Oxford, Bodleian Library, Greaves 57
| England |
| Oxford |
| Bodleian Library |
| Greaves 57 |
| SC 3829 |
| s. xv |
| English |
| Scribal dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 383 284, LP 4245 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 238). Hand of f. 12v - Shropshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin, 1986, vol. 1, p. 149).
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A fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's
Instructions for Parish Priests copied by John Holyns.
Item: 1| ff. 1r-33v |
| Instructions for Parish Priests (IMEV 961) |
| 'God seythe hymselfe as wretyn y ffynde'. |
| 'To do this good that he com'. |
Peacock 1902.
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| Codex |
| Paper |
| 219 x 145 mm. |
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Unascertainable
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| No pricking visible. Writing space of 140/150 x 65 mm. Single columns with 25 lines. Not ruled. |
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One scribe, John Holyns, writing in a Secretary script. Characteristics: 2-shaped r; e-shaped ampersand; single compartment g; a with pointed head; angular flourishing on some top line ascenders. Note by scribe: f. 1 - 'assit principio sancta Maria meo Q. J. Holyns' written in same hand as the text.
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Some elongated and flourished ascenders on top line. Titles indented and underlined.
First page only, two-line red initial and first letter of each line tinted red.
Drawings: face drawn within letter A f. 4v top line first letter; head from ascender top margin f. 24v.
Nota bene: hand ff. 60r, 97v.
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Not medieval. 219 x 145 mm. Sewn on four thongs possibly in their original positions.
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| ff. ii + 35 |
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| Good |
| Copied by John Holyns whose name appears on f. 1r. |
| Unknown |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, August 2003.
- www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/medieval/greaves/images.
- Dennison, L., Driver, M. W., Eljenholm Nichols, A., and Scott, K. L. ed, 2001. An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII c. 1380-c.1509: Fascicle 2, MSS Dodsworth-Marshall, London, Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, p. 53, no. 540.
- Fletcher, A. J. 1987. ‘John Mirk and the Lollards’, Medium Aevum, 56, 217-224.
- Kristensson, G., ed, 1974. ‘John Mirk’s Instructions for Parish Priests edited from MS Cotton Claudius A II and six other manuscripts with introduction, notes and glossary’, Lund Studies in English, 49, Lund: CWK Gleerup, pp. 61-62.
- McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: General Introduction, Index of Sources, Dot Maps, 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1.
- Madan, F., Craster, H. H., and Denholm-Young, N. 1937. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, vol. 2, part 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 749.
- McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary, 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4.
- Peacock, E., ed, 1902. Instructions for Parish Priests by John Myrc: edited from Cotton MS. Claudius A. II, EETS, os, 31, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner.
- Powell, S. 1991. ‘John Mirk‘s Festial and the Pastoral Programme’, Leeds Studies in English, 22, 85-102.
