Manuscripts of the West Midlands Catalogue

London, British Library, Egerton 2810

Country:	England
Settlement:	London
Repository:�	British Library
Idno:	Egerton 2810
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Date and Language

Date:	s. xivex
Language:�	English
Dialect:	Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-87v (except ff. 46 and 60), 100v-161v): Scribal dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 371 176, LP 7020 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 196). The other hands are later: Scribe 2 (ff. 46r-v, 60r-v): Scribal Dialect: Cheshire or S. Lancs. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: none given, LP none given (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 109). Scribe 3: Scribal Dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 408 229, LP 7110 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 196). Scribe 4 (f. 99v): Scribal Dialect: 'possibly of N. Lancs' (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin, 1986, vol. 1, p. 109). Scribe 5 (f. 163v-164r), Scribe 6 (f. 170r-170v), and Scribe 7 (ff. 170v-170v): Scribal dialect: Cheshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 109). Scribe 8 (ff. 180v-181r): Scribal dialect: Lancashire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 393 416, LP 495.

Contents

A late fourteenth-century copy of the South English Legendary (G�rlach 1974, p. 91). The main text has a Gloucestershire scribal dialect whilst texts added at later dates are in dialects of Gloucestershire, Cheshire, and southern and northern Lancashire.

Item: 1

Locus:	f. 3v
Title:	South English Legendary: Table of Contents
Incipit:
Explicit:
Bibliography:

Item: 2

Locus:	f. 4r
Title:	South English Legendary: Feast of the Circumcision (IMEV 4266)
Incipit:	'This day �e holi feste'.
Explicit:	'of men �er bu� wyse'.
Bibliography:

Item: 3

Locus:	f. 4r
Title:	South English Legendary: Epiphany (IMEV 3813)
Incipit:	'Twel�e day ye heye feste nobliche is to holde'.
Explicit:	'�is wur myraclis of oure lourd �ulke day were y do'.
Bibliography:

Item: 4

Locus:	ff. 4r-5r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Hilary (IMEV 2912)
Incipit:	'Seynt hillari �e holi man of aquitayne was'.
Explicit:	'Nou god for �e loue of hym ous brynge �edir echon. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 5

Locus:	ff. 5r-7v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Wulstan (IMEV 3068)
Incipit:	'Seynt wolston �e busschop of wyrecestre was here in engelond'.
Explicit:	'Nou good lyue �at we mote wi�e him in �e ioye of heuene be. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, 70-77.

Item: 6

Locus:	ff. 7v-8r
Title:	South English Legendary: Lives of Saints Fabian and Sebastian (IMEV 2895)
Incipit:	'Seynt fabian bi? olde dawe god man was ayno?'.
Explicit:	'Nou lord vor �ine vif wondes let ous �udir wende. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 7

Locus:	ff. 8r-9r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Bastian (Sebastian) (Not listed in IMEV)
Incipit:	'Seynt bastian was a man of wel gret honour'.
Explicit:	'Nou god vs bringe to heuene �udir ys soule wende. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 8

Locus:	ff. 9r-11r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Agnes (IMEV 2850)
Incipit:	'Seynt Anneis �at holi maide'.
Explicit:	'Nou god ous bring to �ulke rode �er ?eo is. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 9

Locus:	ff. 11r-13v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Vincent (IMEV 3067)
Incipit:	'Seynt vincent in spayne was'.
Explicit:	'�at we mote to heuene come & vor?eue our misdede. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 184-189.

Item: 10

Locus:	f. 13v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Julian the Confessor (IMEV 2949 )
Incipit:	'Seynt iulian �e confessur ybore was at rome'.
Explicit:	'Nou vor �e loue of hym god ous alle �idir sende. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 255-256.

Item: 11

Locus:	ff. 14r-15v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Julian the Hosteler (IMEV 2950 )
Incipit:	'Seynt iulian �e herbiger of gode'.
Explicit:	'And bringe ous to �ilke ioye �at he �erinne is. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 256-260.

