedicat rex orientis'. Scribe 2 - Scribe 2 of London, British Library, MS Additional 22283 (Simeon) (Doyle 1987, p. 13). Doyle believes the copyist to be a secular clerk or a layman rather than a monk, a 'paid professional, pursuing his career...in and around the diocese of Lichfield and Coventry' (Doyle 1987, p. 13) Decorative Comparable style: Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.4.23, Bonaventura, De vita Christi; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodl. 62, Horae (e.g. f. 48); Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Fairfax 3, Gower, Confessio Amantis; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Barlow 5, a Missal; London, British Library, MS Royal 6. E. V, Robert Grosseteste, with a miniature of the author similar to Illustrator A; New York, Pierpont Morgan, MS M. 690, Confessio Amantis; and Chicago, Newberry Library, MS 32.9, Prick of Conscience (Scott 1996, p. 21). Similarities with Illustrator B: St. John's College, MS B. 1, f. 41r and Oxford, Trinity College, MS 8 (Scott 1996, p. 21) Border Artist D: Perhaps responsible for the partial border on f. 7r of London, British Library, MS Harley 401. Similar work can be found in two copies of Higden's Polychronicon: Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.2.24, f. 13 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodl. 316, f. 8 (Scott 1996, p. 22).
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