Item: 12

Locus:	ff. 15v-18v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Bridget (IMEV 2872)
Incipit:	'Seynt bryde �at holy mayde of yrlonde was'.
Explicit:	'God ous let alle vor� wi� hire to �e ioye of heuene wende. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 13

Locus:	ff. 18v-21r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Blase (IMEV 2866)
Incipit:	'Seynt blas wel clene lif ladde'.
Explicit:	'�at seynt blas is inne ybro?t �at we �erof ne mysse. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 14

Locus:	ff. 21r-22v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Agatha (IMEV 2839)
Incipit:	'Seint agace �at hooly maide in cisile was ylore'.
Explicit:	'�at we to �e ioye of heuene wi� hire come mote. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 193-7.

Item: 15

Locus:	ff. 22v-23v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Scholastica (IMEV 3052 )
Incipit:	'Seynt scolace �at holy mayde holy was of hue'.
Explicit:	'Yburid atte oure ende day & to heuene fle. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 197-199.

Item: 16

Locus:	ff. 23v-24r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Valentine (IMEV 3066)
Incipit:	'Seynt valentyne �e martir godman was yno?'.
Explicit:	'Nou god vor �e loue of hym ous brynge to �ilke place. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 17

Locus:	ff. 24r-26v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Juliana (IMEV 2951)
Incipit:	'Seynt iuliana com of heye men as we vindi� iwrote'.
Explicit:	'Graunte ous vor hire loue of �e pyne of helle be scher. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Cockayne 1872, pp. 81-87.

Item: 18

Locus:	f. 26v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Matthias (IMEV 3026)
Incipit:	'Seynt mathi apostil is as ?e sschulli� alle y wete'.
Explicit:	'�at wanne we hyeome wende� come to heuene blisse. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 389-390.

Item: 19

Locus:	ff. 27r-29v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Oswald the Bishop (IMEV 3035)
Incipit:	'Seynt oswolde �e busschop was ybore in engelonde'.
Explicit:	'Nou god ous grant �ilke ioye �at he is inne ybro?t'.
Bibliography:

Item: 20

Locus:	ff. 29v-30v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Gregory (IMEV 2910 )
Incipit:	'Seynt gregori �e confessour in cisil was ybore'.
Explicit:	'�at he to vore oure lourd crist oure noede vndirstonde'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 355-359.

Item: 21

Locus:	ff. 30v-39r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Patrick (IMEV 3037)
Incipit:	'Seynt patric com �or? godis grace to prechi in yrlonde'.
Explicit:	'�at we in purgatorie bileue hite stounde'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1875, pp. 151-210.

Item: 22

Locus:	ff. 39v-42v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Edward the Elder (IMEV 2889 )
Incipit:	'Seynt edward �e yonge martir was kinge of engelonde'.
Explicit:	'To �e ioye of heuene ous bringe & fram helle �at we beskere. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 23

Locus:	ff. 42v-43v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Cuthbert (IMEV 2880)
Incipit:	'Seynt cuthbert was ybore here in engelonde'.
Explicit:	'And �or? �e bone of sent cuthbert bringe ous alle �erto. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 359-362.

Item: 24

Locus:	ff. 43v-45v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Benedict (IMEV 2860)
Incipit:	'Seint benet was ybore in �e londe of mursie'.
Explicit:	'To �e ioie �at he is inne �at lesti� wy�oute ende. Amen'.
Note:	Life of St. Benedict (with an additional passage on an inserted leaf in a different hand).
Bibliography:

Item: 25

Locus:	ff. 45v-46v
Title:	South English Legendary: Feast of the Annunciation (IMEV 2989 )
Incipit:	'Seint marie day in lente amonge o�er dawes gode'.
Explicit:	'�at we mote come to �ilke ioye �at he is to ibro?te. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 26

Locus:	ff. 47r-50v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Mary of Egypt (IMEV 2990 )
Incipit:	'Seynt marie egiptiake in egipte was ybore'.
Explicit:	'Bring vs to �e ioye of heuene & of helle be were. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 260-271.

Item: 27

Locus:	ff. 50v-53r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Alphege (IMEV 2844)
Incipit:	'Seint alfe �e martir �at godman wa? yno?'.
Explicit:	'�at we mote �or? is bone to heuene blisse wende. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 28

Locus:	ff. 53r-54r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. George (IMEV 2905)
Incipit:	'Seint george �e holiman as we vinde� ywrite'.
Explicit:	'Nou god vor �e loue of him ous lette alle �udir wende. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 294-296.

Item: 29

Locus:	ff. 54r-55r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Mark (IMEV 3004)
Incipit:	'Seint marke �e godspellare wide wende alonde'.
Explicit:	'Holi churche hast eche?er a seint mark is day'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 362-363.

Item: 30

Locus:	ff. 55r-56r
Title:	South English Legendary: Lives of Saints Philip and James (IMEV 3048 )
Incipit:	'Seint philippe & seint jacob were apostlis tweuo'.
Explicit:	'�at oure soule �or? hore bene bone to heuene mote go. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 364-366.

Item: 31

Locus:	ff. 56r-58r
Title:	South English Legendary: Early History of the Cross (IMEV 338)
Incipit:	'�e holi rode �at swete tre god is to havve'.
Explicit:	'And toke is elene �e god quene �o be to hire com'.
Note:	Verses 1-4, 185-204 only. Repeated in full as item 78.
Bibliography:	Morris 1871, pp. 18-35.

Item: 32

Locus:	ff. 58r-59v
Title:	South English Legendary: Exaltation of the Holy Cross (IMEV 3388)
Incipit:	'�e holi rode �at was yfounde as ?e writi� in may'.
Explicit:	'Helde �orw �e swete grace on �e rode was ydo'.
Bibliography:	Morris 1871, pp. 48-57.

Item: 33

Locus:	ff. 59v-63r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Dunstan (IMEV 2884)
Incipit:	'Seint dunstan was of engelonde y come of gode more'.
Explicit:	'Bringe ous to �e ioye of heuene �e angelus �ine soule bere. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 19-24

Item: 34

Locus:	ff. 63r-64r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Aldhelm (IMEV 2843)
Incipit:	'Seint aldelme �e confessour was man of noble hue'.
Explicit:	'�at we mote to �e ioye come �at he is in ydo. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 35

Locus:	ff. 64v-65v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Augustine (IMEV 2854)
Incipit:	'Seint austin �at cristindom bro?te to engelonde'.
Explicit:	'�at we to �e ioie come to wan oure lourd him bo?te'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 24-25.

Item: 36

Locus:	ff. 65v-66v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Barnabas (IMEV 2856)
Incipit:	'Seint barnabe �e apostil �at godman was & hende'.
Explicit:	'Vor loue of seint barnabus �at he ous to heuene bringe. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 26-29.

Item: 37

Locus:	ff. 67r-68r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Alban (IMEV 2842)
Incipit:	'Seint albon �e holi man was here of engelonde'.
Explicit:	'�at we mote to �e ioye come �at euere sschal ylaste. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 67-70.

Item: 38

Locus:	ff. 68r-69v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. John the Baptist (IMEV 2945 )
Incipit:	'Seint iohn was �e beste bern �e holie baptist'.
Explicit:	'Lete ous �or? oure cristindom in �e ioie of heuene come. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 29-33.

Item: 39

Locus:	ff. 69v-75v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Peter (IMEV 3046)
Incipit:	'Seint petir was wi� oure lourd of alle is apostlis hexte'.
Explicit:	'Grante ous �udir to come to �ulke vaire place. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 40

Locus:	ff. 76r-79v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Paul (IMEV 3041)
Incipit:	'Seint poul was a lu�er man ar he conuerted were'.
Explicit:	'Bring vs to �e ioie of heuene after �at we bu� ded. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 189-192.

Item: 41

Locus:	ff. 79v-83v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Margaret (IMEV 2987)
Incipit:	'Seint margarete was holi maide & god'.
Explicit:	'Bide for ve �at we mote to �e ioye of heuene wende. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cockayne 1866, pp. 24-33.

Item: 42

Locus:	ff. 83v-88r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life St. Mary Magdalene (IMEV 2994)
Incipit:	'Seinte marie maudeleyne �at god for?af hir synne'.
Explicit:	'Vor alle hir come� of �e water bre� �at sonne drawe� up iwis'.
Note:	Last ten verses missing.
Bibliography:

Item: 43

Locus:	ff. 88r-90r
Title:	South English Legendary: Legend of St. Michael III/The Right Pit of Hell (IMEV 3453)
Incipit:	'Nou is �ere water here aner�e wel more �an of londe'.
Explicit:	'�at seint michel is mot among & into heuene lede. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 44

Locus:	ff. 90r-91v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Luke (IMEV 2973)
Incipit:	'Seint luc �e ewangelist non apostel nas'.
Explicit:	'�at hii bringe vs toward heuene in �e ri?t weie. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 45

Locus:	ff. 91v-94r
Title:	South English Legendary: Lives of Saints Simon and Jude (IMEV 3055 )
Incipit:	'Seynt symoun & seynt iude tueye bre�eren wer'.
Explicit:	'Ended hor lif in martirdom & to heuene wende be�e'.
Bibliography:

Item: 46

Locus:	ff. 94r-99r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Teilo (IMEV 3061)
Incipit:	'Seynt teliou �e byssop �at was of moche pris'.
Explicit:	'�at we mou alle come to �e blis wi�out eiende. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 47

Locus:	f. 99r
Title:	Prose legend of St. Winifred
Incipit:
Explicit:
Note:	Fifteenth-century addition.
Bibliography:

Item: 48

Locus:	f. 99v
Title:	Legend of Our Lady
Incipit:
Explicit:
Note:	for-century addition.
Bibliography:

Item: 49

Locus:	f. 100r-v
Title:	South English Legendary: All Saints' Day (IMEV 184)
Incipit:	'Alle halwin dau we holdi� one time of �e ?ere'.
Explicit:	'Nou bidde we alle halwine to holde hore fest so �at hii bringe ous to �ulke ioye �at hii bri�inne ido'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 418-420.

Item: 50

Locus:	ff. 100v-103v
Title:	South English Legendary: All Souls' Day (IMEV 201)
Incipit:	'Alle soule dai an er�e ri?t is to holde heie'.
Explicit:	'Of oure soule haue merci & bringe ous to heuene blis. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 51

Locus:	ff. 103v-106r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Eustace (IMEV 2894)
Incipit:	'Seint eustas a noble kin?t [sic] of he�ene lawe was'.
Explicit:	'�e ioie �at hii bu� my bro?t ne let ous neuere misse. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 393-402.

Item: 52

Locus:	ff. 106r-107v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Leonard (IMEV 2959)
Incipit:	'Seint leonarde �e confessour atte londene ?eode here'.
Explicit:	'Nou god sschulde ous vor �e loue of seint leonard fram �e prisone of helle'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 456-462.

Item: 53

Locus:	ff. 107v-109v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Martin (IMEV 3005)
Incipit:	'Seint martin was ybore in �e londe of sabarie'.
Explicit:	'Nou godus ?eue of �ulke ioye �at is soule is in ydo'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 449-456

Item: 54

Locus:	f. 110r-v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Brice (IMEV 2870)
Incipit:	'Seint brice wi� seint martin was his dekene an er�e here'.
Explicit:	'Graunte ous to be vor is loue of �ine of helle skere. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 55

Locus:	ff. 110v-114r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Edmund the Bishop(IMEV 2886)
Incipit:	'Seint edmunde �e confessour �at li� at pounteneie'.
Explicit:	'Nou god ous bringe to �ulke ioye �at is soule wende to. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 431-449.

Item: 56

Locus:	f. 114r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Edmund the King (IMEV 2887 )
Incipit:	'Seint edmunde �e holi kinge of wanne men make� feste'.
Explicit:	'Grant ous �e ioie �at he is inne after oure endinge. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 296-299.

Item: 57

Locus:	ff. 114v-116r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Cecilia (IMEV 2873)
Incipit:	'Seint cecilie of noble kiine ybore was at rome'.
Explicit:	'To bringe ous to �ulke ioie �at hire soule is to ycom'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 490-496.

Item: 58

Locus:	ff. 116v-120r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Clement (IMEV 2875)
Incipit:	'Seint clement was be holde tyme borne at rome'.
Explicit:	'God ?eue ous part of �ulke ioie �at is soule is inne. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 322-340.

Item: 59

Locus:	ff. 120r-122v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Katherine of Alexandria (IMEV 2954)
Incipit:	'Seint katerine of noble kuinne com bi holde dawe'.
Explicit:	'& sschulde ous fram helle pine. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 92-101.

Item: 60

Locus:	ff. 122v-123r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Jacques (IMEV 2916)
Incipit:	'Seint iakes in �e londe of pers of heie men com'.
Explicit:	'Bringe ous to �ulke ioie �e angeles is soule ladde. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 61

Locus:	ff. 123r-125r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Andrew (IMEV 2848)
Incipit:	'Seint andreu �e apostel was seint petiris bro�er'.
Explicit:	'And bidde uor ous �at we mote come to heuene blisse. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Furnivall 1862, pp. 98-101.

Item: 62

Locus:	ff. 125r-131v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Nicholas (IMEV 3033)
Incipit:	'Seint nicholas �e holi man �at god confessour was'.
Explicit:	'Sschulde ous fram �e pine of helle & de�liche sinne also. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 240-255.

Item: 63

Locus:	ff. 131v-134r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Lucy (IMEV 2961)
Incipit:	'Seint lucie �at holi maide in cecile was ybore'.
Explicit:	'Nou god vor �e loue of hire ous lete alle �idur wende. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 101-106.

Item: 64

Locus:	ff. 134r-138v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Thomas (IMEV 3063)
Incipit:	'Seint thomas �e gode apostel ymartrid was in ynde'.
Explicit:	'Bring ous to heuene to wan we were ybo?te. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 376-389.

Item: 65

Locus:	ff. 138v-140r
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Stephen (IMEV 3059)
Incipit:	'Seint steuene was a giew & of giwes he come'.
Explicit:	'Nou god vor �e loue of him ous sschulde fram helle pine. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 66

Locus:	ff. 140r-163v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. John the Evangelist (IMEV 2932 )
Incipit:	'Seint iohn �e evangeliste �at apostil also is'.
Explicit:	'al hor lif al hit was hor ysene'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 402-417.

Item: 67

Locus:	ff. 163v-164r
Title:	South English Legendary: The Translation of St. Thomas of Canterbury (IMEV 3064)
Incipit:	'Saynt thomas �is holy mon in �e erth lay'.
Explicit:	'We may thrugh his mercy in heuene fill a place. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 175-177.

Item: 68

Locus:	ff. 164v-170v
Title:	South English Legendary: Life of St. Silvester (IMEV 3053)
Incipit:	'Seint siluestre �e bissop in is ?onge childe hede'.
Explicit:	'Swete ihesus fore hir loue bring vs to �i blisse. Amen'.
Bibliography:	Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 391-392.

Item: 69

Locus:	ff. 171r-177r
Title:	South English Legendary: The Feast of Midwinter's Day (IMEV 3336)
Incipit:	'�e feste of midewinteris dai is of muche pris'.
Explicit:	'Of wan ?e desire� so much to wite of to kninge'.
Bibliography:

Item: 70

Locus:	ff. 173r-174v
Title:	South English Legendary: The Feast of the Ascension (IMEV 3335)
Incipit:	'�e feste of holi �ursdea is bo�e noble & riche'.
Explicit:	'�at we mote to him come in to heuene & here'.
Bibliography:

Item: 71

Locus:	ff. 174v-176r
Title:	South English Legendary: The Feast of Pentecost (IMEV 3338)
Incipit:	'�e feste of witsuneday swi�e gode is to holde'.
Explicit:	'�at in �e boc of liue all names mote be write'.
Bibliography:

Item: 72

Locus:	f. 176r
Title:	South English Legendary: The Feast of the Trinity (IMEV 3337 )
Incipit:	'�e feste of �e trinite of gret honour hit is'.
Explicit:	'�at we mote �ur? ri?t bileue com to heuene blis. Amen'.
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Item: 73

Locus:	ff. 176v-179v
Title:	South English Legendary: The High Feast of God's Blood (IMEV 3380 )
Incipit:	'�e he?e feste of godus blode �at late was i funde'.
Explicit:	'�at we mowe �e �or? be ssilde vram pine and vram wo amen'.
Note:	F. 180r holds a later text in the top quarter of the folio only.
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Item: 74

Locus:	ff. 181r-182r
Title:	South English Legendary: Moveable Feasts/Septuagesima (IMEV 791)
Incipit:	'Septuagesime is ycliped wan'.
Explicit:	'& a?em �e time of leynte repenty vr misdede'.
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Item: 75

Locus:	ff. 182r-184v
Title:	South English Legendary: Lent (IMEV 1859)
Incipit:	'Leynt comi� �ere aftur ward �at'.
Explicit:	'�at a swet mossel ylast'.
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Item: 76

Locus:	ff. 184v-185r
Title:	South English Legendary: Easter (IMEV 3384 )
Incipit:	'�e holi feste of ester come� after leynt anon'.
Explicit:	'�ervor we wolle� telle of hor in �e byginning of may'.
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Item: 77

Locus:	f. 185r-v
Title:	South English Legendary: South English Legendary: Litany (IMEV 1911)
Incipit:	'Latanie is a song as ?e mowe ofte yse'.
Explicit:	'Vor to sette is here eke �ere it nere no?t wel ydo'.
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Item: 78

Locus:	ff. 185v-187v
Title:	South English Legendary: Early History of the Cross (IMEV 3389)
Incipit:	'�e holi rode is swete tre ri?t it is to hawe in minde'.
Explicit:	'�at tre flet[uncertain]ng by cas'.
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Physical Description

Form:	Codex
Support:�	Parchment
Extent:	230 x 160 mm
Collation:	Unable to ascertain.
Layout:	Pricking where seen, small horizontal slits. Writing space of 180 x 110 mm. Single columns with c. 40 lines. Frame and lines ruled in drypoint.
Writing:	Scribe 1 - major - ff. 4r-161 - Anglicana. Scribe 2 - ff. 88v-99r, 162-88 - Anglicana Formata. Scribe 3 - f. 99r - fifteenth-century hand has added a prose legend of St. Wilfrid. Scribe 4 - f. 99v - fifteenth-century hand has added a legend of Our Lady and on ff. 108v-181v a poem entitled 'De terminibus usure'. Scribe 5 - ff. 179v, 180r - prose legend of birth of Judas Iscariot added in a fifteenth-century hand.
Decoration:	Three-line bright orange/dark pink initials. One-line bright orange/dark pink paraphs.
Binding:	Not contemporary, 19th century. Size: 240 x 160 mm. Covered in reddish brown leather, mitred and pasted onto pasteboard with half-moon shapes cut into the board at middle of top, lower, and fore edge, corners also cut. Outer edges of circle have blind tooled sun rays. Centre - diamond shape with urn stamped in middle. Three raised bands in middle and one at end across the spine.
Foliation:	ff. 188 with fifteenth-century additions, iv paper flyleaves at front, iv paper flyleaves at back.
Additions:	Later additions: ff. 179v-180r - a Latin prose legend of the birth of Judas Iscariot; ff. 180v-181v a text on usury beginning 'Okure yrow crafte of okerre'; and on f. 182v a text beginning, 'Almyghty god �at alle hase wroghte' and ending '...he come to erthe agayne'.
Condition:

History

Provenance:

G�rlach notes that the manuscript appears to have moved from Gloucestershire to Cheshire and then to Lancashire as evidenced by the 'successive contributions in different dialects' (G�rlach 1974, p. 91). The coat of arms of George Allan of Darlington (b. 1736) is on the inner board. Nineteenth Century: (sale-catalogue 1836, lot 1089). On the last page is written 'Henry Wele(?) dwellyng in weston in ye parache of Mogynton' (Muggington, Derbys).

Record History

Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, August 2003.

Related Manuscripts and other documents Textual The manuscript is of the same group as London, British Library, MS Harley 2277, London, British Library, MS Egerton 1993, and London, British Library, MS Stowe 949 etc. (Horstmann 1887).

Bibliography

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Cockayne, T. O., ed, 1866. Seinte Marherete the meiden ant martyr, EETS, os, 13, London: Tr�bner & Co.

G�rlach, M. 1974. The Textual Tradition of the South English Legendary, Leeds Texts and Monographs, ns, 6, Leeds: University of Leeds School of English.

G�rlach, M. 1998. Studies in Middle English Saints’ Legends, Heidelberg: Carl Winter.

Horstmann, C., ed, 1887. The Early South English Legendary or Lives of Saints, EETS, os, 87, London: Tr�bner.

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.

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.

Morris, R., ed, 1871. Legends of the Holy Rood; Symbols of the Passion and Cross Poems In Old English of the Eleventh, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, EETS, os, 46, London: Tr�bner.